Cool Japanese Bass V & VI websight!
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Cool Japanese Bass V & VI websight!
I found this cool websight while looking for info on the MIJ Bass VI. enjoy...
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Re: Cool Japanese Bass V & VI websight!
Very Cool
One of those bizzare translations. Lottsa quotable quotes.
Bass V is rarer than Bass VI.. ...
One of those bizzare translations. Lottsa quotable quotes.
Bass V is rarer than Bass VI.. ...
Bass VI - A What?
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Re: Cool Japanese Bass V & VI websight!
love the translation engine.
Yes the cat has opposing thumbs and extra digits.
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Re: Cool Japanese Bass V & VI websight!
Ha..man i think the bass V is ugly..
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Re: Cool Japanese Bass V & VI websight!
also strange concept with only 15 frets!
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Re: Cool Japanese Bass V & VI websight!
I didn't even know this bass existed....
Here's it in white
http://cgi.ebay.com/Fender-Bass-V-Olymp ... dZViewItem
Here's it in white
http://cgi.ebay.com/Fender-Bass-V-Olymp ... dZViewItem
- Fall reverb
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Apparently neither did Leo Fender, until someone casually informed him in the 80's that his former company had actually produced a 5-string bass shortly after it had been sold to CBS...~*blissedandgone*~ wrote: I didn't even know this bass existed....
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Re: Cool Japanese Bass V & VI websight!
Quite amazing... Leo had a quite selective memory, anyway... He never remembered (or wanted to remember) he had Merle Travis's Bigsby guitar in the shop in the early 50s (just before issuing a Broadcaster with 6-on-a-line tuners - as far as I remember the Broadcaster prototype had a 3+3 peghead, how strange).Fall reverb wrote:Apparently neither did Leo Fender, until someone casually informed him in the 80's that his former company had actually produced a 5-string bass shortly after it had been sold to CBS...~*blissedandgone*~ wrote: I didn't even know this bass existed....
He still had a contract with CBS as a consultant after they bought his firm and stayed for a few years there. I just can't believe he didn't know about it. But to be fair, the Bass V may not have reached phenomenous production runs, that might be the explaination.
In my country, we call that "fictive jobs". People are entitled to go to jail for that !
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I seem to remember the Bass V being discussed on another thread somewhere. It may have a link to the same site that Bubbles posted (I recognize the Kobain Kid)
I can't say I'm very fond of the Bass V. Its a bit "Hall of Mirrors". Know-what-I-mean??
I can't say I'm very fond of the Bass V. Its a bit "Hall of Mirrors". Know-what-I-mean??
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The information about Leo Fender's apparent ignorance of the existence of the 'Bass V' until the 80's comes from the wonderful publication Fender - The Sound Heard 'round the World by Richard R. Smith (1996), and it's used by the author to demonstrate how quickly Mr. Fender had detached himself - although he was at that time still officially employed as a 'consultant' - from the goings-on at the CBS-run Fender company...
"A man's got to know his limitations"...
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Re: Cool Japanese Bass V & VI websight!
So does the one about Merle Travis's Bigsby...Fall reverb wrote: The information about Leo Fender's apparent ignorance of the existence of the 'Bass V' until the 80's comes from the wonderful publication Fender - The Sound Heard 'round the World by Richard R. Smith (1996), and it's used by the author to demonstrate how quickly Mr. Fender had detached himself - although he was at that time still officially employed as a 'consultant' - from the goings-on at the CBS-run Fender company...
We have a lot a references & sources of info in common FallReverb
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It indeed appears so, and that's a good thing, isn't it?Ahahah wrote: So does the one about Merle Travis's Bigsby...
We have a lot a references & sources of info in common FallReverb
"A man's got to know his limitations"...
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Re: Cool Japanese Bass V & VI websight!
I at first didn't notice in the picture that it was a five-string bass. It looked kind of like a better looking Mustang Bass to me...but with 15 frets. Not too much for options in note playing, if you ask me.
It is a unique piece, definitely one of the duds in Fender's line over the years
It is a unique piece, definitely one of the duds in Fender's line over the years