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Post subject: Re: Dream Jazz Bass
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 12:45 am
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The Fender's of Ebay have led me to a requested dream bass.

I'd like to see a Sienna Burst Jazz Bass Plus Deluxe(Jazz Plus), with an Ash body. I'd want it to have an Ebony fingerboard(with dot inlays), Quartersawn maple neck(headstock adjustable bi-flex), and..those hefty 90's tuners that were used on the U.S. models. Original huge Schaller bridge, too.

I like the Lace Sensors..but I realize most don't. Maybe just put in 1960-style Jazz Pickups(and stacked pot setup). Rear loaded, no pickguard.


Discontinued in 1994 and no longer made since.

There was a 40th Anniversary P-Bass having all those features except for the PJ setup and side dots.


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Post subject: Re: Dream Jazz Bass
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:12 am
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My Dream Jazz bass???? hmmm.....well I have to say I love my 2011 American Deluxe Jazz 5 string (natural finish with maple neck) & my Jaco , Marcus Miller & Geddy Lee basses....but if it were possible I'd love to get my hands on one of the 2 Custom Shop Jazz Basses with the Alchemical Amalgamation logo on the pick guard tha Geddy Lee used on the last RUSH tour......( you can see a photo of it if you go to "An American Geddy Lee bass" thread on these (Fender Lounge) boards..... :D


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Post subject: Re: Dream Jazz Bass
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:35 pm
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Yeah a reissued Jazz plus would be nice......Hey how about this? a reissued MIJ Jazz Special or Power Jazz (circa1985 -1990) they would be available in the original goddy 1980's colors......what do ya think ? .... (I know there's currently the Duff model but it's made in Mexico & is only available in one color & the skull & bones neck plate on the Duff bass is kind of juvenille......IMO..)


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Post subject: Re: Dream Jazz Bass
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:36 pm
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My dream Jazz would be a Guss Mohican Jazz normal sig artist bass.


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Post subject: Re: Dream Jazz Bass
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:13 pm
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I would like to prefer the bridge pickup. It is a customized version of the Deluxe Active Jazz Bass pickup.It also have massive string for support.

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Post subject: Re: Dream Jazz Bass
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:55 am
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I had a 1978 Jazz in Sienna with maple neck and block inlays. Unfortunately, the drummer I was playing with at the time stole it. I haven't seen one like it almost 30 years.

I currently have an American Jazz Deluxe in wine with a rosewood fretboard and block inlays.

I would like a Jazz in Sienna with a rosewood fretboard and block inlays.


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Post subject: Re: Dream Jazz Bass
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:23 pm
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I've read a few times now about the stinkin' drummer that absconded with your killer bass. Okay so what happened ? He just took off and you never saw him again or what?


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Post subject: Re: Dream Jazz Bass
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:40 am
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What is so funny about this thread is that the one thing I never seem to dream about is a bass. I can dream some pretty crazy dreams, but for the life of me I can not remember a single dream to do with a bass guitar.


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Post subject: Re: Dream Jazz Bass
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:24 pm
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stroker vance wrote:
I've read a few times now about the stinkin' drummer that absconded with your killer bass. Okay so what happened ? He just took off and you never saw him again or what?



I caught up with him a few months later. He had traded the Jazz for an Alembic. I asked him to give me the Alembic and he refused. He eventually paid me but as I mentioned, I haven't seen another Jazz bass like that one.


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Post subject: Re: Dream Jazz Bass
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 4:49 pm
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So he's still alive, or what?

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Post subject: Re: Dream Jazz Bass
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 7:36 pm
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Stealing a mans bass is like stealing his tools and stealing a mans tools is like as low as I can think of unless you steal from a church. I don't like thieves one bit.


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Post subject: Re: Dream Jazz Bass
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:19 pm
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Yeah it's about as low as you can go & I agree with what Stroker Vance said (stealing someone's instrument is like stealing the tools that help them make thier lively hood) & not to mention the trust thats been broken.............If someone ever did this to me or someone I know they'd get a serious hurting the next time I 'd run into them.. :x


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Post subject: Re: Dream Jazz Bass
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:50 pm
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My dream J-bass would be a super customized job - probably not even a real J-bass by the time I got done, but still I love the J-bass neck, offset body and twin pickups so it's the place to start. Color would be Olympic white with a nice reddish tortoiseshell pickguard. I'd have the fingerboard flattened a bit (never been a fan of radiused fingerboards), super extra jumbo frets up to the 12th, regular jumbo frets after that. Passive electronics, two humbucking pickups with coil taps for at least one and a badass bridge. If I could get all that in a bass, I'd be quite happy.

Would it still be a J-bass? I think so.


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Post subject: Re: Dream Jazz Bass
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:07 pm
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An Olympic white Jazz Bass with humbuckers....hmmmmm?? almost sounds like the Modern player Jazz bass minus the tortise shell pickguard & the extra jumbo frets (the modern player does have jumbo frets though & they're probably as wide as most bassists would like to go)....check out the link. :)
http://www.fender.com/products/modernpl ... No=0241600


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Post subject: Re: Dream Jazz Bass
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:40 pm
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Modern Player Jazz - he he, good call. I have one on order as we speak. As for the fat frets - my first real bass was an old jazz copy that had extremely wide but low frets. It played like a dream and just about everyone who played it was like "wow, great action!". The guitar tech at the local git shop dubbed it "The Slinky Bass" because of how nice it was to play. I'd still have it if some blankety-blank hadn't stolen it along with a Strat and several other items.


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