back in 2006, my senior year in high school, my dad told me he wanted to get me a nice bass as a christmas/graduation gift. i asked him for a price range and he just told me to find something and he would see what he could do. i spotted the 57AVRI in a fender catalog and just fell in love with the looks of the thing (my first bass was a P so i wasn't worried about picking it out only based on looks) circled it and showed my dad. again he just said he would see what he could do. i thought that there was no way i'd actually get it, it was $1400 and that was more than twice as much money as either of us had into any instrument at the time.
come christmas morning tho he surprised me with it (and my mom and i surprised him with a 4003) and ever since it's just been the one. sometimes i think about using another one of my basses as my main for a gig, but i always end up going with the 57. there's just something special about it. i play hard, and have a habit of throwing/dropping/kicking/standing on it on stage. nothing has ever broken on it, and i've only ever really had to make minor bridge adjustments over the years. it just stays set up where i want it. thank god, because i do not want to have to take the neck off for a truss rod adjustment.
yes, i know, it's very filthy.
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also in case you're wondering, gregory was a stray cat that hung out at my friend's bar and he was my favorite.
