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BYB - Birth Year Basses
- Thread starter Peteyboy
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‘66 for me. Would probably be a P or J bass. Not many being made back then.
I bought mine this year.
I’ve had a couple guitars that came close (a 1975 Gibson Les Paul custom and a 1976 Gibson Explorer) but I finally picked up a 1974 Fender Mustang.
I really like it.
I’ve had a couple guitars that came close (a 1975 Gibson Les Paul custom and a 1976 Gibson Explorer) but I finally picked up a 1974 Fender Mustang.
I really like it.
I absolutely want a '79 jazz bass at some point, that's goal of mine.
This is kinda where I was headed with this. I was hoping that you could tell me.
Apparently they made sucky basses in my birth year. Muscle cars, however.....
You mean FENDER made sucky basses in your birth year? Because, c'mon.
I had mine, a 1978 P in Antigua. Bought it for £700, had to shim the neck, it wore Hi Beams, weighed quite a bit and was in a really good place...got behind on the rent and chose to sell it for £1200...Regrets, I've had a few.
^^THIS^^ pretty much. But, in my case it would be a 1951 model - and it would have to be left handed, as well. I've actually looked for one, but... the tiny handfull that were made, are all Custom Order Specials, and the ones that are/were for sale? Well, expensive is putting it mildly. Several years ago, somebody had a '51 Fender lefty bass for sale. Original case; case candy; hang tag and order sheet/bill of sale. The bidding started at $165,000... and it was sold in a week. Not to me, however...As for the original question? If it were me... A Rick 4003, or an Alembic something; pickings were slim for really good lefties in that time frame, IIRC...
I have, entirely coincidentally, a birth year 1951 Kay C1.
Yeah, you’re right...but MusicMan didn’t come out with the Stingray until I was old enough to steal my Mom’s smokes.
In 1952, the choices were just a few less than what you can get today. And frankly, I wouldn’t want want any that were on the market.
With the exception of this! Boy they made a nice instrument back then. Congrats.
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For 1965, this somehow speaks to me Gretsch 6071 Bass - Monkees - w/OHSC 1965. Or Maybe an Epiphone Embassy. EDIT: The Epihone Rivoli ticks all my boxes, actually
Everything else from that year is ridiculously expensive for what it is.
Everything else from that year is ridiculously expensive for what it is.
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If, like me, you were born in early 1951 then you may find a birth-year 1951 Precision Bass. But not a birth year and birth month P-bass, since it appeared in the fall. We will always be older than the electric bass. OK Boomer.
I think my lightweight MIJ swamp ash 2014 P-bass models the 1956 version though. In 1951 the pickup was not split.
I got this Musicmaster with the intention of getting a birth year bass. It was advertised as a '72 but the stamp on the neck reads Mar 8 1973. I like this bass so much I don't care that its a year off. It plays like a million bucks and weighs 7lbs 4 oz. It has a real woody tone and takes effects well. I always get compliments from the sticker I put on the pickguard. So, it's not the birth year bass I thought I was getting, but it's a bass I feel lucky to own.
So I have a '72 EB4L. I'm thinking of adjusting my birth year to force BYB status on that one. Thinking outside the box!
