The one that got away!

[brian579]

What’s the one bass that you wish you didn’t sell? For me it would definitely be a fiesta red fender Fullerton 62 reissue precision from the early 80s. Killer bass, it was fiesta red over lake placid blue. Wish I knew where it was today. I sold it to 1st Flight Music in the east village about 12 years ago. Lets hear them! Maybe we can reunite some basses with some regretful ex-owners.

 

[GretschWretch]

A 1959 Gibson EB-2 -- the only bass I've ever had to sell due to fiscal duress. If the buyer has not moved it on I know where it is, and I can afford to buy it back even at today's prices. But so far I have resisted the urge.

 

[davelowell2]

Gibson RD Artist, sunburst, OHSC.
I foolishly traded it for a Geddy Lee Jazz in the early 2000’s.

 

[Spupilup]

A G&L L-1000 in a transparent electric blue color with what I seem to recall was an ebony fingerboard. I bought the bass in December of 1980 from a dealer in St. Louis. I sold it a couple of years later and have always regretted it. It was an awe inspiring bass with tone for miles. It felt so good and played so well it sidelined the Ric 4001 I had been playing since 1973. Yeah, I miss that Ric but nowhere near as much as the G&L. To temper my feelings of loss, when I started back up playing again a few years ago I jumped on the opportunity to by a CLF reissue of the L-1000. The body is slightly different, the fingerboard is a Chechen rosewood and it's a lot lighter than my 1980 bass but I'd still love to find that old bass.

 

[PWRL]

Two. One was a 77 Rick 4001 FG and the other was either a 99 or 00 MIA P bass in sunburst with a maple fretboard. I miss 'em both. But to paraphrase Lefty Frizzell, they're gone gone gone, crying won't bring 'em back.

 

[Steve88]

I had a MIM jazz bass, a 2007 I think, in Midnight Wine with a rosewood fretboard. I wish I still had it. It was the first bass I really bonded with. The stock bridge pickup was pretty weak, so a pair of Lindy Fralin single coils really brought it to life.

 

[brian579]

A 1959 Gibson EB-2 -- the only bass I've ever had to sell due to fiscal duress. If the buyer has not moved it on I know where it is, and I can afford to buy it back even at today's prices. But so far I have resisted the urge.

Get that baby back!!

 

[Bob_Ross]

I think I've only ever sold four or five basses in my life, over ~45 years of playing bass. I regret having sold none of them.

 

[Axstar]

An olympic white CIJ Fender Mustang I owned for a matter of months. I traded "up" for a Godin Shifter bass, which was a bad move on my part. I should have stuck with the Mustang a bit longer. I got the Mustang for a good price, but still lost my hat on the trade, and all because I thought the Godin might sound a bit like a Rickenbacker.

 

[dalkowski]

I very wish I still had my first, a Guild B301A my dad bought new for me ca 1978. Unless the knobs got changed out, I could still pick it out of a lineup after ~35 years.

 

[AudioTaper]

A late 90's Pedulla Rapture RB4. I scrimped and saved for a year to get it. I was in high school and had a crappy job at an even crappier car, but I had a Pedulla. Because, priorities...

I traded it in towards my Eden WT400 after I bought a '96 Stingray. Selling the Stingray is my 2nd most regretted bass sale.

Edit: About a year after I traded it in, I heard some guy bought it for his teenager to play, and the kid trashed it. So finding it again probably wouldn't work out too well..

 

[thabassmon]

I've only sold one bass, an Ibanez 4 String Acoustic Bass. I do not regret selling it at all, I regret ever buying it. It was an uncomfortable piece of crap.

 

[ejaggers]

I've only sold one bass, a Kalamazoo KB.
And that was so long ago, I have to count it in decades instead of years.

It was a POS even though I bought in brand new, although she was pretty.
The only reason I miss her, is because like many things, you always remember your first.

I have more regrets about the ones I didn't buy rather than the one that got away.

057912

 

[bassstrangler]

Probably the Rickenbacker 4003SW. Bought it mint for a $1000 sold it mint for $1400. Nice profit, maybe a bad choice to sell.

 

[JT Humboldt]

1965 ric 4001 - mapleglo with the checkerboard binding....

 

[Bassmike62]

The 1 bass I wish not selling is an Epi Alpine White Classic Pro IV Thunderbird. I loved that bass but was not playing at the time and needed something else, so choices were made. I had the bass for about 2 years and sold 3-4 years ago. Sounded as good as she looked.




In the first week of last December, I found a sunburst 2008 Gibson Thunderbird with case in the locals. Thought about it for a couple of days, wasn't really in the market nor ready to buy, but decided in the end the opportunity was good, we don't see them around much in my area. Unfortunately, when I contacted the seller, he'd just sold the thing and was in the process of modifying his add, so I "missed it by that much". No Bird for Mike.



A couple of weeks later, the seller (also original owner) contacts me to indicate he'd just saw his bass back in the locals, same asking price. So I contacted the buyer and was able to meet him on Dec 27.

So it was the old I-had-her-sold-her-wish-I-didn't-longed-for-3-years-finally-found-another-almost-missed-her-finally-got-her routine. If I had a dollar evertime that happened to me....

 

[4stringsjack]

A Lake Placid Blue PJ bass, as seen below.

I would like it back if anyone here has it and wants to sell.

 

[FishDub]

Only one..a 77 Stingray that Daddys Junky Music had and didn't realize it was vintage(I had the tech verify the neck and body right then and there). Paid 800 for it and returned it because I wasn't digging it at the time. It was gone the next day..

 

[Qlanq]

1983 Candy Apple Red Tokai Jazz Bass. Aftermarket chrome scratchplate.
Nice player.
Still have demo tapes, fantastic sounding bass.
The only bass that I got complimented on my playing.
Miss that one.

 

[Bajo Clarkko]

An original MusicMan StingRay. Natural finish with a maple neck. I paid $350 for it brand new in the early 80’s. That was really cheap, even back then. It was NOS. It’d probably been there at least 3 or 4 years. The store mostly gave music lessons, and didn’t get much foot traffic. It was a store in East San Diego County. (Valley Music, in El Cajon)

I needed to sell it in the early 90’s, when work got slow, and didn’t want to worry about getting my pickup repo’d. It was the right decision, but it still hurts, almost 30 years later.