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About to fall into $1.5 Billion. How would you spend it?
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I'd buy Fender. Then hire monkeys to run Squier's QC department so I can stop reading "My Squier is better than my friends MIA Fender" posts.
Is there anything at all that you could not buy with $1.5 billion?
Looking for new cool basses would be so dull. Whatever for?, I can buy anyone I want without any kind of remorse. Boring...
So good I didn' win...
Looking for new cool basses would be so dull. Whatever for?, I can buy anyone I want without any kind of remorse. Boring...
So good I didn' win...
Sitting here having not won, I'm thinking to myself that most lottery winners end up broke so why try and keep much money at all? I'd do all proper savings things for my family and then figure out how to get rid of the rest. Donate to charities, give some money to bands I like, get a proper Talkbass app made...
The money tends to ruin people's lives at some point, so I might as well do as much good as I can while just getting rid of it.
The money tends to ruin people's lives at some point, so I might as well do as much good as I can while just getting rid of it.
Private jet, couple of houses, cars, and other toys, give some to family and friends, take some vacations then invest the rest and start a foundation for causes of interest to me.
I would tell almost no one, then ask people for favors and overpay them. Tell people I need help moving a new couch into my house, then when only one of my friends show up to help toss him 100k.
Take care of my family and the taxes, set aside about 50 Million for me and invest it cautiously, buy a new car, something mid-priced but with all the options. Build a shed that's a design and music studio behind my house, and give the rest away to a worthwhile cause. I'd fly in my favourite musicians (already my friends, now spread all over) to record together and pay them what A-list players make for such things, and make tons of records. I'd still do my current dayjob, but as a consultant instead of full time.
Very easy. I would use 40-50 million to set up trust funds to take care of my two sons, my wife and I, then just spend the rest of my life giving the rest away. I know lots of worthy recipients. That would be fun.
Well, for starters, you might consider getting between six and ten large financial institutions to work with your money. Not one. Big money is big temptation. As far as keeping things conservative, I wouldn't. You probably would never spend what you might loose anyway, so just be as risky as all get-out. One million is all you really need to live in comfort. A thought: put a finger in a glass of water. Now, quickly pull it out. How long did that hole stay there? Yeah. That's how long people will remember you when you're gone. Thirty minutes after you are in the ground your family and friends will be eating fried chicken at the church, talking about the up-coming football game. Life is too short to be working at a job you hate in order to buy things you don't need so you can impress people you don't like. That's my opinion and it ought to be yours.
I'd trade it for just one person I could really trust...
As long as you have 1.5 billion (or million) or even if people BELIEVE you have it, trust in people will suffer.
As long as you have 1.5 billion (or million) or even if people BELIEVE you have it, trust in people will suffer.
OK I'll play... this game, but not the lotto 
Step 1: Pay off all debts. For the family too.
Step 2: Invest a VERY meaningful amount, in order to have it start producing my future wealth / family's security (because you know, $1.5 BILLION won't do the trick
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Step 3: fEARless cabs. Many. And everything I need to become a builder/dealer.
Step 4: Basses. A Dingwall, maybe 3. Super J custom exotic, baby. And an Fbass fretless. Definitely an upright too!
Step 5: All the other instruments, amps, and recording equipment. Ayotte drum kit, couple Fenders & Gibsons, etc. Replace all my budget stuff with Pro versions.
Step 6: PIMP OUT the house and recording studio. Sound proofing, bass traps / room conditioning, consoles, speakers, and so on. A monster garden with smart self irrigation, smart home with solar, wind, geothermal, etc - remove any connection to the power grid and go self-sufficient. Throw in a better internet plan while I'm at it...
Step 7: Get a nice Subaru. Like niiiiiiiice, fully decked out for winter, upgraded, and customized. Maybe with flight or something (hey, I've got a billion to play with here)!
Step 8: Ducati Diavel. The summer ride
Step 9: Complete xmas shopping for next decade.
Step 10: Chill out and jam. Until the end of time.
Step 1: Pay off all debts. For the family too.
Step 2: Invest a VERY meaningful amount, in order to have it start producing my future wealth / family's security (because you know, $1.5 BILLION won't do the trick
)Step 3: fEARless cabs. Many. And everything I need to become a builder/dealer.
Step 4: Basses. A Dingwall, maybe 3. Super J custom exotic, baby. And an Fbass fretless. Definitely an upright too!
Step 5: All the other instruments, amps, and recording equipment. Ayotte drum kit, couple Fenders & Gibsons, etc. Replace all my budget stuff with Pro versions.
