Birth year bass

Megatronpt · January 9, 2025, 4:21pm

JustTim · January 9, 2025, 5:21pm

I had a Kiesel Osiris for a while; after getting the build sheet from Kiesel I discovered that its build date month and day were the same as my birthday. I thought that was pretty cool.

Unfortunately, it wound up being the heaviest bass I’d ever owned (walnut body) and so I wound up trading it in at my local GC. It’s now evidently at the Harrisburg, PA GC:

howard · January 9, 2025, 9:45pm

I know. It’s like, I wanted to love it, but it is just pushing so many of my buttons.

Billn · January 9, 2025, 9:50pm

Obligatory even old heads don’t think old means good comment:

“He confirmed that Rubin tried to trace the kind of equipment used by Black Sabbath in 1968. “I get to the studio, and there are 20 different bloody amps there. He goes, ‘They’re vintage amps’,” Iommi remembered. “I said, ‘That doesn’t mean they sound good; they’re just old.’ He went, ‘Well, let’s try them.’ I tried them, and I didn’t like any of them.””

Buzzin_Canada-John · January 10, 2025, 4:07pm

1970 Fender Mustang … at $4k… gonna stick with the Dingwall in June

Foal30 · January 11, 2025, 6:39am

I have a Fender Jazz 71 neck body but the pots date 72
so I’m sort of thinking I have a birth year Bass

Krescht · January 11, 2025, 7:43am

Being born late December, I will be looking for basses of my birth year and the year after… If I decide to get one
Just gonna say it’s the same age.

Rickbacker · February 5, 2025, 4:02pm

I was born in December 1966 and as much as I like the Fender Precision they are quite expensive from what I’ve seen at least. I could put it on my Birthday list for my 60th next year but I have more chance of getting a date with Cindy Crawford.

TheMaartian · February 5, 2025, 4:21pm

Only one real possibility for me: a 1951 Leo Fender prototype P bass. I can’t imagine ever finding one, and I’m not willing to part with the body parts it would take to pay for it.

Pre-PAF:

Only $33,000!

devilcrayon · February 5, 2025, 6:40pm

You could get a Sire D5 and pretend real hard:

MikeC · February 6, 2025, 9:10am

Good man!

TheMaartian · February 6, 2025, 9:51am

Nice! But I only play short scale basses now. I do have 2 Sire U5’s, one fretted and one fretless.

jbsmith166 · February 6, 2025, 4:10pm

Mostly Rics and Fender P’s for my year 1976. Never played a Ric and I have more than enough P’s, but this thing is beautiful. There’s a pic with the neck off, if the stamp would have matched my birth month, I’d be having a hard time explaining to my wife why we were suddenly 10k poorer…
https://reverb.com/item/84124810-1976-music-man-stingray-bass-sunburst-first-year-model-white-pickguard-epoxy-pre-amp

soulman · February 8, 2025, 4:00pm

LOL…

GGWAW · February 10, 2025, 10:05am

Also from 1976 here, we’re competing for the same models

this one si amazing and looks too good to be true

HighlandBass · February 10, 2025, 4:42pm

If any base from my birth year was still playable it would be unaffordable! (1957).

itsratso · February 10, 2025, 5:44pm

hey everybody here could chip in.

that’s awesome.

sunDOG · February 20, 2025, 2:25pm

Does this count? It’s a 2014 Squier Classic Vibe

It’s my daughter’s birth year . Given its age, and the fact that it’s a Squier, it was very affordable … unlike a bass of my birth year, which is 19cough!

Ed · February 20, 2025, 7:43pm

I could live with this …

david.addis · February 21, 2025, 2:21am

I was born in 1953, when your choices were limited to either a Fender Precision Bass or a different Fender Precision Bass.