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Yours looks great Matt ;)
I believe new , the rrp was about £1600.
They can go for less than £1000.
I love the look of the green one (the blue and red ones before them are nice too).
Unfirtunately for me , I'm used to headless , so I won't get one .
Btw; I think the latest one looks horrible ;)
(I was talking about the stereo / drop d basses;) )

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There ahve been 3 proper ones - The Attitude; Attitude II; Attitude III

I've had them all at some stage. The neck shapes are a little different - in fact the III neck was far bigger than the previous ones I had. Didn't like that one. Sounded great though.

The RRP on the III was originally about £2500 but Yamaha couldn't sell them at that money so they reduced it to (I think) £1799, but looking at various sites like GAK and Bass Direct, the RRP is now back up to £2899 !!

The green one he was seen most with is the II model. They come up used at £1000 or less. TorVic on here was selling one.

Great basses, but IMHO the new III models are massively overpriced for what is essentially a Precision with a few extras.

Be wary of weights too - my Mk1 was about 9lb and comfy, but my Mk3 was a whopping 12 lb and it killed my back. They vary a lot.

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[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1454935304' post='2974293']
oh year - there is the SPECIAL which has the neck pickup but only 1 output, and there is a cheaper still version too with just the P pickup. The neck is slimmer too.

And a Japan only model with a piezo as the P pickup. Never seen one in the flesh.
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The one with the Piezo also had the woofer pickup, it's under the scratch plate. It was called the custom. Also had the cool neck joint

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[quote name='victor5string' timestamp='1454936123' post='2974309']
The one with the Piezo also had the woofer pickup, it's under the scratch plate. It was called the custom. Also had the cool neck joint
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ah! Thank you. Didn't know that.

Wasn't there a very limited 5 string with piezo at some point too?

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I've had a 'special' and I own a LTD II in black as well - all of the above info is pretty much spot on. Great basses and the dimarzio pickups in them are insane. Negatives for me - They can be a bit difficult to find, second hand especially so. The LTD models are all quite neck heavy. And I agree with fretmeister above - the price of the current LTD III is way over the top..

There's a facebook page devoted to the bass too if you fancy it.

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there is a special for sale at the moment in the classifieds, 300 quid (I have no connection to the seller) [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/277218-billy-sheehan-attitude-special-signed-by-billy-new-strings-setup/page__p__2959573__hl__attitude%20special__fromsearch__1#entry2959573"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/277218-billy-sheehan-attitude-special-signed-by-billy-new-strings-setup/page__p__2959573__hl__attitude%20special__fromsearch__1#entry2959573[/url]

the pickups are about 140 quid for the pair, by the time you've bought a half decent p-bass (vm series squire or similar) and the pickups you'd be just as well to pick up the special on the secondhand market.

Matt

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[quote name='wishface' timestamp='1454950584' post='2974537']
how much?
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YOu could start with a cheap and cheerful Squier Precision and add the neck pickup with another output. If you don't want to spend money on the Dimarzio neck pickup you could use a humbucker from an Epiphone EB series - get one on ebay for £15

Then when you get some more money, change the P pickup to the Dimarzio Will Power.

Then save up a bit more and get a Hipshot D-Tuner for the E string

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[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1454941643' post='2974408']
There is also the BB series budget version

[url="http://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical-instruments/guitars-basses/el-basses/signature_models/bb714bs/"]http://usa.yamaha.co...models/bb714bs/[/url]

Could be easily modded for 2 outputs if that is needed. But it's not much like the proper one.
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I was of the understanding that the BB714BS was a celebration of Billy's first Yamaha, the Pink BB he used when he retired the Precision

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Not really sure what I should do, probably at least find a P bass to try before buying online. I think I know someone that has one for sale, but he's hard to get hold of and iirc he wanted 400 quid.

I'm at the point where I'd like to invest in a decent bass. All i've owned are pretty cheap models and I feel they've restricted me in some ways. Of course money is a factor.

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If you can afford it get the one Matt P posted a link to. I really don't think you'll regret it.
I had one as my first 'real' bass and loved it. Traded it in after a couple of years for a Yamaha 5 string as I fancied trying a five, gigged the 5 for years and still have it but really wished I could have afforded to keep the Attitude as well but at the time I had no money.
If I didn't have far too many basses that don't get played then I'd probably snap that Attitude up as I really fancy one again, just really can't justify it.

Go buy it, you know you want to.

I don't know the seller btw, just know it's a damn fine bass.
:)

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