Dusty Hill auction at Julien's

[Dave W]

The Collection of Dusty Hill

December 7th. Includes his basses and a lot more. The 1953 Precision and the fur Legs video bass are estimated to go for $80-120K.

[n!k]

Some interesting items for sure. This custom (?) SG bass looks pretty gnarly.

[Alanko]

Like an Alembic from the waist up...

[uwe]

That bridge ...

[Basvarken]

That fretboard reminds me of this bass:

[morrow]

Dusty had a lot of stuff.

[Dave W]

Dusty Hill's 1953 Precision Becomes Second Highest Selling Bass in History

Hill's 1953 Fender Precision sold for a whopping $393,700, placing it just behind Paul McCartney's BB-1200 that garnered $471,900 in 2021.

[uwe]

That's the one with the broken pup that distorted and he wanted it that way, right? They had to build pups with wiring defects for his other Teles.

[Dave W]

I don't know.

[uwe]

I read that in an interview with him way back. He drove the pup wirers nuts by sending what they proposed back, saying it didn't sound like what he wanted. In the end, he gave them the bass so that they could dissect it. And so they did to then report that it sounded the way it sounded because it wasn't functioning properly. And then built him replicas with the same defect. "I'm the only guy that has broken pick-ups expensively custom-made for him!" Dusty joked.

I had the same thing with my TV yellow (now there is a story to be told ...) LP Junior shape EB-0 you procured for me years back, its mudbucker sounded like no mudbucker I ever knew: gnarly and middish with no overbearing sublows. Until the day when it wouldn't sound at all anymore. I had it repaired and now it sounds like any other mudbucker from the era, with my luthier commenting: "That pup wasn't properly wired btw."

[Dave W]

Part II

Mostly not basses, but there are three including the Bo Diddley-style fur bass.