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    1963 FENDER BASS VI

    Jul 03, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS HUW PRICE
    PHOTOGRAPHY ELEANOR JANE

    Is it a guitar? Is it a baritone? Is it a bass? The correct answer is yes, because the Bass VI is all of the above and more. This unquantifiable quality may go some way to explaining why it wasn’t a major success for Fender but, in terms of musical instrument design, it would be unwise to measure success in sales figures alone.

    You may be unaware of it but the Bass VI has added its subtle magic to countless classic and contemporary recordings. From artful layering in Nashville productions to Cream’s psychedelic extemporisations, The Beatles’ White Album, the gothic atmospherics of Robert Smith and Robin Guthrie, and Placebo’s 1990s

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