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Basses you are emotionally attached to
- Thread starter CoolHat
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Planet Boulder
Hey, this is a private residence...man
- Nov 10, 2001
- 4,014
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- I once had impure thoughts. Oh, and I pluck my ear hair.
My '82 Precision that my Pop gave me back in '83 for Christmas. I haven't played it in a long time, but I will never, EVER(!!!!!!!) let it go. Anything given to me by my parents stays with me. Period.
That would have to be the fretless I put together with the intention of selling. It arrived as a P clone in parts, and ended up as a P/J with my own body and headstock shape. I had to figure out every step of the way as I went along, from rough cutting to final finishing. Consequently, after all the blood, sweat, and tears I had fallen utterly in love with this instrument while making it. Oh man, the furthest thing from my mind when it was done was selling it, I wanted to play it! And play it, and play it, and play it... 
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My Guild 301A . . . 19 years of solid gigin' service, never let me down . . and she's got the scars to prove it !
at one time I collected basses. When I think about it, i could kick myself for selling them, but I realized I'm not a vintage bass collecter.
I apologize for the link, but i couldn't get this photo to upload here.
In this photo ( taken 1979 0r 80) is a Fender 53' P bass #2113,a Gibson EB6, a Fender V, four Fender six strings, and the red 6 string bass with white pick ups is a Microfret,with a second bridge at the nut ,two Hagstrom 8 strings, Hofner 500/1,G500/1,500/2, and a couple guitars and a 1980 P bass. The only instruments in the photo that I still have is the Stick on the floor in front and the blonde g500/1 with discreet stereo and Bartolini pick ups.
I was really attached to the Gibson. You couldn't intonate it, but it had great tone. Just a memory now.
photo is at:http://garrygoodman.com/photo_gallery.htm
scroll down about half way.
I apologize for the link, but i couldn't get this photo to upload here.
In this photo ( taken 1979 0r 80) is a Fender 53' P bass #2113,a Gibson EB6, a Fender V, four Fender six strings, and the red 6 string bass with white pick ups is a Microfret,with a second bridge at the nut ,two Hagstrom 8 strings, Hofner 500/1,G500/1,500/2, and a couple guitars and a 1980 P bass. The only instruments in the photo that I still have is the Stick on the floor in front and the blonde g500/1 with discreet stereo and Bartolini pick ups.
I was really attached to the Gibson. You couldn't intonate it, but it had great tone. Just a memory now.
photo is at:http://garrygoodman.com/photo_gallery.htm
scroll down about half way.
The bass that I'm most attatched to is my MIM Fender Jazz (now with EMGs). It's not much, but it sounds awesome, plays great and it was my first bass. It has since been named Amy after my first g/f (who is now simply one of my best friends). It's my main bass (for now) and I'm NEVER selling it. Too many memories (pretty much all good memories from HS involved that thing with few exceptions). Though I do think one of these days I'm gonna get the thing re-finished and cleaned up (it's been through some wars).
I worked like crazy to get a natural ash EB/MM stingray about 10 yrs ago. Since then, it's been my main bass, and it's been an absolute dream to own. I've never had to get it set up. I've left it lying on the ground after shows, feeding back in true punk fashion, I've played acoustic, and jazz shows with it. I've been complemented numerous times by other musicians, producers, engineers, soundguys, etc., on it's sound and looks. It really is a one in a million find and it's the only instrument I've ever owned that I've never once considered getting rid of.
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This has been my number one since the day I bought it, but my number two appears to be this one....
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This has been my number one since the day I bought it, but my number two appears to be this one....
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My Ibanez GRS200. It was first bass. I love the sound when you turn up both pickups and the tone, and play right over the neck with your fingers. It sounds like Geezer Butler. Its a crappy bass, but I'd cry if anything happened to it.
I will never sell my Fender Jaco Pastorius bass. I got it as a confirmation present, and is the best fretless I've played so far. Fantastic bass, and I did all of my first gigs with it. I will never sell my Yamaha BB1200S. My first bass, I will always keep it as a backup. It has never let me down.
After an 8 year hiatus from music (I had sold everything I had ever owned) my wife bought me this '86 Jazz in 1988. It got me back into music and I'll love her and this bass forever for getting me back on track. Plus, it is still the funkiest bass I have ever played, wish my 5 was as soulful as this 4 is.
yea you could say I was very emotinoal about my 76'P-Bass;
When I was 17 I decided to stop playing drums for my dads band and switch over to bass.
