Bass regret.

[Mantis Tobaggan]

I don’t regret selling anything but at some point I would like a Ric 4003 jet glo like the one I sold a few years ago.

 

[Watchootognbout]

I once had a an LTD B 1006 that I really should have kept.
But I sold it to buy a Tune TWB63WN.
Which I no longer have.

(But I now do have two Tune TWB63OB's now.So all is good)

 

[Mike Sorr]

26880365[/URL], member: 339949"]I was looking for a message in my Reverb DMs this morning and came across a picture of a bass I should have never sold.

It’s a Musicman 30th Anniversary Stingray 5. I had owned a couple of these and sold them (for a tiny profit) bc they were usually a little heavy. But then I stumbled across this one with a rosewood fingerboard (all the others had flame maple boards) and it was a featherweight 8lb 8oz. It was a perfect bass for me.It played, sounded and felt amazing.

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Sadly, this was at the height of my GAS and my mindless buying/selling of instruments. I was always looking for the next bass, not appreciating what I had. And in most cases, that was fine. But in my selling fury, I let this one go and have regretted it ever since. I even reached out to the guy who bought it to see if he’d ever sell it back. He kindly said, “No.” But the subtext (at least in my mind) was “Only an idiot would sell a bass this nice!”

Anyone else have regrets on a bass you never should have let go?

I have several. On top of that list is my 1972 Sunburst Jazz Bass that I sold in the early 2000s for what at the time was a ridiculously high price of $2,400. I decided that I was finished with bands and playing music and that I was going to sell all my gear and be done with it all, which I did. And of course I caught the bug again after about two years and immediately regretted selling the Jazz. There have been a few others like the White Steinberger XL2A that I traded for an Ampeg SVT rig back in 1990. That bass is worth about $4500 these days. And my first real bass, a 1978 Olympic White Fender Precision. This one is mostly for nostalgic reasons as that bass sucked and was a chore to play, but it would be cool to still have it.

 

[bassclef112]

I had a '75 Ric 4001 FG that pretty much played itself. A beautiful neck very note sang. I made a huge mistake by bringing it to a tech I didn't know that turned out to be unfamiliar with 4001 neck adjustments and popped the nut off the end of the truss rod. I was devastated and I made the shop buy it off me. I should have let them send it back to Ric and get it replaced. I don't regret or think of any others I sold, but this one still crosses my mind upon occasion.

 

[DaveDeVille]

i regret years ago selling this very early Valenti bass ...

 

[boombloom]

I've regretted more bass purchases than I've regretted bass sales. That being said, I do wish I still had my high school bass---Guild JSII full scale neck with original case....

 

[JazznFunk]

Yep. Back when I was flipping basses a lot, there are a few things I let go of in a hurry to fund new purchases. I owned 3 USA-made MusicMan SUB 4-strings, 2 of which were fretless, one was passive and one was active. They both sounded fantastic, and were the best recording fretless basses I ever owned. Now that fretless StingRays are like unicorns, I'd give anything to have those 2 back. I also miss the fretted one, but not nearly as much as the fretlesses.

I also sold the very first Fender Jazz Bass I ever owned.... Mexican-made 1996 4-string in Candy Apple Red. I had a custom creme perloid pickguard made for it, and it played and sounded fantastic. Sold it to a student I had at the time, right before leaving for college.

 

[Mikey F]

Warwick Streamer Stage 2, Warwick Dolphin, Stingray HH pacific blue.

 

[Sam Dingle]

Bought back the only bass I regret selling. 2004 Fretless stingray 5. Got it back…and it’s ok. Didn’t live up to the hype I gave it.

 

[FeltTipPen]

I was looking for a message in my Reverb DMs this morning and came across a picture of a bass I should have never sold.

It’s a Musicman 30th Anniversary Stingray 5. I had owned a couple of these and sold them (for a tiny profit) bc they were usually a little heavy. But then I stumbled across this one with a rosewood fingerboard (all the others had flame maple boards) and it was a featherweight 8lb 8oz. It was a perfect bass for me.It played, sounded and felt amazing.

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Sadly, this was at the height of my GAS and my mindless buying/selling of instruments. I was always looking for the next bass, not appreciating what I had. And in most cases, that was fine. But in my selling fury, I let this one go and have regretted it ever since. I even reached out to the guy who bought it to see if he’d ever sell it back. He kindly said, “No.” But the subtext (at least in my mind) was “Only an idiot would sell a bass this nice!”

