any T-40 love out there?

[SKATE RAT]

i love my Peavey T-40! i'd like to get another in sunburst.

[sirbassalot]

Man a sweet bass and a load of vinyl, thats about as good as it gets.
I'll post my Mike Lull P5  when I figure out how to make the pic fit.

[godofthunder]

I had one when they first came out, loved it. I have been checking out ebay for a deal they have been going higher lately.

[uwe]

I have a soft spot for these too - I love to play mine at home (it has a really nice presence halo quite unlike any other bass I own, without sounding trebly), but in a band context it doesn't have the mids to cut really through unless you turn it up loud. Mine is sienna (sierra?) brown or something.

[Dave W]

Do I spy an ash Guild B-301?

[SKATE RAT]

uwe,do you read my mind or something? thats exactly the T-40 i want,and i've been looking for a B-301 for a while.and that Magnum is sick,i remember Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth playing one.deep thump throb!
my top 5 bass want list...........
1.Guild B-301...either the hog or ash versions just the single pup version
2.Gibson les paul standard in tobacco sunburst.
3.Peavey T-40 sunburst w/ rosewood
4.Rickenbacker 4001 "fireglow" w/ all the fancy stuff.
5.Fender Telecaster bass 72 first year w/ neck humbucker and year i was born

the Peavey and Guild are the only ones i can actually expect to afford the other 3 are out of my price range,there are a few more but............

[uwe]

I've never made a secret that I like the Guild B-301 shape and that the Magnum II is all that an RD Artist should have and could have been had they made it of maho and stuck to sensible electronic features. Alas, the Guild is another one of those basses that sounds great in the comfort of your living room, but - at least in my ash version - weirdly middish-"honkey" in a band situation.

Uwe

[SKATE RAT]

i've always seen the B-301 & B-302 as Guild's version of the Ripper and Grabber.

[Dave W]

The only Guild B-301/302 I remember seeing anyone play was Ali McMordie's B-302 from the early years of Stiff Little Fingers. I once wrote him about it, and let's just say he doesn't remember it fondly.

[Barklessdog]

I've never made a secret that I like the Guild B-301 shape and that the Magnum II is all that an RD Artist should have and could have been had they made it of maho and stuck to sensible electronic features. Alas, the Guild is another one of those basses that sounds great in the comfort of your living room, but - at least in my ash version - weirdly middish-"honkey" in a band situation.

Uwe

Is that the hall of shame/ other basses/ failures other than Gibson?

You keep them in a dark cellar- a torture chamber of sorts?

Guild! Ovation! Peavy!    you have all Shamed me!

- Bongo / Musicman inspiration?
Are these kept in the laboratory?

[SKATE RAT]

BITE YOUR TAIL,DOG. i like all 3 of those.

[SKATE RAT]

The only Guild B-301/302 I remember seeing anyone play was Ali McMordie's B-302 from the early years of Stiff Little Fingers. I once wrote him about it, and let's just say he doesn't remember it fondly.

i llllooooooooooovvve stiff little fingers,well only the first rec. and the live one 'hanx.

[Dave W]

i llllooooooooooovvve stiff little fingers,well only the first rec. and the live one 'hanx.

Here ya go: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BQmvioi1glg

I still listen to Inflammable Material but not the later stuff.

Ali is actually back with SLF after many years away (Bruce Foxton was bassist for years).

[chromium]

What's with all these funny lookin' basses?   

Here's some Magnum I action for you, played by a guy named Barry Adamson:

 

Not many shots of it, but that Magnum sound is omnipresent.

[chromium]

Separated at birth?