Look at this P bass....

[shawshank72]

Ridiculously overpriced.

 

[BassFishingInAmerica]

Nice. Looks worn like my Pbass. Whoever did those tuners should be smacked.

 

[ahc]

17K for non-original pickups, bridge and tuners seems a bit wacky to me.

 

[JRA]

"There's a sucker born every minute!" is what it's screaming to me.

i've gotta' go practice: helps me have more mojo than my basses!

 

[jwilson67]

I think Jerry Garcia stuffed some tabs of acid under the pickguard at some point also. They might still be there. How did these guys put cigarette burns in the headstock?? Were they THAT wasted?

 

[jwilson67]

One person's mojo is another "man - they really treated that bass like garbage!". If that bass told stories it would be of being burned by cigarettes. That wouldn't be too pleasant.

 

[40Hz]

i've gotta' go practice: helps me have more mojo than my basses!

There's a very deep truth about the reality of bass playing being spoken there.

 

[cerrem]

The cigarette burns look hooky and a bit over done.... They don't look natural... I have seen many real vintage instruments with burns and those look strange...
The decal shows no aging or scratches compared to the rest of the instrument ....

 

[joebar]

hell you could buy a 58 chevy for that price...

 

[jwilson67]

I would totally take that thing and have it repainted and put a Warmoth neck on it.

 

[jwilson67]

Sorry - mojo does nothing for me.

For $17K I'll take two Spectors and two Stingray 5's.

 

[Wolfenstein666]

Sorry - mojo does nothing for me.

For $17K I'll take two Spectors and two Stingray 5's.

I could buy a platoon of RICS for that price

 

[MegaSwing]

hell you could buy a 58 chevy for that price...

And unlike this mud fence, the '58 Impala might be worth it.

Everything about that bass is a tragedy.

 

[Lee Kirkham]

Mojo, possibly. But the most obvious "M" word that bass is saying is massacred. Just look at the back of the headstock, sheesh, what a hack job. And asking that bold of a price for a bass that is missing so many essential original components? They apparently want to keep that bass for a very long time.

 

[Wolfenstein666]

If I would've made this thread a poll I think the overwhelming majority would've voted 'ugly'. I'm clearly in the minority here

 

[GretschWretch]

There is honest playwear, which is to be respected even on the worst junker. Then there is collectibility, which too often degenerates into mania/greed. With this bass we have jumped the shark all the way over into dealing in holy relics, like St. Brunhilde's meta-tarsil. Were it not for the big F on the headstock, this bass would not be worth one-tenth of the asking price.

 

[Clef_de_fa]

I don't get how this cost so much ... it is beat up ... someone didn't care for the bass at all

 

[JRA]

I'm clearly in the minority here

a bass is just wood and metal and plastic and bone and steel and copper and yada yada. it can't have "mojo" if it doesn't get some kind of power. if you play it in a certain way: maybe it gets some power/mojo. but an abused instrument, or a knock off relic job isn't power: it's a trick = opposite of mojo. it's a substitute (intended for the gullible) for the real thing. if you want a bass to ever have mojo: you have to play it until it has real power! the effort may, or may not be, successful. the look of the thing has nothing to do with it.

 

[Wolfenstein666]

a bass is just wood and metal and plastic and bone and steel and copper and yada yada. it can't have "mojo" if it doesn't get some kind of power. if you play it in a certain way: maybe it gets some power/mojo. but an abused instrument, or a knock off relic job isn't power: it's a trick = opposite of mojo. it's a substitute (intended for the gullible) for the real thing. if you want a bass to ever have mojo: you have to play it until it has real power! the effort may, or may not be, successful. the look of the thing has nothing to do with it.

It's a figure of speech. I thought it looked cool. I didn't say I would buy it, or if I played it I'd be imbued with magical powers. It just looks kinda neat. That's it.

 

[Anachronism]

I could buy a platoon of RICS for that price

Or a couple 4005s. Sadly.