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06-10-2010, 08:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Boulder Suburbia, Colorado | | | The best bass purchase you've ever made?
talked w/ a bass player last week at a show & he picked up his 1968 Fender P for $500 from a garage sale in 1995. Insane, huh?
Mine is the Yamaha BB800 I play right now from pmcd for $350. It just sounds and plays awesome. What more can you ask for?  |
06-10-2010, 08:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Quebec, Canada | | | For me it is my Lakland Skyline Bob Glaub (P-bass).
I bought and sold many basses before sticking with this one. |
06-10-2010, 08:58 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Oklahoma city | | Sadowsky UV-70 5 string, that thing killed my fender deluxe! best bass i have ever bought.  
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06-10-2010, 09:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: ootah | | First Alleva Coppolo I bought,   
I bought an AC 5 string pbass after this and sold everything else except my 72 franken p bass. No bass purchases for 2 years. 
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06-10-2010, 09:36 PM
|  | Walter Woods or Aguilar to LDS - the best! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: NE Ohio | | There have been a lot of best basses purchases over the decades for me.  If you want to see my most current best bass purchase check out the June 2010 issue of Bass Player and read the review on the fretless Martin Keith fretless Elfin I just received on Tuesday straight from Jonathan Herrera.  I bought the bass from Martin at NAMM 2010. 
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06-10-2010, 09:41 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | my MIM p-bass. the recent years have been good to the MIM standards, and it's precisely the color and fretboard I want. Perfect. And was a 'used' model at MF so i got a nice deal on a like new bass. it's definitely the kind of bass i will hang onto. |
06-10-2010, 09:42 PM
|  | Supporting Member and fetch player | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Colorado, USA | | | My Carvin LB70s, both of them. Best feeling basses I've ever played.
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06-10-2010, 09:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: St. Louis, MO USA | | Quilt top ModuLus Q5 in natural. Not because it was a killer deal or anything, but because I connected with that bass more than anything ever before or since.
I sold it a several months ago in a fit of lunacy. I loved that bass. I'd seriously consider trading my Sadowsky straight up for it if I could find it. I think the guy I sold it to shipped it to Europe  Oh well, another story of love lost. |
06-10-2010, 09:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Oregon | | | I just got a 57 reissue P bass there like 1450$ new, i got mine new but i have no case or case candy for 770$ mainly due to a small ding. Best bass i have owned and a great price. |
06-10-2010, 09:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Saratoga, CA | | | Economically? Bought a Variax bass for 350, sold for 450 a couple months later. Similar story with an ATK750, bought for 350, sold for 400ish.
But the bass I use the most is also the cheapest, a MIM-pup'd SX P bass. It needed a bunch of little things, like pots, a couple of frets sanded, some steel wool on the neck, but nothing costed very much. Now it sounds, looks, and even plays great for next to nothing.
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06-10-2010, 10:17 PM
| | | My best purchase is my Birdsong Hy5. It cost alot, but is well worth it.
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06-11-2010, 02:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dinghy  Bought a Variax bass for 350, sold for 450 a couple months later. Similar story with an ATK750, bought for 350, sold for 400ish. | Yeah.
No buy is a great purchase if you can't easily flip it at a profit.
I guess mine is my stock 1963 Thunderbird II I got for $75 many years ago.
Still have it. 
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06-11-2010, 07:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Boulder Suburbia, Colorado | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bongolation Yeah.
No buy is a great purchase if you can't easily flip it at a profit.
I guess mine is my stock 1963 Thunderbird II I got for $75 many years ago.
Still have it. | I'll give you twice that plus 10% interest per year since you bought it!  |
06-11-2010, 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Bongolation No buy is a great purchase if you can't easily flip it at a profit. |  |
06-11-2010, 07:40 AM
|  | Don't ask me why, I don't know.......
Luthier: Rickett Customs | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Southern Maryland | | | By far: Spector Euro LX5 |
06-11-2010, 07:41 AM
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Endorsing: Copetti Guitars | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Florianopolis - Brazil | | 1992 MIA Fender Precision Plus. I got it yesterday (see my NBD NBD: Fender "Boner" content) and it is for sure the best bass I bought.
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06-11-2010, 07:41 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Avondale Estates, GA, USA | | | My first Reverend. Still around almost 12 years later.
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06-11-2010, 07:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Detroit | | | Traded a bicycle worth no more than $400 to a dude for a 2006 Fender AV '62 Precision. Bass had been treated poorly (dings and such), but as a result has tonnes of mojo. The nitro and a little paint had already been rubbed away on the arm rest area. |
06-11-2010, 07:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Rochester, NY | | | Easy. My first one. Not the best bass in the world, but it got me started.
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06-11-2010, 08:00 AM
| | | | Since 1973, it is the $75 used SX lefty P bass I got in January from a pawn shop. Like-new condition, changed the strings and she was good to go! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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