Brian Krashpad
07-30-2009, 10:58 AM
This last Sunday was my daughter's 16th birthday.
About 10 days prior, I had some time to kill so I went pawn shopping.
I came across a Peavey USA Foundation bass in pearl white, with a maple neck. It's a little beat up cosmetically, had a sticker I needed to remove, and was missing a string. But it seemed to play OK. Here's some pics of similar ones:
http://www.emarket365.com/uploaded/450281660512.jpg
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/5270/peaveyfoundation2.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/2329182548_11fc42a589.jpg
Here is even a pic of a bald guy from Russia playing one:
http://www.specialradio.ru/zvukar/images/00603.jpg
It was tagged at $99. Seemed like it'd be a great birthday present for my daughter. She has been borrowing my basses, so this would be the first one that's all hers. I did a search and from what I'm seeing these are pretty well regarded, and I know from experience (I own a Peavey Predator Strat, a T-60, and a Fury I bass) that Peavey USA stuff is built like a tank.
So I went back the very next morning and bought it!
I kept it at my office until the actual day of my daughter's birthday, cleaning it up, removing the sticker, and replacing the missing string.
Here's her birthday:
http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs170.snc1/6380_1213490177316_1230650648_629340_517124_n.jpg
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs170.snc1/6380_1213490217317_1230650648_629341_5133723_n.jpg
About 10 days prior, I had some time to kill so I went pawn shopping.
I came across a Peavey USA Foundation bass in pearl white, with a maple neck. It's a little beat up cosmetically, had a sticker I needed to remove, and was missing a string. But it seemed to play OK. Here's some pics of similar ones:
http://www.emarket365.com/uploaded/450281660512.jpg
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/5270/peaveyfoundation2.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/2329182548_11fc42a589.jpg
Here is even a pic of a bald guy from Russia playing one:
http://www.specialradio.ru/zvukar/images/00603.jpg
It was tagged at $99. Seemed like it'd be a great birthday present for my daughter. She has been borrowing my basses, so this would be the first one that's all hers. I did a search and from what I'm seeing these are pretty well regarded, and I know from experience (I own a Peavey Predator Strat, a T-60, and a Fury I bass) that Peavey USA stuff is built like a tank.
So I went back the very next morning and bought it!
I kept it at my office until the actual day of my daughter's birthday, cleaning it up, removing the sticker, and replacing the missing string.
Here's her birthday:
http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs170.snc1/6380_1213490177316_1230650648_629340_517124_n.jpg
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs170.snc1/6380_1213490217317_1230650648_629341_5133723_n.jpg