vinxbass
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This is an incredible story.
This past week I got an email on my Facebook asking if I was the bass player for the pop-rock band Steel Breeze in the early 80's that had mild success with RCA Records. I am that bass player. The email went on to say that this fellow who was emailing me had a bass that was supposably used to record the first album and the hit song "You Don't Want Me Anymore" back in 1982. He describes the bass as a Music Man Sabre, cream colored with black pickguard. Turns out that bass was stolen from our rehearsal studio warehouse back in 1984.
In short, I reply telling him that the bass was stolen from me and that I'd like to have it back. I left my phone number and patiently waited for his reply.
5:00 pm yesterday afternoon he calls me back up and says that he'll do the right thing and return the bass to me. I told him I would give him a $200 reward for doing so.
Turns out he only lives 35 minutes from my house. Needless to say my wife and I go to his house last night and retrieve my bass that had been stolen from me 26 yrs ago.
I plugged it in this morning and played on it a little. The strings are old, but it sure sounded good. I've taken it to a luthier to have him clean it up a bit and put new strings on it. The case is thrashed and the bass will need a new case. I'll keep the original case for old times sake.
I'm absolutely blow away that I have it back. I always wondered what happened to it. Now I know.
Here are pics of the bass and me playing it back in 1980 -
This past week I got an email on my Facebook asking if I was the bass player for the pop-rock band Steel Breeze in the early 80's that had mild success with RCA Records. I am that bass player. The email went on to say that this fellow who was emailing me had a bass that was supposably used to record the first album and the hit song "You Don't Want Me Anymore" back in 1982. He describes the bass as a Music Man Sabre, cream colored with black pickguard. Turns out that bass was stolen from our rehearsal studio warehouse back in 1984.
In short, I reply telling him that the bass was stolen from me and that I'd like to have it back. I left my phone number and patiently waited for his reply.
5:00 pm yesterday afternoon he calls me back up and says that he'll do the right thing and return the bass to me. I told him I would give him a $200 reward for doing so.
Turns out he only lives 35 minutes from my house. Needless to say my wife and I go to his house last night and retrieve my bass that had been stolen from me 26 yrs ago.
I plugged it in this morning and played on it a little. The strings are old, but it sure sounded good. I've taken it to a luthier to have him clean it up a bit and put new strings on it. The case is thrashed and the bass will need a new case. I'll keep the original case for old times sake.
I'm absolutely blow away that I have it back. I always wondered what happened to it. Now I know.
Here are pics of the bass and me playing it back in 1980 -
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