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SHOW YOUR DISTRESSED FINISHES!

#2,381
FunkyEel said:
Here's Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Tomahawk, John Zorn) with his nicely distressed 75 P.

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Huge fan of Trevor Dunn - first seen him play with Bungle in the early 90's (on 6 string Smith), double bass w/Zorn & Nels Cline, and playing this '75 P many times here in the Bay Area over the years. Love his playing and attitude. He was also part of the Nels Cline (my hands down favorite guitarists on this earth) Singers. He was playing that bass when I saw them a couple years ago. He was a perfect fit for Nels and Scott after Devin Hoff moved to Chicago. (another monster bass player!) You can hear that P (him) on Scott Amendola's outstanding "Fade To Orange" 2015/SAZI records. The list of my 'favorite drummers' is long but Scott is definitely on it!
 
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#2,382
SJLee said:
You can practically see a silhouette of where the players arm would lay.
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And you can also see that at one time there was a tug-bar (missing) at the 70's location where the wood is gouged-out from fingernails. In fact - that's most likely a replacement pg as it doesn't have the 2 holes for the early placement of the bar, and the tort doesn't look like the classic 60's tort. (80's?) The bass looks like a '66 because of the threaded saddle bridge and yellow Fullerplast base coat.
 
#2,383
JIO said:
And you can also see that at one time there was a tug-bar (missing) at the 70's location where the wood is gouged-out from fingernails. In fact - that's most likely a replacement pg as it doesn't have the 2 holes for the early placement of the bar, and the tort doesn't look like the classic 60's tort. (80's?) The bass looks like a '66 because of the threaded saddle bridge and yellow Fullerplast base coat.
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Yes, that looks like where the thumb nail would have rubbed. I agree with you that pick guard is a repo of another era. Not sure which. Love how that Fullerplast fades out into the wood around where the elbow must have rested. The area coming up from the arm contour into the upper horn is nice as well. Like that contrast of seeing the black with the tiniest of yellow on the edges, then wood. Nice Specimen. :)
 
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JIO said:
Huge fan of Trevor Dunn - first seen him play with Bungle in the early 90's (on 6 string Smith), double bass w/Zorn & Nels Cline, and playing this '75 P many times here in the Bay Area over the years. Love his playing and attitude. He was also part of the Nels Cline (my hands down favorite guitarists on this earth) Singers. He was playing that bass when I saw them a couple years ago. He was a perfect fit for Nels and Scott after Devin Hoff moved to Chicago. (another monster bass player!) You can hear that P (him) on Scott Amendola's outstanding "Fade To Orange" 2015/SAZI records. The list of my 'favorite drummers' is long but Scott is definitely on it!
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That's awesome. Mr. Bungle is probably my all time favorite band. Unfortunately they broke up shortly after I discovered them and I never got to see them live. I did get to see Trevor with Tomahawk and his Trio-Convulsant though, fantastic bassist. I'll have to check out Nels Cline and Scott Amendola.
 
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FunkyEel said:
That's awesome. Mr. Bungle is probably my all time favorite band. Unfortunately they broke up shortly after I discovered them and I never got to see them live. I did get to see Trevor with Tomahawk and his Trio-Convulsant though, fantastic bassist. I'll have to check out Nels Cline and Scott Amendola.
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Happy to turn you onto Nels and Scott - I saw Bungle a few times, once Trevor wore a large paper-mache Chinese baby head for part of the set! (and still killed it on his six-string!) Check out Trey Spruance's (one of Bungles founders) Secret Chief 3 also - (guitarist/keyboardist - known as "Scummy" with Bungle) For investigating Nels - be aware he has a deep well of recording (late 80's to now) and so check out the full range as he is capable of excelling in his own projects (Nels Cline Trio, Nels Cline Singers,) and as sideman extraordinaire with many artists like Zorn, Mike Watt, Carla Bozulich and Rova to name only a few. His "day job" (for about 6 years now) is playing with Wilco.
 
