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Flea's Shell Pink Jazz Bass
- Thread starter Stickk
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Why? Also considering that Shell Pink is the rarest Fender Custom Color of them all...:scowl:
It's faded to a near white color. I think it's what he uses in the Californication video but, I'm not 100% sure.
It's a bass. Wood, metal and plastic. From a realistic stand point, it's not much different than any other bass. It was made to be played, not kept in a glass case to look it. I worry about you guys sometimes.
I'm not saying he shouldn't play it, but putting a sticker on it? If it needed a sticker Leo would have put one on there for him.
Well, I found it. I thought it was Olympic White at first! Two stickers...
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I didn't say that it was not meant to be played, I am saying that I personally wound not put a sticker on a $35,000 bass. I'd definatley play it if I had it, but I'd like to keep it as vintage as possible.
I heard it at some live DVD concert thing they did recently - honestly, it sounded cool but WAYYYY thin...like WAYYYYY thin...and I'm a huge fender fan, but I think his Modulus sounded fat and right for the parts he plays
If you own it, it's your right to do with it as you wish but I gotta say it does hurt to see stickers on such a rare and killer bass. I definitely believe it should be played and not is some glass case somewhere but I can't say I would go with cheap stickers even if I was rich.
Are you sure it's a 1961? I could very well be completely wrong but I thought the Fender Jazz Bass model wasn't around until 1962
It was born in 1960 - actually I believe there are 1 or 2 59's out there somewhere. You can tell the 60-61's becasue of the stack pot controls like in the Flea pic above
I have the same wireless! If it was him who put the stickers on the bass, he did that a long time ago it looks like. But now that its seen all over, the 35,000 sticker price just went up because of obvious reasons.
If you see the 59 jazz bass, it will suprise many..the pups are wide like p-90's
If you see the 59 jazz bass, it will suprise many..the pups are wide like p-90's
Is the top sticker a sticker of himself? If so...that's really lame. That's like wearing the t-shirt of the band you're going to go see. "Don't be that guy, dude".
IIR, this bass was a gift to him and there was a story about it in Bass Player mag back a few years ago. Personally, I would NEVER stickerize a bass like this 
, but Flea is unique... so there.
, but Flea is unique... so there.
Theres pics in a few different fender books and I think even in an older copy of gruhns guide. All I saw was a b/w photo of the bass. If memory serves it did not have string mutes and had the 3 controls, but it sure as heck did have large sized single coil pickups, and this was not after market. Leo and George were still finalizing the jazz bass.
