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Question: Why is this bass worth $24,000?
- Thread starter jlm00013
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lol.... Sorry I had to make a reference. I remember everyone pushing those like they were a good investment because they were collectable.....
I dont have any beanie babies for sale. I just like poking fun at that whole scenario that played out when I was a kid. I'm also not a "collector" and clutter bothers me. If it isnt functional, I dont need to keep it. Not everyone is that way though.
So yeah I woundn't pay for that bass unless it was cheap enough I could flip it for my own profit.
I would never!Maybe he WANTS that effect, Dalkowski. Don't judge.
Yep. My oldest bass has one. It’s a pretty dumb idea. Before someone says it isn’t dumb, observe they never put them on Strats or Teles. Reason, it’s dumb. But I’ll never remove mine because that leaves a screw hole on the headstock. I do wish they’d stop putting them on reissues because they’re dumb.
Nothing I’ve ever seen on Reverb has been worth what was being asked for it. Dunno why, but everything that ever gets listed on there always seems to be insanely overpriced.
This is probably the answer I was looking for as to what these basses are really worth.
Most things that were put on Fender guitars in the early days for a cosmetic touch just got in everyone's freakin way. Haha.
Woah. Beanie babies. That takes me back haha. Gee. I wonder how that panned out..
at least they made them removable, i think someone over there came from a job at the GM Plant
I think the dumbest application was when Fender put them on American Vintage Reissue '58 P basses. Leo Fender production basses made in the 1950s didn't have hootenanny buttons.
They actually did have a purpose, originally. Consider that the electric bass was intended to be played in a more vertical orientation and the long neck with the strap on the end made it easier to put the bass in that more vertical orientation. Just because it didn't take off as the standard doesn't mean it was just for cosmetic reasons or "dumb".
Everyone seems to forget that Leo's first electric basses were the first commercially viable electric bass instruments (yeah, we all know about Rickenbaker and earlier attempts...). Nothing was done for cosmetic reasons because the entire point of everything about Fender was utility. Leo wasn't spending money on things that didn't have a purpose, even if the intended purpose was misguided.
I will grant that the ashtray covers were cosmetic. But tug bars and hootenanny buttons weren't there for cosmetics. They just didn't turn out to be as practical as originally envisioned.
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Has anyone seen the ashtray pickup covers used as actual ashtrays? I have. More than once.
The whole premise of playing the electric bass like that just makes my back cringe thinking about it. C'MON, Leo. It's the same with the thumb rest/tug bar idea nobody uses but still comes on reissues. You're right. The man had ideas. He just had the wrong ideas in the wrong places.
Yes right here officer. He's the one that badmouthed the almighty Leo.
....crap. Forgot where I am for a minute. *Goes into hiding*
Nah, nobody’s bad mouthing Leo. It’s his invention. But at the same time, nobody will ever convince me to call it a tug bar, it’s a thumb rest in the wrong location. Pro tip, it was in the wrong location and LEO figured it out, that is why LEO relocated it to the correct location. I’m no doctor but nobody has a thumb down there.
Man you don't know how close my parents are or what shape my family tree is. Don't make assumptions..
I'm surprised that it has a shim in it. I wouldn't pay anywhere near that even if I could afford it which I can't.
