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Nice fretless for sale

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Bass Northwest, www.bassnw.com has a nice mapleglo in their "used basses" category.

For decent money too.
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That IS a nice one!!
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Very pretty..and cheap too. If it wasn,t for the Blueboy fretless I,m going to order I,d have had this.
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Nice bass and good price but I don't know about "that classic aggressive rickenbacker tone"
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I'll let you know about that when it arrives!

Aron say it is virtually brand new as the customer bought it two months ago and brought it back to get something else as he had a change of heart. The guy probably thought playing fretless was a piece of cake!

The big quesstion is: do I keep it stock or turn it into a vintage monster? You know, vintage pickguard with toaster, vintage TRC, vintage knobs, you know!
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You go Jeff.
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I would go vintage all the way....
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I'd go vintage as well, and also refinish to hmmmmm Fireglo !!!
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I was thinking of either Jetglo or Burgundyglo like Grant's.
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JetGlo!

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That does make the fingerboard pop out nicely! I have been playing fretless since the late 70s, so I am pretty good at it. My first influence was Percy Jones from Brand X/Tunnels. In fact, my band, Rare Blend, will be playing with them on November 20, in Baltimore at a progressive rock showcase put on by Orion Studios www.orionsound.com/bprs.htm
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Check out Brand X/Tunnels at www.buckyballmusic.com , there is a lot of great music on this site, especially Sarah Pillow.
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Percy Jones from Brand X is a seriously underrated player. He and Jaco were, for me, proof that the bass does not have to just play the roots. Percy has a great sense of melody just as Jaco did.
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wasn't he the guy that did all those instrumentals in the 70's-80's...
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wasn't he the guy that did all those instrumentals in the 70's-80's...
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