Paul's white LG5 was up for sale for ages at a shop here in the UK called Bass Gear for ages for a pretty wild price.
It sold eventually, but it was way overpriced.
They're pricy enough without having to pay the "used by" premium on top.
Maybe some of that magic WOULD rub off though!
I sometimes help out at the BG store so i can add a little background to this. That bass sold through the shop twice, both times pretty quickly. It may have appeared to have been there a long time because of the two owners and that it returned to the shop.
I don't think it carried that price and sold so easily because it was PT's old bass. It was simply a jaw-droppingly good instrument that everyone I saw play it loved. Obviously PT is a player's player but he doesn't have the kind of fame that adds thousands to the price of an instrument.
I got the opportunity to play it a few times and I saw it gigged once as well by a friend of mine. Simply the best 5 string bass I've ever played or heard
Of course - this may be because I've only 'touched' PT's new AC5 and not actually played it, lol.
The first owner absolutely loved it but eventually became worried about taking it out to some of the dodgier venues he played at. Got so bad that he was taking it with him to the bar because he was so worried about it being stolen.
It went back in the shop and sold really quickly to a guy in Scandinavia. I've not heard anything about it since
I've worked from time to time in music instrument retail and one thing I've picked up is that every now and then a really great gigging or recording instrument will pop up. Pro musicians won't blink twice at paying higher prices for something like this because it's their working tool and is a way of earning a livelihood.
In fact I recently helped sell what appeared to be a fairly ordinary Fender J. Only a couple of years old. It was put in the store by a top-line gigging pro at twice the value of a, superficially similar, one we'd just sold. Another seasoned pro heard it was for sale and snapped it up at the full asking price without a quibble - I hear it's now his #1 instrument for teaching and recording.
PT's '66 is another of these. I know the kind of money it cost and, given how much it's been used professionally, it's been worth every penny. I've played this one too, another cracking instrument.. Paul certainly knows his basses