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#2,388
phangtonpower said:
How?
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#2,395
One of my favourite threads this one. Fortunately not many (or any) whacky boutiquey coffee table basses here with people espousing their love for them. Which is fine, obviously makes the world go round - that beauty is in the eye of the beholder thing. If you do want a self-righteous and Long snicker at some crazy looking and crazy priced builds check out the thread "What is the most beautiful bass you've ever seen?"...it's only about 16 pages long but there's some eye-watering sources of visual pain on every page.
But I digress...
The original form and functionality of the builders that were doing it first through the forties, fifties and 60's are what always have and still grab me today. Which means for me, nothing sounds better than an old single coil, or an old split humbucker, and if that instrument has survived unmolested down through the ages, even better. Having been incredibly lucky to own a 69 J Bass for many years and a lovely old 68 P Bass until recently, finally the search has stopped on this most recent acquisition - it fits this thread's description and I've only had it a couple of days. It came with three guards, and its original chrome. Even the chrome covers have checking!

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Oh, and the sound, feel and playability? It's perfect. it came to me disassembled in a box as shipping in its case from the US to AU was just gonna be ridiculous, (and I had a spare 60's Fender case anyway) so putting it back together was q quick job. I did not touch the truss rod, but it did have a mesh shim in the neck pocket, and a more modern 4 saddle string though bridge. Same footprint as your standard Fender 4 saddle bridge, thank goodness, so I removed that and fitted the original 2 saddle - which had a busted slot on one of the grub screws. Fortunately that spun out easily and I had a spare Fender bridge so took one out of that. Assembled it, and the two middle strings were sitting flat on the fretboard. Hmmm... out went the mesh shim and things instantly went back to ballpark parameters. Lowered the action and it instantly became playable with not a drop of buzz from top to bottom. Soldered in the original pickup as it had a Duncan in it before I bought it, and it was good to go.
If i can ever get it together to film a good quality sound clip I will. It sounds so good...and weighs a little over 8.25lbs - another rare bonus for a slab body in Ash.
I am extremely grateful as the gentleman who sold it to me was not after the current asking prices for one of these - it was literally half, and in the EU and UK where I have been living the last 12 months, the average asking price is around the £3500 mark. As you can imagine, a lot of these survivors are sitting on the various websites for long periods of time due to the sort of prices sellers are hoping for. Such is the world of vintage and collectible gear. Anyways, I need to find a tube amp now as I sold my 400PS and 135 Bassman last year to move to the UK, and I'm stuck back in Australia for 6 months until my wife can provide a UK tax return before we can apply for a residency visa for me. Off to look at a Super Twin today...if you pull the two 12's and plug in a 4 ohm 2x15 bass cab to it you have a ball-tearing bass rig at a fraction of the cost of an SVT or 400PS!
 
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Longwheelbass said:
One of my favourite threads this one. Fortunately not many (or any) whacky boutiquey coffee table basses here with people espousing their love for them. Which is fine, obviously makes the world go round - that beauty is in the eye of the beholder thing. If you do want a self-righteous and Long snicker at some crazy looking and crazy priced builds check out the thread "What is the most beautiful bass you've ever seen?"...it's only about 16 pages long but there's some eye-watering sources of visual pain on every page.
But I digress...
The original form and functionality of the builders that were doing it first through the forties, fifties and 60's are what always have and still grab me today. Which means for me, nothing sounds better than an old single coil, or an old split humbucker, and if that instrument has survived unmolested down through the ages, even better. Having been incredibly lucky to own a 69 J Bass for many years and a lovely old 68 P Bass until recently, finally the search has stopped on this most recent acquisition - it fits this thread's description and I've only had it a couple of days. It came with three guards, and its original chrome. Even the chrome covers have checking!

