Birth Year Bass

[Drifter8230]

In my birth year, emerging thrash metal bands were in desperate need of "the best basses/guitars for Metal"

 

[Zooberwerx]

'58....are you kidding?!? I'd rather take my $$ and buy a fresh one.

Riis

 

[B-Mac]

A BYB means nothing to me. I would honestly rather have a BYB car.

I'll second that. No desire for such a thing, except the b.y.c.(ar).

 

[J Wilson]

When I first heard about this 'birth year bass' idea, I thought about it for a bit, and then it dawned on me I 'd have to have trust fund money to buy one from the estate of Fred Flintstone.

 

[SteveLo42]

In my birth year, emerging thrash metal bands were in desperate need of "the best basses/guitars for Metal"

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So this is the best bass for metal!?

 

[DuluthDank]

I tried to buy a birth year bass based on the serial number. When I actually got the bass and looked at the date in the neck pocket it was actually made the year before. Maybe it was stuck together and shipped on my birth year? Oh well.

 

[Pdaddy1978]

A birth year bass for me would be 1959. So...yeah. Probably not gonna happen.
I do however have a 61 Epiphone Newport that was my first bass, that I received in 1972.
Close...but no cigar.
A 59 P ?...A Gibson?.. no way. A Danolectro  maybe?

 

[Mr.Fingers]

Errrrrrrrmmmmm....

 

[facetsquared]

I’m a big Fender nut but a ‘malaise era’ 79 P or J does not appeal…

 

[pbass74]

Never had a desire to own a birth year bass. However, I still have my High School graduation year bass that I bought brand new in 1975. That's it in my avatar.

 

[Jazzdogg]

Well...
if you're a lefty - an old lefty - like me? There's no such thing as a "Birth year bass" - unless I can find a left handed upright bass. In 1951? There were no left handed electric bass guitars - regardless of the price... "Birth Year Bass" is not something I think about much...

My Pop was a left-handed jazz double bassist.

When I first started learning to play double bass, I used Simandl bass method using Pop's bass, "Baby," despite the fact that she was built left-handed (Mittenvald, Germany, 1937).

When Pop passed, I inherited Baby. I still pick her up and play her sometimes, and she always makes me think of Pop.

 

[SteveLo42]

Moral of this thread... don't get old.

 

[Drifter8230]

So this is the best bass for metal!?

It was, I think, at one time...the BEST bass for Metal

 

[denton57]

Got my 75 P a few weeks back. BYB!

 

[KohanMike]

The last time this kind of thread came up (2015), I researched what was available in 1949, it was a 1936 Audio Vox 736 created by Paul Tutmarc, reissued by his son that he named the Serenader. Of course none were available, so I had my repair shop, Eric's Guitar in Sound City (yes, that Sound City), modify a Hadean bass uke to look like the Serenader. I even made a headstock decal in the their style to commemorate it. I had to give up that one, so I recently had the replacement modified as well.

 

[mikeswals]

I'm an early 70s baby, and don't like any of my birth year basses...just not into any of the details or looks of anything I want to call a grow old with partner.

 

[Sufenta]

'65 Jazz. I was 49 days old when this was put together.

 

[Bruiser Stone]

It’s heavy, but it’s got the perfect neck for my left hand, and has as a baked in low-mid grunt. I did replace the pickups out of necessity with Fralins, got a re-fret halfway up from the nut, and it’s got bumps and bruises, but it’s been my #1 since I bought it 7 years ago. And being a late-78, we came into the world about the same time of the year. It worked out for me.

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

You could find a '55 Kay M1 pretty reasonable... a true American Classic. Here's my (2nd) cousin Buddy Yearwood with his '51 right after I finished a setup on it. (Cousin Buddy got it new...)

 

[Bar Band Bassman]

Save about $10K and get a Fender Custom Shop '55 recreation.

I actually have the Squire which is really quite spiffy. Other than the 2 screw tug bar and headstock truss rod adjustment it's pretty true to the original. FCS wouldn't be a big improvement for me. I definitely looked at a few, though!

BBB