I think I need a 70's Fender :)

[bassbully]

Very nice...both basses!

 

[Jim Carr]

Congratulations on finding a great bass! Play the heck out of it!!

 

[Ace Of Bass]

dang man, ive been wondering where youve been. you back at it?

Indeed, my friend............I have returned.........Pm'd ya.......and a very nice catch indeed, Blimpie..............all the way in Holland, no doubt.........!

 

[hands5]

+1

I so totally agree. If the OP wants an ash body jazz with '70s pickup spacing and some particular neck, binding, and whatever cosmetic knick-knacks, call Nino Valente!!! I love his basses.

If you just want a cheap and good Fender jazz, try what I did. I sold my much loved '60s Classic (with BAII and sc Fralin's) and bought a USED Road Worn Jazz for $675 on EvilBay. Best darned Jazz I have ever owned, and I had a real '69. This bass feels and sounds better by a mile. Looks? Who cares?

Ok,fair enough,but If I'm not mistaken I believe that the OP wanted a 70's jazz bass

 

[deBont Amps]

Ok,fair enough,but If I'm not mistaken I believe that the OP wanted a 70's jazz bass

Correct . And after more then a month playing my newly aquired '72, I couldn't be happier.

 

[hands5]

Nice playing, as usual! I don't think your reissue sounds like the other clip of the real 70s bass though. There is something different in the high mids, and your bass sounds more compressed. I wish we could hear you playing both basses, though.

I have re listened a couple of times. There is something different going on in the low end too. When the guy with the real 70s bass hits (especially noticeable with slaps) the E string, the real 76 has a more open character than your reissue. One other thing, neither one of those clips sounds exactly like a stereotypical 70s Jazz bass to me. Both are too modern sounding (for lack of a better word), than a real 70s Fender.

and this is why I never really took to the 75 RI''s that have been constructed since 2000, because as far as the ash ones were concerned they were way to boomy sounding for me and I tried one out a couple of months ago and it still had that boomy almost modern sound....none of my 70's basses sounded like this,but to narud...great playing I enjoyed listening to it

 

[hands5]

Fenders are like Volkswagens, remember. You can replace any part on them or build one from the ground up. Maple neck and swamp ash body on a Jazz Bass configuration seems to be the magic formula for the Marcus Miller tone. The Marcus Miller signature basses get close
Just played a Roadworn Relic'ed 65 Jazz (MIM) that was pretty decent. For those of us in Geezer-dom and actually playing in the 70s the 70s J-basses weren't as highly prized as the 60s because they were so inconsistent.
There's a lot of options these days-I'd look at the Lakland Skyline Joe Osborne or Daryll Jones basses. The new Carvin Sekou Bunch in ash/maple/maple configuration gets very close as well at right at a grand for the active 5 string.

Well Roy that depends on what type of band you were in and what music you were exposed to because when I was just starting out playing bass around the mid 70's most of the bands that I was exposed to were funk bands and the majority of these guys played 70's Fender jazz and p basses,then around late 77-80 MusicMan Sting Rays,I realy didn't see a lot of guys with the 60's basses,now I had the chance to play a 1965 L series Fender Jazz at a Guitar show in Kissimee,fl a couple of years ago and all I could say was wow !!!