As in the Japanese Memphis?
I kinda wish I'd been around to save it.
It's probably been butchered and thrown in a trash can.
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Selling your first bass
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As in the Japanese Memphis?
I kinda wish I'd been around to save it.
It's probably been butchered and thrown in a trash can.
I sold my first bass a long time ago, It was a Squire Bronco Bass. It was a great bass and all, but I played a full scale Fender MIM I did not look back,
I still have my first bass, a BC Rich warlock that I did a crappy job of drilling in some EMG P/J pickups. Lost the back cover which is held on by Duct tape. It needs a new nut but I still love that POS.
Bought my 1st bass well before I figured out what I like. Dumped it long ago and don't miss it a bit. However, I learned bass as an adult-maybe I'd be nostalgic for it if I'd started playing 25 years ago when I was a kid.
I can't get rid of mine, for sentimental reasons, and because i KNOW i will regret it. It was my uncles, he got it from a pawn shop in the early 70s, as far as I can tell a near perfect copy of the Gibson EB-3, the differences being the neck joint is bolt-on rather than set neck, les-paul style pickup selector switch rather than the rotary, and the tuners are the same sealed tuners as so many of those 70s japanese copies you see.
I dont play it much, mainly due to it not really being my sound, I like more definition than mud ;P But it still looks and feels great, and sometimes it IS the sound I want, this bass just oozes classick rock, not to mention having 30+ year old flatwounds!
There is such a variety to 'first basses', ive seen kids with absolute crap like a bronco bass, or really nice ones like some rather fancy Ibanez basses. Its all a matter of sound and feel, and sometimes tastes change. Personally I try to hold onto as much as I can because I've seen far too many stories of 'the one i let slip away'
I dont play it much, mainly due to it not really being my sound, I like more definition than mud ;P But it still looks and feels great, and sometimes it IS the sound I want, this bass just oozes classick rock, not to mention having 30+ year old flatwounds!
There is such a variety to 'first basses', ive seen kids with absolute crap like a bronco bass, or really nice ones like some rather fancy Ibanez basses. Its all a matter of sound and feel, and sometimes tastes change. Personally I try to hold onto as much as I can because I've seen far too many stories of 'the one i let slip away'
Sold my Squier Bronco POS. I hated it so much, all I get was mud. But a T-40 sounds excellent right now....
I cried when I sold my first bass. But that was because it represented such a huge change in my life. Lousy bass - a Stagg - and no amount of upgrading (believe me, I made her unrecognizable) changed the fact that she had no balance and no ergonomics. I force-fed her tone - bone nut, double passive EMG soaps in series, Hipshot bridge - so she sounded okay, but she was never what I really wanted.
Just like an ex - a bad decision, and I'd never take back either of 'em.
Just like an ex - a bad decision, and I'd never take back either of 'em.
