Has any one regretted selling a certain bass?

[MikeyB]

Ken Smith BSR5MW - Zebrawood.

Sold it to fund some recording equipment, which I never really used as much as expected. So, took a hit on the bass, took a hit on the gear...

-M

 

[Toyoman]

40th aniversary fender custom shop P bass 282 out of 400 made.A 1965 fender precision and a 1965 Fender jazz bass.And finally a MM Stingray 5 string in butterscoth see through finish.Reason for selling all over the years? Stupidity!

 

[Nino Valenti]

But Nino - you have the tools, you have the talent...you could build your own!!! An "Homage de Leo," if you will. You've taken the jazz design to the next level...what about the MM?

I could but this MM was nice. I didn't know what it was when I owned it. B00 serial #, '76 which was the 1st year of production.

 

[Baker69]

I've regretted selling most of the basses I've got rid of, but it has been a necessary sacrifice to fund the purchase of another bass I wanted more (at the time).

 

[Kink Rimson]

I won't be adding much to this list as it is too distressing...

 

[fleabee]

I think I only have one bass that i DONT regret selling-Fender Jazz Fretless-what a nightmare bass-toneless and nothing short of garbage made. Must have been a total fluke.

 

[HogieWan]

I sold my first bass, a yamaha p copy that I had boiught used to buy a 5 string ibanez

 

[johnnyz]

I had an early 80s black Ric, sold to me for $350 in the late 80s. I was just starting out, a generous soul sold it to me. I did not fully understand what I had. I moved across country a few years later and sold it to the guy who replaced me in my band for about the same amount, he was a good dude and poor like me, I thought I'd share the love. He offered to sell it back to me for the same amount a few years ago. I didn't move fast enough and lost my chance. Not buying it back is what really kills me.

 

[gillento]

Lakland DJ5 in Oly White with Maple neck & Aeros

 

[ProfGumby]

I have sold 4 basses in my life...I regret selling all but one of them.

1) Cortez P Bass copy, my first bass. Traded it in on a brand new, shiny red Peavey T 40....Should have kept it as it was a nice bass and sounded really good.

2) Shiny Red Peavey T 40 - I was a fool, stopped playing bass after I hurt my right hand at work. After sitting in the case for about 1 year I sold it to a friend of mine for a ridiculously stupid low price!

3) Ibanez 4 string. Active/passive Korean made Ibby. Dabbled with the bass again for a few months. Never bought an amp for it, and sold it as we needed cash for bills and I wasn't playing it anyway. I loved the way this bass felt in my hands.

4) P bass (ish) copy with the brand name "Fullerton" on it. This bass was the bass I had just bought from Music123 when I discovered TalkBass. I sold it to a friend to give to his son. This gift from my friend to his son rekindled his son's love of music and bass. he now plays everyday for over an hour and jams with other musicians weekly. I do not regret selling this bass!

 

[ric stave]

It's funny how many Ric's are on this list...

My first 'real' bass was a mid 70's 4001 - Natural, with checkerboard binding. Convinced my parents I HAD to have a better bass to go to Berklee - and then all I got was s#$% for it - still have performance reviews with the words 'clicky-ricky' sound' written on them - screw it - Squire, Lee and McCartney played 'em - good enough for me!

So a few years later I'm doing a show with a band, and I'm playing bass and synths - I reach over during a song to change a knob setting on my minimoog, and knock the tuners into my mic, so I go into my bass solo and my "A" string is down a step.....

...next week I sell the Ric (for about the same as I paid for it - about $450) and buy a headless Hohner Steinberger copy.

I've owned about 5-7 Steinbergers and copies since then, and also bought a 4003 for a while and then sold it (just need the 5 or 6 strings these days...) but I still regret letting go that 4001.

 

[Papazita]

This one

Chris Larkin Reacter(sp) 5-string.
The first and (so far) only custom bass I've had. I loved it, but I really needed the money.

Two others might be my first bass, a Fender (NOT Squire) Bullet short scale, and a Hagstrom Concord Deluxe.
I don't regret selling those two, as they were never in the greatest condition, but I wouldn't mind having them again. Or better yet, BETTER versions of them.

 

[Ezbass]

I'm kind of missing my old Stingray5 recently, although not its weight.

I also wish I still had my first bass, a Yamaha BB300, no pics sadly.

 

[ronin614]

Hohner Jack Bass Custom - Sold when money got tight and have regretted it since, to the point that I recently purchased another one and am always on the lookout for others.

Fender American HotRod P Bass lefty w/P and J setup - sold due to stupidity...no other reason comes to mind for the sale of that one!!!!!!!

 

[buzzbass]

yes, my 1st Ibanez US ATK 5. Luckily, I was able to find another. This is the ONLY Ibanez bass that you'll see in my hands. I generally don't care for anything they do.

 

[Din Of Win]

I regrett selling my first bass; a Harmony P Bass. There wasn't really anything wrong with it and it probably could have been pretty sweet with a pup change.

I sold it to a cousin that wanted to learn bass who, in turn, re-sold it for drugs a week later.

*sigh*

 

[Espidog]

Ovation Magnum 1 - had to let it go to make rent. Boo hoo. I've got one just like it now, but still wish I'd had it when it would have mattered.

My story exactly! Got my first one in 1986. Had to sell it in 1989. THIS WEEK I finally got hold of a Magnum II on eBay. It needs some overhauling, but I is one happy boy!

 

[electracoyote]

name the bass and why you sold it

70s Gibson Thunderbird II. I have not yet been able to find a T-Bird that plays and growls like that one. If I could get only one back, that would be it. Sold for extreme lack of funds, and because I was a moron at the time.

 

[wilsonn]

Ovation Typhoon, hollow body, fretless. Mint, cherry condition. The Danny Partridge bass. I sold it to pay a heating bill one very cold winter in Chicago. Still looking for one to replace it.

 

[JTE]

A. I sold Mavis, the StingRay I bought in early 1979 or late 1978. I wasn't playing her much, I wanted a Guild Pilot so bad, and StingRays were going for about a grand then so I sold her. However, I sold her to a guy who was advertising in the back of Bass Player to buy old StingRays and that's how I met Dan Lakin. In fact, the newsletter he sent out which listed my StingRay, also was the one that announced this new bass he and Hugh McFarland put together. I now have two Lakland 4-94 as well as a Skyline 55-01. But I do want Mavis back..

B. I had a Hamer Cruise bass with the 2-Tek bridge. I'd been searching for a Jazz bass for years, and played everything I could get my hands on. I really wanted it to say "Fender" on the headstock, but they just didn't do it for me- not the Standards, nor the American Standards, nor the American Series, nor even the two (really poorly put together) VS '62 that the local dealer had come through. But there was this Hamer that kept haning on the wall, and I kept playing it. Eventually I realized that was the sound I was looking for, it had a ridiculously stable neck, and felt right. I sold it years later because I had been breaking G strings which I blamed on the 2-Tek, and I needed an amplified acoustic guitar. Shouldda kept the Hamer too.

C. A Fender California Precision Bass Special. Got her new, put on a set of GOOD tuning machines, and a week later stumbled upon my first Lakland for a steal. Eventually a friend of mine wanted to trade his Geddly Lee to me for my CA Precision and I did the deal. The sound of the Geddy was just a bit too twangy and nasal for me to work any harder at acclimated to that stupidly skinny neck, but in the meantime Drew had traded the CA P for a G&L Climax. I would really like to have another CA P Bass Special, and the MIM ones that followed them don't have the same fit and finish.

John