Recent content by Sanshiro

The Eastwood didn't really get much use to begin with. He used the prototype for the fall 2019 North America tour and then his white one during some summer shows in 2021. Otherwise he's been fully back to the Shergold.

I'm gonna guess... BB2000.

I love the Moonlight Blue, I'm a sucker for transparent finishes. Hopefully more colors come to the lower tier models too, a BB734A in a similar finish might finally send me over the edge.

The fretboard is nice and dark compared to the first pic. It cleaned up really well.

The Cure if you count the Fender Bass VI as a bass, they use it as melodic lead instrument mainly. The song Primary is just two basses and drums. This is cheating as it's actually two bands playing together, but Casiopea and T-SQUARE made it work live with two bassists.

I like bright and fresh roundwound strings so old strings in general are a no-go for me. Used strings are also full of other people's hand gunk, and who knows where their hands have been, people are nasty. That said, because I have a minor hoarding problem I can't bring myself to throw out a...

Going by Yamaha's serial number chart, if it's a Made In Taiwan model (which most BB300s are) it was made on June 5th, 1984.

I can do it, but my slapping isn't very consistent or controlled. Occasionally I put effort into practicing it, but I just can't get it down and I don't like slapping enough to put more serious effort into it. I think part of it has to do with me being (very) left handed, but playing right...

Most Shergolds were affordable instruments, aside from some special models. Bernard had a cheap Japanese SG copy in addition to his Gibson SG too, I'm not sure if it got used on any recordings though. In the later days of Joy Division Hooky did get a Yamaha BB1200 and a Shergold Marathon 6...

Looking at it again, the Eastwood site actually only shows the old neck on the white and black versions, red, sunburst, and hacienda blue have up to date photos. No matter the color they all have the same specs so they should fix that discrepancy in the product photos. This is my Hooky from...

Entirely anecdotal, but I have a Hooky from the second run (late 2020) and haven't had any issues with strings falling off the neck. The very first run of Hookys had slightly narrower necks though and the product pages on Eastwood's site seem to show that original narrower neck.

Only video I could find on a traditional bass guitar. I did find this really cool electric bass shamisen played with with a bachi though.

Going by the current precedent, probably 2024. The first Revstar line was 2015, and the second line came this year. The previous BB line came out in 2010, then the current BBs came out in 2017. The pattern at Yamaha seems to be 7 years in between lineup refreshes.

I want to see the reverse P configuration make a return, to me it's one of the key characteristics of the Yamaha BB. I can't say I see it happening though, outside of a few models here and there like the Michael Anthony signatures and the BBPH they've all been regular P since the mid 80s and...

The only Eastwood I've seen is the Raider guitar played by David Potts early in the tour.