{"id":7769,"date":"2015-09-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2015-09-09T13:29:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T18:29:10","slug":"ussr-bass-from-the-1970s-the-kavkaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/ussr-bass-from-the-1970s-the-kavkaz.html","title":{"rendered":"USSR bass from the 1970&#8217;s &#8211; The Kavkaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note up front: Technically, the model name of this bass is just &#8220;BAS&#8221;, but for most it&#8217;s commonly known as a Kavkaz.<\/p>\n<p>From the bowels of the 1970&#8217;s comes the Kavkaz, made in the USSR. It might be ugly to some, but it does have one thing going for it. Surprisingly, it has a bit of Rickenbacker 4003 growl to it. This is not to say it plays like a Rickenbacker at all, but for what it is, the Kavkaz does have some of that Ric punch to it (probably because of those giant pickups it has.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cheesyguitars.com\/kavkaz_repair.html\">Someone actually restored one of these<\/a>. In a restored state, it actually looks fairly decent. Not <em>great<\/em>, but decent.<\/p>\n<p>How does it sound? Listen for yourself:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m74tNjaOXp8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the moment, a search for &#8220;kavkaz bass&#8221; on eBay will score you one of these easily for <strong>under $200 USD<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For a cheap vintage, it doesn&#8217;t get too much better than that! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note up front: Technically, the model name of this bass is just &#8220;BAS&#8221;, but for most it&#8217;s commonly known as a Kavkaz. From the bowels of the 1970&#8217;s comes the Kavkaz, made in the USSR. It might be ugly to some, but it does have one thing going for it. Surprisingly, it has a bit &#8230; <a title=\"USSR bass from the 1970&#8217;s &#8211; The Kavkaz\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/ussr-bass-from-the-1970s-the-kavkaz.html\" aria-label=\"More on USSR bass from the 1970&#8217;s &#8211; The Kavkaz\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}