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Excellent players who play a cheap basses

#101
Blazer said:
Nope, Yamaha never made Rickenbacker copy basses. It was a Hondo. You're confused because Hookie is a known user of Yamaha BB 1200S basses.

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Peter Hook playing his Hondo

And here's from Wikipedia.
Hondo Rickenbacker 4001 bass copy - Used on Joy Division's 1978-1980 recordings and used live with Joy Division 1978-1980.[citation needed]In an interview in Bass Guitar Magazine, he revealed that was given away to a child for a charity sale "He [the child] didn't even use my name! He just thought it was a bass guitar like any other. Nowdays that'd be worth what, nine or ten grand?"


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Peter Hook playing one of his Yamaha basses.
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I had a Rickenbacker copy many years ago that was made by "KASUGA",...japanese maybe. ??
 
#104
Dr. Cheese said:
I do remember when used Stingrays were cheap. I bought one in 1986 with a natural finish and a maple fingerboard for $250! If my leg bent the other way, I would kick myself every time I think about the fact I traded it in on some weak Ibanez five string that i couldn't even play because the strings were so close. :bawl: :spit:
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I got my EBMM (I believe it is a "conversion era", around '87 or so, active w/ bass and treble only) new from Gus Zoppi's in Detroit for around $650 or so. I originally wanted a cool pearl white Ibanez with active pups, but it was sold by the time I went to go and get it. No way could I justify now going and dropping the kinda coin needed now to replace it, new of course.
 
#105
jive1 said:
Paul McCartney is a great example.

By cheap we also have to consider what they used to cost. For example the Yamaha BB2000 was relatively expensive back in the day, but now you can find em pretty cheap.

The cheap basses that are out now are way better than the cheap basses that were available when I was a kid.
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+1
Also back in Macca's early days he wanted a Fender, but
couldn't afford it! I think back then they went about $200
brand new for a Precision. He seen the Hofner and paid
about $60.00 for it then. It was considered a cheap bass.
Now look at it! Same thing goes for original Dano Longhorns
cheap basses back in the 60's but now an Original is sky high!
 
#107
There's a studio and solo bassist out there named Ron Pearson. His 5 string is a Fender Marcus Miller. His 6 string is a Douglas (yes, the Rondo brand) loaded with EMG's, and it sounds killer.
 
#114
Fender32 said:
:eek: Coooooool!

Thanks for that speedkills, I would never have found that with Google ;).

And, right on topic, we find ace bassist Stuart Morrow using which bass ....... ?

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Yep, it's about $200 worth of Tanglewood Warrior II. What's even spookier (for me) is that I had the exact same model of bass during the "lost years" of 2000-2003, when I was concentrating on guitars and it was then the only bass that I owned :(!

If I'd have known that one of my heroes was now using one, I wouldn't have let it go for 73GBP on ebay last year :p.
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seymour duncan pickup if I'm not mistaken, that's gotta be a chunky sounding bass! the pickup probably cost similar to the bass if its a washburn :rolleyes:
 
#116
I was at a bad side of town blues bar in Chicago..

A guy got up playing a blank head 34" scale thing with a baby body. .. some type of P/J pickups.

I asked him what it was -- his reply .. don't know . "I just spend time filing the everything"

He sold it to me for $40.. He said he paid $5 for it (1991).. I still own it.. still the best one I have out of the fleet.

Lesson learned.. do all the tweeking work.
 
#119
Troy Sanders of Mastodon uses a Fender Prophecy II and a Yamaha RBX. His other basses are in the mid-price range, including a Fender MIA Jazz and Precision Deluxe, Ibanez SRX700, and Yamaha TRB 4-string. His recording bass is a Godlyke Diety 4-string, which certainly isn't cheap!.
 

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