-- UPDATE 1/3/2011 --
I just received an email from the original owner of TB2000 #367 and he provided some great information about this bass.
The Travis Bean you've got on your web site (no. 367) is in its original colour (dark 'starburst' blue), but seems to have acquired some knocks and chips in the intervening years!
It was bought new by me for £400 from our local music shop Cambridge Rock (in Cambridgeshire, UK) on 27th December 1977. Rather blurry pics are attached. At the time, if I may correct the history, I was bass player and used the TB with a well-known Cambridge based pub rock band called 'Ducks on the Wall', who supported the Soft Boys at local gigs. It was a fantastic sounding bass and made me sound (almost) like John Entwistle of The Who!
However, I didn't keep it for long as I had a lot of difficulty in making it stay in tune at cold winter pub gigs. Once its metal neck heated up it would go badly out of tune and was soon put back in its case in exasperation. In the end, I swapped it for a Rickenbacker 4001 stereo bass with a local bass player called Ivan (hi Ivan!) and as far as I know he was completely happy with it.
I'm still a busy bass player (in 3 Hertfordshire-based bands) and have my original 1972 Fender Jazz bass, a 1998 Fender Precision and a 1974 Rickenbacker 4001 stereo bass (not Ivan's).I'd love to know where the Travis Bean is now and who owns it.
Kind regards
Adrian 'Hots' Foster
For further info., at the time when I bought that bass from Cambridge Rock shop (whose owner, Marc, also played in our band) I was told that there were (allegedly) only 3 examples of the TB bass in it UK. One was owned by Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones), another by Status Quo's bass player, and I had the other!
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