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paulo
 Post subject: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984
PostPosted: July 6th, 2017, 8:33 am 
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Just picked this up this morning, don't know much about it as I've never seen one and there's not much online about it but it's an awesome bass!
It was fairly clean and sat in a basement for the past 20 years...
I've got it from the original owner and it came in it's original case.
The neck measures 1 3/4 at the nut.
Right now I can only get it to work in passive mode, so I'm gonna drop it off for service soon.
Any info about these?
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tim
 Post subject: Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984
PostPosted: July 6th, 2017, 8:53 am 
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Wow, I've never heard of that either. Way cool!

Even BassesByLeo doesn't have much about it. 400 built. Same electronics as the El Toro.
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 Post subject: Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984
PostPosted: July 6th, 2017, 8:56 am 
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This guy does good demos. Here's an El Toro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPKoUVRgDHY
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PostPosted: July 6th, 2017, 1:12 pm 
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I slightly remember these basses but never seen one in Left Handed. Here is a nice summary on this model.

http://www.ggjaguar.com/intbass.htm
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paulo
 Post subject: Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984
PostPosted: July 6th, 2017, 1:38 pm 
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Cool, thanks for the info Tim and Bob!
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 Post subject: Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984
PostPosted: July 6th, 2017, 3:25 pm 
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Wow! What a cool find!

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 Post subject: Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984
PostPosted: July 6th, 2017, 7:26 pm 
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superheavydeathmetal wrote:
Wow! What a cool find!


Ditto! :o
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 Post subject: Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984
PostPosted: July 6th, 2017, 8:12 pm 
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tim wrote:
This guy does good demos. Here's an El Toro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPKoUVRgDHY


Great sounding bass, and the guy does a fine job of showing all of its abilities/sounds...

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crescenze
 Post subject: Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984
PostPosted: July 6th, 2017, 9:48 pm 
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And a true lefty case too!
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PostPosted: July 7th, 2017, 8:09 am 
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Nice score, Paulo :D

I believe I have seen other lefties before, maybe one or two, but definitely a rarer G&L. I dig the look, and the demo of that guy on the El Toro shows off some great growly tones too.

Enjoy!
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paulo
 Post subject: Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984
PostPosted: July 7th, 2017, 2:00 pm 
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The only Youtube video I found was not in great quality but good enough with headphones.
This guy has a lot of videos playing the Interceptor!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpvOoou_vJM
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PostPosted: July 7th, 2017, 7:04 pm 
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Not bad! Who needs a guitar player anyway?
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 Post subject: Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984
PostPosted: July 10th, 2017, 2:40 am 
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A singing bass player - cool! He's a character.... :)

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paulo
 Post subject: Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984
PostPosted: September 13th, 2017, 5:35 pm 
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After a little over 2 months I took this back and finally got a chance to enjoy it! :)
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 Post subject: Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984
PostPosted: January 6th, 2018, 7:02 pm 
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Today I took this bass to Upfront Guitars in Bellingham, MA and in a matter of 10 minutes Gordon figured out the issue, now I can officially say this bass is up and running like it should!
Also I removed the neck (I thought I did that before) and the stamp dates April 11, 1985 and the body says April 18, 1985.
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Grant
 Post subject: Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984
PostPosted: January 6th, 2018, 7:11 pm 
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So Paulo what was the issue???
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 Post subject: Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984
PostPosted: January 6th, 2018, 7:38 pm 
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Grant wrote:
So Paulo what was the issue???

It was wired wrong and the passive/active switch (the white one) was working as a kill switch.
Not anymore! :P
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