Cheap Precision here in Italy.... I wonder how from the picture one can guess that the bass is the one of Kyuss.
http://www.ebay.it/itm/FENDER-VINTAGE-1976-PRECISION-BASS-CLASSIC-MAPLE-NECK-PLAYED-BY-NICK-OLIVERI-/300919214759?pt=Bassi&hash=item46102ed2a7
It's a genuine bargain, but I find myself financial embarrassed at present, by a few tens of thousand Euros... ;D
The sellers's handle, "prato fiorito con margherite", is Italian for "Sniffing glue in a flowery meadow with the seller of the sturgeon bass signed by Les Claypool".
Quote from: ilan on June 22, 2013, 06:52:23 AM
The sellers's handle, "prato fiorito con margherite", is Italian for "Sniffing glue in a flowery meadow with the seller of the sturgeon bass signed by Les Claypool".
No doubt. A bass rumored to be played by a not so famous bass player, and a "bargain" price with no proof.
Unless the player is a Entwistle /Sir Paul level player I don't think celebrity adds much value. I doubt that Dave Hill owned my amp adds any value, might even have the opposite effect.
Quote from: godofthunder on June 22, 2013, 08:22:53 AM
Unless the player is a Entwistle /Sir Paul level player I don't think celebrity adds much value. I doubt that Dave Hill owned my amp adds any valu, might even have the opposite effect
LOL! Agreed. My Embassy is the bass it is because of the sound and how it plays. Neither of the previous owners add to the value, although I have always suspected that Petersson had the pickups rewound, but even that points to the bass and not the "magic" of the owner.
My favorite movie scene that comments on this topic. Also, Page looking more like Rory Gallagher here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJGEn4FDys
Just because JAE may have owned some of the components on my PC will not raise the value higher than a regular 'Bird, let alone this level of nonsense... ;D
Let's hope Nick never played the bass in question like this.........
(http://i39.tinypic.com/30j5fdx.jpg)
The shipping is a bargain!
Quote from: godofthunder on June 22, 2013, 08:22:53 AM
Unless the player is a Entwistle /Sir Paul level player I don't think celebrity adds much value
Entwistle would agree with you. In his May '82 Guitar Player interview (famous Gretsch 6120 cover issue) he said:
"I wouldn't expect people to pay me more money for my instruments just because I played them."As for McCartney, he owns Bill Black's upright that he played with Elvis. So even Sir Paul wants to own his idol's bass, and I bet Linda (who bought him that bass) paid more than the going price for a modded Kay M1.
Quote from: ilan on June 23, 2013, 07:44:30 AM
Entwistle would agree with you. In his May '82 Guitar Player interview (famous Gretsch 6120 cover issue) he said: "I wouldn't expect people to pay me more money for my instruments just because I played them."
As for McCartney, he owns Bill Black's upright that he played with Elvis. So even Sir Paul wants to own his idol's bass, and I bet Linda (who bought him that bass) paid more than the going price for a modded Kay M1.
Show of hands. How many of us look to Nick Oliveri as their idol? :o
Quote from: gweimer on June 23, 2013, 09:54:30 AM
Show of hands. How many of us look to Nick Oliveri as their idol? :o
Answer: Who's Nick Oliveri? :sad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s88r_q7oufE
Poor guy isn't making enough money to buy a shirt. Pity.
Could be worse, could be the Chilli's ...
I had never heard of him. Did see Queens of the Stone Age on network TV a couple of times, didn't care for the music.
don't know them at all.
So guys, I was thinking to visit this gentlemen, buy his bass and then use it to exchange with the sturgeon. I was trhinking it was a bargain!
Quote from: gweimer on June 23, 2013, 09:54:30 AM
Show of hands. How many of us look to Nick Oliveri as their idol? :o
He was actually kicked out of QOTSA for beating his wife. Twice.
Quote from: Psycho Bass Guy on June 26, 2013, 08:12:57 PM
He was actually kicked out of QOTSA for beating his wife. Twice.
Good for them for kicking his ass out! Shame on them for ever taking him back >:( Wife beaters and animal abusers have a special place reserved for them in hell.
Quote from: Lightyear on June 26, 2013, 08:25:06 PM
Good for them for kicking his ass out! Shame on them for ever taking him back >:( Wife beaters and animal abusers have a special place reserved for them in hell.
Amen!
And anyone who abuses animals is a human abuse case in training.
Quote from: Lightyear on June 26, 2013, 08:25:06 PM
Good for them for kicking his ass out! Shame on them for ever taking him back >:( Wife beaters and animal abusers have a special place reserved for them in hell.
Am I correct in remembering that heroin use was also his problem?
http://www.ebay.it/itm/FENDER-VINTAGE-1976-PRECISION-BASS-CLASSIC-MAPLE-NECK-PLAYED-BY-NICK-OLIVERI-/300924743835?pt=Bassi&hash=item461083309b
now it is just 30'000. Bargain!
Quote from: Lightyear on June 26, 2013, 08:25:06 PM
Shame on them for ever taking him back
IIRC, they didn't know if the stories they were hearing about him beating her were true so they warned him that they better not be. When they were confirmed, he was tossed out. It was huge deal because he was also in Kyuss, QOTSA's predecessor.
Quote from: gweimer on June 27, 2013, 09:47:41 AM
Am I correct in remembering that heroin use was also his problem?
I heard rumors that both he and his then-wife were using and that's what the fights were over, but I've also heard that refuted.