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Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: July 6th, 2017, 8:33 am
by paulo
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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Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: July 6th, 2017, 8:53 am
by tim
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.

Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: July 6th, 2017, 8:56 am
by tim
This guy does good demos. Here's an El Toro:

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

Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: July 6th, 2017, 1:12 pm
by bobjones2260
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

Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: July 6th, 2017, 1:38 pm
by paulo
Cool, thanks for the info Tim and Bob!

Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: July 6th, 2017, 3:25 pm
by superheavydeathmetal
Wow! What a cool find!

Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: July 6th, 2017, 7:26 pm
by zecacosta
superheavydeathmetal wrote:Wow! What a cool find!
Ditto! :o

Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: July 6th, 2017, 8:12 pm
by fivebass52
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...

Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: July 6th, 2017, 9:48 pm
by crescenze
And a true lefty case too!

Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: July 7th, 2017, 8:09 am
by pjmuck
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!

Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: July 7th, 2017, 2:00 pm
by paulo
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

Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: July 7th, 2017, 7:04 pm
by tim
Not bad! Who needs a guitar player anyway?

Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: July 10th, 2017, 2:40 am
by fivebass52
A singing bass player - cool! He's a character.... :)

Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: September 13th, 2017, 5:35 pm
by paulo
After a little over 2 months I took this back and finally got a chance to enjoy it! :)

Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: January 6th, 2018, 7:02 pm
by paulo
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.

Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: January 6th, 2018, 7:11 pm
by Grant
So Paulo what was the issue???

Re: Basement find: G&L Interceptor 1984

Posted: January 6th, 2018, 7:38 pm
by paulo
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