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11-13-2012, 03:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Ontario, Canada | | | Fender Performer
Not mine, but thought I'd post it here, I've never seen one before. What a cool looking body shape. Can't say I like the headstock though http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-s...AdIdZ430030133 |
11-13-2012, 03:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Chicago, IL | | | Love the shape and there are actually a couple of us making performer styled builds in the LC right now.
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11-13-2012, 03:54 PM
|  | Waiting For The Worms | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Torrance, CA | | | they're rare and cool but $1300 is way too much |
11-13-2012, 04:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NET | | Very slim neck, almost like on Vox basses. And a unique Fender logo: 
FWIW, here's the one pic I've found of a reported 3-pickup, 5-string prototype (missing a tuner): 
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11-13-2012, 04:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Michigan,USA | | I had a red performer, bought about 10 yrs ago,think i paid like 350.00 for it.Traded mine at guitar center a few years ago...i think they gave me 450.00 for it. It was a really good sounding bass and had a real fast jazz style neck. Couldnt get past the looks though  bought a highway 1 3 tone pbass.
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11-13-2012, 04:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: D'Shaw | | Quote:
Originally Posted by cdef  Very slim neck, almost like on Vox basses. | That's what I like about my Performer 4 strings.
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11-13-2012, 06:02 PM
|  | Supporting member | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Groveport Ohio | | Quote:
Originally Posted by kris pung Love the shape and there are actually a couple of us making performer styled builds in the LC right now. | WHO---WHO---WHO? I would LOVE to find a primo Performer, or at least a bass with the same style AND neck specs.
What is the smiley for "^&%^$% I WANT ONE!"
Periodically I comb the net for a primo Peformer.
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11-13-2012, 06:18 PM
|  | Registered Abuser | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Austin, TX | | | Great playing bass but I hated the sound (fixed with EMGs). Shame I sold it, neck was a lot of fun. |
11-13-2012, 06:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Chicago, IL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MEKer WHO---WHO---WHO? I would LOVE to find a primo Performer, or at least a bass with the same style AND neck specs.
What is the smiley for "^&%^$% I WANT ONE!"
Periodically I comb the net for a primo Peformer. | Custom Performer/Supersonic bass New Build – SpaceBass 5 string
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11-13-2012, 07:27 PM
| | Supporting member | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Groveport Ohio | | Thanks for the links--------you both rock! Posted replies to you both. Love where you guys are going. Hmmmm---maybe I'll be sharing a tax return with somebody............ 
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11-14-2012, 12:46 PM
| | | | Friend of mine had one of those back around 89 or 90 or so. I called it the Fred Flintstone bass. Remember how everything in that show that was round was always "just quite NOT round"? That's the way I looked at that bass, like it had been chisled out of stone or wood and not quite finished. He loved it but sold it soon after getting it.
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11-14-2012, 12:51 PM
|  | Supporting Member and fetch player | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Colorado, USA | | I've always called them "Flintstones" basses, too. It would be fun to have one for show as much as to play it!
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11-14-2012, 03:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Ontario, Canada | | | Too funny,
First thing i said to myself when i saw that body shape was "If Fred Flintstone was in a band, this would be his bass" |
11-14-2012, 04:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Australia | | | Looks like a great bass. I guess it was during the period where Fender were trying to make pointy basses like a whole bunch of others. It's a very 80s design. |
11-14-2012, 04:14 PM
| | | | I bought a Performer 4 String sunburst and gave it to my girlfriend about 15 years ago. We got married, and the bass is still around with all the other music gear! I recently found one on E-Bay going for about $1200 or so. Anyone buy or sell one of these lately? |
11-15-2012, 04:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: D'Shaw | | Quote:
Originally Posted by corndog Too funny,
First thing i said to myself when i saw that body shape was "If Fred Flintstone was in a band, this would be his bass" | LOL, I always thought of a different Hanna-Barbera family...The Jetsons.
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12-14-2012, 01:39 PM
| | | | Still have mine, bought it new in 85 or 86. took the rosewood fretboard off of it and laminated a nice slab of smooth madagaskar ebony to the neck and put a badass bridge on it shortly after getting it. other than that its all original and sounds great still. Never dreamed that it would jump in price so much or I wouldn't have changed it! |
12-14-2012, 02:50 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | The store I managed (from '77 through '88) had one when they came out. I took it to a gig once. Sounded very very nice, but the neck was so freakin' skinny- made a Geddy Lee Jazz feel like a clubby Precision.
John
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12-17-2012, 11:05 AM
| | | | Agree on the neck, but thats what i liked about it. 24 fret about 2" width at the body joint. Almost the exact same as my yamaha BX-1. |
12-18-2012, 08:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mount Vernon, Illinois | | | I should have kept mine, I just didn't experiment enough with different strings and EQ to get a sound I liked out of it. I really thought the look was great, but always sounded/felt like a toy. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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