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bass regrets
- Thread starter dennis james
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I bought a 61 pbass back in 63 when I was 15 for $100. The base came with a light beige hard case. The guy I bought if from had played it with a cast on his arm so it was prematurely road worn before there was such a thing. During the late sixties I gave it a psychedelic paint job, my first mistake. I eventually refinished it with a clear natural finish. I sold it in the early eighties because I had given up playing. I started to play again last year and sure wish I still had it.
My second '78 Musicmaster... even though I now have a better one that isn't going anywhere, I let that second one go in a bad trade...
-robert
-robert
I regret selling my first bass--a '62 Precision I got for $100 in 1976.
Sold it in '83 for $500, but we all know what they were going for a decade later.
But it was everything a '62 P is famous for, and I've never played anything so sweet since.
In fact, as much as I love a good P's tone, I never bought another Fender because they just couldn't measure up against the '62.
I got spoiled.
Sold it in '83 for $500, but we all know what they were going for a decade later.
But it was everything a '62 P is famous for, and I've never played anything so sweet since.
In fact, as much as I love a good P's tone, I never bought another Fender because they just couldn't measure up against the '62.
I got spoiled.
Probably the only one I really miss, or feel as though I missed out on, was a Zon Sonus Special model. The silly thing being, I sold it because I thought it wasn't 'all that'.
It played very well and it sounded pretty good, but it didn't sound like a million bucks to me. It had a good tone, but it wasn't a head-turning tone. Maybe that's fine. At the time, if a bass didn't blow me away in my bedroom and in a live setting, it wasn't worth hanging onto. I sold the Zon after about six months and replaced it with a Limited Edition 1990 Warwick Steamer with Barts, and that bass was killer! It played well and sounded incredible, very much sounding like a Spector. It was solid maple after all!
I don't miss that amazing Warwick at all but I miss the Zon I never really bonded with and I feel as though maybe six months wasn't long enough to let that bass impress me.
I also regret not taking many pictures of the Zon. The ones I have are all pretty crappy, like this...
It played very well and it sounded pretty good, but it didn't sound like a million bucks to me. It had a good tone, but it wasn't a head-turning tone. Maybe that's fine. At the time, if a bass didn't blow me away in my bedroom and in a live setting, it wasn't worth hanging onto. I sold the Zon after about six months and replaced it with a Limited Edition 1990 Warwick Steamer with Barts, and that bass was killer! It played well and sounded incredible, very much sounding like a Spector. It was solid maple after all!
I don't miss that amazing Warwick at all but I miss the Zon I never really bonded with and I feel as though maybe six months wasn't long enough to let that bass impress me.
I also regret not taking many pictures of the Zon. The ones I have are all pretty crappy, like this...
I had an early 80s G&L L2000 and an MM Stingray, both bought new in USA. I didn’t have either for very long. The L2000 which may well have been the first one to reach Oz, had a dead spot that I didn’t know enough to manage back then and the Stingray went a bit later due to a crisis of finance.
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Not quite, it's a Delta IV which is a solid body with on-board effects. Wyman's are semi-acoustic and are teardrop shaped.
TD
No sellers remorse. Every bass I sold was replaced by something else that fit me better. I currently have 2 basses, and am gassing for a certain bass. That certain bass will either become my 3rd bass, or will replace one of the 2 I have. That is, if I buy it at all. I'm quite pragmatic about my equipment. If I don't use it - I sell it.
I still own 5 of the 9 basses I've ever owned. Of the other four, definitely no regrets about three of them: two were pretty crappy, one was fine but nothing special. I still have the occasional mild regret about this Ric, owned from '87-'88:
The thing is, I really didn't like it as much as I thought I would. It was heavy as hell, the neck seemed "slow" and it really didn't sound the way I'd hoped. As a poster upthread mentioned, I think I miss the idea of the bass (and my youth ... ) more than the actual bass, and wouldn't really want to own a Ric now.
The thing is, I really didn't like it as much as I thought I would. It was heavy as hell, the neck seemed "slow" and it really didn't sound the way I'd hoped. As a poster upthread mentioned, I think I miss the idea of the bass (and my youth ... ) more than the actual bass, and wouldn't really want to own a Ric now.
I never actually owned it, but my son had a Modulus Jazz bass that I really liked. He sold it without telling me first so I didn't get the chance to buy it from him.
Rick B.
Rick B.
Mid/late 80's, I had a chance to buy a white Ric 4005. For as much as I wanted a Ric, I wanted a 4001/4003, and as a rock/metal fan at that time, you would have been laughed out of town turning up with something so "non-metal".
A couple of years later, I was offered a chequer-bound 4001 for a very reasonable price. I had enough to buy it, BUT, it had seen better days and had been "well used & abused" (extreme relic in today's Custom Shop parlance!).
There's a few others, but these two stick in the memory.
A couple of years later, I was offered a chequer-bound 4001 for a very reasonable price. I had enough to buy it, BUT, it had seen better days and had been "well used & abused" (extreme relic in today's Custom Shop parlance!).
There's a few others, but these two stick in the memory.
ric's are definitely a different animal. I currently own 4 basses, one being a ric but it will never, ever be my #1.
I have a few but my worst one is a Music Man Bongo 4HH Stealth Black.
Got it by swapping it for a Lakland Joe Osborn Jazz Bass with a local bassist.
It was just too black for me. However, it is probably the highest quality instrument I have ever owned.
Got it by swapping it for a Lakland Joe Osborn Jazz Bass with a local bassist.
It was just too black for me. However, it is probably the highest quality instrument I have ever owned.
Yah, don't get me wrong: very cool instrument. Just not for me, as it turned out.
