Never would I sell my main bass. Handmade by me and my father for my senior project. Spent a semester researching and building it from 2 sticks of wood, along with a parts/donor bass (SX rock n rose). I would honestly never sell it, its worth the world and then some to me.
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How attached are we to our basses?
- Thread starter dwm74
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Only one. In late 1966 (when I was 13), my dad came home with a '66 Gibson EB3 in cherry red and handed it to me. Not Xmas or my B'day, just a gift from my dad. That one is going to my granddaughter. Thanks dad....RIP!
i always customize my basses with personal preferences like pickups, thumbrest, etc, so i almost never sell a bass because buyers dont want to pay for a used bass with better component added by other bassist. They prefer the same bass brand new that is cheaper.
Considering I just woke up to find myself spooning with my '62 Fender VI? I'd say I'm a little too attached!
Fairly attached.
Main player took 6 months and more than 10 different brands of basses tried to "fit" into the sound of my current band. The main player, a 12 year old Greco LP clone, does that.
1989 Steinberger TransTrem, Epiphones, Gibsons, Brice's, Fender, etc. all sold.
Kept one Brice T-Bird and a Rondo P/J in case I ever "need" those sounds.
Hunted down 2 more like my main player in the past 4 years.
Main player took 6 months and more than 10 different brands of basses tried to "fit" into the sound of my current band. The main player, a 12 year old Greco LP clone, does that.
1989 Steinberger TransTrem, Epiphones, Gibsons, Brice's, Fender, etc. all sold.
Kept one Brice T-Bird and a Rondo P/J in case I ever "need" those sounds.
Hunted down 2 more like my main player in the past 4 years.
I'm very attached to my MIM Precision. It's nothing special, but it was the first *good* bass that I bought with my own money, and it represents many, many mowed lawns and snow-shoveled driveways. I'll keep it with me for as long as it's playable. It might go through new necks/bodies, but some part of the bass will always be with me 
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I'm super attatched to my two Fenders. And my upright! Other than that, nope. The other two are hopefully on their way out in favor of something MUCH nicer 
Over the past 3-4 years I've sold every old bass I've accumulated through my 30 year career. None of it was relevant to the player I was becoming. These were basses I had decades long relationships with, vintage, boutique, and cool experiments. I had no trouble letting them go. It allowed me to expand on what I was as a player and learn from the new. I was not going to play those again and sentiment is not enough to hoard them all. I have pictures, recordings, memories , and a bunch of sweet new basses to keep me excited and growing.
My SR 505 is the most beat up, worn bass I own. The finish has wore off the hardware, screws and springs rusted from sweat, a piece of headstock is glued back on. But it plays great, the action is killer as is the tone.
have an aria avb since about 1990 love it more than any bass i ever had.fast neck great feel and no matter what else i have played nothing comes close..dont use it anymore the electrics are well past their best,output is not that good and very little adjustment in tone..dont know enough about picups and electrics to change them, still ill never part with it..
The only bass I've ever owned that I will NEVER part with is my '62 Jazz. When I pass it will go to my son, a professional musician who will play it much better than I have...
My old Fender Precision, and (gasp) my Blue SX SPB 62 are not for sale at any pice
. Nope, not for a million dollars or a trailer load of (insert your favorite high end brand here) basses.
Any other basses I've ever owned, can go or have gone... but those two are the only "keepers" in the fleet.
. Nope, not for a million dollars or a trailer load of (insert your favorite high end brand here) basses.
Any other basses I've ever owned, can go or have gone... but those two are the only "keepers" in the fleet.
The three basses I own now are the only ones I have owned, and I will have them in my possession 'til the day I die. Each one has a specific meaning to me. Any more that I may get in the future may be negotiable, but my first three will always be with me.
My basses are all stock but I went through a period of never owning more than 4 basses at a time, but owned 18 different basses over a period of 2.5 years. I get major GAS, but the four basses I have now are "it" for me (for the curious: '09 MIA P-Bass, '08 MIA Jazz, '50s P-Classic, heavily customized '02 MIM Jazz V) ... as a result I took measures to increase their sentimental value to myself while decreasing the resale value to everyone else! lol
I'm not one to grow attached to basses but I think my Fender FMT V is going to stick around for quite sometime. The only other time I enjoyed a bass this much was my Spector Euro 4LX. However, when you put it that way my basses are always for sale, lol. If someone offered me even 1.5x the cash I have invested in any one bass or piece of bass gear it would be gone, no questions asked . My aesthetic and tonal preferences aren't so specific that they would be difficult to find in another bass. Man... I love money, it lets me try all sorts of new bass stuff!
All that said, if a non-musician wants to touch my gear they'll be told not to unless they're fully prepared to pay for it. No exceptions.
. My aesthetic and tonal preferences aren't so specific that they would be difficult to find in another bass. Man... I love money, it lets me try all sorts of new bass stuff! All that said, if a non-musician wants to touch my gear they'll be told not to unless they're fully prepared to pay for it. No exceptions.