Step 6: PIMP OUT the house and recording studio. Sound proofing, bass traps / room conditioning, consoles, speakers, and so on. A monster garden with smart self irrigation, smart home with solar, wind, geothermal, etc - remove any connection to the power grid and go self-sufficient. Throw in a better internet plan while I'm at it...
Step 7: Get a nice Subaru. Like niiiiiiiice, fully decked out for winter, upgraded, and customized. Maybe with flight or something (hey, I've got a billion to play with here)!
Step 8: Ducati Diavel. The summer ride
Step 9: Complete xmas shopping for next decade.
Step 10: Chill out and jam. Until the end of time.
I would retire first off, hire a lawyer, take the prize in a lump sum, pay a financial adviser to look for investment opportunities and come up with a plan to hang on to the money. no doubt some would be donations to cancer research anonymously.The rest of the story about spending it on what? I couldn't say, because you could pretty much get whatever the heck you want. It would sure be a scary thing to happen to you at that second your life an your families life's would never be the same and not just in a good way there is always a negative side history has proven.
A permit to carry a concealed weapon
A body guard(s)
Armored vehicle(s)
Then change my name and identity and move far away.
Hmm, come to think of it, I'm glad I didn't win that Powerball.
A body guard(s)
Armored vehicle(s)
Then change my name and identity and move far away.
Hmm, come to think of it, I'm glad I didn't win that Powerball.
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I would buy all the flatwound factories and shut them down
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There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
I would buy two '58 Gibson Korina Explorer (one with a hockey stick headstock and one with a split headstock), a '58 Gibson Korina Flying V, a Gibson Moderne (preferably a '58 if such beast exist), a bunch of 60's Gibson reverse Firebirds and Thunderbirds in all the available 60's colours, three Rickenbacker 4003's (Blackstar, Tuxedo and Redneck)...
Prepare yourselves...
3x 1974 Gibson Ripper - Amber, Yellow-Gold, and custom Cobalt Blue.
3x 1961 Gibson EB-3 - White, Cobalt and Black.
2x 1980 Gibson G3 - Both Orange-burst
Bold denotes custom active pickups that look exactly like the originals. For that extra brightness, y'know.
1x EHX Switchblade+ A/B Box
1x BOSS CEB-3 Chorus
1x BOSS BF-3 Flanger
1x BOSS BB-1X Bass Driver
1x BOSS TU-3 Tuner
1x Ampeg SVT 4-Pro Head
2x Ampeg SVT 810E Cabs
2x Marshall JCM900-4100 Heads
2x Marshall 1960A Cabs
2x Marshall 1960B Cabs
Here's how it all works...
Bass (Probably Ripper. They're the best bass of all time.) ->
BOSS CEB-3 (turn on when it sounds good), BOSS BF-3 (turn on during heavy parts), BOSS BB-1X (always on mild-moderate for some grit!) ->
EHX Switchblade ->
Route A: Ampeg head with scooped-mid EQ, then two Ampeg cabs
Route B: Marshall head with gain cranked, then two Marshall stacks (black head on white cabs, white head on black cabs. See illustration.)
Also, 1x Playboy Mansion. Because why the hell not.
3x 1974 Gibson Ripper - Amber, Yellow-Gold, and custom Cobalt Blue.
3x 1961 Gibson EB-3 - White, Cobalt and Black.
2x 1980 Gibson G3 - Both Orange-burst
Bold denotes custom active pickups that look exactly like the originals. For that extra brightness, y'know.
1x EHX Switchblade+ A/B Box
1x BOSS CEB-3 Chorus
1x BOSS BF-3 Flanger
1x BOSS BB-1X Bass Driver
1x BOSS TU-3 Tuner
1x Ampeg SVT 4-Pro Head
2x Ampeg SVT 810E Cabs
2x Marshall JCM900-4100 Heads
2x Marshall 1960A Cabs
2x Marshall 1960B Cabs
Here's how it all works...
Bass (Probably Ripper. They're the best bass of all time.) ->
BOSS CEB-3 (turn on when it sounds good), BOSS BF-3 (turn on during heavy parts), BOSS BB-1X (always on mild-moderate for some grit!) ->
EHX Switchblade ->
Route A: Ampeg head with scooped-mid EQ, then two Ampeg cabs
Route B: Marshall head with gain cranked, then two Marshall stacks (black head on white cabs, white head on black cabs. See illustration.)
Also, 1x Playboy Mansion. Because why the hell not.
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I LOVE the 58/9 Vs and Explorers. The Explorers are WAAAYY rare. I wouldn't even know who has one. I have four Vs. Two of them are 74s
Postmortem here at work this am: spent $210 on pooled tickets and "won" back $32. 14 people @ $15 ea. Gambling is entertainment for people who suck at math. Which is scary because we're an engineering department. 
