Regretting selling my Squier Matt Freeman P

[Wfrance3]

My first bass, which was a passive trans blue blue warmoth dinky PJ with Pre-Clyde Bart pickups Had black hipshots with a drop D, schaller steel bridge. Neck was birdseye. with matching headstock paint. Sounded great with flats on it. Selling that one was a bone-head move.

In my own defense, I hadn't played it for like a year because I had migrated to 5s. I just didn't think to string it up BEAD....

 

[winterburn69]

Hey All,

I sold my Matt Freeman P a while back, and regret it quite a bit. Cannot find a used one for sale anywhere.

What bass do you regret selling?

PS - Any Australian based TBers want to sell me theirs?

I played one in a store once. Very much wish I bought it, fantastic value for the money.

They're pretty hard to come by on the used market. It seems everyone that has one is keeping it.

 

[Maxfenderbass]

Amen, I sold mine to my producer and it will be forever the one that got away.

 

[40Hz]

The only bass I ever gave up and regretted was an Alembic that I was pretty much forced to sell back in the late 80s.

Made a vow after that to never let myself get put in a position like that again. No matter what.

 

[johnson79]

Wish I kept my first bass, a black T40. I wanted a Fender Jazz and sold it for like $250 or $300. But, as a 39 year old dude, I long for the simpler times and heavy basses of my teens...

 

[Madhouse27]

I sold my mid 80's Hondo All-Star. Left-handed black, black with maple. I don't exactly know what it was, but something about that bass made women horny. I know I'm never getting it back, because whoever's got it will never give it up. Truly magical object.

 

[phillipkregg]

My Music Man Bongo 4HH... I am migrating back to 4 string and I knew I would regret selling it.

Best 4 string I've ever owned for both sound versatility and playability.

 

[jeff7bass]

I will never sell my Matt Freeman bass because it totally cured my P-Gas and is worth more than I would ever get for it. The Blonde finish, the maple neck, the brass saddles, it's a total looker and it sounds every bit as good as my buddy's Japanese P-Bass. It came with ZERO buzz (low-medium action) and the neck has been hard-rock stable.

 

[Plake]

I had a 96 and a 97 Flea bass. Should have kept one.

 

[levis76]

Though it was the least useful and least comfortable, I think I miss the Corvette the most.

I also regret selling my ‘vette. It was a ‘94 with a slim jazz/Ibby like all wenge neck. Loaded it with Bart’s and left it passive, it was a swell bass. If I had gone with EMG’s I probably would have kept it. It definitely wasn’t the prettiest hunk of bubinga and the body felt like a chopping block, but it had a fantastic natural tone, the tone of wood.

 

[Swampish]

Had some regret about selling my 2007 Gibson Thunderbird Studio, especially now with all the problems over at Gibson, but in all honesty, the tone was not versatile for what I needed and I'm not one to change basses during sets if I can avoid it. Sold it so that I could get a Sterling MusicMan that I really love. Still, the T-bird was a great bass for when we were doing classic rock.

 

[tpaul]

I sold my mid 80's Hondo All-Star. Left-handed black, black with maple. I don't exactly know what it was, but something about that bass made women horny. I know I'm never getting it back, because whoever's got it will never give it up. Truly magical object.

Seems like it might be worth trying to find another one. You know, just as an experiment.

 

[Madhouse27]

Seems like it might be worth trying to find another one. You know, just as an experiment.

LOL, I've always been a black/maple freak and recently completed a build in that style. It appears I missed the secret ingredient....

 

[basted]

I sold my original p bass and regretted it for a while. But then I realised that if I hadn't sold it I wouldn't have been able to try a jazz and then two more p basses.
So maybe I would be playing the original and wondering what would a jazz bass be like? I now have a 2012 Am standard p and a MIM p bass and they are both good so thats ok.

 

[stringthrough]

So many!!! Here's a partial list.

'77 J Bass
Early 80's Sting Ray (not a string-through but from before Ernie Ball bought Music Man)
Early 80's Ken Smith that was featured in his first catalog (with only a 2 digit serial number!)
Early 80's, MIA Schecter bass, assembled in Rudy's NYC shop
'82 Ibanez 824 Musician Bass
Early 80's, first generation G&L L-1000
MIA Steinberger XP-2 Bass (with the V-shaped body)

And I'm not even listing the guitars I regret selling.

 

[jnslprd]

Bought mine used and mint $210 with gig bag. (thank you, Craigslist). One of my favorites. a keeper. How do the current Squier Classic Vibe 70's P. now available compare to the MF? Or how does it perform in general?View attachment 2952412 View attachment 2952413

Same story here, got it for $200 and love it to death. It wouldn't be worth selling as to me it is worth 5 times the price I paid , I tried a wall full of P basses and didn't find any I liked better.

 

[39-Bassist]

I sold my 1983 Squier P bass (twice) and regret it all the time....ugh

 

[fretter]

My '83 precision clone.

 

[Kukulkan61]

Me too....

 

[Clef_de_fa]

Never regretted selling anything.

If you sold it, it must be because something bodered you ...