So...definitely not a j style pickup. Think of it as an original p-style pickup and you’re on the right track. But it’s so much more powerful than that ~
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Closet find at an elementary school!!
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Same in Illinois. I can understand their reasoning. Too much potential for corruption if public schools can just give away valuable school property.
When I was in high school, our track team got all new warm up uniforms to replace the old ones. The rules required that the old uniforms be burned.
Our coach made sure we all knew that all of our old warm up suits were being destroyed and lamented what a shame it was that perfectly good track suits were just being disposed of.
Im sure that it was a coincidental oversight, but he forgot to lock up the storage room where the old uniforms were kept and somehow we athletes found out about it and a few dozen uniforms went missing before they could be destroyed.
I don't know how it happened, but one of the track suits ended up in my car and I accidentally took it home with me.
Sorry for the thread derail. But, I think it would be marvelous if "old" band equipment was similarly "liberated".
I bought one exactly like this, locally, for $350.....but that was 5 or 6 years ago. Played it and never bonded with it; baseball bat-feeling neck and wasn't crazy about the sounds I could (or couldn't) get from it. IIRC, it was pushing 10lbs. Thought I really scored when I sold it for $600 1 year later. Woulda-shoulda-coulda.............
That’s a great bass! I think that should be end of 82 or very early transitional 83 w that hardware and headstock combo.
That thing is part of g&l history.
Whatever happens, I hope it doesn’t just get banged around by a bunch of kids.
Whatever happens, I hope it doesn’t just get banged around by a bunch of kids.
That’s exactly what should be happening to it. That’s why it’s there. That’s how the the song continues.
The song can continue to be banged out on a Squire.
This SB1 came directly from Leo. How many of these are even left in the world? Maybe it’s not super valuable from a financial point of view. But it makes me cringe to think that it’s just going to get mangled by a bunch of kids who don’t even know who Leo is.
This SB1 came directly from Leo. How many of these are even left in the world? Maybe it’s not super valuable from a financial point of view. But it makes me cringe to think that it’s just going to get mangled by a bunch of kids who don’t even know who Leo is.
Wow, this is incredibly short sighted with all the stories on here about basses in schools changing peoples lives. Personally, I can't think of a better place for it to be. Just the thought of some kid banging out Iron Man or Smoke on the Water (played totally incorrectly) on that is so cool.
It's definitely the superior alternative to ending up as a case queen in some collectors' stash, third row, 8th bass on the right.
Sorry man, looks like my Tardis has got whacked again. I thought I was posting this in 2037. I'd travel back in time where I could watch it being made but until I calibrate the controls again, knowing my luck I'll end up in the Bronze Age.50 or 60 years for an ‘82-‘84 bass?
27690526[/URL], member: 335473"]Sorry man, looks like my Tardis has got whacked again. I thought I was posting this in 2037. I'd travel back in time where I could watch it being made but until I calibrate the controls again, knowing my luck I'll end up in the Bronze Age.
Any time, “Tardis”, can be used in a sentence, it’s all good!
Pretty sure California is same way , that said I've seen schools fill roll offs with some nice tools so they wouldn't have to go through the big hair-doo of auction
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