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Oh, and the sound, feel and playability? It's perfect. it came to me disassembled in a box as shipping in its case from the US to AU was just gonna be ridiculous, (and I had a spare 60's Fender case anyway) so putting it back together was q quick job. I did not touch the truss rod, but it did have a mesh shim in the neck pocket, and a more modern 4 saddle string though bridge. Same footprint as your standard Fender 4 saddle bridge, thank goodness, so I removed that and fitted the original 2 saddle - which had a busted slot on one of the grub screws. Fortunately that spun out easily and I had a spare Fender bridge so took one out of that. Assembled it, and the two middle strings were sitting flat on the fretboard. Hmmm... out went the mesh shim and things instantly went back to ballpark parameters. Lowered the action and it instantly became playable with not a drop of buzz from top to bottom. Soldered in the original pickup as it had a Duncan in it before I bought it, and it was good to go.
If i can ever get it together to film a good quality sound clip I will. It sounds so good...and weighs a little over 8.25lbs - another rare bonus for a slab body in Ash.
I am extremely grateful as the gentleman who sold it to me was not after the current asking prices for one of these - it was literally half, and in the EU and UK where I have been living the last 12 months, the average asking price is around the £3500 mark. As you can imagine, a lot of these survivors are sitting on the various websites for long periods of time due to the sort of prices sellers are hoping for. Such is the world of vintage and collectible gear. Anyways, I need to find a tube amp now as I sold my 400PS and 135 Bassman last year to move to the UK, and I'm stuck back in Australia for 6 months until my wife can provide a UK tax return before we can apply for a residency visa for me. Off to look at a Super Twin today...if you pull the two 12's and plug in a 4 ohm 2x15 bass cab to it you have a ball-tearing bass rig at a fraction of the cost of an SVT or 400PS!
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Thanks so much for posting pics of your be-u-tee-ful '68 with lollypops! (always been a 'sucker' for those tuners!... rim-shot) We're on the same page concerning the "don't touch that" boutique multi-ply exotic wood smorgasbord basses... I mean, to each their own, but nothing puts me asleep faster.

I was lucky enough to score a '76 Ampeg B-15N years ago for a decent but not obscene price and everything I own sounds like gold through it. But.., having said that, I briefly owned a Ashdown 550 Spyder which sounded really nice through my Eden 2x10 cab. Unfortunately it failed, and on stage so I sorta' have avoided buying another... maybe it was a fluke, but hitting WCS like that left a bad taste in my mouth for Ashdown.
 
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JIO said:
Thanks so much for posting pics of your be-u-tee-ful '68 with lollypops! (always been a 'sucker' for those tuners!... rim-shot) We're on the same page concerning the "don't touch that" boutique multi-ply exotic wood smorgasbord basses... I mean, to each their own, but nothing puts me asleep faster.

I was lucky enough to score a '76 Ampeg B-15N years ago for a decent but not obscene price and everything I own sounds like gold through it. But.., having said that, I briefly owned a Ashdown 550 Spyder which sounded really nice through my Eden 2x10 cab. Unfortunately it failed, and on stage so I sorta' have avoided buying another... maybe it was a fluke, but hitting WCS like that left a bad taste in my mouth for Ashdown.
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B-15N...cool! Never even seen an original in AU. Well I bought the Super Twin - it was cheap and perfect for practice till I can grab a 4 ohm 2x15 cab for more loudness LOL.
 
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Saw Bungle 3 times and Dunn and crew were great every time. Talked with Trey after the second time about the first time, when I guessed that he was tripping on stage... he confirmed that he had been. Not sure how you could play Bungle in that condition, but...

If I could someday posess half the musical abilities of Dunn (or Trey), I'd be a happy basser...

Secret Chiefs 3 is an unusual band, different from Trey's other projects for sure.

JIO said:
Happy to turn you onto Nels and Scott - I saw Bungle a few times, once Trevor wore a large paper-mache Chinese baby head for part of the set! (and still killed it on his six-string!) Check out Trey Spruance's (one of Bungles founders) Secret Chief 3 also - (guitarist/keyboardist - known as "Scummy" with Bungle) For investigating Nels - be aware he has a deep well of recording (late 80's to now) and so check out the full range as he is capable of excelling in his own projects (Nels Cline Trio, Nels Cline Singers,) and as sideman extraordinaire with many artists like Zorn, Mike Watt, Carla Bozulich and Rova to name only a few. His "day job" (for about 6 years now) is playing with Wilco.
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