yeargh! coolest bass ever sighted in JP's Corner

MeYatch · Post by **MeYatch** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:14 pm

1966 Fender Jazz Bass. Only year for dot inlays with neck binding, only year for oval tuners on a jazz bass.

Custom Color black with matching head stock to boot.

..drool..

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:25 pm

Yeah, I totally saw that, too. Black headstock, YEAHHH!!!--->JMS

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:38 pm

Are those stock pickups?

MeYatch · Post by **MeYatch** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:45 pm

I can't tell. Maybe JP has a higher res photo he would share?

The thumbrest above the strings is not stock, or at least not in stock location.

edit: also, I think a custom color bass should come with a white pickguard, but I'm not entirely sure, that breaks down by years in weird ways.

edit again: I think that it has a badass bridge

metalchurch · Post by **metalchurch** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:46 pm

That bass is too cool man! Love the matching headstock and real relic'ing of the finish. Wonder how many of those were made?

MeYatch · Post by **MeYatch** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:56 pm

not sure how rare they are. I've seen other ones. They don't seem very common, but being that the features are only for that year, maybe it just seems rarer than they are. I mean you can't really tell what specific year a lot of basses are from a glance.

No idea if its still there, but there was a 1966 Fender Jaguar in the Guitar Center in Monroeville. Also with dot inlays, and bound neck.

Post by **Jim Price** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:00 pm

MeYatch said:

I can't tell. Maybe JP has a higher res photo he would share?

Unfortunately, not any more. The original picture was higher resolution, but I deleted it after I first processed that batch of photos back in October, and the reduced-size shot remains.

You might be able to find out more about Mike Sweeney's bass through Jimmy Adler's website, www.jimmyadler.com. He has worked with other Pittsburgh names such as Billy Price, so you might be able to learn more with some internet detective work.

metalchurch · Post by **metalchurch** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:29 pm

MeYatch wrote:I mean you can't really tell what specific year a lot of basses are from a glance.

Yeah I hear ya, that's how some Jackson's are as well. They have some features that are one year only, or one model only and it takes a trained eye to see that.

At first I was thinking, how in the hell can Mitch tell that by looking at it and not having the serial#. Then I thought for a second and realized what you just mentioned here.
How's your Jaguar playing? That's a nice bass man, you should post some pictures of that on here for the kids to see.

MeYatch · Post by **MeYatch** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:34 pm

its good. I need to find a place for it or get rid of it though. I'm trying to commit myself to owning less basses. I have 8 right now. Speaking of which I have a plan for you to turn one of my unused basses into something awesome. I'll have to talk to you about it.

metalchurch · Post by **metalchurch** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:36 pm

Yeah I was thinkin the same thing, cause I have 8 guitars and I want to start a Dave Murray Strat in a few weeks, so I need room.

At one point I had 13 of them, not counting bodies and necks. It's a disease.
But, yeah gimme a call and we can get something going.
505-5763