A SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC BASS GUITAR, AMERICAN VINTAGE SERIES, '62 JAZZ BASS

This Vintage Reissue Jazz Bass and the following two Precision Basses, along with a fourth example with red finish dating to the same era (since given by Jeff to longtime band member and bass player, Rhonda Smith), were sent to Jeff Beck by Fender in around 1989⁄1990. For a discussion of Beck's bass playing in both live performances and recordings, please see the footnote to lot 9. It is possible that one of his relatively new (at the time) Fender basses was used to record the bass parts for 'Hi Heel Sneakers', a track off the 1992 soundtrack to the Vietnam War series Frankie's House, co-written with Jed Leiber. Some of the four Reissue basses can be seen in Jeff’s home studio in the 2009 documentary Rock Prophecies about rock photographer Robert M. Knight, and in the short film ‘At Home with Jeff Beck and his guitars’, produced by Viv Johns and Lykke Strunk and included as a bonus feature on the 2011 live concert DVD Rock 'n' Roll Party - Honouring Les Paul.