recent thread about winning Lotto and Basses ... my experience ..!

[Tunaman]

possible regrets of gear I passed on ... maybe 1 , ... it happened that a few days after I won , the PRS distributor stopped by the store ... he actually let me have a $25,000 PRS Dragon guitar to take home over the weekend ... !! I could have bought it at cost of $10-12K ... it was stunning ... but I sucked at guitar and passed on it ... I think I really should have bought it at that price .. !

cars .... I do regret never coughing up the bigger bucks for a 911 turbo ... but I probably would have killed myself in it ... !!

advice for GAS .... simply buy Used ... !! shop around .... I tried to apply this logic for those Holy Grail type items ....
Find an alternative that gives 80% of the performance for No more than 50% of the price ...

You hit up the regrets missing gear, how about regrets on gear you bought?

 

[Funk³]

possible regrets of gear I passed on ... maybe 1 , ... it happened that a few days after I won , the PRS distributor stopped by the store ... he actually let me have a $25,000 PRS Dragon guitar to take home over the weekend ... !! I could have bought it at cost of $10-12K ... it was stunning ... but I sucked at guitar and passed on it ... I think I really should have bought it at that price .. !

cars .... I do regret never coughing up the bigger bucks for a 911 turbo ... but I probably would have killed myself in it ... !!

advice for GAS .... simply buy Used ... !! shop around .... I tried to apply this logic for those Holy Grail type items ....
Find an alternative that gives 80% of the performance for No more than 50% of the price ...

But…dragon…they're so beautiful! Was it the anniversary double neck?

 

[Chrisk-K]

If I won a lottery, I would be too busy buying all my dream gear to actually play.

 

[DavC]

94 Dragon was a single neck ... great inlays ... !!

only a few regrets with gear purchased ... for my 50th , the wife said to go buy that Warrior bass you've been looking at ... so I did ... I tried to love it ... it was very cool , but the rather flat radius just killed my hand/fingers ... I've played piano for 51 yrs , and bass/gtr for 40+ yrs ... the fingers are definitely getting pretty sore/stiff ... and a couple keyboards where rather disappointing ... the big Kurzweil K2600X , .... the newer Yamaha S90XS ... every Roland keyboard I've bought , since they just try to reuse the same samples from decades ago .... I'm very very happy with my newer Korg Kronos 88 ... it is really great ... and I have a smaller Yamaha MOXF6 which cover those motif sounds ...

I don't have enough time to get into pedals that didn't 'do it ' ... ha ...

I do Try to look for the Good in everything ... !!

 

[Funk³]

94 Dragon was a single neck ... great inlays ... !!

only a few regrets with gear purchased ... for my 50th , the wife said to go buy that Warrior bass you've been looking at ... so I did ... I tried to love it ... it was very cool , but the rather flat radius just killed my hand/fingers ... I've played piano for 51 yrs , and bass/gtr for 40+ yrs ... the fingers are definitely getting pretty sore/stiff ... and a couple keyboards where rather disappointing ... the big Kurzweil K2600X , .... the newer Yamaha S90XS ... every Roland keyboard I've bought , since they just try to reuse the same samples from decades ago .... I'm very very happy with my newer Korg Kronos 88 ... it is really great ... and I have a smaller Yamaha MOXF6 which cover those motif sounds ...

I don't have enough time to get into pedals that didn't 'do it ' ... ha ...

I do Try to look for the Good in everything ... !!

Can I ask why you didn't buy some of the REALLY high end stuff? I know you got a sexy Pedulla but why not something like Alembic or Jens Ritter?

 

[DavC]

my Alembic Elan II is in a previous pic ... in the 90's , I mostly shopped locally around Akron ... rather pre - internet shopping ... and I always thought high - middle was good enough ... real high end was kinda just showing off more than I already was ... like my rather average Rolex Oyster ($5k ) versus a Presidential ($10-20k) ... or buying cars under $100k , I got close , but never over ...

I've played lots of nice basses ... really liked my Pedulla , had it for 12 yrs ... miss it ... my 2nd fav would be my Sadowsky ... miss it also ... strangely I am very happy with my Warmoth builds/mods ... !!! I work on them myself ... trying to mod them with the features I liked from more expensive basses ....

I bought my Pedullas stupid cheap ... as I worked for a dealer ... and was at the factory in person and had a friend who worked there ... my ET5 w/many options retailed for about $6k ... I paid $1,500 .... and I grabbed a ET6 while at the factory for about $1,200 .... needless to say , I didn't lose any money on those .. !!

most of my life I spent " showing off " with my playing abilities ... showing off just owing/buying fancy stuff kinda made me feel like a dick fairly soon ... learning I didn't have to or need to buy high end crap just because I could ... !?!?!!

