yamaha blue jeans bass!

[Eric Killinger]

I pulled these out of the "show your bass" topic, It took me 4 weeks to track down the name alone.

I need all the information on these basses you can give me, prices, where you bought it, whatever, its my dream to own one of these basses by the middle of next year, ebay, music123, guitar center, -everywhere has proved fruitless.

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please help me

 

[Moving Pictures]

I'd contact GuitarJapan.com (I think that is the site, just google the name first) as that bass was Asian release only.

 

[Moving Pictures]

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Dan

 

[Eric Killinger]

any way I can order that off of that site?


or do I have to be from japan.

 

[barebones]

Hey. I can't help you find one of these, but I wanted to point out something I find kind of interesting. I worked at Guitar Center about 6 years ago, and we carried these basses for a short time. They actually sounded great. I nearly bought one myself, but I didn't have the funds, because, well... I worked at Guitar Center....

Anyway, I noticed one day that if you held those Yamahas up face to face with a Rickenbacker bass the bodies are nearly identical, just flipped. Kind of interesting that there's a pic of a Ric off to the side in the pic at the top of this thread.

Oh, by the way, on the topic of actually tracking one of these down, I HAVE seen them pop up occasionally on Ebay. There are the newer, reissue ones, and there are older, vintage ones that surface from time to time. You may want to just watch Ebay for a while.

Good luck!

Matt

 

[Eric Killinger]

thanks, I want one of the newer ones, theres a band from japan called 'polysics' and their bassist has one of these basses, at first, when I saw it- I thought "Thats the ugliest goddamned bass I've ever seen"

Then somehow, I was slowly drawn to it.

 

[Moving Pictures]

any way I can order that off of that site?


or do I have to be from japan.

You can order from there. Many of the Japanese companies will ship worldwide.

 

[Eric Killinger]

But I dont understand how much they are, or how to order it from there, cause I cant read japanese.

 

[Moving Pictures]

But I dont understand how much they are, or how to order it from there, cause I cant read japanese.

Go to the main page and select English and then look for the contact page. Worked for me

 

[Eric Killinger]

Go to the main page and select English and then look for the contact page. Worked for me

I cant find english anywhere.

 

[DeanT]

Personally, I'd go for the Rickenbacker on the wall on the left and forget all the others. But that's just me.

 

[bongomania]

How about this one instead?

 

[radio_clash]

They're the Yamaha SBV series if I remember rightly...

(If I'm allowed to advertise another forum) there is a user on Link Removed his username is arrowheadguitars, and he collects them....in fact I think that picture you posted is of his collection....he's actually selling one at the moment too...

 

[jsbass]

I like the Rickenbacker in the corner.

 

[velvetkevorkian]

They're the Yamaha SBV series if I remember rightly...

(If I'm allowed to advertise another forum) there is a user on Link Removed his username is arrowheadguitars, and he collects them....in fact I think that picture you posted is of his collection....he's actually selling one at the moment too...

I was gonna suggest this too.

 

[Eric Killinger]

Thanks guys!


I can finally own one of these now, however, It'll have to wait until I come back into some money, I bought a lefty six-string douglas and a 7-sting antionio tsai the other day.

 

[ALiP BoB]

can i ask why you like this bass anyway?? I saw one at a local yamaha branch a while back and it has so little frets... it it shortscale or sumthin??

 

[Assumer]

But I dont understand how much they are, or how to order it from there, cause I cant read japanese.

You know if you ever go to a site you cannot read due to language, go to altavista babelfish. they have a translation service. You can type in the web address and what language you want the site translated to and it will do it for you.

 

[Eric Killinger]

You know if you ever go to a site you cannot read due to language, go to altavista babelfish. they have a translation service. You can type in the web address and what language you want the site translated to and it will do it for you.

babelfish NEVER works.


Horrible translations.

 

[Eric Killinger]

can i ask why you like this bass anyway?? I saw one at a local yamaha branch a while back and it has so little frets... it it shortscale or sumthin??

I'm into odd basses and guitars, vintage ones too.


This is the best of both worlds.