Who'd want a Bobby Vega signature bass?

I thought although I could be mistaken that he did an Alleva Coppolla signiture a few years back.

 

That would be cool but the Flea is already a relic'd stack knob. I doubt they'd do another one.

 

That would be cool for sure...

 

i'd buy one

 

A more appropriate question might be, who wouldn't?

 

I'm not sure that matters much. If anything, it's easier for them now as the Mexico plant is up to production speed on the whole thing in terms of parts, wiring, assembly steps and the heavy relic finish. The Shell Pink was never going to get as many buyers as a 3TSB would, and Bobby Vega is certainly noteworthy enough to do this for, say next year after the Flea has had an extended run of its own.

 

I'm kinda in agreement with Gorn on this. If anything, we're probably more likely to see a CS version.

 

No. It's a cool Fender Jazz. Rather than someone else's, I'd rather make my bass mine.

 

The one he had at NAMM there was cool but I prefer that other bass he has, think it's a sunburst P body with a blocked & bound J neck.

 

What does the bass have to do with a fish?
More to point, unless it can be scientifically proven that a BV signature would improve my playing, it's just another reliced slab.

 

For those who don't know, Bobby's Shark Bass takes its name from a ritual he performed on the instrument back in the 70s. He detached all the bass' parts and dipped them in shark blood for a whole night under the full moon light. The origin of this ritual is ancestral and unknown, but rumors say Leo Fender himself adviced Bobby to perform it, as Mr Vega was worried his pick-playing skills were not good enough to play solid funk grooves. After the misterious display, he put the bass together, got a pick... and the miracle happened.

 

Sounds pretty metal.

What's the best shark blood for metal?

 

Hammerhead shark obviously.

 

Interesting story.
Oddly, BV has a bit of a different take on it,
From BP interview, June 2014...
I was trying to get that Jimi Hendrix thang going on, so I’d play gigs with a concho belt I used to wear. I was really digging in and sweating, and poopie, it took the finish right off the back of my bass. I knew I was f’ing it up, but I didn’t care (I was a dummy). So I asked my friend Billy Stapleton what I could use to protect the back of my bass. Billy said he had just the thing, went out of the room for a minute, and came back in with a shark decal like the ones you’d see back in the day on camper shells, trailers, and R.V.’s. He looked at it, sized it up, and put it right on the back of my bass. Tadah! The Shark Bass was born. Man, it looked cool! My friend Martin Fierro, a sax player, was the first one to call it the Shark Bass. Martin passed away in 2008, but I can still hear him say, “Hey, how’s the Shark? Chut up!”

But kudos for creativity.

 

+1, and with that level of wear, it would take a whole lot of relic'ing and some big $$$ to get the look right..

 

He did, somewhere posted it in the last thread on this subject.

 

Would be nice, but I think a "Herbie Flowers" Jazz Bass would be fitting as well (1959 (yes: prototype with onboard passive fuzz) in blue)...

 

I'll say!

Here ya go:

 

He has a Ribbeck signature bass