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The bass you'll always own.

#81
Probably a tie.

There's the bass I learned on: a '77 Music Man Stingray body with a fretless 1980 Sabre neck. I don't really love it, but it's very sentimental.

Then there's my '76 Musicmaster Bass, which my dad bought brand new, and I inherited. I still gig with it more than any other single bass I own, and it's even more sentimental to me than the Music Man.
 
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#82
No such thing (for me). In my time I've probably had two dozen basses over the years. They were fun in their time, then that time was over, and it was on to something else.

I've learned to never be too attached to any possession(s). I've lost everything I owned a few times, so it breaks you being too attached to things. And later, you buy things to replace this or that, and it's new and different and challenging. I can't imagine still playing (or even liking) something I bought in the 70's.
 
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#83
Carvin LB75 in koa bought for me by my then girlfriend (now wife) back in 1994. Besides the obvious emotional attachment, it's still my go-to bass for performing and recording. It just sounds and feels right.

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My Highway One P (modded, bridge, pickguard, EMG GZR) has been a true workhorse for years to me. Its player value far surpasses the resale value (the nitro finish is wearing off too, nicely). My ray on the left is in no danger either, especially now that I've put in John East preamp and Nordstrand pup, sounds like a proper vintage stingray. I'd love to add one more P and one more ray to my stable though. I need a maple fretboard version of both lol.
 
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#91
I have some actually

-Squier Affinity Series P-Bass. Cheap. My first bass. I plays nice but I've done a lot of terrible things to it. However, the story behind this bass is sentimental. When I was gonna buy my first bass (I was 16) my father took me to every possible music store in my city. Because I wanted that P-bass. In every store they had the Jazz Bass version, but I wanted the P-bass. So after spending the whole morning, there was just one store which can ask the distributor for it. They had it the following Wednesday. It was summer and I was on my school holidays, so I called my father that I was gonna go to the store to pick it up by train. My father said I was crazy (I bought the bass, the amp and some other things) and that I couldn't go by myself. After a long conversation, he took the afternoon off from work so that he could drive me to the store. It may sound like a silly story, but I love the bass because of it.

Many years later I got a Fender MP Dimension for my graduation and an Epiphone Jack Casady for my 25th birthday. I will keep those basses forever
 
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javi_bassist said:
I have some actually

-Squier Affinity Series P-Bass. Cheap. My first bass. I plays nice but I've done a lot of terrible things to it. However, the story behind this bass is sentimental. When I was gonna buy my first bass (I was 16) my father took me to every possible music store in my city. Because I wanted that P-bass. In every store they had the Jazz Bass version, but I wanted the P-bass. So after spending the whole morning, there was just one store which can ask the distributor for it. They had it the following Wednesday. It was summer and I was on my school holidays, so I called my father that I was gonna go to the store to pick it up in the train. My father said I was crazy (I bought the bass, the amp and some other things) and that I couldn't go by myself. After a long conversation, he took the afternoon off from work so that he could drive me to the store. It may sound like a silly story, but I love the bass because of it.

Many years later I got a Fender MP Dimension for my graduation and an Epiphone Jack Casady for my 25th birthday. I will keep those basses forever
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What's so silly about this? I wish that My "story" was HALF as COOL...
 
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My first bass, ibanez gio. Played to hell and back. Nothing special but just special to me. Ibanez 5 my parents surprised me with one year for Christmas and my first fender jazz that started as a MIM and since has evolved into a modded out machines. Only MIM left is the body.
 

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