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Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: echo008 on October 04, 2006, 07:10:34 PM

Title: Be Bold and Mighty Forces Will Come To Your Aid
Post by: echo008 on October 04, 2006, 07:10:34 PM

Currently at The Low End
 
http://www.thelowend.net/gallery/viewtopic.php?t=1794 (http://www.thelowend.net/gallery/viewtopic.php?t=1794)
 
I like that....
- Tom

Title: Be Bold and Mighty Forces Will Come To Your Aid
Post by: kungfusheriff on October 04, 2006, 07:23:09 PM

Hey,
I was writing back and forth with Brian the other day, and he wants strong money for it, which is too bad...strange slogans aside (is that Biblical?) it's an awesome bass.

Title: Be Bold and Mighty Forces Will Come To Your Aid
Post by: echo008 on October 04, 2006, 07:29:23 PM

Hi,
I had a few emails back and forth myself on this one with Brian, I dont know where the quote is from, but thats pretty cool. Ive never seen that shape before small standard with an Omega

Title: Be Bold and Mighty Forces Will Come To Your Aid
Post by: echo008 on October 04, 2006, 07:35:43 PM

Now that I look at it more it looks like a regular sized King bass with a shorter top horn?
 - Tom

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Post by: dela217 on October 04, 2006, 08:08:43 PM

That one is familiar.  I noticed that one on Ebay once before.  I don't remember the slogan back then.  It may be something new.  I don't think it's biblical.  I'm thinking fortune cookie.
 
Michael

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Post by: hankster on October 04, 2006, 08:17:17 PM

It's neither.  It's from Goethe.  Most recently revived in mainstream pop consciousness in the movie Almost Famous, where it is spoken by the mother of the main character, played by Frances McDermid.
 
Rick

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Post by: alembic_doctor on October 04, 2006, 08:22:29 PM

oh man.  we're gettin deep now.

Title: Be Bold and Mighty Forces Will Come To Your Aid
Post by: kungfusheriff on October 04, 2006, 09:50:44 PM

Anyway...I saw that bass on eBay too, Michael...it's been fixed up (Omega reattached, electronics tweaked to run on batteries) since then...asking price is $4500.

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Post by: series_iii on October 04, 2006, 10:02:26 PM

that's a shame  :-(

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Post by: jorge_s on October 06, 2006, 05:40:18 AM

The quote has also been attributed to Basil King

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Post by: 57basstra on October 06, 2006, 08:54:41 AM

Wow, don't you know that guy was sick from whatever he was drinking and/or smoking the morning after that 'stuff' was scratched onto his bass.  
 
REminds me of a biker friend who vowed to get his motto RIDE TO LIVE' tattoed on his shoulder. The guy doing the work was as messed up as my friend, who passed out during the process. Woke up to find he was now adorned with the inspirational phrase READ TO LIVE -- LIVE TO READ..

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Post by: adriaan on October 06, 2006, 09:28:20 AM

Can't think of a better way to promote reading. Doubt if it appeals to the biker crowd though ...

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Post by: 57basstra on October 18, 2006, 08:17:34 AM

This is a Series II, right? How far off the mark is this one considering its condition at $4,500.
 
Opinions, ideas...

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Post by: olieoliver on October 18, 2006, 08:55:13 AM

I paid a little more than that for my 89 S-2, but its in perfect condition.

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Post by: paulman on October 18, 2006, 09:15:42 AM

Off topic...
 
I remember reading a story about a guy who designed his own tattoo, and made the tattooer use the design as drawn.  After it was done, they realized he had Scared for life tattooed on his body.  He meant Scarred for life.  D'oh!