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The bass player of my band has a super old Fender Musicmaster bass. I think it's early 70's.

The thing takes such a beating and still keeps dishing it out. Really has that vintage bass tone with low sustain and sharp pick attack and is pretty punchy. He runs it through a Traynor Monoblock for the heavynessssssss.

The basses can be had for really cheap aswell (around the 500-800 mark).
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kbithecrowing wrote:This dude is at my local GC. Looks bad-ass but the hardware is all ganked up and the pickup is pure mud clean, didn't get to try it with drive.
( & now that I'm looking at it more I want it again :facepalm: )

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Definatly not an original pickup. I have played them with originals and they sound great. Still a tad on the muddy side, but just EQ and play LOUD
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Might pick up a 70's Lefty red Mustang bass now because of all this music master/mustang talk. Fuck.
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nightterrors wrote:Might pick up a 70's Lefty red Mustang bass now because of all this music master/mustang talk. Fuck.


good luck finding one of those my lefty bro
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A guy emailed me saying he wanted to sell me one.

I've seen lefty Music Master basses from time to time in Toronto for sale.
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well shit on my balls and call me sally

I've never seen one
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Yeah man! I missed out a couple years back on a white lefty music master bass.... should have bought it. We'll see how this goes I guess!
I miss having my White Mustang I used to have, it would be nice to get another but in bass form! haha.
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Was looking through the TalkBass Short Scale Club thread, really awesome basses in here.
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/offici ... -a-970319/

Check out this customized Squier Jag SS :eek:

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Fffuuuuuuuu

Gorgeous, simply gorgeous.
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i want to take it home and touch it all over.
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