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James Jamerson - Fender Bass?


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[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1200137' date='Apr 14 2011, 10:55 PM']But where are they now? Rare, very collectible and so pricey, I guess.[/quote]
Well, got £900 (ish) for the one I sold on eBay, in 2005. Around the same time I got £800 (ish) for an '87 G&L El Toro.

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There's one in my anorak bass book, it 'looks' like a simple 90/91 MIA Vintage Series P bass re-issue of his colour combination of sunburst/tort pickguard/rosewood with dual pup guards, tug bar, ID'd neckplate and a bit of paper saying what it was, there isn't even a unique headstock sticker on the front as far as I know... and 100 off made by agreement with his family.

as an aside, I thought he simply used a regular bass (basses!)....with flats so high you could limbo dance under them, and as both his main basses were stolen it isn't based on anything special?

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[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1200137' date='Apr 14 2011, 11:55 PM']But where are they now? Rare, very collectible and so pricey, I guess.[/quote]
No wonder Fender got lazy and stopped trying when they realised people would spend extra on a standard bass with a plate on it that just said James Jamerson!!

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[quote name='iconic' post='1200267' date='Apr 15 2011, 08:03 AM']it 'looks' like a simple 90/91 MIA Vintage Series P bass re-issue of his colour combination of sunburst/tort pickguard/rosewood with dual pup guards, tug bar, ID'd neckplate and a bit of paper saying what it was ... and as both his main basses were stolen it isn't based on anything special?[/quote]
Built by the Fender Custom Shop, at a time when CS instrumets were only ever produced in small quantities, or to order, and were the equivalent of what Fender would call master-built today. My reason for buying one was the quality - it was the best built Fender I've owned, completely blowing away an original '72 P'bass and 80s P'bass Special. If it hadn't been new I'd have been convinced it was a 60s instrument - from its feel and sound.

As for what it was based on, I'd always understood that James Jamerson Jr was in possession of one of his father's basses.

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[quote name='chris_b' post='1200303' date='Apr 15 2011, 08:32 AM']No wonder Fender got lazy and stopped trying when they realised people would spend extra on a standard bass with a plate on it that just said James Jamerson!![/quote]
The Bass Centre were also the first people to give the world a Fender-built Jaco signature Jazz Bass, so maybe it's them we should blame for the current trend for reissues badged as signature editions.

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[quote name='noelk27' post='1200415' date='Apr 15 2011, 10:58 AM']....As for what it was based on, I'd always understood that James Jamerson Jr was in possession of one of his father's basses....[/quote]
All (both ?) JJ's Precision basses were stolen.

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[quote name='noelk27' post='1200427' date='Apr 15 2011, 11:04 AM']The Bass Centre were also the first people to give the world a Fender-built Jaco signature Jazz Bass, so maybe it's them we should blame for the current trend for reissues badged as signature editions.[/quote]
I have a Fender catalogue from about 10 years ago. There are over 50 sig Strats!

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[quote name='chris_b' post='1200455' date='Apr 15 2011, 11:17 AM']All (both ?) JJ's Precision basses were stolen.[/quote]

Wasn't one recovered about a year or so ago?

Bass Player Mag ran an article on it - way over the top editorial about you could [i]feel Jamerson't presence in the room[/i] sort of stuff

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[quote name='molan' post='1200459' date='Apr 15 2011, 11:20 AM']Wasn't one recovered about a year or so ago?

Bass Player Mag ran an article on it - way over the top editorial about you could [i]feel Jamerson't presence in the room[/i] sort of stuff[/quote]

Was that not one of Jaco's basses?

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