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NBD. Dollar for dollar, pound for pound.....

#21
BassikBrad said:
Yeah, my first band was in 1961 & we were resident at a basement club called the Whiskey a go go.
I had a 20watt tube amp ,that, I removed & wrapped the tubes in socks every time we finished & I stored it in a junk closet until the following week. One week I showed up for the gig & the place was cordoned off & guarded by Police,
the owner had murdered his wife in the top floor bedroom. Fortunately my amp wasn't kept for evidence !! Four weeks
later our guitarist was killed in an accident at work. Having just turned 16, I matured rather quickly & soon
thereafter lost my *irginity. Happy days !!
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I thought you were gonna say you forgot to get your tubes out of the sock drawer and showed up at the Whiskey with no tubes in your amp :)
 
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#23
BassikBrad said:
.....this bass outshines every bass I've ever owned over the past 60 years, including my Marleaux Consat & Dingwall Combustion.
I'm talking about this Warwick Star 5 string I received last week.
Having had a Framus Star in 1962 , nostalgia & GAS were eating away at me, then when
I accidentally discovered there was now a 5 string, I just knew I had to get one.

When I first plugged it in, I was shocked at how much better it sounded than I had expected,
after all, a cheap used Chinese bass could not be better than my Marleaux, right ?
Well, as usual the previous owner had not optimised the set up & after 6 days of constant
tweaking it sounds incredible. The low B is tight & growls. The other strings roar & hit hard
in a musical way with a pleasant hint of piano tones. The G string has a clarity & sparkle without the typical harshness, that I spend my life trying to tame on most other basses. At this point I'm thinking, is it the MEC pickups or is it the Thomastic Infeld Superalloy nickel rounds, that it came with ? At some point I shall have to do a revealing string swap to find out & try Infelds on the Marleaux.

Finish, build quality & hardware are excellent. Neck playability is great to work with, although I never get hung up on neck shapes & dimensions. The only drawback for some nit pickers would be the neck droop, typical of this classic body shape. A wide strap with a roughish
suede backing cured that & strange as it may seem, I discovered, the judicious use of the left hand has a remarkable effect on the neck angle !

So all in all & all things considered, at the end of the day, I am one ecstatic old plonker of phat strings.View attachment 4154364 View attachment 4154365 View attachment 4154366
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An add for a white 4 string one of these keeps coming up on my computer, and I keep clicking on it.
 
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BassikBrad said:
.....this bass outshines every bass I've ever owned over the past 60 years, including my Marleaux Consat & Dingwall Combustion.
I'm talking about this Warwick Star 5 string I received last week.
Having had a Framus Star in 1962 , nostalgia & GAS were eating away at me, then when
I accidentally discovered there was now a 5 string, I just knew I had to get one.

When I first plugged it in, I was shocked at how much better it sounded than I had expected,
after all, a cheap used Chinese bass could not be better than my Marleaux, right ?
Well, as usual the previous owner had not optimised the set up & after 6 days of constant
tweaking it sounds incredible. The low B is tight & growls. The other strings roar & hit hard
in a musical way with a pleasant hint of piano tones. The G string has a clarity & sparkle without the typical harshness, that I spend my life trying to tame on most other basses. At this point I'm thinking, is it the MEC pickups or is it the Thomastic Infeld Superalloy nickel rounds, that it came with ? At some point I shall have to do a revealing string swap to find out & try Infelds on the Marleaux.

Finish, build quality & hardware are excellent. Neck playability is great to work with, although I never get hung up on neck shapes & dimensions. The only drawback for some nit pickers would be the neck droop, typical of this classic body shape. A wide strap with a roughish
suede backing cured that & strange as it may seem, I discovered, the judicious use of the left hand has a remarkable effect on the neck angle !

So all in all & all things considered, at the end of the day, I am one ecstatic old plonker of phat strings.View attachment 4154364 View attachment 4154365 View attachment 4154366
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Congratulations :hyper: Brad.

I have always loved these basses. I own a couple Warwick's but have not had the pleasure of even playing this model.

Love the look and I imagine the weight is appealing.

I used to play at a Whiskey A Go Go in the 80's -90s in Denver ( I think they were a franchise) - we played on the main floor. They eventually shut it down and built a Home Depot where it was.

Hope you enjoy :bassist:
 
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#34
callofcthulhu said:
Awesome. We're in the same club, though mine's a chopped up factory Rick rather than a ground up custom.

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Also sporting a CA bridge pickup. You'll love it.
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That's interesting, tell me more about the CA sound qualities please ? I'm going crazy waiting for mine.
 
#38
That's a beautiful bass, Brad.
I wondered about those pickups, which in LOOK. remind me of the mudbuckers on my first bass, an EB-3, which I bought in 1968. The music store owner even cosigned the loan for me.
I saw Leland play with JT and what a deep, clear tone he had.

Oops...I see they're MEC single coil. Nevermind.
 
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BassikBrad said:
.....this bass outshines every bass I've ever owned over the past 60 years, including my Marleaux Consat & Dingwall Combustion.
I'm talking about this Warwick Star 5 string I received last week.
Having had a Framus Star in 1962 , nostalgia & GAS were eating away at me, then when
I accidentally discovered there was now a 5 string, I just knew I had to get one.

When I first plugged it in, I was shocked at how much better it sounded than I had expected,
after all, a cheap used Chinese bass could not be better than my Marleaux, right ?
Well, as usual the previous owner had not optimised the set up & after 6 days of constant
tweaking it sounds incredible. The low B is tight & growls. The other strings roar & hit hard
in a musical way with a pleasant hint of piano tones. The G string has a clarity & sparkle without the typical harshness, that I spend my life trying to tame on most other basses. At this point I'm thinking, is it the MEC pickups or is it the Thomastic Infeld Superalloy nickel rounds, that it came with ? At some point I shall have to do a revealing string swap to find out & try Infelds on the Marleaux.

Finish, build quality & hardware are excellent. Neck playability is great to work with, although I never get hung up on neck shapes & dimensions. The only drawback for some nit pickers would be the neck droop, typical of this classic body shape. A wide strap with a roughish
suede backing cured that & strange as it may seem, I discovered, the judicious use of the left hand has a remarkable effect on the neck angle !

So all in all & all things considered, at the end of the day, I am one ecstatic old plonker of phat strings.View attachment 4154364 View attachment 4154365 View attachment 4154366
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I am liking the rickenfaker in those pics
 
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