Buy Les Claypool's bass

Deijavoo

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=321481118526&globalID=EBAY-US&alt=web

Rox

Oh.  I was excited then - I though it was Timothy Claypole's bass. 

horse

Going for quite a lot considering he only played it on tour for 3 months in 2013!

ESchap

Handy built in "hooks" for hanging it up after a hard gig.

WezV

Not exactly the CT rainbow I was expecting from the pics, but it looks nice.... it is a charity auction so not sure how reflective the current price is of real value

not_the_dj

"This bass is a fog cutter of an instrument"

I'm waiting for that term to be used in the classifieds here ;-)

streethawk

not_the_dj said:

"This bass is a fog cutter of an instrument"

I'm waiting for that term to be used in the classifieds here ;-)

Plays like buttah, absolute fog cuttah.

:-&

DrBob

WezV;312672" said:

Not exactly the CT rainbow I was expecting from the pics, but it looks nice.... it is a charity auction so not sure how reflective the current price is of real value

Yeah agreed, either the Rainbow or the original 4string CT with the Kahler trem.

Off to dig out my Frizzle Fry CD !

fretmeister

I quite like that.

In fact I like it a lot.

But I'm done with owning silly money impossible to replace basses. The insurance costs are mental and the paranoia about ownership / theft / damage etc is just as mental.

And as good as that bass no doubt is, any good luthier could do that for under £3000

xmrchi

Have a wisdom for the above, I agree, when I had my gibson tal Farlow the worry every time I bought it out was intense, so it hardly went out.
Claypool is one of my main inspirations and I would love to own one if his basses, but I know I wouldn't take it out of the house, for the fear of damage or theft, I would rather have a hand made bass to emulate on of his, but man just to have a bass he played and owned would be great, I never usually do idolisim but claypool has always been the exception!

imalrightjack

Ha, I thought the same Didn't know he was called Timothy!

Rox said:

Oh.  I was excited then - I though it was Timothy Claypole's bass.