The Last Bass Outpost

I'm a nurse and don't look anything like that picture.

Incidentally I use Chromes on my 2007 Sunburst Gibson T-Bird and it sounds great, very deep with hand muting and thumb. Piano-like with a pick especially considering they're flat wounds. They are hard to finger pluck for me. I'm not used to the tight spacing.

That 66.7 feedback rating really inspires confidence! And I guess he assumes ( and we all know what happens when we assume ) that it must have been made in the 70s' because it looks like paneling from the 70s' ?!?

EEEEK!!!!

Sorry for the caps!

That's because of the totally new unfair way ebay computes feedback scores. If you get one negative and one positive within the past year you get a 50% score. If you get 1 negative and 99 positives within the last year you get a 99% score. The only good thing is that once the negative is one year old it drops off and you have 100% again. I feel bad for the person who only occasionally sells or buys things things and gets a negative. I have about 300 positives and one negative given to me by a retaliatory seller (which is now not allowed either) and my score for two more months is only 97.8% which is not representative of my real feedback percentage.

Thanks, yeah I looked it up on the web after I posted it. Obviously I don't have to ask how it sounded, he had a great bass sound.

Aren't Jaguar basses really just J basses with different cosmetics and a few (well actually many) switches?

Lots of great bands mentioned here, Spirit, Mountain who I saw several times back in the early 70's. Jefferson Airplane, Traffic. I rediscovered The Stooges and early Grand Funk while living in Lima, Peru several years ago. I saw The Stooges in 1969 but never saw Grand Funk. I love Mel Schacter's bass playing and sound on the first 5 or 6 LP's especially the 2nd album, the red one with the J bass on the cover. I could blast that album all night.
Same for The Stooges, especially the Raw Power stuff, I have almost all the bootleg stuff and legitimate releases. That band rocked, Raw Power has to be the most powerful and primitive stuff ever released on record. I have all three versions, the Bowie mix on LP, The Iggy mix on CD and the rough mixes, plus all the live stuff, the rough mixes that was supposed to be the second album which would have been killer. I actually like the Bowie mix the best on most songs because it's got more bottom, Iggy really unleashed it's power though, scary good.

OK I had to take a picture of the behemoth: Well that didn't come out quite right.

I would have to say my '76 4001. For several years in the early '90s, I was trying to live the dream with music in a Massachusetts band called Jiggle the Handle. We never made any money, though, so the entire time my workhorse was a Fender Japan '62 Jazz Bass reissue.

I remember that band, I don't think I ever saw you guys though, but that is a memorable name and your band got around if I remember right, I'm from Millbury, very close to Worcester. I was in school at the time and didn't get out very much.
I got very sick during the mid 90's and sold the love of my life which was a 68 Candy Apple Red P bass with a 66 J neck on it. I owned it for 18 years and was my primary bass all that time. I had a fretless neck on it for a while, but went back to the J neck. It was originally a rosewood fretless.
I have several basses now and go back and forth over which is my favorite, among them a mapleglo 79 4001, a black 72 fretless P bass and a sunburst 2007 Gibson Thunderbird. I also have a 72 jetglo 4001FL but I don't play it often and a 69 EB-3, they'll have thier tu=imes though I'm sure.
I actually think my SVT's are the real loves of my life though. I can change basses and really become attached to them but can't change amps, I think it's something to do with bandmembers on fill in gigs automatically thinking you are going to be the loudest thing on earth and scowling before you even play a note. Seriously though, it's the sound.

I'm mostly a pick player and palm mute quite a bit and I found those channels over the mute made it hard to play............................ so I removed them. 

I know a few other guys who have done that. I don't use a pick very often but have been using my thumb with a Thunderbird while palm muting, it gives it almost an upright-like sound, you can really control the amount of sustain like that, can't do that on a Ric although their mute sounds pretty good too.