Beedster

IIRC one of the members here was forbidden by his BL to use an old bass in a function band simply because it looked tatty 🤔

All fair points, and there's the argument that wealthy collectors inflate the prices of these instruments beyond the reach of musicians which I get. But if these vintage examples were significantly better instruments that those available to contemporary musicians I think the argument would be stronger. The thing is, they really aren't, or at least they really aren't in the same way as a 18th century Italian violin potentially is better than those made today, which is a a function of the materials, aging, and craftsmanship. I had a Squier CV 50s Precision that frankly was about 90% of my old '55. OK, the latter had mojo by the tonne, but the mojo a musician should really care about is in their brain and their fingers. not in the paintwork of their instrument

But why's that a sadness? It's a few pieces of wood and metal put together in a factory, to many people it's just as much a piece of visual art or a historic antique as it is a musical instrument (as I said above, you can get instruments just as good for around 5% of the likely price of this). As Leo would have agreed, there's nothing particularly special about them as instruments, it's not a Strad

I play them with a pick, brings out the SC/flats tone beautifully

The SC Precisions are an acquired taste but one that I've acquired, pickguard has to be off though

I had a '56 (or was it a '55). Nice bass, was it £17,500 nicer than an MIJ '55 RI.........? Answers on a postcard

Many thanks Mike 🙏

No vid showing in my feed, odd 🤔 EDIT! Found it 👍

Stop all this talk, the Basschatting public want photos of basses and amplifiers and we want them now 😡

The first complete dickhead gentleman who I sold it to complained that the action was too low and returned it on that basis ..........

And here it is......

My BB2024X (maple board unusually) was one of the best basses I've owned also. Oddly I never gigged it, always picking up Fenders. If I had one now it would probably be staying and doing a lot of gigs 👍

I think you’d be better off in Ironic Crabcore mate 👍

This ^

Looking forward to watching this, it’s the track that led me to bass (there’s a thread on here somewhere) 👍

Ha ha, fair enough, I did it once and it unraveled within seconds, but that’s life I guess. Beautiful trio there 👍

No

In an alternative reality in which Fender didn’t exist I suspect most of us would be playing a Yamaha 🙂

There’s something almost Wal-like about that 👍

I stopped playing for close to 20 years between 1985 and 2003. I had far more success and status in the former, far more joy and satisfaction in the latter 👍