Fender Precision

The ONE

That's her. Somehow my ultimate bass guitar. We met some time ago in the 90ies when I needed a reliable bass guitar for pushing the Candy. Ever since I keep turning back to her. I really cranked on her with Candy Push, played her cool with SeCure/Strangedays, she's on all SlimP-Recordings. Whatever needs to be done - it can be done with her. Japanese Fender Precision. I'd have to spend quite a lot of money to find a suitable replacement (don't even know why I keep an eye on other basses. Guess, it's because it feels like going to music stores sometimes and checking out bass guitars is part of being a bass player... ;-)).

...found some historical document...it was sooo cheap!

There's a new guitar in town...

Fender Jaguar Bass VI Custom

...and she's great! Perfect instrument for lines! Feels good, plays good, sounds good... we need more songs for it!

update: using it quite often on the new cd. I love it! Not yet published, but as you can already hear the songs live, here's a list of songs where I use it: Hypnosis, Nightly Walk, Lines, and there will be more to come...

AAAAAmplification

I happened to borrow this Amp from The Admiriade's bass player Felix when we played this years's schwarzton festival. We were in urgent need of a second amp, so he just got it from their practice room. To make a long story short: It was so convincing, that I bought it. :-)

It's a SWR WORKINGMAN'S 2X10C. Sounds great in combination with my ampeg 4x10 speaker. And looks very important...

If you get the chance to test one: make sure there's enough space! It needs room to breath. On a wide stage it developes a much better sound than in a cozy small practice room.

Effects - Boss ME50 B

...kind of boring to me. In case anyone wonders: I use this Boss thing. Mainly the Equalizer, barely distortion and chorus+delay or flanger. About 4 different settings are enough for both, bass and bariton.

Ibanez Artstar

Black Beauty

Ibanez Artstar... if I was dreaming a bass... it would probably be close to this one. Didn't have the time to really get it sounding good with my amplification system(s). She needs attention, though 'K' from K.Bass&Guitars did a really good job giving it a quick adjustment, while I was testing his handmade basses. Really great instruments, feeling extremely natural in my hands (and through the rest of my body!).

Vantage Avanger

The First One

This is a Vantage Avanger. Never heard? No matter. It was cheap. It used to be metallic purple before I sliced the body and painted it green-black. Bought it ages ago when I became a bass player for Duty Free, back when life was fun and easy... before this one I played a Höfner Beatles bass, borrowed from someone.

Marathon Replay Series

Whatever needs to be done

Another one of the "whatever needs to be done, I can do that"-things. A Marathon Replay Series Guitar. Bought in the 90ies for 150 Euro, it stopped me from thinking about buying a real Fender. What should I do that for? Sounds good, plays good... I use this one for writing songs.

Framus

Framus...

bought this one a century ago for very little money, it was pretty fucked so I glued jeans over it (seriously), but removed that ridiculous fault some years later before I painted it blue-white-black, it's meant to be an eye...
it's a 1974 FRAMUS, nearly unplayable, but good-looking.

Ibanez Blazer

The real beginning

This is the one that got me started. YES, of course I tried playing 6 strings before reducing to a more handy amount of strings...
Got this one (Ibanez Blazer custom) second hand when I was ... 14, I think. Had to change the pickguard as the jack was broken after a few years of making love. Nice guitar, probably the basement of me fancying ibanez... ;-)

Olympics

Olympics

...the first one I painted myself. Obviously a "curesque" era... we bought two of them for very little money, Lars finished his one with the lyrics of "just like heaven" (I think), I left mine just like you see on the picture. Sounds really funny, maybe we should SlimPerize it some time... it's an Olympics guitar from Japan, early 80ies, I think.

OLP

The Backup

This one is for backup...

my musical awareness began in the 80ies, so I had to get a Stingray one day*. Here it is, though it's only the OLP version. Good enough, anyway, since we replaced the pickup. Some Seymour Duncan thing, the same as E. plays on her Stingray.

*these guys are to blame...: Simon Gallup, Steven Severin,...

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