Selling your first bass

[SuperFineLin9]

My first bass was a Peavy T-40 (still have it by the way, play it ever so often )
Every once in a while I consider selling it to put towards getting my next bass....but I just cant seem to do it.
anybody else get like this with theirs?

 

[Mr. Mig]

I know what you mean. My first bass was a '76 Fender P-Bass and I still have it. I could never get rid of it.

 

[waynobass]

Don't sell it. You'll regret it forever.

 

[RFord04]

I sold my Washburn 5 stringer (my first bass) to get my Dean 6 stringer (for sale, check my signature). Can't say I regretted it all that much, but I also sold my Fender Bassman25 combo amp to get a 300 watt Peavey 2x10 combo, and I do regret selling the amp. Best little combo I've ever played through.

 

[Electra Player]

You can sell anything but your T-40.
It'll kill you inside for as long as your alive.

I almost died when I dropped a pedal on my bass...then I made up a story it was actually a rabid squirrel bite.
I'd be a train wreck if I ever lost that bass.

 

[Nedmundo]

If you still really like it, you should keep it, even if you don't play it very often. If, however, you don't like it that much, I doubt you'll miss it, so you may as well sell it.

My first instrument was an Ibanez Studio guitar I received for my birthday in 1981. I liked it at first, but that changed immediately when I tried other guitars, especially Strats. I realized I would prefer just about any other decent guitar. But I kept it around because: (1) it was my first instrument; and (2) I had become a bass player, so guitar didn't matter as much. However, once I got back into guitar for home recording and arranging, I bought a Strat and decided to dump the old Ibby.

It took a long time, but I managed to use it as credit toward a sweet G&L SB-2 at a guitar show in 2007. And I have NEVER missed it. In fact, it was a relief to get rid of an instrument I didn't like, especially when it helped land me such an incredible bass.

P.S. My first bass was also a T-40, which was stolen in 1986. I bet I'd still have it otherwise.

 

[seedokebass]

I still have, and will never sell my 1st bass: a MIJ P-bass in Lake Placid Blue. Never!

 

[NoobOnRoad]

I think that I could sell it but I don't think It'll worth the money. Plus, It'll be my backup.

 

[choo5]

don't sell your T-40, its worth more than what you will get for it, atleast hold on for a few more years if your keen to sell & get a better price imo.

i'd love a T-40...

 

[ashtray9]

I disassembled my first and second bass so they would fit easily into the garbage can. First was an epiphone accu-bass, the second an ibanez gsr200. Lousy instruments.

 

[Murphys Law]

Can't sell mine, its in pieces
parted it out...

 

[wdinc01]

Well, I was coming in here ready to give you some advice about what you should do with your first bass, but being its a T-40 I would seriously keep that thing. My first bass was a Squier Affinity P bass that came in a pack with an amp and stuff. I still use the amp everyday (great practice amp), but I never sold the bass. Partially because I grew attached to it, and partially because I wasn't going to get much money for it.

I'm happy to say, though, that a friend of mine (my brother's ex, to be exact) is using it to learn on. So if you feel like that you're not using it anymore, let someone else learn on it!

 

[bass_snake]

I just traded my first one for a trumpet. It took 13 years to get rid of it.

Fred

 

[Valerus]

i havent sold my crappy squier because no one would buy it if I tried to sell it.
I sold my second bass and it didnt affect me at all.

 

[amper]

I'd have no problem selling my first bass, my '92 Jazz Plus V, but only if I had first replaced it with something similar that I liked even better, which at this point I'm thinking will be a custom Warmoth Deluxe J 5. Essentially, I'm looking for a perfected version of my Jazz Plus V.

 

[bass_snake]

i havent sold my crappy squier because no one would buy it if I tried to sell it.

I love Squires. Huge fan of those basses.

 

[Valerus]

I love Squires. Huge fan of those basses.

no no no you don't understand

it's a STARTER PACK Squier.
I respect their vintage series line and whatnot.

but this thing is B-A-D. Sounds like a dumptruck.

 

[Illbay]

no no no you don't understand

Dude, he spells it "S-Q-U-I-R-E." Of course the doesn't understand.

 

[MatticusMania]

I sold my first bass, only because it was crap. A johnson P/J combo. Didnt sound too bad but it had such bad neckdive. I unloaded that and a broken carvin amp for $40. Best bud I ever smoked.

 

[xaxxat]

Guitars and women... They're meant to be passed on to the next guy...