The Last Bass Outpost

Our stuff is now finished, mastered and everything. You can download it directly from the studio's site

www.zentralstudio.de

Go to Kundenlogin, type in "raintunes" as Projektname and again "raintunes" as username and then "plainingjet" as password. Four songs, one of them a cover, you choose whichever one you deem fit. If you want details on what basses were played I can give those to you after you have made your choice.

It's prototypish in a way that it combines old (the headstock and the frontjack) and new (the TB Plus pups). Kind of the missing link between the 1986 Japan run, which was still very Bicentennial, and the regular new Birds in late 1987. I guess that on the basis of these Custom Shop babies they decided to downsize the headstock and move the front jack to the side - both of which, if I may voice a minority opinion, I thought to be progression. You see a lot fewer of the new ones with broken headstocks and they are less neckheavy too. I know, purists will disagree. And I find side jacks much preferable to front ones - I've ripped out the entrails of front jack basses a couple of times in my bass playing life, but it has never happened to me with a side jack.

That said, after 25 years in service, the current TB IV could use some revamping and I don't mean change of hardware from black to chrome, that is just cosmetics. They could gently deepen the cutaway, try some different pups in different positions (or just put one in a sweet spot as a rejuvenated TB II), offer a three pup model (TB III anyone?) etc.

Uwe, if the partners in your new Australian office take the same approach you've just recommended, then your firm won't do too well at all in this country.  We were founded by convicts, so we don't embrace the "if it moves, litigate it" approach downunder. 

Ah, Mark reads newspapers!    You talk anymore nonsense like that and I'll come down and visit you!

In a way, they were less fabricated than others. Shortly before their total commercial demise (their audience had outgrown them and they were not punk either), they were a decent pop band with some Northern Soul grit. They worked on their harmony vocals, always their strength.

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The Fifties were an innocent age.

Back then, they would have taken Fräulein Rommel to Area 51 and confined her there.  
  

How did we get from the deplorable event of Ter's public retreat from active sex (Just say: "Naw, I'd like to listen to Joss Stone instead! And a bit of Led Zep if you let me.") to Dolly Parton and then to Patti Smith?

This forum never ceases to confound ...

"Leave it to the lawyer to make sense.  Killjoy.    "

You mean I was too heavy-handed?