2013 was a really light year for me, I sold one bass, bought one bass and one snare drum, upgraded my bass rig and PA. For me that wasn't too over the top. I assumed that I had matured and my bass (and drum) G.A.S. was forever cured.
I WAS WRONG.
I bought an early 2000s FSR Ash American Jazz bass, that was my only purchase through May of this year. Things picked up a bit in June...
I ordered and paid for a Rickenbacker 4003W the first week of June, I'm still waiting for it to arrive. I'm counting this as my second bass purchase for the year, that wasn't too bad. Two new basses?
A new old stock American Select Precision popped up on eBay for a ridiculously low price the day I got out of the hospital from a health scare. I took that as a sign and bought it. That was the third week of June and that made three new basses this year. (Uh-oh.)
I LOVED the neck on the Select P! Right about that time Fender came out with the American Standard Jaguar bass. That really seemed cool, but they didn't offer it with a maple fret board. I got the crazy idea to order an American Standard Jaguar body and an American Select Precision neck from "the Stratosphere" and put together the "perfect" (at least for me) Jaguar bass. It took a while to get all of the parts and pieces together, but I did it. That was bass number four for the year.
I stumbled upon a Peavey Foundation for a good price, that was at the end of the summer and brought my bass acquisitions for the year to five.
I got rid of one around this time. I traded my Schecter C-4 XXX for a Martin acoustic electric guitar, I couldn't pass that deal up.
I'd been wanting to pick up my first five string for a while. I was planning on buying an American Standard Precision V, but I stumbled upon an American Deluxe Dimension HH V brand new for a good price. That was bass purchase number six for 2014.
I ran across a Fender American Precision Plus (Boner bass) that a local guy was selling. I've always wanted to own an American Precision with a P/J configuration. This one is in perfect condition for a 23 year old bass. Yes, it came home with me too. Um, that was number seven.
When the Honeyburst Precision special came out in 2012 I commented that I'd love to own one someday. Two years later I bought one and it's been getting a lot of use these days. That was number eight.
Then a friend of mine dropped his favorite bass, a Schecter five string and he put an ugly gouge in it. He asked me to PLEASE buy it from him to get it out of his sight. I really had no interest in that bass, but he offered it to me for less than the price of a used Affinity bass. That brought the total to nine bass purchases this year, balanced by trading one away.
On top of this I bought an American Special Telecaster, a Hot Rod Deluxe tube guitar amp, a Blues Deluxe tube amp, A Bassman TV 12 combo amp, a vintage Gretsch USA drum kit, some Chauvet LED lights and I bought a couple of more QSC K-12s as monitors in a continuation of upgrading my PA.
We need a bigger house...
