Do you have a sentimental attachment to your basses?

[CGremlin]

Yeah, I have a couple of basses that have a lot of sentimental value to me, and a cheap guitar exactly like a late friend's that took me two years to find. At least it was only $70.00 when I did find it. I also bought my wife a Jackson DX10 that was identical to the one she had to pawn many years ago, long before we met.

 

[AaronVonRock]

No. I tend to get board with a piece of gear after a while, so I will sell or trade it for something different (and hopefully better).

 

[Deleted member 264575]

They're just 'things', so I try not to get too attached.
My Chris Squire Signature Ric got played 2 to 4 hours every day for like 25 years, so it's like an old shoe for me. I guess I'm a bit sentimental about that one.
My new 4001v63 sounds and plays like a dream (huge sound - low action - mirror-like finish, etc.), so I'm already over-fond of that one too.
Sure, those 2 basses could be replaced, but I really hope I don't ever have to.
All other basses I've owned (40 or 50 of them) I've sold, or I'm selling with no sentiment or attachment at all.

 

[bassstrangler]

Sentimental, only one is, it's my 2013 MIM Geddy Lee. It's the first bass I bought after I took ten years off from playing and became a professional drinker. I've nearly parted ways with it three times since I bought my USA Geddy Lee. But, I can't do it, so I guess there is a sentimental attachment. It's 100% mint and I don't even play it.

 

[Jloch86]

They're just 'things', so I try not to get too attached.
My Chris Squire Signature Ric got played 2 to 4 hours every day for like 25 years, so it's like an old shoe for me. I guess I'm a bit sentimental about that one.
My new 4001v63 sounds and plays like a dream (huge sound - low action - mirror-like finish, etc.), so I'm already over-fond of that one too.
Sure, those 2 basses could be replaced, but I really hope I don't ever have to.
All other basses I've owned (40 or 50 of them) I've sold, or I'm selling with no sentiment or attachment at all.

I'd love to see what that 25 yr old Rick looks like. I'm a sucker for the look of a well broken in Rick or Fender J's and P's.

 

[Spectrum]

Short answer: Yes.

Instruments are magic wands for musicians. No wonder they are special.
One of mine in articular is a gift from someone special, so it means more to me than just a tool.

 

[Jloch86]

Short answer: Yes.

Instruments are magic wands for musicians. No wonder they are special.
One of mine in articular is a gift from someone special, so it means more to me than just a tool.

Exactly. That's probably why Hendrix kissed and made love to his guitar before he lit it on fire.

Either that or because he was as high as Jupiter

 

[Daniel Harlen]

I have 3 basses at the moment and have a sentimental attachment to two of them.
One of them I have owned for 23 years and there is no way I will part with it as it was a gift from my parents.

 

[stacker]

I have, to two of them: an early CS '62 fretless Jazz and a late '80s Steinberger XL2A. Won't bore you all with the deets.

 

[DChalo]

I have a slight sexual attraction to my jazz bass.

I guess you could say i'm..... Bass-Sexual

Alright, I'm done. I'm going to sleep now.

 

[gully_jones]

I like my stuff. I don't love my stuff. Nothing I have couldn't be sold, traded, or upgraded if the price was right and my mood moved me.

 

[Arion]

I have a slight sexual attraction to my jazz bass.

I guess you could say i'm..... Bass-Sexual

Alright, I'm done. I'm going to sleep now.

No wonder basses are fingered and slapped so much.

 

[Whippet]

it's an it. Personally, it's not like the thing has ever saved my life. I am sure some bass guitars have been bashed against angry drunks, thugs, significant others and warded off evil threats, but none of mine have ever gone through such drama.

At the end of the day, it is an it. No sentimental value. Come to think of it, I have no sentimental attachment to any thing.

 

[Eckie]

Yes - my mum bought it for me in 1974. Hardly ever gig it now but it still plays and sounds great

 

[Dragan]

OP - ofcourse I do. About your bass, I don't think that selling SX bass will help much for your next purchase unless it's another SX bass,so keep it,why not.

 

[southgabass]

My sentimental bass is due to circumstances, I purchased it just after my mom passed. She loved coming to shows and really enjoyed getting out there. So after she passed and I realized I needed a new bass (main bass was having multiple issues) I pulled the trigger on the USA Peavey Cirrus. Not only was the bass gorgeous, but played great with amazing sound. Unfortunately due to other circumstances, I lost the bass while in custody over child support. The place it was being stored, the owner of the property sold it at a yard sale (its what I presumed happened knowing them). And has not been seen for over 3 years now.

 

[Malak the Mad]

I used to be much more sentimental about my instruments. A part of me still is, but a serious financial situation last year really drove home the cold, hard reality that as painful as it is to part with them, it's just stuff. For example, I had previously stated I would never part with the first bass I ever wanted to own. I even went as far as to collect another pair of sister-instruments to round out the set. Specifically, I'm referring to the set I call "The Three Amigos".

In a turn of events I thought would never come to pass, I just sold the Jazz and currently have the P-Bass Special (the aforementioned bass that I wanted to make my "first-ever") up for sale. What's more is, it's not out of any dire financial straits. Instead, I'm just liquidating the two of them to go towards this one, which is kinda-sorta an amalgam of the two. In other words, "practicality" is trumping "sentimentality".

So, instead of stating, "There is one I would never, ever sell!", I'll go with, "Currently, there is one which would be the last I'd be willing to part with!" That would be "Projekt Blue", my first, fully-successful parts bass.

 

[orange joe]

Typically no but I have one that has gotten under my skin.My walnut Togar Cumulus.

 

[quickfix]

Nope. This venture has now become a supplemental source of income, and has therefore turned all of my instruments into essential tools of the trade only. No room for sentimentality.

 

[Sav'nBass]

I own 7 basses.. my sentimental attachment is only to one of them. My 78 Jazz bass was the first real bass I owned. I bought it new from Alex Axe in N.Y.C. in March of 78. The other ones I like a lot and would be to pick which one(s) I would want to part with but it isn't really sentiment.