a strange looking g&l I found...

[garcon blond]

hello,

My name's Chris this is my first post here, so I hope I m respecting the protocole...

I have a question:

Last night I saw a bass player who had what he said was an SB 1 from '83. Now I myself have 2 g&l's, more recent, and that one did not look anything like mine.

For a start it didn't have the famous g&l head, it looked more like a Sadowski kind of shape. I checked the serial number it's B012767 if that may help. Does anyone know if G&L at one time designed their heads differently?

There is only one pickup right in the centre shaped like a JB2 pickup sort of.

Can anyone tell me if such a bass is worth anything or if it appears to be fake? Any opinion is more than welcome as the owner's selling it.

Thanks.

[tornadobass]

It's real...they had a Fender style headstock until the Fender company asked Leo to stop it...so he invented the current "eye-gouger" headstock.

And the SB-2 used to be like a Jazz bass, with the SB-1 having just one of those pickups. This was all in the early '80s, IIRC, with the original headstock lasting on a couple of years.

[earlgray]

a picture would help a lot,although it sounds like a 1st gen SB-1.

you can see examples of various G&L basses at http://www.ggjaguar.com/gnl.htm

[garcon blond]

well thanks guys, yes it looks exactly like that orange SB1 bass on the link you sent me, earlgrey. The pickup and the rest are the same as the one I saw yesterday.

Any ideas on how much such a bass might be worth? Though on the one I could buy the neck's a bit twisted and apparently the truss rod's ruined.

[spideyjg]

Originally Posted by garcon blond

Though on the one I could buy the neck's a bit twisted and apparently the truss rod's ruined.