My uncle sold me a 76 MIA P Bass. Brass Badass II bridge and brass tuners.
Blond with a black pick guard, maple Neck.
I loved that Bass.
One day about 6 years later (and many rush albums mastered) I was playing my bass in a new rented house. I remember I was playing something off Presto. I was hooked up to my Peavey Mk VI.
My music room was next to the kitchen and I decided to go grab a beer out the fridge. My bass cord was long enough so I walked over to the fridge with my P bass on and volume turned down (Still plugged in powered on).
As i approached the fridge, I put my hand out to reach for handle and something very strange occurred in that moment.
I felt a strange tingling in my right hand, I can clearly remember how it felt like my hand was waking from being asleep for a long time.
My brain trying to process this weird tingling had all of a half second to contemplate it before my hand was pulled....literally to the fridge door handle.
As my hand grasped the handle the tingling went away and was replaced by an intense (and painful) muscle spasm. I felt it go up my arm and into my chest area and travel to my left hand which was wrapped around the neck of my P bass.
It took me 2 or 3 seconds to realize what was happening to me.
I was being electrocuted!!!
I tried to pull my hand away from the door handle, but it just wouldn't move.
That when I yelled out for help.
My Mom who was in the living room came running just in time to see me try and Kick the fridge door to pry my hand away from it.
I gave the fridge at least 4 or 5 hard kicks and finally...finally the sonofabitch let me go.
Here is where it gets even stranger.....
I flew back a few feet once my hand was free and fell over on some garbage bags that were ready to go out to the roadside.
I hadn't noticed that my right foot (not in rubber lined shoes) was still on the fridge door.....
I could smell burning plastic and wood and noticed smoke vapors coming from underneath me.
My Mom saw i was still in contact with the fridge and pulled the plug.
(Mind you this all happened with 15- 20 seconds).
I lay there on burnt garbage bags not sure if i was ok. Was it over?
I looked at the fridge and it looked more like a monster from the twilight Zone than it did a normal fridge.
My Mom called 911.
Great....not a good sign. I didn't know if i looked like a well done hamburger or not. I couldn't feel anything.
After 20-30 seconds passed by I got up, flexed my arms and legs, everything seeming ok. Then i noticed that the fridge was about 4 feet from where it had been. The damn thing seemed to have followed me where I fell!!!
After I assured my Mom (who was freaking out and crying) that I seemed to be Ok I glannced at my bass.............
My poor, poor P bass. The one I loved.
I noticed my Brass Badass II bridge had a Black hole in one corner.
From there, A perfectly straight burn line was made in the clearcoat from the bridge all the way up the body, then up the neck.
Two strings had also been popped along the way.
The very last Brass tuning key was colored purple then transitioned to black.
Then I thought...Oh no! My Amp!
I saw that my cord looked ok. (Rubber)
As i went into my room, I saw no lights on my amp.....
It was dead.
Fried.
$@!&!
I went to the hospital for a barage of tests on my heart. Other parts were also checked mostly my fingers and my feet. The Doc told me that usually in a case like this an "exit wound" is possible, where the current leaves your body to find ground.
He told me I was lucky. The bass took the majority of the hit instead of me.
We had an electrician come out and he inspected the house and found that the landlord tried to do his own electrical work and did not ground the breaker box. The whole house was live just waiting to hurt someone.
He said I was lucky it was the fridge (120V) I touched and not the dryer (240V) in house or I'd be dead.
Even so, he said your lucky you had that bass on.
So....I know, long story....but that 76 P bass saved my life.
I put original pickups back in and pots. New Strings.
But i left all the burn marks there. As a reminder.
It wasn't long after this that it was stolen.
I miss that bass......
If anyone in Windsor Ontario has seen a 76 P-Bass with very strange burn marks on it, let me know.
My 2001 Geddy Lee Jazz is keeping me company now.
test,
When I was 17 I decided to stop playing drums for my dads band and switch over to bass.
My uncle sold me a 76 MIA P Bass. Brass Badass II bridge and brass tuners.
Blond with a black pick guard, maple Neck.
I loved that Bass.
One day about 6 years later (and many rush albums mastered) I was playing my bass in a new rented house. I remember I was playing something off Presto. I was hooked up to my Peavey Mk VI.
