The Last Bass Outpost

there WAS one on Ebay in Feb and I saved the page, but I just did not have the cash to buy it at that moment, and never knew it was so sought after....At least I know if I do sell it, I can get a couple dollars for it.
The one on Ebay had a really chewed up point and STILL got 500 bucks which I was not willing to spend considering mine is pretty much perfect

VINTAGE TAKAMINE SOLIDBODY BASS GUITAR G400 GB400 GB 400 G 400 RARE PROTOTYPE NR

Item condition:   Used
Ended:   Feb 05, 201219:01:12 PST
Bid history:   
19 bids
Winning bid:   US $510.00

 EKO "rocketship" body on the GB410? sure looks like it.

but the 400? a designer who was looking at a explorer on acid?
I would LOVE to know what they were thinking.

The folks on the Takamine forum are into the acoustics and like everywhere else no help in finding out any real details about them, a price, a catalog page....nothing
just pretty much what I said in the first post.
Even the detail on the pinstriping is nice. It is not a solid paintline:

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I have always liked the unusual guitars and basses from outside the USA that a lot of people still have.
Names we here in the US would never have known about, body styles so far from the "fender" norm, I appreciate them all

clips? well sort of. I play lefty and one of those people who can play inverted strings so I'll never use it live, but in the jamroom --sure why not?
As a collector of unique basses, I have a lot of righties among the lefties. The guy who had it said he bought it from the band ( Dave's backup unit ) when the band was being endorsed by Dean and Dave was never to use it again. He said he used it for a few years in a metal band since he was into that "look" as well, gave up the band and had it hanging on his wall since 1992. Even though it was not the one in this picture it was still a cool toy to have.
KINDA LOOKS LIKE STEVE HARRIS...lol


here's a metal riff I did with it when I got it recorded live on my camcorder, then it went on a wall hanger to live out it's life at my house as a conversation piece. The use of a pick on this clip was just for me to use for practice since I normally play with my fingers and the strings on it have been on it since 1992 so it sounded better .

Hi gang, long time between posts but I have a question.
Anyone here own an old TAK solidbody? they only made 2 models GB400 and GB410 to compliment their GX guitars from the same time period.

They were bizzare looking, like a Jackson Kelly "EXTREME"
I bought this GB400 a few months ago while randomly looking for something else for the rarity and novelty, Tak says only 100 made between the 2 models and who knows how many were never sold and thrown away....
I took this pic as a joke to show how much longer it is than your "standard bass"

crazy bridge:




the only other person I know that owns one is Dave Vincent from Morbid Angel, and I thought he would sell his to me so I could have a pair --haha not a chance.

here is the GB410 just in case someone used to own one of these:

Quote from: Dave W on September 25, 2009, 12:49:10 AM
You Kahler people are always hopeful. 

hehehe ya kinda hopeful we will see yet another knucklehead who put one on ( I'm guilty are you ) ? ....lol

form the distance and dark pic it looks like a bar

Quote from: Basshappi on September 23, 2009, 01:01:51 PM
No video or good pics of me.
Here, I am 2 years younger and 30 lbs heavier than I am now.

hey happi, is that an old 2410 Kahler on there ?

yes chromium, I play both ways, lefty inverted and normal -- but I do play inverted as my main thing like Jim Haslip, or Jeff Schmidt.

the tbird is a great shape for flipping, hence my reason for using those on stage and not the p/j's ---

oh SAF, you know since I'm a lefty, I would love to be your neighbor right now
that thing is so oddly shaped at first I say "MAN, is that ugly", but it is so unique the "ugly" turns to awesome within 13 miliseconds.

and since this thread is "what bass do you practice with", usually one of these lately -
Charvel-pCharvel-p/j ( the maple neck was added to the p/j from another parts bass )

for shows I use one of my Tbirds, and the p/j as a standby.

thanks BD, the Spider intro to Portrait/HeKnew I never played until someone asked me to play it the other day, and I'm not sure if the bass "lead" that starts at 58 sec is correct or not since I hear so much keyboard stuff mixed in, I just picked a part and played it.
Actually the song is very ELP sounding from the era.

the GNR, well....that's GNR 

way to go SAF!!!!!

does this count as lefty?   

http://www.youtube.com/v/KHE_Egirv7k&hl

if not, then ok here's one 

http://www.youtube.com/v/tJ_bpeqBQo4&hl

Quote from: TBird1958 on July 27, 2009, 08:51:04 AM
Hotbed of ignorance 

you got that right...the ole' "if it's not a Fender then why was it made" attitude always makes me laugh.

and Mark, when I talk about Jacksons they say "Jackson?, I never heard of an AndrewJackson guitar before, what's that look like"..

thanks a lot guys, I passed this thread on to him, and hope with that new info he buys it from that guy.

so Sessions was just another no-name 70's copy company like all the rest?