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This bass screams MOJO.
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This bass screams MOJO.
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Look at this P bass....
- Thread starter Wolfenstein666
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I love old Precisions. This one is just too boogered up to be worth that kind of money, unless you're a John Kahn fanboy, I guess. Those tuners...
Definitely way overpriced, but you can tell that's some authentic road wear. I love that stuff, especially on a P bass. P basses need to look gnarled.
Oh! those tuners, make a me cringe.
"There's a sucker born every minute!" is what it's screaming to me.
Seriously…$17K for a PBass? I don't care who owned it. Even assuming a bulletproof provenance could be furnished, there is no mass manufactured electric bass ever made that justifies that price tag IMO. Even as a collectable.
I would tend to agree with you. The price tag is exorbitantly expensive and I would never consider buying it (even if I had the means). I just like the aesthetics of it, those beat up old P basses look awesome.
the mods really mess this one up in every way, imo. 
it also weights over one pound more than my 08 pbass.
and the price!
it also weights over one pound more than my 08 pbass.
and the price!
Way overpriced, especially with the DiMarzio.
That they do. I loved some of those funky old Precisions that Duck Dunn would sometimes show up with.
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For some reason I really only like the RW look on Fender stuff. I owned a RW briefly and it was a great bass, they did a good job on it. But if I see that look on pretty much any other bass it makes me cringe a little to be quite honest.
I strongly dislike the RW look myself unless it's natural wear. There's just something about Fender faking that look that annoys me for reasons I haven't completely figured out yet.
Maybe it was that self congratulatory video I saw of some master builder in the Fender custom shop cooing about his "little tricks" and his "top secret process" for RW that finally made my brain say: "Stop! Can you just get real for a minute, dude?"
Still, if people like it, it's their credit card I suppose. Live and let live. I wouldn't kick somebody out of an audition just for showing up with one.
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It's definitely cooler when the marked up bits are earned rather than purchased. But in today's age of high limit credit cards and even higher interest rates, who has time to play a bass for 50 years and acquire that mojo themselves?
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Yes, the mods are an issue. Seems that a working "all-original" bass in better condition might command an asking price like this. But i really don't know what these vintage instruments sell for.the mods really mess this one up in every way, imo.
it also weights over one pound more than my 08 pbass.
and the price!
It's definitely cooler when the marked up bits are earned rather than purchased. But in today's age of high limit credit cards and even higher interest rates, who has time to play a bass for 50 years and acquire that mojo themselves?
I know. But here's the thing…
My Ripper is a '74. I bought it new and I'm its sole owner. It's been played daily for virtually every day of the 15,000+ days I've had it - and steadily gigged (at least up until two years ago) as well - nor has it been babied very much. I bought it as a 'player,' and that's the life it's lived. But it still doesn't show 1/50th the amount of wear the average RW Fender I've seen has.
So with a few relatively rare exceptions, who are all the barbarians who would have supposedly put a Fender bass in the condition the RW look implies they have? It just strikes me a something cooked up for the kiddies and the non-musicians out there. (Y'know, just like the one about how all metal bands are heavily into the occult?)
It just seems so…civilian…or la tourista to me. As in: "Is that real road wear - or is it just some Sears road wear?" to paraphrase Frank Zappa.
Those of us who actually do own and play (and many times slaved and/or saved up to buy) a decent bass don't tend to beat the tar out of our instruments. For obvious and good reasons.
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I would agree with that assessment, I never really thought of it like that. It's definitely sort of contrived. I certainly take care of my RIC, I payed a lot for it and I want it to be nice. It's definitely an appearance thing.
I guess in a way though you could sort of apply that arguement to the vintage Verses new instrument arguement. You could buy an old p bass, or a new one with better electronics and stuff. People buy vintage because that's what they like, just like people who buy new gear because it's what they like. It's a matter of personal preference IMO.
I guess in a way though you could sort of apply that arguement to the vintage Verses new instrument arguement. You could buy an old p bass, or a new one with better electronics and stuff. People buy vintage because that's what they like, just like people who buy new gear because it's what they like. It's a matter of personal preference IMO.
