I actually find better deals in pawns most of the time .
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So this thing followed me home ....
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I actually find better deals in pawns most of the time .
Really? All I ever find are used Squiers advertised as Fenders asking for the original retail price.
Nice score Dark Horse. I put Jackbass Guts into an artcore and it has worked very well.
Wow, I've never heard of this bass before. That's a pretty shameless copy but it does look like they improved on the bridge which IIRC can be a weak spot on the JC. Was this presumeably made in the same factory after production moved?
Peerless Guitars Co Ltd
I have a Peerless Bassmaster, which is about the same bass, still made in Korea after Epi moved on to China. What a sound it puts out.
Wow, I've never heard of this bass before. That's a pretty shameless copy but it does look like they improved on the bridge which IIRC can be a weak spot on the JC. Was this presumeably made in the same factory after production moved?
Peerless Guitars Co Ltd
Well i am from the bay area, where craiglist started. Here you can furnish your entire home nicely with free stuff on cl. The deals on instruments are as good as it gets. Pawn shops are there for profit, while people on cl are often just strapped fof cash and need to sell quickly.
I play 150-200 shows a year ...which is a LOT less than I used to. I play music for a living
Still, imagine how much time youd have to practice, compose, etc. Without having to maintain a room full of basses. I have just a single really good bass, all i will ever need. Simplicity and minimalism is a vastly superiot philosophy than materialism ime.
Perhaps you could look into adding a little humility into your philosophical mix.
Owning many basses is not necessarily an expression of materialistic priorities. For some of us it's a spiritual quest, with goals that reach beyond this mortal plane.
Dont believ in humility, at least as far as philosophy. I am humble about things i dont know about. Arbitrary humility is simply something others want you to be so they can feel above you. Anyway, simply expressing a philosophical and pragmatic viewpoint is not exactly showing a lack of humility.
I know some of the greats had only one main instrument, but today I don't think there are many professional bassists who would agree with that. There's such a wide variety of music to play and instruments to play it on that most players of electric instruments maintain a stable of instruments for different purposes and tones. Even most upright bass players I know have more than one instrument!
Dang, this is pretty judgemental.
I respect the value of simplicity, but there are many reasons that folks buy instruments. Some collect them, some treat it like a side source of income and flip them to make a profit. Some like to fix up junkers. Some are always looking for new tones. Some are some combination of these. None of these -or the choice not to acquire- is a bad thing unless it begins to affect a person's life or the way they treat others in a negative way.
As for myself I probably acquire a guitar or bass every couple months. They never stick around and for me it's mostly enjoyment of fixing up a junker and getting it back into service in a new home, all while making a modest profit.
Of course it is. Same thing with owning a bunch of shoes. Imelda marcos used the same argument when trying to justify buying a bunch of material goods with the filipino treasury funds. Her argument was that she needed expensive things because it was equal to deep love and culture. But any wise person knows the more crap you own the more it owns you. You can argue materialism as a philosophy, i have heard it done so fairly well, but dont try to say its not materialism and shopping addiction and gear lust, because thats what it is. I know because i have suffered from it in the past and still do to some degree.
You can say that about any opinion, that its judgemental. We are all judgemental, we constantly judge each other and ourselves. To call someone judgemental for expressing an opinion is no different than calling someone human. All i said was that simplicity is a superior philosophy to materialism in my experience. How could that possibly be excessively judgemental? Its almost not even worth saying its so basic and obvious.
Anyway i have seen many people in my life including myself with shopping addiction, and its simply a compulsion. The goods are not making the people any happier, its just the act of acqusition that gets them off. Theres nothing morally wrong with it necessarily, but just on a personal level it is bad philosophy in every case i have seen it.
Sounds like you are being condescending, but false humility is the same as dishonesty. Your idea of humility is groupthink and never going against the grain to express a possibly unpopular opinion.
Nice! I picked up a '68 starfire from a pawn shop once. Kind of feels like you won the jackpot, huh?
These are great basses! I picked up a brand new one a week or 2 ago from a friend's shop that was closing it's doors. The only 2 basses left after the weekend sales were 2 of these. I should've bought both and defretted one.
What works for you doesn't have to work for me. I spend more time playing the 99% of people. That doesn't mean that I don't have time to have instruments that I like and need for my business. I also do studio work, which means I need to have a variety of sounds available at any given time, plus I am hired by different artists for different things. Sure, 90% of what I do Could be handled by precision bass, but the other 10% is what keeps me busier than most. Having a Longhorn, or the right hollow body, the proper bass or amp for a given song or artist is a part of how I keep busy.
Think of it this way, A woodworker, a good woodworker, can get by with a minimal amount of tools. A basic saw or two, sandpaper, some chisels, etc. That doesn't mean that he shouldn't have things like routers, drill presses, etc. that make his job easier and more efficient, so that he can make a living.
Again, different strokes for different folks.
Or, like @Dark Horse himself noted, they are tools of the trade.
