Satellite Precision Bass ID ,

[fitzy73]

I just got this bass at a car boot sale ,i cleaned it up and put new strings on it . its very heavy and neck is good and thick .does anyone have any info on them

 

[fitzy73]

any ideas

 

[Medium-II]

Satelllite is one of many MIJ cover names from the lawsuit-era...

Don't know. Might be a Fuji-Gen or Matsumoku though!

 

[fitzy73]

i was thinking it was korean.

 

[BassyBill]

Wow, necro thread alert! Responding to this for just one reason - a Satellite P copy identical to this was the very first bass I ever bought. I paid £84 for it in 1978. That was quite a lot of money back then!

 

[jmccabe]

LOL. I got one for Christmas, might've been 78, or 79, and it was £83. I've still got it, but I stripped the frets off the neck, wired a switch in to swap the pickup wiring from series to parallel, and have stripped and repainted it twice; once white, and the second time to transparent red.

I never play it these days though; it's in a box under the bed but, if I ever felt the need to cover Sunrise by New Order, that switch can make it sound just like the bass on Low-Life!

 

[Pink Paisley]

I had one in the mid 80's. Here in the hands of my favourite bass player.