My music room was next to the kitchen and I decided to go grab a beer out the fridge. My bass cord was long enough so I walked over to the fridge with my P bass on and volume turned down (Still plugged in powered on).
As i approached the fridge, I put my hand out to reach for handle and something very strange occurred in that moment.
I felt a strange tingling in my right hand, I can clearly remember how it felt like my hand was waking from being asleep for a long time.
My brain trying to process this weird tingling had all of a half second to contemplate it before my hand was pulled....literally to the fridge door handle.
As my hand grasped the handle the tingling went away and was replaced by an intense (and painful) muscle spasm. I felt it go up my arm and into my chest area and travel to my left hand which was wrapped around the neck of my P bass.
It took me 2 or 3 seconds to realize what was happening to me.
I was being electrocuted!!!
I tried to pull my hand away from the door handle, but it just wouldn't move.
That when I yelled out for help.
My Mom who was in the living room came running just in time to see me try and Kick the fridge door to pry my hand away from it.
I gave the fridge at least 4 or 5 hard kicks and finally...finally the sonofabitch let me go.
Here is where it gets even stranger.....
I flew back a few feet once my hand was free and fell over on some garbage bags that were ready to go out to the roadside.
I hadn't noticed that my right foot (not in rubber lined shoes) was still on the fridge door.....
I could smell burning plastic and wood and noticed smoke vapors coming from underneath me.
My Mom saw i was still in contact with the fridge and pulled the plug.
(Mind you this all happened with 15- 20 seconds).
I lay there on burnt garbage bags not sure if i was ok. Was it over?
I looked at the fridge and it looked more like a monster from the twilight Zone than it did a normal fridge.
My Mom called 911.
Great....not a good sign. I didn't know if i looked like a well done hamburger or not. I couldn't feel anything.
After 20-30 seconds passed by I got up, flexed my arms and legs, everything seeming ok. Then i noticed that the fridge was about 4 feet from where it had been. The damn thing seemed to have followed me where I fell!!!
After I assured my Mom (who was freaking out and crying) that I seemed to be Ok I glannced at my bass.............
My poor, poor P bass. The one I loved.
I noticed my Brass Badass II bridge had a Black hole in one corner.
From there, A perfectly straight burn line was made in the clearcoat from the bridge all the way up the body, then up the neck.
Two strings had also been popped along the way.
The very last Brass tuning key was colored purple then transitioned to black.
Then I thought...Oh no! My Amp!
I saw that my cord looked ok. (Rubber)
As i went into my room, I saw no lights on my amp.....
It was dead.
Fried.
$@!&!
I went to the hospital for a barage of tests on my heart. Other parts were also checked mostly my fingers and my feet. The Doc told me that usually in a case like this an "exit wound" is possible, where the current leaves your body to find ground.
He told me I was lucky. The bass took the majority of the hit instead of me.
We had an electrician come out and he inspected the house and found that the landlord tried to do his own electrical work and did not ground the breaker box. The whole house was live just waiting to hurt someone.
He said I was lucky it was the fridge (120V) I touched and not the dryer (240V) in house or I'd be dead.
Even so, he said your lucky you had that bass on.
So....I know, long story....but that 76 P bass saved my life.
I put original pickups back in and pots. New Strings.
But i left all the burn marks there. As a reminder.
It wasn't long after this that it was stolen.
I miss that bass......
If anyone in Windsor Ontario has seen a 76 P-Bass with very strange burn marks on it, let me know.
My 2001 Geddy Lee Jazz is keeping me company now.
test,
- Mar 1, 2005
- 3,101
- 385
- 62
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist: Crook Custom Guitars
I haven't gigged with this bass for like 20 years or so, but I'll never get rid of it......a high school graduation present from my parents.......my '82 Gibson Victory Artist.
- Mar 1, 2005
- 3,101
- 385
- 62
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist: Crook Custom Guitars
wow I hadn't realized I'd brought a 4 year old thread back to life....my bad!
Nothin' wrong with that
My Spector Rebop DLX4 carries a good bit of weight for me. I bought it this february in Preston while staying there with my girlfriend. It's just such a nice bass, when I picked it up I thought "I bet this is the feeling that Vic Wooten gets playing his #1". It just had that vibe, that "click". So many good memories of playing with it, and many more to come!
It's also the bass I primarily used in a Weather Report-style fusion band.
It's also the bass I primarily used in a Weather Report-style fusion band.
