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Post subject: fender limited edition donald "duck" dunn precision bass
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 9:30 am
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Well I had this bass in layaway 3 years ago but didn't pull the trigger it came back up for sale at guitar center so now its mine!!! :) Its all original expect for the strings which I will be replacing today. ImageImageImage

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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 10:58 am
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Nice acquisition you got there, enjoy it and thanks for sharing the photos! Duck is one of my inspirations on playing style.

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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 11:31 am
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Nice acquisition you got there, enjoy it and thanks for sharing the photos! Duck is one of my inspirations on playing style.


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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 12:11 pm
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Now that is cool. He was one of the best.

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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 4:25 pm
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Thanks guys, yes he was and still is the biggest inspirations too.

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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 5:39 pm
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Now that is cool. He was one of the best.


+1

He and Cropper were like Lennon and McCartney......inseparable.

And that's a beautiful Duck Dunn signature bass!

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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 6:41 pm
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Yes, that is a beautiful bass. The flash photo makes it look like the body is trimmed in black. It looks cool!

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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 11:05 am
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Congrats - I've got one too and love it!

You got a nice low serial number too. There's a Facebook page (if you are not on Facebook you may not be able to view it) where someone is recording serial #'s - his list goes from #007 - #233 (both of which he owns :shock: ). Was going to suggest that you register yours but I see now that you already have! :oops:

There has always been a question of how many are out there; from the evidence I've seen I think there was an initial run of about 200 and a second run of maybe about 50 more? I say this because the ones through at least #153 (mine) have the number embossed in the wood, whereas on #233 the number is printed. Would love to know when they started printing the number, might have to start contacting some of the people on that Facebook list.

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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 6:26 am
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I always wished they'd do this again in the American Vintage Series, or even a teambuilt CS limited edition. I'd scoop one up in a heartbeat.

Back in the 80's there were a few AVS CAR 57 Reissues from what I've seen. Found one on line that was pretty beat up and the guy wanted new Custom Shop teambuilt prices for it. Crazy.

Enjoy the bass. She's a beauty!

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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 11:49 am
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I think Duck was one of the first, if not the first, to rip off those gosh awful ashtrys and fling 'em in the trash can (dumpsters having not been invented yet, or he would have dumpsterized 'em! :lol: :lol: :lol: For this alone he has my utmost apprication. What a legacy! The ashtrays from my 1976 Precision still reside in the Campbell County, Virginia landfil to this very day. Right along with that stupid tugbar. What a bunch of useless junk! 8)


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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:07 pm
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Hey, now. I need something to hold my mute down, and to keep the glaze form my donuts from crudding up my pick ups when I play. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: fender limited edition donald "duck" dunn precision bass
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 8:45 pm
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yeah hieronymous I found that on Facebook its cool, I saw how the numbers were done different strange. I read were his son said Duck played in blues bro. 2000 0001 and they still have it. I would like to know too just how many were made. Hey KingofPain there is one on ebay was 749.99 he has dropped it to 699.99. I agree Retroverbial. Thanks again guys.

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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 9:31 pm
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yeah hieronymous I found that on Facebook its cool, I saw how the numbers were done different strange. I read were his son said Duck played in blues bro. 2000 0001 and they still have it. I would like to know too just how many were made. Hey KingofPain there is one on ebay was 749.99 he has dropped it to 699.99. I agree Retroverbial. Thanks again guys.

There's an interview in Vintage Guitar where he talks about it a teeny bit - says he has the first two:

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Touch on the Duck Dunn signature model Fender Precision Bass.
That was around 1998; it was a Japanese-made limited edition. It was Candy Apple Red with a maple neck. I have the first two made.


Plus, there's this AWESOME ARTICLE where they talk to his son about his basses, plus great pictures! I have the print version (wanted info about the Signature bass) but great to see it online!

(I'm a bit suspicious about the #2 bass in the pictures being what he played in the Blues Brothers movie - different neck and refin perhaps?)

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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:11 pm
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(I'm a bit suspicious about the #2 bass in the pictures being what he played in the Blues Brothers movie - different neck and refin perhaps?)


You shouldn't be suspicious. There is a Jazz neck on it now, so yes he swapped it out but that was after it appeared in only one scene, being the dimly Holiday Inn Armada Room lounge scene with Murph & The Magictones in the first BB film. He also used this number 2 on many Post-BB tours and live gigs including the Crosby Stills & Nash tour, Eric Clapton and Aretha Franklin gigs. He was seen with it so often live that it sort of became his unofficial post BB signature look so it was naturally the basis of his Lakland signature model. This is the same '66 that he stripped down to bare wood after the Redding crash and played at Stax for a while before sending it for a factory refinish in Candy Apple Red at Fullerton. It was originally sunburst. He may have had it refinished again for all I know. He was not above refinishing.

While I have no concrete evidence of it, I always suspected he stripped the bass down because the sunburst reminded him too much of his lost friends and the lost '58 which was also sunburst. He played this one stripped to the bare wood for a while and this of course helped the wood dry out a lot whether he meant that to happen or not which made it sound great.

That is a good interview article with his son. Thanks for posting that link!


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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 10:44 pm
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Aw man I'd love one of these!


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