PRS Bass

[AllBoutDatBass]

Looking at a PRS Gary Grainger bass but can't find any recent reviews other than from PRS and Gary Grainger. Really like the look of the bass but is it worth the money?

 

[Gougedeye]

I played one and I'm close to pulling the trigger! The GG is a great bass! Very well made and it sounds awesome. The sound is pretty hifi, but the bass is very versatile. As soon as I can manage the scratch, one will be mine! Here is a thread.
Any Gary Grainger owners out there? Help! | TalkBass.com

 

[BassHappy]

PRS basses are an acquired taste - definitely not for everybody. For me - best bass I have ever played or owned HANDS DOWN since 1978 and it's not even close:

And yes, I have 8 soon to be 11 Fenders....

 

[bassie12]

I've always wanted to own a PRS bass, but could never find a PRS bass I really wanted to own. BassHappy's bass is what I always imagined a great PRS bass might look like.

 

[BassHappy]

I've always wanted to own a PRS bass, but could never find a PRS bass I really wanted to own. BassHappy's bass is what I always imagined a great PRS bass might look like.

Thanks for the kind words bassie.

Paul did make a private stock similar retro version of his early pre-factory models in the past few years, but it is full scale and fretless.

Full scale? No thanks. Fretless? No thanks. He has offered several times to make me another one over the years - I don't think it would be possible to come close to the original hand made craftsmanship with a "factory" copy of it. Also, just what I need - another Private Stock PRS that I can't take out of the house....

 

[BassHappy]

Yeah baby.....

 

[Not yet]

PRS basses are an acquired taste - definitely not for everybody. For me - best bass I have ever played or owned HANDS DOWN since 1978 and it's not even close:

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And yes, I have 8 soon to be 11 Fenders....

Do not care at all for PRS bass' personally.....This one? I'd buy today

Beautiful instrument

 

[GZ2]

Looking at a PRS Gary Grainger bass but can't find any recent reviews other than from PRS and Gary Grainger. Really like the look of the bass but is it worth the money?

I own 3 of them. Two of them are 5 strings and one 4 string.

I have a total of about 17 basses, including Ken Smiths, Fenders, Lakland, Sadowsky, Music Man, ALembic, Carvin, G&L.

I haven't played any of them since I got my first PRS GG a couple of years ago. They are worth the money to me. The only complaint I would have is that I have to change the batteries
more often than any of my other active instruments.

That's a small thing to me.