Moon base, I mean "BASS"? Never heard of it before seeing this in a pawn shop. Evidently Larry Graham plays them. I tried it and man it's a fantastic player. Better than my Fenders. Made in Japan since the early 80s, this is from the 80s too. Ebony fretboard and active Bartolini pickups. Saw it when it was 1200 or 1400 and the price kept dropping every couple of months. My offer was 600 a month ago when it was 867. Yesterday it was still $797. Today it was $599 when I walked in. Crap, now I have to pay for it. Ebay sellers are pretty proud of them.
quote: Larry Graham Jr. (born August 14, 1946) is an American bassist and singer, both with the psychedelic soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone, and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station.[1] He is credited with the invention of the slapping technique on the electric bass guitar, which radically expanded the tonal palette of the bass, although he himself refers to the technique as "thumpin' and pluckin'
Well, did you know you can still get a stolen guitar at pawn shops even though they are required to submit serial numbers and hold items 65 days if it's pawn?
I took the Les Paul to Guitar Center for a value they'd pay. The guys entered the serial and it came up belonging to their store and said it was stolen from them around Nov or early December, that they remember the theft. So, hoping they were mistaken and it was just a close serial of another guitar I took the receipt to the police station to check. I was told if I hadn't bought it yet, "Don't". Refund has been secured.
shortest. ownership. ever.
Pawn shop says it was a pawn in Dec and just came out. It's a chain shop, not local. Manager appears legit.
It was disappointing today when there on the wall for sale was the same Les Paul from yesterday. sigh. Guess they decided it was legal enough for them to sell anyway.
It turns out there is either payoffs going on to an officer or someone isnt doing their job. The pawn officer I was talking to wasn't assigned to that store. And I believe it's instead a county jurisdiction. I'd called a day after taking my receipt down to the station to confirm there wasnt a mistake with this Les Paul serial. This time it was the pawn division officer on the line. When he heard that it had already gone thru 65 day pawn hold he said there were multiple guitars from Guitar Center showing at the store. The GC said only 1 which just confused me more thinking it was still a mistake. The officer sounded really perturbed but thanked me for calling and bringing this to his attention. Meaning he sounded angry but not at me.
Today the pawn shop told me the police showed up to put a police hold on 3 stolen guitars from GC. So the officer over that store is either in on it or not doing his/her job.
