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[quote name='Gareth Hughes' post='646280' date='Nov 5 2009, 03:53 PM']Thanks indeed for the offer. Forgive my geographic ignorance - how close/far is Geneva from Basel or Winterthur?[/quote] Basel-Geneva 250 Km = 155,4 Miles almost 2 and a half hours by car Wintertour-Geneva 299 Km = 185,8 miles almost 3 hors by car

[quote name='Gareth Hughes' post='646130' date='Nov 5 2009, 12:48 PM']Hello Pepe, A belated welcome. And an obligatory - your basses are gorgeous, you lucky xxxxxxx - And a lovely country you live in too - I had a few shows there earlier this year, in Winterthur and Basel. It was in March, so still plenty of picturesque snow. I'm back there again in January - glutton for punishment, it'll be FREEZING!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, welcome, and enjoy. gareth[/quote] Come to see my basses when you be here... Just tell me by PM.... I'm going on hollidays by the end of the year, but I'll be back in Switzerland from the 5th January. BRGDS

[quote name='spacecowboy' post='643911' date='Nov 2 2009, 10:38 PM']Wow 40 Years of playing bass?! *only got 33 Years to go!* What a fantastic collection of amazing basses too! A big welcome to the forum from me![/quote] [quote name='cocco' post='644100' date='Nov 3 2009, 09:13 AM']I love your fenders, the block inlayed white jazz has to be my favorite. Welcome to our world. Word to the wise, the for sale section is evil. [/quote] [quote name='octaedro7' post='645964' date='Nov 5 2009, 09:26 AM']Hi Pepone, Good to see you here too. BTW: You don't say "old", rather use "experimented" Saludos[/quote] Thanks for your commments !!! Best regards Pepe

[quote name='Laurence' post='640834' date='Oct 30 2009, 11:35 AM']Hey Welcome to Basschat, that is one nice collection ![/quote] Thanks

[quote name='beerdragon' post='620086' date='Oct 7 2009, 11:13 PM']Welcome to Basschat Pepe, you luck so and so. those are beautiful Fenders.[/quote] [quote name='Telebass' post='638236' date='Oct 27 2009, 06:51 PM']Howdy Pepone, love that Oly White Precision! But then I'm a bit of a sucker for a nice P-bass![/quote] Thanks for teh comments... [quote name='Geejay' post='638249' date='Oct 27 2009, 07:01 PM'] Welcome. Like the basses. I just got back from Zurich yesterday. Nipped over to see my daughter (I'm another ancient bass player). My first trip to Switzerland for over 40 years! I should have been before. Lovely people. Thriving jazz scene. I must take in some music next time I'm over. Graham[/quote] Next time you're in Switzerland.. come to Geneva... I'll pay the beers

[quote name='YouMa' post='628384' date='Oct 16 2009, 10:53 PM']Beautiful bass mate,im well into rare underground french music of the 70s,have you heard of a band called cortex they have some superb playing on there albums.[/quote] Unfortunatelly, I don't know anything about "CORTEX".... I'll try to get some info about them.... [quote name='gary mac' post='628385' date='Oct 16 2009, 10:55 PM']Another beauty. I said before that I wasn't going to be looking at any more of your posts, but I failed. Keep em coming.......it's such a treat. all the best, Gary[/quote] Thanks for your comment ! [quote name='gary mac' post='628385' date='Oct 16 2009, 10:55 PM']Another beauty. I said before that I wasn't going to be looking at any more of your posts, but I failed. Keep em coming.......it's such a treat. all the best, Gary[/quote] I can't help ! Thanks for your comments ! [quote name='YouMa' post='628391' date='Oct 16 2009, 11:04 PM']This guy is living my dream,owning beautiful vintage basses and living in a beautiful country.One day,sigh.[/quote] In order to live y better life... You'd bette focus on your own... Someone told me that "The grass looks always greener in the neibourgh's garden" !!! I'd like to have enough time to take advantage of my basses and be able to play them more often !!!! That would be my dream !!!!

[quote name='Clarky' post='628372' date='Oct 16 2009, 10:37 PM']yet another lovely bass but gotta say I prefer your mojo'd 68 with blocks, as it looks like its played a zillion smoky gigs and has nearly as many stories to tell![/quote] In fact... yes... about the 1968 PB I've just been contacted by old fans of the band where the 1st owner of my 68 PB used to play. His name is Tony Carbonare, basse player of "Groupe Machin" (The Thing Band), a very popular underground french band during the seventies !!!! They recognised the bass, and told me that this instrument had a nickname "La Cancoillote". "Cancoillote" is the name of a French Stinky chesse.... They brushed up on tons of anecdotes, but I think that I won't be able to translate this kind of french humor !!!!

