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12-23-2012, 08:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Pori, Finland | | | Without a doubt, snag it before somebody else gets it!
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12-23-2012, 08:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Prostheta  Without a doubt, snag it before somebody else gets it! | If he ^ said it, do it! |
12-23-2012, 08:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Pori, Finland | | | Thanks Immigrant :-D
I think it looks like a very good specimen. I'd collect though. It needs playing first since the narrow string spacing might not be your thing. It looks like a great instrument though. Not a bad price, about average I think.
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12-27-2012, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by dllive Hi guys,
Im thinking about buying this bass: http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/ba...984/1004811427
What do you think - is it worth the price? I would dearly love a 30 year old P bass (who wouldnt!?), but cant afford one, so this seems a good compromise. I play mostly funk (the JBs, New Mastersounds etc...) | Looking at the serial number it's a 1980 not 1984 model.
If it was me I'd go and try it out, then, if I liked it I'd see if they'd move on the price, £400 is a good price but it's a buyers market.
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12-27-2012, 10:27 AM
| | | Partly because of this thread and partly because of Cliff Burton's playing the SB1000. I found a SBR-80 on gumtree last month and it's everything I've been looking for in a bass. Great neck, great tone, plays like a dream and not as heavy as I was led to believe.  |
12-27-2012, 10:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Pori, Finland | | | Yes. The SB-1000 is the heavy one! They're not small basses either way....
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12-27-2012, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by rustindeth Partly because of this thread and partly because of Cliff Burton's playing the SB1000. I found a SBR-80 on gumtree last month and it's everything I've been looking for in a bass. Great neck, great tone, plays like a dream and not as heavy as I was led to believe. | Nice figuring there ^! |
12-27-2012, 10:52 AM
|  | Ant | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Havre De Grace MD | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by rustindeth Partly because of this thread and partly because of Cliff Burton's playing the SB1000. I found a SBR-80 on gumtree last month and it's everything I've been looking for in a bass. Great neck, great tone, plays like a dream and not as heavy as I was led to believe.
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12-27-2012, 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Anthony Barrett | Cool clips! Sounds like an SB-1000 to me!!! |
12-27-2012, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by zuma Cool clips! Sounds like an SB-1000 to me!!! | Thanks Zuma. Didn't learn the Rio track exactly, just noodled with it to get a clip. Watched your vid and learned it properly now! |
12-27-2012, 05:57 PM
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My video isn't perfect either but it'll get you most of the way there! |
12-27-2012, 06:05 PM
| | Ant | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Havre De Grace MD | | Quote:
Originally Posted by zuma
My video isn't perfect either but it'll get you most of the way there! | I have to say, I have bought Fender CS basses and a Lakland 44-64 over the last three years. I've never picked one up as much as I am doing with this Aria SB-1000 RI. I think waiting all these years for one and associating it with my teens growing up in the UK with Big Country, The Jam and Duran has given it an emotional aspect I don't feel towards any other bass. Also, its "that tone" I've spent 30 years looking for.
Man, all that sounds wussy! |
12-27-2012, 06:20 PM
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12-28-2012, 12:14 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Kawagoe, Japan | | Thanks for the sound clips! Very nicely done. I like the Bruce Foxton riff. Clearly you were already familiar with the Foxton-Aria connection!  Quote:
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12-28-2012, 06:36 AM
| | Ant | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Havre De Grace MD | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Alembic83 Thanks for the sound clips! Very nicely done. I like the Bruce Foxton riff. Clearly you were already familiar with the Foxton-Aria connection! | Hey - a story for you. In 2004, just after me and the wife moved to Baltimore, we went to see Stiff Little Fingers (a Northern Irish punk band) at the Black Cat in D.C. Bruce Foxton was their bassist for about 15 years and was with them at the time. After the gig, we nipped around the back of the club to try and find the tour bus. Ian McAllum the rhythm guitarist was outside the bus having a smoke. I (naughtily) blagged that we had flown from Wales in the UK just to see the gig. He was so taken aback that he invited us onto the bus. I made a bee-line for Bruce. He cracked us a Heineken and we spent 30 minutes talking about his basses. When I asked him about his Aria and if he still had it, he said "Was that the mustard-colored one"? I said "yes - the one you played on The Tube (a UK Live music show from the eighties) for your final gig with The Jam". He replied, "its up in my attic - I'll have to get it back into action"
Anyhow, thats my only meeting with Foxton and discussion about his Aria. He's a dedicated Fender player now (Black 57 re-issue). What a great bloke though. They say be careful about meeting your heroes, but Foxton is a genuinely lovely, down-to-earth and hospitable fella. I guess the true-geniuses have nothing to prove. One of my highlights. A great bloke to crack a beer with!
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12-29-2012, 10:25 AM
| | Ant | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Havre De Grace MD | | | Looking at various Arias across the web, came across this SBR 60 in an interesting blue finish. anyone have one of these or another unusual SB finish?
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12-29-2012, 12:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: West of Stumptown, USA | | I've never seen one that color, but I like it. Not crazy about the Fleabass though. 
Imagine an affordable reissue of SBs of all colors with the neck through showing. |
12-29-2012, 01:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Kawagoe, Japan | | I have seen a blue SB R60 once before, but it might be the same bass just a different pic. I'll upload the pic I have. Also I've come across a couple candy apple red SB Elites. Right now I have a solid red SB-700, as opposed to the usual see through red, in the care of a friend in Japan (see attachement). Haven't seen any others like it yet.
BTW, great Foxton story! I checked out a 2004 performance of the band and they were great! Quote:
Originally Posted by Anthony Barrett Looking at various Arias across the web, came across this SBR 60 in an interesting blue finish. anyone have one of these or another unusual SB finish? |
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12-29-2012, 01:36 PM
| | Ant | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Havre De Grace MD | | | Like that CAR (edit - solid red - sorry) very much. As Immigrant said earlier, it would be great if the SB / SBR range could be reissued with the some solid color options with the wood stripe still visible. Plus also the traditional finishes. Hopefully a higher level of production would also deliver the economies of scale to make the pricing more accessible.
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12-29-2012, 05:15 PM
|  | Cort bassist by obligation | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: South Florida | | | Just curious, the cavity in my SB is packed to the gills. Is that normal?
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