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Danelectro Longhorn Reissue
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Average Price
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50% of reviewers
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5.0
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Description:
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Body - Hollowbody Masonite- on wood frame
Frets - 24
Neck - Bolt-on Maple
Fretboard - Rosewood
Nut - Aluminium 15/8"
Pickups - 2 x Hot Alnico Lipstick® Single Coils
Controls - Stacked Volume and Tone for each pickup
Tuners - Chrome, fully enclosed
Bridge - Standard Danelectro Single Piece
Colours Available - Blue Burst, Black
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Author
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faceman
Registered User
Registered: January 2009
Location: Durham
Posts: 82
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Review Date: Mon March 2, 2009
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Fantastic sound, easy and fun to play, light, good looking, plenty of frets, unique
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Cons:
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Take a while to get used to and can be hard to find
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This bass is just amazing, I really just can't stress that enough. Since I took up bass playing two years ago, I don't think I have found anything as brilliant as this little beast. I've been through Squier P, Squier J, Fender American J, Fender Geddy Lee, Music Man StingRay and Lakland Duck Dunn Skyline Signature as well as my current other bass Lakland Darryl Jones Skyline but I always find myself falling back to the Dano.
Why? It's just so much fun and makes bass playing easy. The guitarist in my band recently purchased a Danelectro Dano '63 reissue and I started doing some eBay browsing and found this one and made an offer instantly and won it. I believe it is one of the original reissues from '99 period, as the newer ones don't have the stacked volume/tone knobs. It arrived it in good condition with just a few bits of wear and tear - as you would expect for a ~10 year old bass but nothing major. Firstly, I was amazed at how small it was - compared to the Darryl Jones, it's lighter, smaller and certainly took me a while to get used to. It has so many frets that the soloing possibilities in the second octave are endless. It's great for cheeky little fills here and there 
The sound of this thing is just - wow. It's got the 'knock' of a hollowbody, the growl of a Rickenbacker and the low end of a P-bass. If I had £1,500+ to spend, a Ric would be amazing but that's not happening for the foreseeable future. It's unique and cuts through the mix in any situation. The best example I can think of a player is Gary Talent from E Street Band - he's used Longhorns over the years, and especially in the early years. The solo on 'Incident on 57th Street' from 4:00 onwards is just pure bliss from his.
I took this to my band practise, and besides the shock that all the guitars were now Danelectro, everyone in the band commented how much better we sounded. This marks the first time that someone in the band has noticed a change in bass sound. Our music stylings range from 60s Motown/Soul, to 80s New Wave to 00s Indie and the Longhorn fits in perfectly. Plenty of low end but it cuts through like butter, like nothing else I have played. I have mine strung with Rotosound Swing Bass RS66S, the same as The Ox used. They go from 90 - 45 and fit the bass perfectly. Anything fatter is just silly but they get a fantastic tone. Plenty use flatwounds on their Danos but give the rounds a try. I've played it through my Ashdown Electric Blue EB120 combo as well as an Ashdown stack with Hartke 500W head, both sound great!
I've still got my Darryl Jones, mainly because that is fantastic too but it doesn't get anywhere near as much play as the Longhorn. It's more of a normal bass but it doesn't have the character or growl of the Dano. As well as changing the strings to Rotosounds, the bridge was upgraded to one with adjustable saddles (the standard for these reissues was a single piece of wood) and I would recommend this for anyone - you can find them on eBay or various bass online shops. I'm hoping to get a thin vintage 60s strap as well as some metal strap locks as the plastic ones aren't great.
The looks - it's a love 'em or hate 'em situation. I have grown to love them and at nearly every gig, someone will complement or comment on how it looks. I'm one of those people that I'm not bothered how I look so I don't care what others thing but this isn't your standard Fender. It's something different, and that's what this is about. It's unique and if you want unique, this is for you.
I can't stress enough how much I love this thing. It might be not suitable as your only bass but for me, it's perfect. I can take it to practises, to gigs and not worry about it. It's everything a bass should in both terms of functionality of playability. With the new upcoming Longhorn '58 reissue this year (2009), keep your eyes open and pick up one while you can. Danelectro only tend to reissue one model a year so finding certain ones can be difficult. Don't be put off by the fact it's cheap - it works well, looks great and I love mine.
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Member #240 of the Rickenbacker Club
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The proud player of Rickenbacker 4003 and Rickenbacker 3001
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jamminjh
Registered User
Registered: March 2011
Posts: 7
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Review Date: Thu March 24, 2011
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Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 1
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Pros:
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innovative
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Cons:
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It looks like something the cat in the hat would play...
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It looks and sounds like it's made of plastic. I wouldn't think that most people playing what resembles a disembodied uterus would feel like they are pulling off the appropriate look for the macho low end back bone of a group... But this is just my opinion... Just keep this phrase in mind when you see one... "disembodied uterus"... How does that make you feel?
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