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Re: Something exotic... a BURNS FLYTE bass
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2010, 07:54:49 PM »
There was one in the Manchester Music Ground for ages. Looked ancient & had been stripped down to bare wood, mahogany by the looks of it. The pups didn't have the logo on them either.
IIRC they wanted £700 for it.

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Re: Something exotic... a BURNS FLYTE bass
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2010, 05:13:50 AM »
Steep price, nice basses. Some pro bands used the guitar version.

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Re: Something exotic... a BURNS FLYTE bass
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2010, 07:54:19 AM »
I have adolescent memories of this bass. They had one in the music store I frequented  and as a schoolboy it was of course unaffordable for me - it had a price tag of 2000 or 3000 Deutsche Marks, out of this world for a bass in the late seventies. Years later I saw a top forty/dance band in the region and the middle age bass player played it (abysmally bad and "unrock"). I actually held it once and played it unplugged in the shop prior to him buying it. It didn't sound then like it would sound that great amplified, Flying V and neo-Flying V basses for some reason never do.

But I still find the Dave Hill'esque "superyob" looks appealing.
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