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01-08-2013, 07:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Aloha, Oregon | | | Monk Montgomery's Fender Bass F/S on ebay, OMG
Anybody see Monk's bass on eb today  now if I had 50K to blow haha http://www.ebay.com/itm/MONK-MONTGOM...em3a7d204ec7ow ........yea right!  |
01-08-2013, 07:08 PM
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01-08-2013, 07:12 PM
| | | | It should be in the smithsonian
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01-08-2013, 07:12 PM
| | | | It's not going sound any better than a real-world priced p-bass. Geeze. |
01-08-2013, 08:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Pacific Wonderland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Stick_Player  It's not going sound any better than a real-world priced p-bass. Geeze. | It's a jazz
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01-08-2013, 08:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Boston, MA | | | Precisely.
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01-08-2013, 09:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Austin, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Stick_Player It's not going sound any better than a real-world priced p-bass. Geeze. | Ha! It's all scratched up, too. |
01-08-2013, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by DJ Bebop It's a jazz | I stick by my original statement.    
Last edited by Stick_Player : 01-08-2013 at 10:03 PM.
Reason: mo' pix
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01-09-2013, 04:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Aloha, Oregon | | | Damn now I'm curious. His 50's P looks like my 57 S/Coil tabaco/burst. |
01-09-2013, 05:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Aloha, Oregon | | | the bass on EB is 8-9 K I'm thinking some authentification is in order !!?? Johnk where are you???? |
01-09-2013, 05:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Pacific Wonderland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Stick_Player | I get that he was know for playing a P bass but, the bass in question is a jazz touted as being his 
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01-09-2013, 07:14 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Boston, MA | | | So the seller wants $51grand for a CBS-era Jazz bass owned by a person 99.99999% of people never heard of? Jesus, where would his pricing be if he had a more collectible instrument owned by someone people could recognize? |
01-09-2013, 07:23 AM
| | | | I'd buy it, if i had the money....
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01-09-2013, 07:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: I'm on a Mexican wo-oh radio | | | Actually the Montgomery Brothers, Monk (bass), Buddy (vibes) and Wes (guitar) are well known in Jazz circles. Monk was one of the first bassists to introduce the electric bass to Jazz when most Jazz bassists of that era were using the double bass exclusively.
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01-09-2013, 07:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Kalamazoo, MI | | | A legend, no doubt.
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01-09-2013, 07:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Western PA | | | If it's the bass from Bass Odyssey and Reality, then I'd sure like to have it.
Two criminally underrated...heck, almost entirely unknown albums. |
01-09-2013, 08:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Boston, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrivethree almost entirely unknown albums. | Exactly.
People who are deep into jazz may be familiar with Monk Montgomery, but that doesn't count for much. If this were the first Precision that Fender gave Montgomery, then maybe.... maaaaaaaaaaaayyyyybe this bass would be worth somewhere near that kind of dough. But it would have to be the right person on the right day.
This bass, the one on ebay now.... it's just a CBS Jazz that an obscure player used to own. That bass on it's own is worth around $6grand. Everything after that is based on the name identification of Monk Montgomery. That might throw an extra grand or two on top of the six it's worth, but not more. |
01-09-2013, 08:05 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Queens NYC | | | I understand that this kind of item is priced so high because of the potential demand for a bass owned by a famous bassist, but personally I don't see the appeal. I'd pay top dollar for a particularly good bass, but not for something that's expensive just because someone famous (or not so famous) owned it. But that's just me. |
01-09-2013, 08:11 AM
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01-09-2013, 08:27 AM
|  | Your Obedient Bassist® | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Baltimore,MD USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by smcd So the seller wants $51grand for a CBS-era Jazz bass owned by a person 99.99999% of people never heard of? Jesus, where would his pricing be if he had a more collectible instrument owned by someone people could recognize? | Those familiar with the general history of electric instruments know exactly who Monk Montgomery is. He took a gamble back when it was truly a gamble, at least image-wise. Not only that, he was a featured player in one of the top-drawing big bands of the day, Lionel Hampton, among many credited with laying the foundation of what became R&B and rock&roll. His contribution is significant and the pedigree is 100% legit, whether you're a fan or not.
There is much that is dubious about this auction—firstly and foremostly the ridiculous price tag on an instrument that wasn't even THE instrument. You can count your way back from there.
The market will decide, for sure. But all it takes is one fool and his money.
Personally, I wouldn't pay that kind of money for any musical instrument, regardless of its provenance.
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