CALLING ALL BASSPLAYERS to post in the new gallery!!

[amimbari]

would have taken the eliminator at a cheap price but it past my bid. i'm looking for a 5 string. newc has one but a don't have the funds yet( after first of the year matt! ). tino, i have a few with emgs and you may like those better. very warm tone. j2000 are bright. missed the humbucker 1b. that would be moded or maybe a san dimas charvel! got any pics amimbari? i know you probably save some! lol

ya rob, look here at the red humbucker 1B:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=360113971515&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=023

and here's the strathead 2B:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=160303018639&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=006

[Chowderboots]

oh .... I meant that 3B granite POS was relisted.

Yeah...that, too! I saw the Eliminator back up, as well as the granite 3B...

would have taken the eliminator at a cheap price but it past my bid. i'm looking for a 5 string. newc has one but a don't have the funds yet( after first of the year matt! ). tino, i have a few with emgs and you may like those better. very warm tone. j2000 are bright. missed the humbucker 1b. that would be moded or maybe a san dimas charvel! got any pics amimbari? i know you probably save some! lol

I kinda wish that I had gotten a Concert V when I had the chance. Didn't quite know what it was then, though. Still, I'm very happy with the Spector 5 string that I got instead of it.

Thanks for the offer, man, but, from what I can tell, the pickups (without the preamp) sound a lot like EMGs and that's the sound that I'm trying to steer away from. DiMarzios are the antidote, I think. Bright and zingy!

[peabuddy]

ya rob, look here at the red humbucker 1B:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=360113971515&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=023

and here's the strathead 2B:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=006

I WANT THE 1B WITH THE HB. BUT NOT $335 BAD! LOL never seen one like that. that would a new one to the family! lol

[amimbari]

I WANT THE 1B WITH THE HB. BUT NOT $335 BAD! LOL never seen one like that. that would a new one to the family! lol

my feelings exactly, but if a blue 2B comes up for sale, and it is that much...I'll pay it

[Chowderboots]

my feelings exactly, but if a blue 2B comes up for sale, and it is that much...I'll pay it

That 1B looks sick. I probably have that much money, but I have other, more important, stuff to get.

[beverlyvista]

You guys seem a little neglected, so I thought I'd better stop lurking.

[amimbari]

welcome to the club

well you know the old saying:

"bassplayers get no respect, they just get laid.

welcome to the "Far and Few J/C Bassplayers" club, although you can have quite a jam with a RR playing guitarist and drummer, it turns into a symphony with a 5 string Concert Bass and drummer.

I keep trying to tell that to the guitar players

what year is that 2B?

[beverlyvista]

I haven't got a clue which year it is. It's marked as a 2nd (I think possibly because of very tiny white flecks in the paint -- there are no play-evident flaws), and its serial #2446**. Bought it (very slightly used) November 10th '89, and it'd been in the guitar shop for some months before hand. If it'll help, the Made in Japan is simply a sticker over the standard Charvel Fort Worth neckplate. I'd take the neck off and look, but I'd never get it back on properly.

[amimbari]

no need to do that...like the rest of them, serials mean nothing unfortunately unless its a neckthru for year I assume since noone can find a definitive chart anywhere in the world, but usually 85-87's are the most common ones around anymore. they are all made the same really so year specific in that range dont mean too much.

[beverlyvista]

Yeah, I figured the serial was the usual gobbledegook. Do late ones (say, 88-89) have Made in Japan engraved/stamped on the neckplate? That's the only reason I thought the sticker might have some meaning. In any event, I never really cared all that much about dating it -- it's always been a player rather than a collectible

[Chowderboots]

That's a really cool looking 2B! They do play great, don't they?

Welcome to hell!! hahahaha Always nice to have another person in the pack!

[beverlyvista]

Proud to be here -- remember the Groucho line "I'd never want to be a member of a club that would accept me". And yes, the 2B is a fabulous playing bass -- I can't tell you how many Fenders I've picked up in the last 19 years and never found one I'd rather play than the Charvel. It even got me fired from a band 10 years ago. Two guitarists, both vintage snobs ('62 Strat, mid-60s ES175, VOX AC30, Fender Super) -- they were blues/r&b, I was Entwistle and Jack Bruce through a 100 watt 1x15 tuck and roll Naugahyde Kustom -- okay, maybe it was me and not the Charvel. But it didn't help.

[Chowderboots]

Hahaha! Awesome...way to make 'em cry!

I played a couple 2Bs at Guitar Satan. One was there when I got my 3B--infinitely happier that I chose the way I did when I did because that 2B was gone pretty quick after that.

[amimbari]

Yeah, I figured the serial was the usual gobbledegook. Do late ones (say, 88-89) have Made in Japan engraved/stamped on the neckplate? That's the only reason I thought the sticker might have some meaning. In any event, I never really cared all that much about dating it -- it's always been a player rather than a collectible

I'll look at my 88 4B later tonight after work, and find out if it does or not...like you I never really noticed that or cared..

[Chowderboots]

I was interested in dating my 3B to find out what it is like compared to other J/C models, but it's such a great bass just for playing that I don't really care too much when it was made.