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='623902' date='Oct 12 2009, 12:54 PM']This looks great & I can't wait to see what else you own.[/quote] Hi again I've already posted a new thread about a JB 1965 !!! Hope you'd have a nice time reading it !!!

Hi guys Time has come to introduce a third bass of mine. This is for me a especial one. As you must know , I'v already introduced in this forum my virginal Precision Bass "L" Series 1965 in Oly white color... Here is its sister... wich isnt as virginal as the other one... But this one I dare to play it !!!! Here is a 1965 Fender Jazz Bass L Series with a very little wear... When I first tried my other Jass Bass (the 1968) I though it wouldn't be possible to get better tone with a Jazz Bass... but, but... When I've heard this one I've hardly believed what I was hearing... In adition, This 1965 PB has the most incredible neck I've ever played... I don't like to explain too long how I got it, as a matter of fact, the guy I bougth this bass from, needed the money, and there I was... It isn't something to be proud or ashamed of... if I wouldn't bougth it, the owner would have to sell it for still less money that I've payed for it. Back to the bass, I'd like to say that Pre-CBS instruments are not only a myth Yes Sir... Pre CBS Fender Instruments are really thousands of miles ahead of anything manufactured after 1966.... I can't explain it but, there is an alchemy in the know-how of this era, that they won't be able to reproduce never again. Find all the pictures in this link: [url="http://gs177.photobucket.com/groups/w228/JT1O6I75JU/?start=all"]http://gs177.photobucket.com/groups/w228/J...75JU/?start=all[/url] Let's have a look at it

[quote name='james' post='622226' date='Oct 10 2009, 07:11 AM']Very true Fender did not throw anthing away and so you will find pots from early years on later Basses. One of my 74 Jazz Bass is all but a 73 apart from the fact the thumb rest is on top of the e string, a move they did not do until early 74.( I know i will get my coat )[/quote] Fender didn't date parts to give a comprehensive way to see when an istrument was made. Especially during the first 15 years of production... Those stams and marks were only the way to know and when a particular piece had been made and who had made it... Something like a quality check rather than dating the whole instrument...

[quote name='Rayman' post='600934' date='Sep 17 2009, 12:14 AM']Yeah, I had my hands on a '65 Jazz briefly once, and I dream of having one eventually, but I fear it is but a distant dream.[/quote] This is my JB 65 sunburst L Series I've had it once in my hands and I kept it !!!! But I like Peavey basses too... I personally own 4 Peaveys T-40 Here is my T-40 lot.... among other old things !!!!

[quote name='james' post='620743' date='Oct 8 2009, 04:45 PM']Lovely Bass I think its a 69 looking at the pickup dates and serial number.[/quote] May be possible.... but... as you must know, it's realy dificult to date a Fender Bass for sure... Neck stamp reads 1968, and pots 1967 as I think.... Once I thougth that the final set up was made in 1969 but.... Who can be sure of it ????? For all the others... Thanks for the comments !

[quote name='budget bassist' post='620146' date='Oct 8 2009, 12:04 AM']oustanding [/quote] [quote name='WarPig' post='620168' date='Oct 8 2009, 12:26 AM']F-me. What a great collection of Jazzes!!![/quote] Isn't it ???? [quote name='BT!' post='620177' date='Oct 8 2009, 12:42 AM']that is litterly my aladins cave[/quote] "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves cave" would fit too !!!!

WITHOUT (much) WORDS My Wall - My Bunker - Etc,Etc. Etcetera

[quote name='Duarte' post='620057' date='Oct 7 2009, 10:38 PM']Incredible. That's the kind of bass I like to see! Can't wait for the rest of your collection![/quote] One a day would be OK ?

[quote name='tonybassplayer' post='619290' date='Oct 7 2009, 07:17 AM']Hi Pepe and welcome to Basschat What a stunning array of bass guitars...I bet they sound awesome !! Tony[/quote] Thanks !!! The really do... I'm posting them on individual threads... I've already posted the PB 1965 and the JB 1968 on "Porn Gear".

