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Pretty much everything sounds beastly through the amp lurking in the background. I don't know if that one is an especially good 360 stack or if all of them from back when sound like that. I would say I'll get buried with that EB-2, but it would be a horrible waste of a perfectly good musical instrument. It has to stick around.
 
Here’s a good excuse if you lived near me. Pretty good shaking last night…
Barely felt it here in the Simi Valley area.

This seller is local to me. He keeps increasing the price with each new round of adds.
The seller is “loco” to me as well.
 
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Flux capacitor acting up?
 
Current Gibson Thunderbirds also have the same V-joint. I don't know about Epiphones.
No. Epiphones don't have a V-joint. It would introduce extra steps into production without any benefit.
Of course the V-joint provides more gluing area, but there are a lot of basses and guitars produced with multipiece bodies that use butt joints and they don't fall apart.
 
Always been my point with '55-57 Chevy's, Camaros, most any Chevy really, Mustangs.... They were the most common and plentiful cars around, yet are some of the most valuable. Certainly not because of rarity. In the case of cars, so many had them and want them again. Not to mention having so many was kind of like additional free advertising. Obviously all those cars did look good and gained a huge following. At some level everything is a bit of a "monkey see, monkey do thing" I suppose. One guy has an AMX, now every body wants an AMX! ;) Everybody should want an AMX by the way.

And, you rightly hit the 15 bazillion page mark for us!
I think a lot of us want to relive our youth.

I wouldn’t mind having a Volvo PV544 again. Not necessarily a great car, but it was distinctive and fun. Colin Powell had a collection of them and other Volvos. I wonder what happened to them when he passed.
 
Well, as they say - take out the bass in a song and it falls apart. I was simply attempting to describe why a vintage Fender guitar/bass is sought after and priced as they are. I personally don't care to get tribal about the instruments I play. ;) As in, I very much enjoy all the brands of basses I own/play equally. And Mustang guitars & basses first appeared in 1964. :) :bassist: Cars & Fender guitars were always linked in some ways.
It was a SoCal thing.
 
"Rare" is a greatly exaggerated term used to attach "worth" similar to "vintage". All sellers use terms like that with the sole goal of creating the impression of worth. After a while everything is considered rare and vintage so it essentially becomes meaningless. When I see such labeling I basically ignore it - it's only the bass (or whatever I'm looking at) itself that determines if I have interest in it.
It’s all relative. I used to lay in bed as a kid listening to the Art Lebow’s Oldies but Goodies show. In 1970, anything before the Beatles was an oldie.
 
This is an interesting graph showing guitars/basses produced/sold by Japan in the '60s. Other than showing how many were made - it illustrates the "guitar boom" then from its rise, peak in 1965 and decline which coincides with many of the top brands including Fender, sold to CBS in '65 at the peak of the guitar-boom. Brands like Harley Davidson went through a similar rise & fall, actually a couple of times partly due to over-saturation of the market.

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Thank you, Beatles!
 
I think a lot of us want to relive our youth.

I wouldn’t mind having a Volvo PV544 again. Not necessarily a great car, but it was distinctive and fun. Colin Powell had a collection of them and other Volvos. I wonder what happened to them when he passed.
Yes, life was in many ways still so new and carefree when we were young. And nothing hurt.
I would like to have my (a) '76 Cordoba again. Does that count?