TheOtherEric
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Greetings,
I started looking on the Internet for some people to talk to about basses and I found this forum, which seems appropriate because I have two Music Man basses.
My name is Eric and I just recently started playing bass again after a 27 year lay off. My neighbor has a classic rock cover band and lost his bass player and I told him I used to play bass in college so he had me audition and I got the gig (played my first one in 27 years at a corporate Christmas party on Dec. 13th). Anyway, when I was in college in the late seventies I was playing a beautiful mahogony Gibson EB3 but although its tone was fine for rock it was too muddy for the college jazz orchestra. The other bass player, who was playing a J-bass, recommended that I try the new MusicMan Stingray. It took me about two months but I found a music store that had one in stock and I traded in my Gibson for it. This was late winter of 1979, I think the beginning of March of '79.
I played that bass in jazz orchestra for 4 months until I graduated, then played two paying gigs that summer and put it away to start my career as a computer geek. A buddy of mine heard I was going to play bass again and gave me a newish EBMM Stingray (with two pickups, is that the HH?) in lieu of money he owed me for work I did for him and I played that during the rehersals prior to the party. At the party I pulled out my old Music Man Stingray and the band was blown away by the sound (I used the old one for the last set).
They want me to continue playing the old one but I am not sure. It is in almost pristine condition (the closeups show finger prints that the flash picked up that you can't see in person, they aren't scratches, just prints that I'll wipe off later) and it still stays in tune (when I pulled it out of the case the old Rotosound Swing 66's still sounded good).
What is the value on a bass of this age in this condition? Is it a risk to it's value to play with it or is it's value not worth bothering with and I should just enjoy playing it?
I also have a question about the vintage strings. They still sound great but not as bright as the new ones I've just put on. My drummer says he knows bass players that clean their strings with alchohol and keep using them. There isn't any corrosion I can see on them, can I clean them and reuse them?
I'm attempting to attach some pictures of the old bass I took this morning. I may have to put them in more than one post because of the file size limit.
Thanks for looking.
Eric (the other one)
I started looking on the Internet for some people to talk to about basses and I found this forum, which seems appropriate because I have two Music Man basses.
My name is Eric and I just recently started playing bass again after a 27 year lay off. My neighbor has a classic rock cover band and lost his bass player and I told him I used to play bass in college so he had me audition and I got the gig (played my first one in 27 years at a corporate Christmas party on Dec. 13th). Anyway, when I was in college in the late seventies I was playing a beautiful mahogony Gibson EB3 but although its tone was fine for rock it was too muddy for the college jazz orchestra. The other bass player, who was playing a J-bass, recommended that I try the new MusicMan Stingray. It took me about two months but I found a music store that had one in stock and I traded in my Gibson for it. This was late winter of 1979, I think the beginning of March of '79.
I played that bass in jazz orchestra for 4 months until I graduated, then played two paying gigs that summer and put it away to start my career as a computer geek. A buddy of mine heard I was going to play bass again and gave me a newish EBMM Stingray (with two pickups, is that the HH?) in lieu of money he owed me for work I did for him and I played that during the rehersals prior to the party. At the party I pulled out my old Music Man Stingray and the band was blown away by the sound (I used the old one for the last set).
They want me to continue playing the old one but I am not sure. It is in almost pristine condition (the closeups show finger prints that the flash picked up that you can't see in person, they aren't scratches, just prints that I'll wipe off later) and it still stays in tune (when I pulled it out of the case the old Rotosound Swing 66's still sounded good).
What is the value on a bass of this age in this condition? Is it a risk to it's value to play with it or is it's value not worth bothering with and I should just enjoy playing it?
I also have a question about the vintage strings. They still sound great but not as bright as the new ones I've just put on. My drummer says he knows bass players that clean their strings with alchohol and keep using them. There isn't any corrosion I can see on them, can I clean them and reuse them?
I'm attempting to attach some pictures of the old bass I took this morning. I may have to put them in more than one post because of the file size limit.
Thanks for looking.
Eric (the other one)
