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Most expensive bass?
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Mental note: i need to write a note that my 90’s mexican jazz was owned by hendrix. Should fetch 250k easy. $$$
They’ve already dropped the price to $119,000. A real bargain!
Yeah, this specific bass was discussed a few months ago. It's a recent custom shop Dylan had built as a copy of the one he used back in the day.
The seller is a well-known vintage dealer. It seems unlikely they'll get the provenance wrong.
Anyway. McCartney just broke the record for "most expensive bass sold at auction." It's a lefty Yamaha he used with Wings, which sold for almost $500k.
Paul McCartney’s Yamaha BB-1200 Becomes Most Expensive Bass Ever Sold At Auction
The seller is a well-known vintage dealer. It seems unlikely they'll get the provenance wrong.
Anyway. McCartney just broke the record for "most expensive bass sold at auction." It's a lefty Yamaha he used with Wings, which sold for almost $500k.
Paul McCartney’s Yamaha BB-1200 Becomes Most Expensive Bass Ever Sold At Auction
songwriter21
I have an obsession for wood. The musical kind.
Granted, it was Paul's, but it's just a BB1200. People are insane.
songwriter21
I have an obsession for wood. The musical kind.
Yup, that's the king right there. It's been up for sale forever, but the story behind "the tree" (the mahogany tree itself) is pretty cool.
The Tree: The Most Notorious Tonewood in the World - StewMac
Pft! No free shipping, no thank you...
At $7K, it better be shipped from Alpha Centauri, on the next SpaceX shuttle.
Pft! No free shipping, no thank you...
I was thinking about pulling the trigger, but $6,000 for shipping? I wouldn't pay a penny more than $5,500. Just ridiculous.
i've got a decent 4 string PJ I'm not playing anymore, I'll sell it to you for $1,000,000 if you want to break the record.
A College friend of mine had a Muddy Waters album signed by Muddy. Of course, one night, while he was particularly drunk, he admitted that he had signed the album himself. Who know's what Muddy Waters' signature looks like?
So, what we have here is a bass guitar for sale, and a piece of paper signed by.....someone who's handwriting we don't know. With no date on it. And a desire for a lot of money for what might just be an average Fender bass guitar. That Bob, even if he owned it, probably never played in concert.
What was PT Barnum's favorite saying?
So, what we have here is a bass guitar for sale, and a piece of paper signed by.....someone who's handwriting we don't know. With no date on it. And a desire for a lot of money for what might just be an average Fender bass guitar. That Bob, even if he owned it, probably never played in concert.
What was PT Barnum's favorite saying?
One of these things is not like the other...
That's an amazing story, and it explains something.
You see, I started working for Richard Hoover in 1990 when he got that mahogany into the shop. And we used it for the entire time I was working there. I just assumed that's what good mahogany sounded like. I didn't know the backstory or anything else about it, just that it was mahogany from Central America.
And I took a few of the cut-offs and made a bass out of it. It needs work, it was my first bass build, but it's a great sounding instrument. Had no idea until this morning why it sounded so much better than any other mahogany bass I've ever played.
Thanks for posting that. I had no idea.
