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12-21-2012, 06:25 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Big Bethel, Virginia | | | Ya just gotta press on without staring in the rearview mirror. If I'd been pining for my long-lost '63 P, I'd never have found the better P I now play.
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12-21-2012, 06:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: SoAZ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Thedeadking  Nope.I even offered him more than the his asking price and he just ignored me.Your not happen a fan of kickboxing/mma are you?I see the Golden Glory in your name I instantlly think of a famous gym out in Holland. | That sucks. Well, let's hope this thread helps find your baby's way home.
No, my screen name is derived from two of the bands that started my career. Goldfinger and New Found Glory, and the #18 is the number I've carried my whole soccer career.
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12-21-2012, 06:55 AM
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Originally Posted by kurosawa Ya just gotta press on without staring in the rearview mirror. If I'd been pining for my long-lost '63 P, I'd never have found the better P I now play. | For me, that's not what this thread is about.
Mine is purely sentimental, as I've played and owned better since then. None of the basses since have shared the staged with some of my favorite bands, nor traveled with me for 5+ years, nor was my pillow in the middle of LaGuardia Airport because the band got kicked out of our hotel one night early and didn't have enough money for a place to stay.
THAT's why I want her back..... 
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12-21-2012, 07:03 AM
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12-21-2012, 07:11 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Carvin,Modulus, Hotwire & Conklin Basses, Eden Amps | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Nashville,TN | | Here's mine. It's a 1984 Modulus Graphite custom built 5 string with Alembic Spoiler electronics-my Jimmy Johnson bass. I sold it on The Bottom Line (remember TBL?) to a bassist named Jim Viner in the Maryland area in 2002 when my Mom was first having problems with living by herself and I needed to raise money quickly for expenses for her care and my weekly plane tickets off the Road to Texas to help her out. It's been ten years and she's gone on now. I have from time to time contacted Jim (aka Jimbo on Bass on Myspace) but he hasn't decided to sell the bass back to me yet and now is hard to get in touch with (does anyone even GO to Myspace anymore?). Jimbo, if you're out here on Talkbass my offer still stands, let's talk!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4resEb5KU0g |
12-21-2012, 08:55 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Ventura, CA | | | I sold a 2005LE sterling to a guy in the pacNW that I've always wanted back. Every note on that bass was perfect. The case got damaged in shipping. |
12-21-2012, 09:05 AM
|  | a/k/a Steve Cooper | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Huntington WV | | | Wow. A cool ride in the Wayback Machine for everybody...
Mine:
1. A blue P bass with a rosewood board, stock. Sold it sometime in the mid '70s.
2. A burst fretless P with a maple board, modded with a DiMarzio pup and a phase switch. Sold it sometime (IIRC) in the early '80s.
Hey, near zero chance of those coming back, but sometimes I wish I'd kept 'em. |
12-21-2012, 09:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Big Bethel, Virginia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by goldenglory18 For me, that's not what this thread is about.
Mine is purely sentimental, as I've played and owned better since then. None of the basses since have shared the staged with some of my favorite bands, nor traveled with me for 5+ years, nor was my pillow in the middle of LaGuardia Airport because the band got kicked out of our hotel one night early and didn't have enough money for a place to stay.
THAT's why I want her back..... | Ah, now that's different. I feel like ever since I picked up that '63, the P has been a part of me. It has come to me in different tonal and visual clothing again and again, but somehow it feels like it's the very same bass. So in that sense, I never feel like it has or ever can leave me.
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12-21-2012, 09:39 AM
|  | Mediocre Doubler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Austin, TX | | | I sold an 82ish Yamaha BB400 about 6 years ago on TB. Natural with rosewood. Scroll bridge. Reverse p pup which I put a Rio Grande in. Wish I could get it back :'(
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In '81 I found it at a local recording studio, at that time the owner didn't want to sell it. About '83 I saw a add in the paper for a used Hofner for sale and I went to see it, turned out the studio owner was selling it. At the time I couldn't afford it but a very good friend of mine wanted to buy it, I brokered the deal so at least I'd know where it was and get right of first refusal. In '89 my friend had tired of the Hofner and asked if i wanted to buy it back, I jumped at the chance. It's been with me ever since 
