What’s your birth year bass?

[AndyTravis]

1984 Wal…😛

[Geek99]

The way I feel today it’s a 1699 Flounder precision bass lute, with tortoiseshell veneer and a bridge made of armada timber 

[ahpook]

To me, a bass from the year I started playing bass has much more relevance to me than one from when I was born.

 

My 1986 Fender Jazz commemorates that excellent decision quite nicely

Edited November 20, 2023 by ahpook

[tauzero]

40 minutes ago, ahpook said:

To me, a bass from the year I started playing bass has much more relevance to me than one from when I was born.

 

My 1986 Fender Jazz commemorates that excellent decision quite nicely

 

That would have been a 1976 Hayman 40/40 for me, and I know when it was made because I made it. Sadly, I've sold it since then.

[Baloney Balderdash]

8 hours ago, neepheid said:

I've already played this game - I owned a '75 Gibson Ripper:

 

 

If I was to do this again, I'd prefer a G-3 or take a punt on a Grabber, yet to have the pleasure of playing one.

I love how the Gibson Ripper and Grabber basses look.

 

Lou Barlow's (Dinosaur Jr) current main bass is a Grabber (which was also his first bass, that was used to record Dinosaur Jr.'s first album, before he sold it and got a Rickenbacker).

 

That said this got me thinking, it's rather strange to have neck dive and having the headstocks being prone to snap off as a signature design concept.

 

Of course it seems to have worked for them just fine, but I am pretty sure rather in spite of that, rather than because of it, and probably also the reason why Gibson basses never became quite as popular as Fender's.

 

Edited November 20, 2023 by Baloney Balderdash

[kodiakblair]

Here's my YOB bass, 68 Wilson Sapphire.

 

Sadly I've the Dorian Gray tale in reverse, I get more decrepit every day while the Wilson seems remarkably free from the ravages of time ☹️

 

[GuyR]

 

These are both from 1965. Entirely coincidence, I don’t target YOB, just like interesting old kit and happen to be born when some of it was being made.

[ahpook]

1 hour ago, tauzero said:

 

That would have been a 1976 Hayman 40/40 for me, and I know when it was made because I made it. Sadly, I've sold it since then.

 

I didn't make mine, I bought it from a shop in Stoke.

 

So it goes

[Thump]

1979 Stingray. Maybe one day...

[TeresaFR]

I prefer more modern basses, but if I had to choose something from my mid-70s year of birth, it'd probably have to be a Wal (bit of a Mick Karn thing, I suppose). I'm too old to be able to nab a Steinberger L2 or a Kubicki Factor, sadly. Speaking of Steinberger, I just discovered Ned's half sister, Julia, is a renowned ecological scientist and that's really cool to me.

[SamIAm]

Hofner 500/1 Violin Bass 1962 - Mersey

Would do very nicely for me as it is a short scale

Tho the one pictured is for sale at £10,000 🤯 ... even the reissue comes in at about £2k ... but a girl can dream! 😊

 

S'manth x

[BigRedX]

10 hours ago, TeresaFR said:

I prefer more modern basses, but if I had to choose something from my mid-70s year of birth, it'd probably have to be a Wal (bit of a Mick Karn thing, I suppose).

 

A Travis Bean TB2000 would be more appropriate.

[Dan Dare]

One of these. Fat chance of my ever owning one.

 

Edited November 21, 2023 by Dan Dare

[interpol52]

I had a 1975 Rickenbacker. Sold it when times were hard, regret it every single day 🙄

 

[thodrik]

I was born in 1986 and already have a couple of basses which are older than me.

 

I would say a Wal, but if I went the Wal route I would prefer a Mk 2 or 3 which only came out after I was born.

 

I own a late 70s Fender Precision and I looked for years to find a nice vintage Jazz bass to match. However I never found one I thought was worth the money and I ended up buying a Sadowsky which I preferred to any vintage jazz bass I had previously tried. 

Generally, I am more likely to buy a new YOTF bass, as in a 'Year of Turning Forty' bass as I could get something I really want like an ACG, Warwick or Spector Forte, or (sacrilege) a guitar!

[Lozz196]

I’ve always thought of a Year I Started Playing bass, as in if I could have afforded anything when I started in 1980 at the age of 15 what would I have bought.

Inevitably it would have been a Fender Precision but at 15 would I have gone white/rosewood or black/maple? 

[Muzz]

I'd have to go for a 64 Thunderbird as a YOB bass, and YISPB bass would be...a 76 Thunderbird... 🙂

 

Not that I've any real GAS for either, given the prices...tho a chunky Lottery win would change that... 😁

[Rich]

On 19/11/2023 at 16:25, Rayman said:

1965 Fender Jazz for me

 

Ditto. CAR with matching headstock please.

 

 

[nilorius]

My super loved bass - Ibanez GWB1005 - 2006.year, i own and that is the year they start to make it.

Edited November 24, 2023 by nilorius

[Rayman]

1 hour ago, Rich said:

Ditto. CAR with matching headstock please.

 

 

😍

[nilorius]

5 string Warwick corvete, custom, natural swamp ash body, bubinga neck and fingerboard.

Edited November 25, 2023 by nilorius

[Bleat]

1973 Gibson Les Paul or an EB-3. 😎

[SumOne]

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Edited November 25, 2023 by SumOne

[SumOne]

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Glitch in the matrix!

[SumOne]

1979. Doesn't seem the best year for Basses, unless you like them heavy!

 

I'd probably go for a Ramones/Clash style white P Bass.