Recent content by Alexlotl

Doug Yule's playing on the Velvets' 3rd & 4th albums (plus the VU bits) is great melodic stuff.

Thanks! Sig updated accordingly. Regarding owning another, ha, maybe one day. Still think it's a fantastic bass, and would be my first recommendation to anyone starting out in the shorty-sphere.

I need to turn in number #85 - sold my Jag SS when I left New Zealand. After a year or so sans-bass, I've just dropped the hammer on a white/tort MIJ Fender Mustang. I'll always remember my Jag, though!

Here in the UK we're lucky to have the BBC, who via 6Music on the Radio and Jools Holland / Glastonbury coverage on the TV manage to throw up a few names every week, most of the year. Marc Riley's (ex-Fall bassist) week-night radio show is a particular sweet-spot. Back when I lived in NZ I...

Boys Keep Swinging isn't Murray on bass - it's Visconti. To get a rough, young amateur sound for the song, the band swapped instruments: Alomar on drums, Murray on guitar, Davis on bass. But apparently Davis' playing was a bit too rough, so Visconti recorded his own take after the fact. If...

Stock here. Was planning to replace the J, but generally pretty happy with the P, this issue notwithstanding. I don't want to over egg it - it's not that much of a problem since I dropped the P-Pup a bit. But I can still here it when I'm hitting the open E while practicing The Ballad of John &...

Same problem here on open E. Dropping the P-Pup slightly got rid of the worst of it, and it doesn't really come through in a jam, but it's still there. P90 - so a fix is to keep the P-Pup volume knob from going too high? Interesting.

A bit of a weird one this. I have a Squire Jaguar VM Short-Scale with LaBella Deep Talkin Flats, which I normally play through an Orange Crush Pix 50 in a 60s/70s cover band. It's a PJ, but I primarily use the P-Pup with the (rather weak) J just used to help out the mix occasionally. Sounds...

$65 for a tort guard, plus $17ish to ship it all the way to New Zealand, which is *very* reasonable. Pickguardian seem to have a good rep here on TB, while most other replacement guard companies have threads full of complaints. Certainly my experience has been good.

Got my replacement pickguard for the Jag; vintage 60's red tort, Tort/Mint/Black/Mint, made by Tony @ Pickguardian from my (very wonky) Squier guard. He's done a fantastic job, particularly considering he didn't have the bass to work with, smoothing out the edges and managing to mostly correct...

Welcome to the club! Got to post a pic to get a number. No photo, no bass!

Going for a 4-ply 60s style red tort guard from Pickguardian - good comms, fair prices and a very good rep here on TB. It does mean posting my original guard all the way from NZ, so I guess I'll have to make a temporary replacement out of cardboard or plastic. My question around the j-pup was...

Hmm, Invalid Link Removed is now back. Was 404ing. I still can't see it on the Jaguar Basses page, only the Troy Sanders, the VM, VM Special and VM V Special. False alarm. Carry on!

Hmm, trying to check the Fender page for the Jag SS to confirm some specs, and I find it seems to have vanished completely in the last day or so. The shorty is also missing from the Invalid Link Removed page. Temporary blip, or have we just been discontinued?

Thanks, I've dropped some mails to a few local luthiers. Would be nice to avoid shipping charges to/from NZ, but they may be unavoidable. Splashed out for a Invalid Link Removed to replace the anaemic default J-pup. Am I right that as a Fender single-coil, this should be a straightforward...