Geezer Butler's mutilated Shadow on the 'Bay

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:53 am

<sigh>

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4713&item=3757324395&rd=1

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:57 am

yeah-saw that...

see post below

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:25 am

Doesn't look TOO bad....it could be brought back, I believe.....just can't tell how the controls have been changed. It DOES come with a couple of extra pickguards.....

hmmmmm.....

rickcrazy · Post by **rickcrazy** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:50 am

How come the neck pickup is over the strings, not to mention badly out of alignment with same? Or is it my eyes?

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:02 am

Mutilated or not, it's one of my favorite bass models, supposedly owned by one of my favorite bassists. Unfortunately now is not a good time for me to bid on it...holidays coming up soon and another 4004Cii5 coming with an unknown ETA.
I hope it goes to a forumite.

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:00 pm

ANOTHER 4004Cii5?

Another Chris Pappas in the making?

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:27 pm

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:28 pm

Jared, the trans red 4004Cii5 that I am waiting for is the one that I actually ordered a year ago this past Thursday. The one I have was originally ordered as an in store item for Pick of The Ricks. When Chris told me about it, I said put my name on it when it arrives.

Oh Scott Doseck, happy belated birthday dude !

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 1:44 pm

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

I was just wondering which forum members ordered the 4004 5's on my birthday.

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 6:14 pm

That was Banta and I that ordered the 4004Cii5 basses on your birthday.

jaymi · Post by **jaymi** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:19 am

Chris, you have an email...

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:52 am

for about $400 in parts it could be restored ...

mike_d · Post by **mike_d** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 5:18 am

I was the previous owner of this particular bass. I owned it for about 4 years. It played great actually, but was mutilatedfor sure. I should have held onto it and sold it to some of your shadow affcionados.

jaymi · Post by **jaymi** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 5:30 am

what did Geezer use this bass on?

mike_d · Post by **mike_d** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:54 am

I was never actually able to trace it to a specific picture or video, The bass was dated to late 1986 from what I recall so I would think that late 80's early 90s Black Sabbath tours most likely. At the time I bought it, there was also an 8 string that had similar control modifications that was from Geezer's collection. The story I got, was that one of Geezer's guitar techs put them both up for sale when he was moving out of the Austin area to Puerto Rico. I bought it around 1999-2000 and I sold it a year ago.