Fender Mark Hoppus Jazz Bass

First of all. Mark Hoppus is one of my favourite bassist. He is the bassist for Blink-182. A band i listened to from the start. I had seen them live when i made the decision i wanted one. This christmas (2004) i recieved it as a present in the Daphne Blue colour. My parents paid a little over 1000 as it came straight from the factory, there where shipping and handling payments, the local dealer shop had to make money, and what not.

What i like about this bass is the different colours it comes in (not your average colours). I love how there is only one volume knob. And i like how this is an original set up for a bass guitar (precision pickups, j-bass body). I also like how it is equiped with a "top of the line" pick up company called Seymour Duncan. The lows and the highs sound terrific and its great for shows, or just jamming with your band, or yourself. this bass is good for pop punk/rock/fast punk and what not. i would recondmend this product to someone that is looking for an original style looking bass, someone with the committment to playing music and someone who simply likes Mark Hoppus as a bass player.

there isnt really many things to say about the bass in general. except when i got mine, i noticed underneath the tuner, they accidently drilled a hole in the wrong spot. but that isnt on every make. just mine (grrr). i dont have any other complaints but for people who play metal/jazz/blues/reggae or any of that style of music. you probably wouldnt like the bass as much as people of that genre complain about the bass not having a "tone knob". but people who love the punk/rock music. this is a def. buy.

well crafted. smooth. original. ive had mine since this past christmas (december 04) and nothing has been wrong at all with it. it is greatttt quality compared to my Squier/Fender P-Bass Duluxe.

bottom line.

good bass for the buck. aka good bass for the price. best brand you can get in my thoughts. andddd well, this bass simply has it all for your typical punk rocker.


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I was on my usual weekly trip down to the music store and I see this on the shelf. Only £300.00 not bad. I thought this would be handy investment as my idol is mark hoppus and also my band plays Blink type music.

I like the sleek colour (shell pink) and the easy to play P-Bass neck. I was also surprised that he configured this to a J-Bass body, which was pretty ingenious as Fender have great ideas for body styling. As I picked this up off of the shelf, I realised it was fairly heavy, quite noticably heavier than my ibaanez edb. As I started to play, what can i say! I was impressed, it had a very full sound but wasn't ruined by to litle or much tone.

I wasn't very impressed with the weight. It is a great bass guitar, and that really is all that is wrong with it. This bass guitar is drfinitly an accuired taste. If you are playing Metallica covers then this is definitly not for you.

It had a great body and a really good paintjob to it. The neck was a great length. The pick-up qualitys is very good, with me havin quality, and a crisp sound, when I play the high and low notes. if the tone setting does not suit you, remember ou have the amplifier settings to play around with. This is best played with a Mesa Boogie amp, which i very recently bought after finding out Mr Hoppus uses one aswell.

Great guitar, pick-ups, body, colour choices, neck, shape and sound. Te are not many guitar that can really compete with the level of sound this 2 pick-up bass has to offer.

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I got this guitar aboout 4 months ago i have been playing bass for quite awhile and i can play pretty much anything, i got this bass from musicians friend for $490.00 and it was well worth it. I got this bass because I grew out of my old fender standard.I have been playing since i was 12 and i play every blink song because they rock and if u disagree u fuckin suck

i like the over all feel and i like they seymour and duncon pickups

i have no dislikes whatsoever

this shit is cool and is built great i was sceptic at first becausse it was made in mexico but now i no that its awesome

go buy it now its great for every fan or bass player

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