lowregisterhead Posted December 31, 2011 Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) For sale is my 1980/81 Ibanez Roadster RS924 in transparent red, a rare, underrated, but very high quality bass. Being 30+ years old, it has a few dings and chips here and there, and a bit of buckle rash on the back, but is still in great shape for its age. The only real flaw I know of is that the head has come off one of the truss rod cover plate screws, but otherwise it's all original, fully functional, sounds phenomenal, and has very little fret wear. P/J configuration with a powerful 2-band active 9V EQ. Controls are: volume, tone, bass cut/boost, treble cut/boost, and pickup selector and active/passive switches. No hard case, but I'll include a good quality gig bag. Please don't tempt me with trades, I'm trying to downsize!! Price is £395 plus shipping, or can be collected from near junction 10 of the M25. So you can hear what these basses sound like, here's a clip of Graham Edwards with Go West soloing live on the 80's music TV program 'The Tube', with a huge sound just from the bridge pickup. The actual bass he's playing was originally mine - one of three I've owned over the years - I sold it to him after being tempted by a shiny new Stingray... HAS NOW BEEN SOLD - THANKS FOR ALL YOUR INTEREST! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mMoeWkDhqA[/media] Edited September 22, 2012 by lowregisterhead
JPJ Posted December 31, 2011 Posted December 31, 2011 I've got the exact same bass but fretless and I can honestly say these have the nicest necks I've played. Have a bump on me for a piece of early 80's beauty
lowregisterhead Posted January 1, 2012 Author Posted January 1, 2012 New Year's Day bleary-eyed bump...
lowregisterhead Posted January 2, 2012 Author Posted January 2, 2012 Bank Holiday price reduction bump...
lowregisterhead Posted January 4, 2012 Author Posted January 4, 2012 Bump for a final price reduction... surely someone must want this? Where's Shirley when you need her??
lowregisterhead Posted January 5, 2012 Author Posted January 5, 2012 More pics and a YouTube link added....
Conan Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 Brilliant Go West clip! I'd forgotten about Graham Edwards. Great player... Oh and these are really good, well-made basses too. Very versatile in the tone department if slightly heavy. Good price too!
Apothem Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 (edited) I have had an identical one (P-J, 2-eq, 24 frets) in sunburst, from new since 1981. Sold it a couple of years ago. Built like a tank and extremely reliable, never had an issue in all those years. Great Japanese stuff PS = the sound in that Go West clip brought me back to the days when a big dose of chorus was a must ... aaaaahhhh, the '80s.... Edited January 12, 2012 by Apothem
lowregisterhead Posted January 12, 2012 Author Posted January 12, 2012 [quote name='Conan' timestamp='1326357143' post='1495777'] Brilliant Go West clip! I'd forgotten about Graham Edwards. Great player... [/quote] Great player! These days Graham is one third of LA writing/production team The Matrix the others being his wife Lauren Christy and Scott Spock, whose credits read like a who's who of the US charts over the last 10 years. Their breakthrough hit was Avril Lavigne's 'Complicated'. A very talented (and probably now extremely wealthy) man!
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