Talk about silly money for a Precision...! 1959...?

[Highlander]

Yes, I know... just sitting about not doing a lot (all Scott's fault for posting that dubious EB-3 ) ...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FENDER-1959-PRECISION-BASS-ALL-ORIGINAL-EX-GREG-LAKE_W0QQitemZ390127366477QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item5ad567314d

Same age as me... 

[Dave W]

One like that would probably fetch at least $8K USD here.

[Highlander]

That UK price works out at a cent or two under $16k... 

[Dave W]

There are vintage guitar dealers in the US asking that much, but asking isn't selling. From what I hear, the actual sales prices for all-original ones have been in the $8-10K range.

[ilan]

The Greg Lake connection probably adds a dollar or two.

[Highlander]

No mention of provenance though, Ilan...

[rahock]

I'm not disputing any claims here , but the several times I caught Greg Lake , he was always playing a Hagsrtrom. One of their cheaper models too. Actually they were pretty nice. I've got a Hagstrom catalog from about 1970-71 and the bass I had seen him play on several occassions was about $180.
Rick

[Dave W]

Yeah, but this is the one Greg didn't use because it sounded shitty he knew it would be valuable someday! 

FWIW, Jules' site has an old Ripper ad that mentions Greg Lake among Gibson artists. Who knows.

[nofi]

when i saw ELP back at the dawn of the seventies he played a fender jazz.

[eb2]

Musical tastes being subjective, I would say I associate him with a Jazz on anything worth more than a buck in the used bin.

[Highlander]

A day to run and no bids... not too much of a surprise to go on everyones comments...

The shop is based in "Chelsea" which is "NEW POSH" area of London... there is an expression in London... the "CHELSEA TRACTOR" which is any 4x4 that never goes near "DIRT" - not even "road film..." A rather rich Russian bought the local footie team... (Abramovich and "Chelsea FC") the other "local" team is owned by a rather rich Arabic type with "British" ambitions (Al Fayed and "Fulham FC" - nowhere near as succesfull).

I looked at the "eye candy" there but nothing is what you would call "fairly priced", unless you "live there..." 

[Dave W]

Plenty of "Chelsea tractor" SUVs around here, as well as pickup trucks that have never had anything hauled in them.

I've also noticed that it seems like the larger the SUV, the smaller the woman driving it. If it weren't for gas prices, eventually we would have seen midgets driving tanks.

[Highlander]

What's the price of a (US) gallon way down in Texas (or any other state for that matter) at the moment...?

I paid £1.12 (approx £5.10 per UK gallon) per litre of diesel on my last refill...

Not a good country to run a HUMMER... 

[Lightyear]

$2.39 a gallon in the 'burbs south of Houston.

Way too many soccer mommies driving Suburbans and Tahoes carrying one or two small kids around here - when you drive by a school that is letting out for the day you would swear that the really huge SUVs are the only vehicle sold.

The oversize SUV is to the soccer mommy as is the Corvette to the midlife crisis guy that is "compensating" for his shortcomings

Maybe they think that driving a huge SUV makes their fat asses look smaller

[Pilgrim]

Gas is around $2.60-$2.80 a gallon here in Northern Colorado..depends on the grade.

I have never understaood the blanket condemnation of SUVs...the small and mid-size ones are a great combination of size, utility and gas mileage.