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Show us your Stickered Up Basses!

My 7yr old did mine.


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Here is my early 80's Gibson Explorer that slowly got the sticker treatment I'd say over 8-10 years.....by the time I realized that it was a fairly valuable bass it was too late. (plus Gibson basses in general went way up in the late 90's, I got this for 300 or 350 way back in the early 90's) I like it though, I know I will never sell it so shag it, I'll keep it as is. A lot of memories of crazy times in some of those stickers!! But damn.........it IS a Gibson Explorer. At least I didn't cover it in sparkly nail polish like I did my black Gibson Thunderbird Bass which I then had to completely strip to bare wood.
 

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Well, not per see a bass anymore as I converted it to sort of a slide baritone bass (but used to be my main bass):

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I decorated it with these metallic colored star stickers (and silver glitter, which I did remove later) when I was playing in a kind of joke pop band called Silver Kings, around the time when I went to high school.

Never really cared to remove the stickers, after the device that it makes for a nice ironic counterpoint, to the in my opinion already terrible color for a bass: white.

Not too fitting when I still used it as my main bass in the band Menfolk (a noisy hardcore take on math rock) though, but who cares :p

Now it is retired from any live or band appearances, and merely figures as slide baritone (and on more rare occasions regular fretted, which is hard though with the strings raised so high up), as stated, on various recordings by me.
 
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