I always loved Bad Company bassist Boz Burell's fretless Ampeg.
I'm not interested i buying one, but I wonder if any of you guys have had experience with them. I have heard the reissues out now are not that great, but that's based on only a few reviews.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
The only Ampeg I ever saw was played by a German bassist who was playing with one of our local legends, Jon Paul. It was an upright bass but just a neck and a peg, which is how Ampeg got their name. Unfreaking believably good sounding, though.
"Live and learn and flip the burns"
Actually, my second bass was an Ampeg P Bass type, but playing it upside down was too difficult--1977, I think. It was a beautiful bass though I can't say anything about the sound because the only amp I had was a clapboard thing almost cardboard, speaker blown. I"d only been playing about 7 months.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
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