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I feel like I'm exposing myself terribly here but this was my first ever electric instrument and first bass which I completely forgot I had, I was looking for something in the attic yesterday and found it!
It started life as a Squier Affinity Precision in white (c.2001) before 12-13 year old me, in my infinite wisdom, decided to "mod" it as I hated the white finish and thought it would be so much better in this terrible shade of blue which I seemingly applied with a yard brush and attempted to finish with the same yard brush...
I even thought it would be a great idea to make it fretless which I hoped to achieve by filing the frets off and leaving the tangs in the fingerboard (it made sense at the time 😂) but swiftly gave up after starting into the first two frets...
Canny viewers will not the stickers were obviously added at a later date when I presumably got some free with a copy of Rock Sound and couldn't bear to see them go to waste 🤣
The upshot of this is that I now have another mod-mode project at no cost! I'll sort out the two botched frets (sidenote: I'm amazed by how low/small the original frets are, you can see the 3rd fret is unabused), refinish the headstock and get some upgraded tuners, pickups and bridge. I will probably replace the body as I have a lead on a very affordable pine body and I've always fancied a pine one and, irony if ironies, I'll probably paint it white again 😅
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A slice of history there! I quite like that shade of blue - in fact this is my first ever electric, which started life as a red Squier in the early nineties.
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That looks like a much better job than my juvenile effort!
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This is one of my favourite clips ever.
So glad I got to see Prince at one of the O2 gigs!
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I love the communication between between Prince and Tom Petty - he didn't rehearse the outro with them so no-one knew what was coming.
It's like you can see him checking in every so often to make sure that it's ok to keep soloing.
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JHS guy proves he's a total dad for never having heard of the Electric Prunes, do you even music, bro? 🤯
I'm beginning to question why I bother with that show, it's getting as bad as those Anderton's and Pedal Show cockends... Very close to unsubscribing, dull, dull, dull...
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Same same. You were spot on when you said that he thinks he’s Jerry Seinfeld. Can’t get that out me head whenever he starts some “bit” now.
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My kids are obsessed OBSESSED with 3Dbotmaker and the DEEE ARRR SEEEEE which my wife finds mental. The boy child even slots bits of commentary in between his usual confused gibberish. Parent win.
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I just picked up a 70s Vibro Champ. The speaker connects with an RCA cable by the look of it. Are there attenuators that would work with it? It also has a hole in the grill cloth that someone has dribbled glue around to stop spreading - does anyone do invisible repairs on that stuff like tailors can? I could replace it but I don't think you can get the exact stuff anymore and that seems like a shame.
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Nice! Very nice!
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That is absolutely gorgeous! Well done!
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That is a sexeh Tele. You're not helping with my rosewood board tele GAS. Must save for J-50, Must save for J-50.
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It's time for my quarterly Dwyer crush Ohsees upload:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENvavYYwFFc
Wtf is going on with the amp behind him. Looks like a twin with the grille removed and the baffle put into the back of the amp facing backwards. Can't get my head round it.
Edit, I think it's just a massive SF head. Maybe a dual showamn or something. Looks like he's driving two 2 x 15 cabs or something. Fuuuuuck.
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Yeah def. You can see it better here:
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I bought some of that Montypresso stuff for my Mustang bass - looks so much better now, thanks! Taken the grey-brown Pau Ferro to a much nicer dark brown colour.