[quote name='Clarky' post='620043' date='Oct 7 2009, 10:23 PM']Phew! In my opinion, nicer (even) than your 1965 Precision as it looks like it has been played and enjoyed. You have one hell of a bass collection![/quote] Just wait to see the others to come !!!!!

FENDER JAZZ BASS 1968 / SUNBURST / White Blocks Inlay / "THE LEGEND BASS" or The bass who lived It has lots of digs and it's really as worn out as it must be, and the sound makes cry of happiness. When you talk about of a typical Fender Jazz Bass tone, you can take this one as an example of it. Before I bougth it it has had a single owner since 1970 when it was bougth in a small French town. The guy din't care of it and it was left abandoned in the cellar for more than 10 years . This is difficult to understand to me as I'm a nostalgic person, but thanks to that I had the chance to get it. I think that this bass isn't the kind of instrumet to get rid of, as you might came across never again. Step by Step, I've managed to buy all the missing parts of it (Fender harshell case, Bridge and neck pickup covers and the thumrest too... all those pieces from 1968). I went to Porrentruy City in the Jura Swiss Canton to fetch the bass.. It was a snowy sunday... The trip was something like a Honeymoon... lol Please have a look to the pictures "before and after" ALL THE PICTURES ON THIS LINK: [url="http://gs107.photobucket.com/groups/m303/ELIPYLCKWQ/?start=all"]http://gs107.photobucket.com/groups/m303/E...CKWQ/?start=all[/url] [url="http://gs95.photobucket.com/groups/l147/DC6FO4UG9M/?action=view&current=HPIM1960.jpg"]http://gs95.photobucket.com/groups/l147/DC...nt=HPIM1960.jpg[/url]

[quote name='Duarte' post='619791' date='Oct 7 2009, 04:29 PM']It don't look like no Bongo I ever saw... I mean it looks like a P bass. Therefore it is pretty. It's awesome that the 'current market value' bit which is blacked out is verrrrrrrry long indeed![/quote] The value is written in numbers and in letters... That's because so long. Current value today is much higher as it was when the appraisal was written in 2005 !!! There is one very similar on sale on Ebay rigth now, but the general condition of it isn't as good as my bass !!! In adition, the one on Ebay is from 1966, that's to say, a year younger, wich means inside CBS era... Just have a look and check the price they are asking for it: [url="http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270465938710&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNARL:FR:1123"]http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt...B:WNARL:FR:1123[/url]

[quote name='Duarte' post='619488' date='Oct 7 2009, 11:41 AM']Yeah it is beautiful. Very very beautiful. Looks like a P bass![/quote] "Look like a P bass " What do you mean ??? [quote name='Rayman' post='619491' date='Oct 7 2009, 11:42 AM']Man......that's a beautiful bass guitar, same age as me too, so I feel that I should be the rightful owner? You're [i]very[/i] lucky, and I'm [i]very[/i] jealous.[/quote] Who knows... one day !!! [quote name='phsycoandy' post='619489' date='Oct 7 2009, 11:41 AM']Wow! Superb. Very Lucky Man. How did you come to own it? that might be an interesting story.[/quote] Not as interesting as that.... I won a bid on Ebay.. I was looking for an old Jazz Bass and I came across this one... I bid once thinking there were no chance to get it and I won... The guy who was selling it told me that the day and the hour of the end of the auction there was an American Football match on TV and most of the bidders missed the auction...

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='619013' date='Oct 6 2009, 08:03 PM']Looks dreamlike![/quote] IT REALLY IS !!!

[quote name='alauth' post='618608' date='Oct 6 2009, 02:39 PM']Salut pepone [/quote] Hello.... On se retrouve !!!! International Bass Gang !!!!!!

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='618700' date='Oct 6 2009, 02:58 PM']Very very nice. Gawd only knows how much it's worth now, complete with the original case & strings, etc... [/quote] Who nows the price of everithing but the value of nothing ???? I think in a price for this bass but I think no one would pay it, at least for for the moment...

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='618604' date='Oct 6 2009, 02:35 PM']The perfect response - Nice one. Any chance I could borrow it on Saturday? [/quote] Yes.... but I keep the key !!!!!

[quote name='Sibob' post='618579' date='Oct 6 2009, 01:17 PM']I am gonna pop this over to Gear Porn though....cos that wat it is Si[/quote] Have you moved my thread to protect young children ??? I would have liked to remain where I was !!!!!