’63 Precision

At ICP Recording Studios we have a lot of instruments that we allow our customers free access to.About 125 guitars, over 100 amps, 12 complete drum kits, 50 snares, some 50 synths/keyboards and over 700 guitar pedals.

We’re proud of our collection, and so we decided to sit each one of them down to do their portrait for our Facebook and Instagram pages.Of course I was elected to take the pictures, set in various nooks and crannies around the studio complex.

Most of them were happy to pose… some behaved, some didn’t.Some just wanted to do stoopid stuff in front of the camera.But all in all we ended up with a cool collection of portraits and a few of them asked me to post theirs here on my site.Naturally I obliged…

This is my bass I played in the ’70’s.  It’s a 1963 Fender Precision, bought it for a couple of hundred dollars at the time.  Originally a classic sunburst finish, my sister Barb painted over it with the American flag motif.  I changed the neck in ’71 as the original was warped and virtually unplayable.  Unfortunately I didn’t keep the original neck with ’63’ stamped on it and the tech who fitted the new one changed the neck plate with the serial number on it for something he probably found in the garbage… so there’s no way of proving its vintage.  Oh well…

I now play a more modern Lakland bass, so I put flat wound strings on the Precision and it now lives in the studio where it gets lots of use providing a truly authentic tone of that era.

The hot dog was given to the studio owner by his loving daughter, I remember picking it up in the company van and delivering it myself.  So yes, there’s more of a connection than simply the Americana 🙂 

Canon EOS 5D MkIII with EF 24-105 L IS USM, original format 3240 x 5760 px; cropped to 1080 x 1920 px to suit standard smartphone screens. Final editing and text formatting in Photoshop 2024.