Anyone else have regrets on a bass you never should have let go?

I "liked" your post only because: 1) that was a beautiful Stingray5 and 2) I feel your pain and can relate to what GAS can do. It's like those medication warnings--do not make important decisions while taking it!

P.S. Don't be too hard on yourself!

 

[FeltTipPen]

Y’know, every time I start to regret selling a bass, I take off the nostalgia goggles and remember why those basses didn’t work for me. Epi T-Bird? Dark tone, awful neck and action. Fender Jazz? Could never get it to play or sound how I wanted. Peavey T-40? Aside from the weight, it never was the “Swiss army knife” it was touted to be. Ibanez TMB100? Thick neck with an awfully dry feeling finish. Ibanez TMB30? All of the drawbacks of the 100, plus it ever played or sounded as nice as its long scale counterpart, even with a pickup swap (also the ivory finish had a little too much of a flesh tone for my liking).

Remembering why I sold things in the first place really helps me stop from both dwelling on the past and fabricating a bass in my mind that didn’t actually exist.

Good advice!

 

[Blue Moose]

I think I have everybody beat in the "regret selling" category. I'll just leave it at that and spare myself the public humiliation.

 

[jimmydean]

I try not to think about selling my Travis Bean and a 62 Jazz Bass and to top off my misery of doom.....an early model Veillette Citron .

 

[prom311]

I’ve regretted selling 2 basses.

My first Warwick pnut signature and my ken smith bsr white tiger elite.

I regret not buying a pnut sig when i had the chance! It was too much bass for me at the time. 10 basses later...

 

[SLPimp]

Music Man Short Scale Stingray (original run). Paid $1500 for it and sold for $1800. Mahor regret considering the outlandish cost of these new and used these days.

 

[Tom Gallo]

Every Rickenbacker I ever sold. I especially regret the blue boy 4004L I sold. I sold that bass because I was extremely pissed at Rickenbacker. They advertised the color of the year (I think 2004) as blue boy which is a kind of pastel light blue color. I was so excited to be getting one. To my surprise, when it arrived, it wasn't blue. It was sort of surf green. RIC had screwed up the clear coat, which yellowed. In typical customer unfriendly Rickenbacker fashion, they refused to fix any of the instruments with faulty clear coat. Don't get me wrong, I love surf green, but I paid a premium for color of the year and I didn't get the color I paid for.

I didn't buy a *new* rick again until 2015 when the 4003s was reissued. I won't be buying any new ricks going forward, either.

 

[basslayer]

Yeah and it's costing 3 times as much now if I wanted to get it again.

 

[LowActionHero]

I was looking for a message in my Reverb DMs this morning and came across a picture of a bass I should have never sold.

It’s a Musicman 30th Anniversary Stingray 5. I had owned a couple of these and sold them (for a tiny profit) bc they were usually a little heavy. But then I stumbled across this one with a rosewood fingerboard (all the others had flame maple boards) and it was a featherweight 8lb 8oz. It was a perfect bass for me.It played, sounded and felt amazing.

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Sadly, this was at the height of my GAS and my mindless buying/selling of instruments. I was always looking for the next bass, not appreciating what I had. And in most cases, that was fine. But in my selling fury, I let this one go and have regretted it ever since. I even reached out to the guy who bought it to see if he’d ever sell it back. He kindly said, “No.” But the subtext (at least in my mind) was “Only an idiot would sell a bass this nice!”

Anyone else have regrets on a bass you never should have let go?

Don't want to rub it in, but that's one of the prettiest MMs I've seen.

 

[taliesin]

26881507[/URL], member: 155329"]I think I have everybody beat in the "regret selling" category. I'll just leave it at that and spare myself the public humiliation.

No way you can leave us hanging like that.

 

[Phlipper]

I've got you all beat ...

When Eddie Van Halen erupted (swidt?) I traded a mint '63 hardtail Strat for a Kramer 'super strat' with a Rose trem.

It gets worse ...

In around 1993, as a new parent, during a period I'd stopped playing much at all, I traded a Marshall JCM 800 halfstack (MV model) for a new SS Crate 2x12 combo with built in effects.

I can't even blame it on drugs.

And yes, I still hate my children for that.