Worlds most expensive bass?

[Dazed]

http://thebassgallery.com/index.php/bass/warwick-thumb-fretless-5-string.html

[Bobthedog]

Interesting but the Fodera Anthony Jackson Presentation II starts at USD 35,000 so 2nd place at best. Nice history though.

[colgraff]

Didn't Ritter make one for $250,000? I'm pretty certain of that but I'm too lazy to look it up.

[Cato]

Someone commissioned a gold & precious stone encrusted Ritter a while back that was offered for sale for $250,000

http://www.musicradar.com/news/bass/the-worlds-most-expensive-bass-167426

[Cato]

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1458166153' post='3005332']
Didn't Ritter make one for $250,000? I'm pretty certain of that but I'm too lazy to look it up.
[/quote]
Beat me to it.

[skej21]

[quote name='Cato' timestamp='1458166201' post='3005333']
Someone commissioned a gold & precious stone encrusted Ritter a while back that was offered for sale for $250,000

http://www.musicradar.com/news/bass/the-worlds-most-expensive-bass-167426
[/quote]

Gibson made a similar thing but an SG... And charged $2m for it!

[RhysP]

[quote name='Cato' timestamp='1458166201' post='3005333']
Someone commissioned a gold & precious stone encrusted Ritter a while back that was offered for sale for $250,000

http://www.musicradar.com/news/bass/the-worlds-most-expensive-bass-167426
[/quote]

Classy.

[LukeFRC]

I almost bought Jack Bruce's Warwick Hellborg rig when it was being sold - looking at the mark up his ownership seems to give maybe I should have!

[Mykesbass]

At that price surely they could have proof read the advert

[dlloyd]

Robert Trujillo paid $60k for Jaco's bass, IIRC.

[CamdenRob]

[quote name='Cato' timestamp='1458166201' post='3005333']
Someone commissioned a gold & precious stone encrusted Ritter a while back that was offered for sale for $250,000

[url="http://www.musicradar.com/news/bass/the-worlds-most-expensive-bass-167426"]http://www.musicrada...ive-bass-167426[/url]
[/quote]



I like Ritters but that's pretty awful....

[Rich]

I like the body wood/finish, but the rest of it is unnecessarily tart's-handbag and as a result the whole thing just looks tacky.

[Cato]

I know Ritter know what they are doing when it comes to guitar construction, but that top horn looks worryingly fragile to me.

[BigRedX]

[quote name='Cato' timestamp='1458212038' post='3005580']
I know Ritter know what they are doing when it comes to guitar construction, but that top horn looks worryingly fragile to me.
[/quote]

Wood (especially hard woods) is amazingly strong stuff. You don't have to make everything as chunky and lumpy as a Fender.

[CamdenRob]

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1458211886' post='3005577']
I like the body wood/finish, but the rest of it is unnecessarily tart's-handbag and as a result the whole thing just looks tacky.
[/quote]

+1

[dlloyd]

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1458205735' post='3005496']


I like Ritters but that's pretty awful....
[/quote]

If Liberace was a bass player...

[Jebo1]

Paul McCartney bought the double bass played on the classic Elvis tracks by Bill Black. Given what that bass means to the world, it would have been a serious bit of money.

When Macca goes, his instruments will raise a king's ransom. I reckon they should all besought by a national museum (I've had this argument before that they are culturally more significant than most of the paintings we snap up for hundreds of millions of pounds every year).

[LayDownThaFunk]

Funk Machine?

[Marc S]

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1458205735' post='3005496']


I like Ritters but that's pretty awful....
[/quote]

"Pretty awful"? - It's absolutely hideous. Possibly the most horrible looking bass I have ever seen

[Lw.]

[quote name='Jebo1' timestamp='1458215855' post='3005631']
When Macca goes, his instruments will raise a king's ransom. I reckon they should all besought by a national museum (I've had this argument before that they are culturally more significant than most of the paintings we snap up for hundreds of millions of pounds every year).
[/quote]

Do we buy lots of used paint brushes? I suppose they're worth money to someone but really it's the art that is being bought not the tools.

I'm sure if his collection contains any of the masters or original recording tapes they'll go for crazy money!

[colgraff]

[quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1458217886' post='3005671']
Do we buy lots of used paint brushes? I suppose they're worth money to someone but really it's the art that is being bought not the tools.
[/quote]

If the brushes of famous artists were around and were provable, I suspect they would sell for millions. The brushes used to paint Sunflowers, anyone?

[colgraff]

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1458217502' post='3005665']
"Pretty awful"? - It's absolutely hideous. Possibly the most horrible looking bass I have ever seen
[/quote]
I rather like it.

[CamdenRob]

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1458218302' post='3005678']
I rather like it.
[/quote]

Go on treat yourself

[CamdenRob]

Conversely though I absolutely definitely would buy this...

[Nicko]

Didn't Alembic produce something in the 90s as an anniversary model with a list around $30k?