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I regret selling....
- Thread starter 54321BASSOFF
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you mean: "some of you old farts" --- right?
i think you're right! no harm, no foul! 
per the OP: no regrets. i've only kept the things that work for me, the rest were 'experiments'. TBH: axes that i liked earlier were good pieces, but: tastes and circumstances change...my axes have to 'keep up' --- or they're out.
A custom shop Precision that I got used from Guitar Center, who had it priced as though it was a used American Standard. A great bass, but too heavy. I also had a fretless Music Man in the late 1970s; should definitely have kept that.
Everything I owned when I was younger was cheap junk. I've only gotten good gear in the past several years. No regrets.
My Marshall VS100 head. I have a Marshall DSL100H now and it's nowhere near as versatile as the other head was. The VS100 was channel switching as is the DSL100H. The difference is all of the channels on the VS were usable together. It had 3 channels. Clean, some dirt and a whole lot of dirty. You could easily switch between the channels because the volume stayed the same. My DSL is nothing like that. Every time you change a channel a resetting of the gains is in order. Changing channels during a song is out of the question. The VS also had an adjustable loop. You could mix the loop effects with the non loop signal however you liked it. The DSL doesn't have that option.
The only thing I regretted selling was my first P bass. It was a 2002 MIM. Nothing special at all. But, I moved on to Musicman Basses around 2010 and sold my P. I came back around and now own many high end P and J Basses. But, I still missed my first P. Out of nowhere, the guy I sold it to hit me up on Facebook last year and asked if I wanted to buy it, as he was done playing music. He sold my girl back to me for $250, which was what I sold it to him for. The only problem was the neck had twisted and the frets were tore up. I bought a used Fender Precision Big Block neck and she’s back in gigging rotation. I also put Fender Original 62 pickups, a pure vintage bridge, and a celluloid vintage tort guard on it. I get compliments on it all the time!
1965 Fender Jazz, 1976 Fender Precision, 1976 Carl Thompson, early '70's Rickenbacher 4001.
The one's that got away . .
The one's that got away . .
I regret nothing. Every bass I've sold or traded - and there were some really good ones - was sacrificed for something that fit me better. I currently have six basses and I wouldn't trade any of them for one of my old ones.
Guild B301A -- My first bass
Kramer DMZ5000 -- Cool and versatile, despite the neck dive
Fireglo Rick 4001 of unknown year (mid-late 70s?) -- Because Rick and it was in cherry condition.
Kramer DMZ5000 -- Cool and versatile, despite the neck dive
Fireglo Rick 4001 of unknown year (mid-late 70s?) -- Because Rick and it was in cherry condition.
I regret selling my stock mid 60's Gibson ES345 (stereo) and HSC. Sold for $500 in order to help buy my first house. (which I also sold a while back). I don't miss the house but I wish I had that sweet guitar.
