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[Bassist88]

This really killed me. Dropped my phone, hit that spot and the laquer came off. Alot of laquer.

 

[lowphatbass]

Got to pull this one out the other day...faces redacted to protect the innocent.

 

[JIO]

This really killed me. Dropped my phone, hit that spot and the laquer came off. Alot of laquer.

You are on the road to being "road-worn" - now you can stop obsessing!

 

[JIO]

View attachment 1179568 Got to pull this one out the other day...faces redacted to protect the innocent.

Oh yah, that bass looks like an old friend that's seen many battles.

 

[lowphatbass]

This is pretty distressing:

Oh yah, that bass looks like an old friend that's seen many battles.

It's actually this guy I posted a while back. After several incarnations over the years it finally feels fully dialed-in.

 

[lowphatbass]

Oh yah, that bass looks like an old friend that's seen many battles.

I had a few older guys ask me the year of my "Telecaster Bass", they kind of looked at me sideways when I told them it was an mid-80's MIJ Squier Bullet.

 

[JIO]

I had a few older guys ask me the year of my "Telecaster Bass", they kind of looked at me sideways when I told them it was an mid-80's MIJ Squier Bullet.

Is it the long or short scale version?

 

[lowphatbass]

Is it the long or short scale version?

Long scale.

 

[BrentSimons]

This really killed me. Dropped my phone, hit that spot and the laquer came off. Alot of laquer.

Hug it and love it even more. Its now officially "broken in".
Brent

 

[JIO]

Hug it and love it even more. Its now officially "broken in".
Brent

Eggzactly! "Perfection" is what an instrument offers when played at the right time at the right place with both feet in, ears wide open and a a good drummer!

 

[Longwheelbass]

My recently acquired 68P. All original except for the pickups - it came with a cheap repro set, so I threw in my spare set from a 64P Bass. There truly is something special about the way nitro-cellulose ages...

And here's a few of my Jazzmaster Bass VI I built a 7 years ago. Body wood from an 18th century barn salvaged from a farm outside Seattle in 2010. Pickguard from a 59 JM, pickups and trem NOS 1978 JM. I originally painted it in a rather over-baked tinted amber nitro, which looked pretty hideous, so I oversprayed it in sunburst. It got worked pretty hard for 4 years in a 3 piece band. I don't play it much these days, but it sounds so good, it is a joy to just plug in and wander on when no-one else is around.

The body and headstock have recently begun to show checking - you can see some running through the shark's mouth decal...

 

[Longwheelbass]

Surely you jest. The availability of a '66 P is more common than some years possibly - but a bass that looks, plays and sounds like this? I have a touring musician friend who has a sweet '64 which he loves, but when he played this one he was blown away.

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Oh Lord this is so sexy.

 

[Bigbri]

My recently acquired 68P. All original except for the pickups - it came with a cheap repro set, so I threw in my spare set from a 64P Bass. There truly is something special about the way nitro-cellulose ages...

And here's a few of my Jazzmaster Bass VI I built a 7 years ago. Body wood from an 18th century barn salvaged from a farm outside Seattle in 2010. Pickguard from a 59 JM, pickups and trem NOS 1978 JM. I originally painted it in a rather over-baked tinted amber nitro, which looked pretty hideous, so I oversprayed it in sunburst. It got worked pretty hard for 4 years in a 3 piece band. I don't play it much these days, but it sounds so good, it is a joy to just plug in and wander on when no-one else is around.

The body and headstock have recently begun to show checking - you can see some running through the shark's mouth decal...

Beautiful. That is wear than cannot be imitated.

 

[JIO]

Awesome basses both are, and kudos on the Jazzmaster - love everything about it especially the ghosting decal -brilliant!

 

[JIO]

This is a repeat performance from post #392 (awhile ago!) that I re-watched just now - love this bass solo by Scot Sutherland from a show with the Tommy Castro Band. His groove and references are right up my alley! It's like a Fender bass version of a Dexter Gordon sax solo.

 

[Longwheelbass]

This is a repeat performance from post #392 (awhile ago!) that I re-watched just now - love this bass solo by Scot Sutherland from a show with the Tommy Castro Band. His groove and references are right up my alley! It's like a Fender bass version of a Dexter Gordon sax solo.

Wow them chords he busts out at 1:26 before going into the Hendrix bit are super sweet. He's a groover on a very very awesome looking and sounding P.

 

[SJLee]

Here's Scot on what appears to be a Shell Pink P.

 

[BassicBitch]

Now that's a sexy bass

 

[JIO]

Wow them chords he busts out at 1:26 before going into the Hendrix bit are super sweet. He's a groover on a very very awesome looking and sounding P.

Just before "Them Changes" bass-line right? (1:18) Those are cool chords! And at 3:37 (with wah) he sounds like Michael Henderson on the live Miles recordings from the mid 70's. Down & dirty - that's how to play a live bass-solo! (with drum accompaniment) It certainly got the audience going! Great pointy shoes too! A woman in the audience comments on them at the beginning saying she wondered if he'd trade one of her shoes for one of his! Her partner sez, "it's worth a shot!"

 

[JIO]

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Textbook "bass-face"