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'62 P Bass w/Jazz Neck (after the fire)

topcat2069

topcat2069

Dec 2, 2007
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Cathedral City Ca.
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Me and my 1962 P-Bass with a '67 Jazz neck.... the place we were playing got torched by a rival club so I had the Bass refinished in a honey to burgundy burst (yes, I had worn the finish with my thumb above the pick guard... the rest are just reflections...) I just found and scanned this picture it had been lost for the last 3 moves and was packed away...
 

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topcat2069 said:
Me and my 1962 P-Bass with a '67 Jazz neck...
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Never let go of this bass!

It so reminds me of my '66 P bass (maybe was 67-68) with a '67-68 Jazz neck. Loved it, though the neck was a bit unstable in the steam-heated dorm room I had in the winter of 68-69.

I played it to death until 1977, when my girlfriend and I were literally freezing to death in Kalamazoo, MI. I then sold it and a Marshall major 200 watt tube head and Acoustic 301 118 cab for very very cheap...:crying: :crying: :bawl:
 
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woah, back story?
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There were 2 rival Country clubs in San Jose at the time, The Red Barn and Sam's club (plus Cowtown but it was in a different part of town) Sam's was down Monterey Highway about 3/4 of a mile from The Red Barn. When we went into The Red Barn the crowds got bigger (I believe it was because we had a sax player and we did old R&R tunes as well as Country) and [somebody] didn't like that..... so one night a fire bomb went off at The Red Barn..... I got a call from a friend at about 6:30 in the morning that the club was burned, so I went down to find that the firemen (Thank You forever) had dragged our equipment out into the parking lot and covered it with a tarp and sprayed it down with water.... the Bass and other stuff smelled like burnt bar stool after that ... the other guys stuff cleaned up OK but the Bass stank .... so I refinished it.....last note: the Jazz neck warped (UN-fixable) about 1975 so when the StringRay Bass came out in '76 I traded the P for a Ray.....
 

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Was Sams club/bar part of Sam Houston's multiple bars spread across Texas ? I'm just curious because I played a lot of Texas places back in the 90s. One of those places was Sams in Houston. I've always wanted to play Gilley's but it was long gone by that time.
 
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qervo said:
Was Sams club/bar part of Sam Houston's multiple bars spread across Texas ? I'm just curious because I played a lot of Texas places back in the 90s. One of those places was Sams in Houston. I've always wanted to play Gilley's but it was long gone by that time.
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Sam's Club, The Red Barn and Cowtown (and later The Saddle Rack and the Gold Rush) were all bars in San Jose Calif. owned by locals... I played at all of them at one time or another, sometimes in multiple Bands.

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Gilley's was in Pasadena Texas when we played there, it didn't burn down but after Urban Cowboy it sure blew up !!!!
 
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topcat2069 said:
Me and my 1962 P-Bass with a '67 Jazz neck.... the place we were playing got torched by a rival club so I had the Bass refinished in a honey to burgundy burst (yes, I had worn the finish with my thumb above the pick guard... the rest are just reflections...) I just found and scanned this picture it had been lost for the last 3 moves and was packed away...
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Hi,

those Jazz bass necks with bindings and block inlays usually don't look right on a p-bass (to me) - but with that new color it looks amazing. A very tasteful combo.
It reminds me to those new american deluxe jazz basses in wine red:
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Greetz
 

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