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What is your primary bass? Your #1?

#144
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My main weapon, suits my bands style perfectly especially in terms of looks!
 
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Bigbri said:
That is what the first jazz bass prototype looked like in 59 It was going to have big jazzmaster type pickups. No block inlays of course.
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nice to know the look's got a bit of heritage! hands down the best jazz i've ever held in my hands. it needs a setup because it's got some buzzes but even with that it slays every other bass i've ever played except for one. this one would be what i would take if i couldn't have my jazz:
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she's a lot more beat up now but that thing is sitting on my lap as i type this. when put through overdrive it sounds like a Wal.
 
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#155
My primary bass, the only one I've gigged in the 4 years I've owned it, is a mike Lull PJ5. It's just a plain 3ts tort rw P bass that sounds like a million dollars with its 4 year old set of Lakland/GHS flats.

My previous primary bass (too good to be called a "backup") is my Lakland translucent blue 55-94. It is an early 5 er built in 1997, which I've owned since 2003 and although it doesn't get played out these days I haven't sold it because it is such a good instrument.

I'm the second owner of both basses and neither was gigged by their previous owner. I got both at a great price and in perfect condition. GAS? What's that?
 
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Stingraaaay! Stingray! Da-da-daa-da-daa-da! My beloved Stingray 4HH.

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I had saved up for a year to buy my first high-end bass, then went into a local music shop completely open minded. I tried all sorts - an am. standard precision, an am. deluxe jazz, a gibson rd bass, an Ibanezr sr1600, a Gretsch short-scale hollowbody... the list goes on! While I say I went in open minded, I thought I'd come away with the jazz. But when I sat down with it, I was a bit disappointed; it looked, played and felt amazing but the sound was a bit anticlimactic. The guy was running out of ideas so put a stingray in my hands, a 2 band 4H. I'd never even heard of one before, but when I started playing it stirred something deep down, it was an eye opening moment.

I needed some time to process everything and think over all the basses, and it just so happened I was going to the London Bass Guitar Show a couple of weeks later. It was a long way - train down to London then 2 underground trains to get to the exhibition centre. To my dad's annoyance I had insisted we get down there early, and we were third in the queue to get in. When we got in I was looking at a second stand and this thing stood off the wall, I pointed it out to my Dad (he hadn't noticed it :rollno:). I played it for a solid 5/10 mins and really liked it, but the deciding moment was when somebody walked up to me and checked the price on the tag. I couldn't let this guy have it, it had to be mine! The show price was £1350, my dad negotiated it to £1100 including a gig bag and hard case. Not bad for a brand new £1900 instrument

It's like it was meant to be. I tried a few basses after I'd bought that one, but by then the show was so busy I couldn't really hear the bass. It was just lucky that I''d got in early enough that I could clearly hear the stingray when I was playing. It's a keeper for life, I would sell one of my kidneys before this thing. I feel like HH 'rays don't get the attention they deserve, they are incredibly versatile basses! I can get a jazz sound with the outer coils of each pickup, and the neck pickup is surprisingly precision-like.
 
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