KevL

Lessons In Love Level 42 (Missed earlier posting of this, sorry @Rich)

It's A Mystery Toyah

Station to Station DB

Dry Your Eyes Streets

Dizzy Tommy Roe

Hooverville The Christians

She Drives Me Crazy FYC

Too late...

Lemon U2

Lady Marmalade LaBelle

Moving On Up M People

The Gambler Kenny Rogers

All Together Now The Farm

Apeman The Kinks

Kodachrome Paul Simon

Down To Earth Curiosity Killed The Cat (Think I've used this before)

Similar to the other replies, although I heard it about guitar rather than bass, the majority of music (read: money) was the basic stuff played at the end of the neck, not much more than cowboy chords and a few simple runs.

Big Balls AC/DC

The Final Countdown Europe

An Innocent Man Billy Joel

Down To Earth Peter Gabriel

As I mentioned on the thread from the other week about Squier JV's, everything second-hand is either 'rare' if it's no longer in production, or 'vintage' if it's much more than 10 years old. As I also said on that thread, most of this is because the internet gives everyone a view of the whole market but they only look at the highest prices being asked and so expect the same, rather than taking time to assess each item on its merits. Not that unrealistic prices weren't being asked in pre-internet times but most people were a bit more realistic and everything wasn't hyped to within an inch of its life/penny of its price. The 1970s is generally regarded as not being Fender's finest period of craftsmanship: sloppy neck-fitting, thick poly finishes etc. Now, whilst this won't apply to everything made throughout that decade, I've noticed that any 1970s Fender being sold by a dealer is always 'a good one' (even if they acknowledge that there were lots of 'not good ones' from then) and is, of course, 'vintage' with a price to match. It wasn't that long ago that you had to almost give-away 70's Fenders. Just seen @Cato and @Burns-bass have said this same thing. As @tegs07 says, there are some gems, it's a case of taking each instrument on its merit. Yes, a lot of the 'beginner/student' stuff from a while ago was fairly rubbish and the standard has really picked up now. The level above this is where some good stuff can be found: I picked up a Maison (Korean brand) LP copy for not much and it's really good quality: all-solid woods, well made. OK, the pickups and tuners could maybe benefit from being replaced but it's not essential. Out of interest, I'll have to look if anyone is asking some outrageous price for these. As a few others have said, are people paying these asking prices?

Walking After Midnight Patsy Cline (amongst others)