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here's something you don't see every day - modified 66 Jazz content

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GregT said:
Kinda like the very, very early Stratocaster I saw when I was a kid that had been modified to a teardrop guitar. As sad as it was, it was pretty cool, and they weren't worth so much back then used. In 1960 you could have bought a new Jazz for under three hundred dollars. In the 70s they were just good used basses. I was there and no one would have guessed a regular old Fender would be worth so much someday.
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I think we should hold a memorial service for this one, unless of course it has the Deep U-shape Neck that Fender introduced on it that year. After playing one at the music store where I bought my Bassman amp in '66, I was never so glad mine was a '65 with its 60's slim C-shape neck. If it's got that Deep U-shape neck, it was beyond hope anyhow and that radical chop job doesn't hurt the eyes as badly because it was already beyond saving (YMMV).

But if it has the 60's slim C-shape neck, which it looks like it might be, then HERESY!!! - How dare they take a magnificent instrument and turn it into a piece of malformed and misshapen junk. Perhaps best to harvest the organs and bury the body...and just kiss off getting a wildly inflated price for a collectable bass that has been wildly chopped beyond recognition of what it once was and is no longer collectable...not that I have any strong feelings about this...:rolleyes::roflmao::smug:
 
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GregT said:
Kinda like the very, very early Stratocaster I saw when I was a kid that had been modified to a teardrop guitar. As sad as it was, it was pretty cool, and they weren't worth so much back then used. In 1960 you could have bought a new Jazz for under three hundred dollars. In the 70s they were just good used basses. I was there and no one would have guessed a regular old Fender would be worth so much someday.
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Specifically @GregT, in 1966 the Jazz bass sold for $279.99 including black hardcase with orange plush interior, the same as it did in 1965. I bought a '65 Jazz in 1966 used for $175. To put that in perspective, $175 in 1966 is equivalent to $1,534 in 2022 US dollars. I turned 16 in August of that year and was working 23-hrs. a week.
 
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