do you guys have or want a bass that was made the same year you were born? if so what model/ brand? i would want a white 2003 mim p bass
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birth year basses
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I had this 1976 "birth year" Precision. Bought it for less than what a used MIM Standard costs and a couple years later traded it for a really nice Gibson AJ acoustic and have zero regrets. Bass was ridiculously clean, hardly any fret wear, sounded great, played great but weighed 10lbs and I have other Precisions that weigh much less that sound as good or better. Only thing I do miss is the cool headstock logo because it had the larger logo that Fender used in the 70, not the smaller font that they switched to in the later 70's.
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Always wanted my birth year bass and at the end of 2017 I successfully found the exact bass I wanted in pristine condition. 89 warwick thumb nt fretless with bartolini dual coils, bubinga pommele body, wenge neck, ebony board, and a scalloped headstock. confirmed to be one of the first fretless 6 string thumbs ever made by the ceo of warwick. Amazing bass, sounds awesome, has Barts in it and played like butter after some minor tweaks upon arrival gotta love tb! just got it before xmas (wife told me to do it). The thing was in stunning condition and was sold to me by a fellow tb'er. Getting poly'd at the luthier right now (john browns guitar factory for those in mn highly recommend best luthier I have ever worked with). The upper portion of the photo is my 2004 thumb nt 6 fretless that was defretted, polyd, and had hidden side markers inlaid into the inserts hand made (once again john brown is an absolute artist and amazing luthier).
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1950, the 1st p-bass was still in the development stage.
A thread like this came up a couple of years ago, I looked up what was available in September of 1949, which was only the AudioVox Tutmarc Serenader bass, the first solid body electric bass created (Fender a few years later took it a big step further with his Precision design). The AudioVox was only a collectors item, so I decided to mod a Rondo Hadean solid body 24 inch scale bass uke as a tribute to it.
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If I bought a house built during my birth year I would be worried about asbestos and lead paint. So no, I don't really think I need anything that was built back then.
i'd never even heard of that before but damn that thing is badass
Actually, yeah it is. I didn't think I was old until post-2000 people began using TalkBass. I'm only twenty-six!
To answer your question, I have no birth year bass plans. I own an American '89 G&L L-2000 that outplays, looks and sounds better than any bass I've ever owned. Of course, if a '91 El Toro or L-5500 somehow make it into my life...
I've never owned a birth year bass (1981)
I've gotten a bug to look for one several times but never pulled the trigger. I think the reason is it just wasn't anything special as far as years for basses. The fenders for that year really aren't looked at like the older ones that are valued like their made out of gold but still have pretty high prices, and a lot of other brands are very dated looking
I've gotten a bug to look for one several times but never pulled the trigger. I think the reason is it just wasn't anything special as far as years for basses. The fenders for that year really aren't looked at like the older ones that are valued like their made out of gold but still have pretty high prices, and a lot of other brands are very dated looking
I'd love a birth year '78 P-bass some day. But it'd half to be light (under 9lbs) and well balanced and under $2,000, which means I'm not holding my breath.
There's a '94 62 reissue Jazz Bass at a music shop nearby and it's so cool. If only I had the money to spare drool
I do have the birth year bass. It's '93 Jazz Bass MIJ
Bought it secondhand and I think some of the parts are not original, as it need a lot of things to set to make me satisfied lol
Bought it secondhand and I think some of the parts are not original, as it need a lot of things to set to make me satisfied lol
wrong guy. OP is 2003, joined late last year
