1967 Fender® Mustang® Bass~HOLD~

 

  • Year: 1967
  • Manufacturer: Fender®
  • Model: Mustang® Bass~HOLD~
  • Case: Hard
  • Color: Olympic White
  • Condition: Very Good
  • Description: O.K. boys and girls next up is a 1967 Fender® Mustang® bass, it appeared that it MAY have been refinished until I conferred with other guitar dealers and the finish is an original Olympic white ,yellowed lacquer top coat with a black underfinish or base coat from Fender®. You can see the Original cavities,paint stick strip and strong color under the guard, with the yellowed ,checked,flaked lacquer top coat used during this era.Cavity metal shielding still in place, correct date stamps,correct top coat (yellowed) ,correct Olympic white finish. ~ON HOLD ~ Never being one to shy away from a cool vintage piece of gear that is reliced the old fashioned way,through love and playing countless gigs this Mustang® bass still retains all it's original parts,including the string mute flat spring pieces on the bridge, strong pickups,Brazilian fingerboard,looks to be the original nut as well. The guitar dates to early 1967,pot codes,neck stamp as well. A chip styled later ( I think 1972ish) Fender® red lined case presumably offered with Duo sonic and later Mustang® guitars accompanies the Bass, it fits,it latches and it is rather cool and somewhat rare. Chipped,checked,worn and rocking,ahhh that's what I like. Fender issued the Mustang® Bass in 1966. It was the companion to its Mustang® electric guitar which made the scene two years earlier.the Mustang® Bass was the last original bass designed by Leo Fender® before his departure from the company in 1965. The Mustang® Bass has a short 30" scale and a single split pickup (similar to the P-bass), one volume and one tone control, with strings-through-body routing. Like the early Precision and Jazz basses, the Mustang® Bass was fitted with string mutes (although most players removed these). Players of The Mustang® bass include Tomethy Furse and, more recently, Rhys Webb of The Horrors and Miss Frankie Stein of The Mission Creeps use all-black Mustang® Basses. Trevor Bolder of David Bowie and The Spiders from Mars used a Mustang® Bass among many other basses. Pete Agnew of Nazareth (band) used a Mustang® bass on LP Loud 'n' Proud 1973. Lisa Brigatino, formerly of Lez Zeppelin, frequently uses a Mustang®. Barry Bronson from Gear Wire reviews, is usually seen playing a Fender® Mustang® Bass when reviewing popular Bass amps. Holger Czukay of German band Can used the Fender® Mustang® extensively in the 1970s. Jason Falkner, solo musician, uses a black mid '70s Mustang® Bass. Jesse Murphy, formerly of New York City band Brazilian Girls uses a Mustang® Bass. Tim Foreman of Switchfoot presently uses this bass for live presentations. Nicolas Godin of the French band Air uses a red Mustang® Bass on tour and when recording. Clive Griffiths of Patto used a Mustang® bass for most of his tenure with the band. Brian Hill of The Postmarks currently uses this bass for live performances as well as recording. Gary Jarman of The Cribs used a Mustang® Bass for The Cribs' self titled debut album, and extensively live around this period. John Deacon of Queen occasionally used one and also had one as a backup for his Fender® Precision Bass®. Jeffrey Hammond of Jethro Tull is pictured playing one in the Living in the Past album. Alan Lancaster of Status Quo used Mustang® and Musicmaster™ basses. Denny Laine occasionally used one during his time with Wings, when lead singer Paul McCartney would switch from bass to piano or guitar. John Linnell of They Might Be Giants plays a Mustang® Bass in the music video for "The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)", although his role in the band is almost always that of keyboardist or saxophonist. Colin Moulding of XTC used a Musicmaster™ bass in 1979. Chris Murphy of Sloan frequently uses a Mustang® bass. Dee Dee Ramone played a Musicmaster™ bass during the early days of the Ramones. Fred Smith of Television (band) used a Mustang® bass during the band's early days. Wally Waller of the Pretty Things used a Mustang® bass from 1967 to approximately 1976, including on the band's seminal albums S.F. Sorrow and Parachute. Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads used a Mustang® bass in the early days of the band. Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys used it in the video of Good Vibrations, and probably he used it on 1967 album Smiley Smile, too. Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones used Mustang® basses in the late-1960s and early-1970s. Bill Church of Montrose used a Mustang® in the early days. Roger Glover of Deep Purple used a Mustang® on the Fireball album. Jon "KC Wolf" Kindler of The Chariot plays a white Mustang® on the band current tour supporting the album Wars and Rumors of Wars. Patrick of The Illegal Kind plays a Mustang® bass. Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth can be seen playing a Musicmaster™ bass in the video for the band's song "Bull in the Heather." Todd Ingram (Brandon Routh) from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World plays a Fender® Mustang® bass with the fictional band the Clash at Demonhead. Zombierella Girl from Messer_Chups plays a daphne blue Mustang® bass. Rob Petts of Chadison Avenue plays a vintage white, Japenese Fender® Mustang® Bass. Justin Davidson of Mass Transit and Honey and the Lion played a custom Mustang® Bass on the song "Sucker for Lovin'" from Mass Transit's 2006 self-titled release. The standard finishes were red and white. Mustang® basses, like all Fender® guitars, were finished in nitrocellulose lacquer up until 1968, What made this Fender® bass guitar different was that its scale length was only 30”, a big departure from their other two famous bass guitars. With the rock & roll boom of the sixties, Fender® wanted to create a bass that would appeal to the new wave of teenage guitar players.the finish on these and other Fender® guitars is that the earlier models would tend to yellow due to the type of lacquer used. We have plenty of additional photographs for the interested.