Victory Bass Appreciation Thread

[xarafus]

I just bought a Gibson Victory Artist Antique Fireburst today for $600 and couldn't be happier with the tone of this monster!
Would love to hear from other owners of this bass to geek out with... I feel like I won the lottery with this bass...


Playing through my Ampeg SVT-VR and Trace Elliot 1148h


I win today!

 

[AphekGreg]

I was just thinking about the Victory basses the other day. You don't see many. I engineered an EP about 15 years ago, with a band where the bassist had a fretless one. It sounded fantastic.

 

[danomite64]

I love the Victory bass. I've never owned one, because I've never seen a lefty, but a guy in one of my old bands had one, and it was awesome.

 

[Avalon]

For only $600??? What was wrong with it?

That is a beautiful bass. Great deal. Lucky dude. You are really lucky.

 

[Fly Guitars]

$600 is a good but not amazing price. These simply don't reach the heights of many other models to be honest, and for no good reason. They are well designed and nicely built basses, but just a bit too new to get the vintage label.

Not long though - I expect these to rise in value over the next 5 years: they are great functional basses, with a distinctive look. Quite unusual for a Gibson, but retaining some great Gibson features.

Check out this page, where Chuck Burge talks about the design of the bass
[Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
Or this one for some general Gibson Victory bass info
[Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

 

[Antny]

No pics = no bass.

 

[Dayman]

This one just popped up for sale in town
[Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
$900, 1982 Gibson Victory Standard Bass

 

[billgoodwin]

my first good bass was a black Victory...sounded nice was just a monster to lug around on stage.

 

[Avalon]

"Black Victory"

Now that's a good name for a... car. Or a...something.

 

[XsSpeed]

I love my Victory. I put a thumbrest on mine because the edge of the pickup was too close to the e string but I gig mine out all the time.

haha I just noticed that both pix were taken of us playing the same song from 2 different venues.