 

[DavC]

my biggest reason for less Need for Speed ... the wife's neck

 

[Funk³]

my biggest reason for less Need for Speed ... the wife's neck

Damn...is she okay now?

 

[DavC]

my most prized items ... are old trinkets from my grand parents ... Bronze star , old 1929 Gibson UB-1 banjo/uke , my first trumpet which my grandfather played all over Europe after WWII ... stuff like that ... fairly worthless , yet priceless to me ..!!

our dogs ... Rascal - a blue merle Aussie that we lost suddenly last year to cancer at 9 1/2 ... and Reggie ,our newer red merle Aussie is 14 months .... really love my Aussies .. !!

 

[DavC]

the dogs ...

Rascal - rip ( a yr ago )

Reggie - at 14 months

 

[Funk³]

the dogs ...

Rascal - rip ( a yr ago )

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Reggie looks beautiful! Sorry for your loss with Rascal

 

[Tunaman]

my biggest reason for less Need for Speed ... the wife's neck

As a physical therapist. That's a horrible neck!! My god , there's no feeling good with that

 

[Humbled]

I often wondered if I made any babies while I was ' on the road' ...

No kidding. The world's shrinking fast and searching for people is getting way easier, so that does go through my mind also. I don't know if I dread or would welcome opening my door and seeing a thirty-something standing there that looks a lot like me. It's been long enough now that I don't even think my wife would be PO'd.

 

[Dark Horse]

the dogs ...

Rascal - rip ( a yr ago )

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Gorgeous dogs. So sorry about Rascal. Clearly Rascal was such a great dog that you got Reggie to follow in his footsteps !

 

[slamsinger]

Ok I've NEVER read a full thread that has been listed on here .... Until THIS one.... Extremely intriguing to say the least! i truly enjoyed hearing all the aspects and the road from 1994- till now ... Ups and downs - lots of money- changes - heartache - joy - lessons learned - great life story from a lottery winner ... Kudos to you my friend ! Seems you have a great aspect on your life ... Once again I applaud you ... Nice read

 

[jaysbass2002]

Ok I've NEVER read a full thread that has been listed on here .... Until THIS one.... Extremely intriguing to say the least! i truly enjoyed hearing all the aspects and the road from 1994- till now ... Ups and downs - lots of money- changes - heartache - joy - lessons learned - great life story from a lottery winner ... Kudos to you my friend ! Seems you have a great aspect on your life ... Once again I applaud you ... Nice read

Spot on!!

 

[JimmyM]

So overall, you'd rate winning Lotto as a positive experience?

 

[DavC]

Ok I've NEVER read a full thread that has been listed on here .... Until THIS one.... Extremely intriguing to say the least! i truly enjoyed hearing all the aspects and the road from 1994- till now ... Ups and downs - lots of money- changes - heartache - joy - lessons learned - great life story from a lottery winner ... Kudos to you my friend ! Seems you have a great aspect on your life ... Once again I applaud you ... Nice read

Thanks ... I thought the Low End TB folks might like it ... I'm really not trying to be a snooty pecker-head ... just sharing ...!! I spend a lot of time reading and writing around here ... there's lots of great people here ..! I like to try and share some of my experience and/or knowledge .... since we're ALL learning something new every day ..!

 

[Humbled]

So overall, you'd rate winning Lotto as a positive experience?

I know a fellow that won pretty big, and I'll never forget the time he said: "You have no idea what it's like to be awakened by the doorbell at 6:00am to find a sobbing girl you've never seen before standing on your front porch holding a baby that needs an $80k operation that she can't afford to pay for..."

 

[MobileHolmes]

Just curious, would you have been better off getting payments over the lump-sum pay out? As in it would take longer to become rich, but your net winnings after 10 or 20 years would have surpassed your net lump sum payout.

My Impression (having won 4 dollars this week in the mega millions) is that, if you have the self control to invest it sensibly and not overspend, you are generally better off taking the lump sum and investing it in something pretty safe. So basically, you get about half to have it all now, or you get all of it over 20 years. For a hypothetical, if you won 2 million and took a 1 million lump sum. If you invested it in something with a five percent return, you'd have 2.6 million after 20 years (and would have hit the 2 at year 15). That said, you;d need the self control to not just spend it all on dope or invest it in your brother's hair brained scheme's or whatever.