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Do you have a sentimental attachment to your basses?
- Thread starter HankHillWaluigi
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I've sold all but one that had no attachment. I've got two that I won't sell ever, only one of which is even playable right now.
The one I have no attachment too is my "best" that I use for gigs, but I like my 20 year old crappy P clone that I started with, more. It has a new wiring harness (with varitone) and a Wilde pickup, but is otherwise stock. It's a "Cruise created for VMI" P clone with no pickguard.
It's worth about $20 on reverb, but it's the most playable bass I've ever played.
The one I have no attachment too is my "best" that I use for gigs, but I like my 20 year old crappy P clone that I started with, more. It has a new wiring harness (with varitone) and a Wilde pickup, but is otherwise stock. It's a "Cruise created for VMI" P clone with no pickguard.
It's worth about $20 on reverb, but it's the most playable bass I've ever played.
beautiful bass!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.
Just one. It's not my very first bass, but it's the one that has been with me for the longest time, bought new in '85. The rest are all interchangeable, replaceable tools. But the '85 is more like the family dog to me.
Only to my first bass, a Silvertone 1490, that I got for Christmas when I was 12. The two barrel bridge is a mess (which I'll do something about one of these days). SS and really light with surprisingly nice sound for an old Japanese plywood bass.
Definitely have sentimental attachment to my ibanez sr505. 2nd bass I ever owner first 'proper' bass after playing around with a gsr205 for a few months. Been used on every record I've released. Been on every tour. I have others that'll get used but always come back to the ibby. Has some serious wear n tear
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I was once told that "wear and tear" is another way of saying "broken in".
My dad still has the first bass he bought for me. It's a no name hollow body and the top is slowly pulling away from the sides and the neck is all twisted, but it has hung in his music room(s) since i bought my first bass with money i earned cutting grass during my 13th summer. As an Army brat who started earning at age 10, I didn't have the luxury of sentimentality for so many years so i never developed any attachment to any inanimate object. I managed however to hang on to the first .22 rifle, an old Winchester single shot bolt action handed down from my gramps, but other than that, the oldest thing i own is an early 90's US J Plus. I've got a hand full of old photos and i recently got a box of stuff after my mom passed that she'd saved from my childhood, but it reminds me more of her than it does of the past it represents of me. There are a few piles of old building material i saved from being dumped, but only because i hated to see a truck load of history just thrown away. I thought i might use it one day but since i can no longer climb around on things, my DIY home building days are over, so it just lays there waiting for it's champion to come along and rescue it.
i have two
my first bass, a usa "boner" p/j that i sold in HS and my mother tracked it down amazingly and bought it back. she gave it to me years later as a gift. it's a nice bass that with a little bit of fretwork i'd probably use all the time.
my other is my old german upright. it was sold to me by my first "real" upright teacher, for nearly nothing, and appraised years later as a somewhat valuable bass (exceeding $10k, and considered a great sounding bass at that range.) i found out right around the time of getting it appraised that it was sold to the man who i got it from from another one of my former teachers and now close friends. it's got a cool little story and reminds me of the great teacher i got it from, but is also a perfect instrument for me musically and physically.
i also just saw my first carvin 6 string on ebay. i wanted to buy it "just because." but realistically probably shouldnt, and the poor thing is in sad shape nowadays.
my first bass, a usa "boner" p/j that i sold in HS and my mother tracked it down amazingly and bought it back. she gave it to me years later as a gift. it's a nice bass that with a little bit of fretwork i'd probably use all the time.
my other is my old german upright. it was sold to me by my first "real" upright teacher, for nearly nothing, and appraised years later as a somewhat valuable bass (exceeding $10k, and considered a great sounding bass at that range.) i found out right around the time of getting it appraised that it was sold to the man who i got it from from another one of my former teachers and now close friends. it's got a cool little story and reminds me of the great teacher i got it from, but is also a perfect instrument for me musically and physically.
i also just saw my first carvin 6 string on ebay. i wanted to buy it "just because." but realistically probably shouldnt, and the poor thing is in sad shape nowadays.
Yes. The two that were gifts from my lady. I'd relinquish any other bass I owned rather than let either of those two go.
Ok,thought I would chime,hopefully not to bore you all,but ok OP,subject,is what it is? This 1980ish Peavey T-20,is sentimental for a good friend of mine's Mother wanted me to go help them buy a decent bass, for her son,to learn to play bass. This I figured would be an economical bass for him to learn to play? He lost interest,and I found out who had the bass 33 years later,and decided to buy it and keep it for that reason. I found it the condition,where someone had painted the pick guard black,so I cleaned it up then put the tortise pick guard,on there.
I know sentimental old fool. Keep on playing!
Back in '88, I found a lefty '86 Ibanez Roadstar 850 in a local pawn shop. I had an '83 Precision I hated and a MIJ Jazz that was much better but not quite what I wanted, so I decided to roll the dice and bought it. It turned out to be exactly what I wanted; I really found myself as a bassist on that bass. A few years l decided to get a new Soundgear 800, so I traded the P-bass in and later sold the RB 850 to a friend who defretted it. A few years later he bought a Fretless Stingray 5, and sold the RB 850 back to me, as I was interested in having a fretless. I eventually built my Warmoth fretless, and sold off the RB 850 again. A couple of weeks back I went to a local music store to get a part, and there it was, still fretless, but now strung in reverse.
Turns out I'm a bit sentimental.
I plan to put it back the way it was when I first got it.
Turns out I'm a bit sentimental.
I plan to put it back the way it was when I first got it.
A little. I would definitely miss a couple of them badly if some harm were to befall them. But each one has a unique story to tell.
FENDER RBIV. When V string released was my dreamed come true. But i play IV. When IV was released i was into other things. By the time i realised i was going to buy one, they were very hard to find. Took me a couple of years to grab my hands into one. The only way i can part with this one is if i find a better shape and sounding RBIV. But by how this basses are going today into market, i dont see this coming in a near future..
Not by the possesive way...
Here in Brazil is complicated to buy a good instrument, we alredy have some availability but is very expensive, so after bought, you have to take care a lot, at least im ny condition.
OTOH I don't like people puttting hands on my gear.
Here in Brazil is complicated to buy a good instrument, we alredy have some availability but is very expensive, so after bought, you have to take care a lot, at least im ny condition.
OTOH I don't like people puttting hands on my gear.
