After years of window shopping on here I am pretty tired of GAS and just want to play. Im resolved to the fact that Im never going to play a bunch of high end gear. But a Roscoe is one that I really do want to try. Going to be a 40th gift to myself I think.
The problem I have with high-end basses is that they're all so *good*! It makes you want to own *all the basses*. It's a good thing for me that my tastes don't run to the exotic. The two basses I own now are as exotic as I would ever need or want an instrument to be.
My StingRay is the epitome of the Leo Fender style of instrument: ash body, maple neck, pau ferro fingerboard (would prefer ebony, but I'm OK with pau ferro), and gorgeous transparent finish with matching headstock. That will never not work for me. The only thing out of the ordinary with mine is it has the piezo bridge and I put on a black pearl pickguard that looks like a million bucks, but only cost about $30, I think.
My Warwick is fancy without going totally over the top: solid flamed big leaf maple body, ovangkol neck, ebony fingerboard. Natural oil finish, though I might have preferred a gloss varnish, in the end. She's really just a production instrument with a couple of custom options, equivalent to today's German made Teambuilt models.
I've been fortunate to live relatively near high-end dealers in the past, so I've played stuff like Pedullas and Zons, and such, and while I'd be thrilled if someone gave me one, I don't feel any particular need to save up for something like that. The $1500-2000 level of bass or guitar is all I'll ever need, just a proper pro level production instrument, with maybe a few custom options to suit my particular tastes (piezo, certain pickups, matching headstock finish, certain pickup wiring, that sort of thing).
