Lets see your ride or die. Lets see that one bass you'll never sell. Maybe you had a huge collection and sold everything else off except for that one. Maybe you still have multiples but its your go to and the one you grab most. Maybe its retired and stored away so you can have it for many years to come after years of putting miles on it. Lets see them and here those stories.
I at one point had a US G&L L2000, Guild Pilot and this 2002 Fender MIM P in sage green metallic. Had to sell some items and no matter how much I loved the other two and was playing them over my Fender, the Fender was my first real bass I owned that I wasn't embarrassed of. I bought it new when I went to visit my uncle in LA from a local music store. We then tore it down and painted the competition strip and added the decal before throwing on a new coat of poly and flying back home to Vermont with it. He also had the neck plate engraved (July 2002 man Im glad he did that) and just noticed last week I just passed the twenty year mark since that trip and buying it.
It was the bass I used growing up playing in bands and even used by bassists in the bands I played guitar in. Also other bands we would often play with would use it when they popped a string and it was also lent out to other local bands we would play with to use for recording. In just the last few years I worked at a production company and it would go out on backline as a back up to their US P bass. A number of times the artist picked this bass over the US P, Im guessing because of the paint job. The last people to play it before I left were Cake and the Plain White Tees.
Too many memories and history tied up in this bass that I couldn't sell it and the other 2 had to go. Just picked up playing again for the first time in a decade and really glad I kept it. Shes aged a bit from being put away wet but still sings.
So now your turn....... and GO!
I at one point had a US G&L L2000, Guild Pilot and this 2002 Fender MIM P in sage green metallic. Had to sell some items and no matter how much I loved the other two and was playing them over my Fender, the Fender was my first real bass I owned that I wasn't embarrassed of. I bought it new when I went to visit my uncle in LA from a local music store. We then tore it down and painted the competition strip and added the decal before throwing on a new coat of poly and flying back home to Vermont with it. He also had the neck plate engraved (July 2002 man Im glad he did that) and just noticed last week I just passed the twenty year mark since that trip and buying it.
It was the bass I used growing up playing in bands and even used by bassists in the bands I played guitar in. Also other bands we would often play with would use it when they popped a string and it was also lent out to other local bands we would play with to use for recording. In just the last few years I worked at a production company and it would go out on backline as a back up to their US P bass. A number of times the artist picked this bass over the US P, Im guessing because of the paint job. The last people to play it before I left were Cake and the Plain White Tees.
Too many memories and history tied up in this bass that I couldn't sell it and the other 2 had to go. Just picked up playing again for the first time in a decade and really glad I kept it. Shes aged a bit from being put away wet but still sings.
So now your turn....... and GO!
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