I have one 90’s, it rocks. Therefore all 90’s basses are awesome imho.
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Who cares about 90's basses??
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I wish I had both my ‘94 Stingray’s back, one fretted one fretless.
Man, those were simpler times with those two amazing basses…why on earth did I have to have 5-string GAS…?
Man, those were simpler times with those two amazing basses…why on earth did I have to have 5-string GAS…?
Lot of talk about '60s basses and '70s basses, of course, but I've never seriously considered buying an era bass, other than this one...and only after being well armed with my current basses.
More used ones than new, but again, nothing from any specific era...top of my head, nothing older than seven or eight years.
I've collected a few late 90's basses and a few early 90's basses and love them all! ...so I guess opposite. Glad you started this as I didn't realize I had this many basses from the 90's
My latest 90's bass
'92
'93
'99
'99
'99
'99
'99
'99
'99
'98
'91
My first 90's bass
'99
Put it in a case In a closet, and in 20 years you can sell it as vintage
Basses today were trees in the 90’s
My N series MIA PB(j) made in the 90s is one of the best playing-sounding Fender bass I’ve ever played.
Washburn was freaking awesome in the 1990's & early-aughts!
Example: The Grover Jackson-designed XB920!
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I still have my 1990 ibanez ex that i bought new in 90.
Still love it.
Still play it.
Still compare every bass i have ever played to it.
That doesnt mean its the best bass in the world but its the bass i learned on and to me, its pretty sweet.
Still love it.
Still play it.
Still compare every bass i have ever played to it.
That doesnt mean its the best bass in the world but its the bass i learned on and to me, its pretty sweet.
Smooth_bass88
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How are we defining “90’s basses”? Is there a 90s aesthetic(what would that even be?)? Or just literally basses built between 1990 and 1999?
I’m enjoying my JP-90 (I’m guessing ‘93, the last year of production).
My 2 Peavey Unity basses from 1991 are incontrovertible proof that only good basses were made in the '90s.
Except for those that were not so good. I don't own any of those.
Except for those that were not so good. I don't own any of those.
I've never had a 1992 fender jazz but i have many other basses from the 1990s. They're just as good or bad as anything from any other decade.
I think the deciding factors do not include the decade it was made, but everything else.
I think the deciding factors do not include the decade it was made, but everything else.
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This is a really subjective subject. The entire history of bass guitars is fraught with hits and misses over the decades. It boils down to one thing: the tastes of the player. Does anything else really matter?
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98 MIM Fender P. Found it buried in the used cases section at local family owned biz. $250 plus new strings and set up. Keeper./
I don't think the '90's were necessarily a bad era for basses. It's not like the stigma of the late '70's American instruments that prompted the whole lawsuit market. I don't own any from the '90's but that is just a coincidence.
