The one that got away.

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1967 EB-2D in its case. £100 in 1990

Wal, fretted and fretless, each £400 around 1995

John Giblin's bass, as used on Sensual World, £600 last year just before Bushmania.

The Westone Thunder 1A fretless I'd sold two years prior on the ebay shop of a store 100 miles away. Serial number confirmed match. My Internet fell over as I tried to snipe it. It went for £25 less than I'd sold it for. The ones with the Magna pickups are hard to find these days.

 

[Bodeeni]

A candy apple red 60s jazz with matching headstock at the local music store. This was about 35 years ago. Should have bought in one the spot. A buddy got it the next day and it has been his #1 ever since.

 

[LadyLoveStingRay5]

I'm still looking. I have alerts set on Reverb just in case... lol. It'll be a righteous NBD when the perfect one comes along.

Sent you a Message.

 

[Micha84]

I regret each and every sale I made, because it was always out of necessity. When I was young and still living with my parents (ie no responsabilities or bills), I took some summer jobs and bought an ampeg half stack, that was just 100% my dream sound. Still is. But, as it was very expensive, when I was a student with bills to pay and no money to do it, I sold it.
Some day I will buy that exact same rig again. But somehow, growing older apparently very much just means having more bills to pay and mouths to feed, I haven't been able to justify that buy yet.

Some day, though...

 

[Tommy Sparks]

Guild b-301 1977 or 78.

 

[Robert Booker]

Dumb move on my part.

 

[ricibanez]

I miss my 2016 fender aerodyne black pj. traded it for a white player p. Went back 2 weeks later to get it and it was gone. I will get another one someday.

 

[lbbc]

Early 2000's Black G&L ASAT bass with matching headstock....once owned by Tom Hamilton (according to the store owner plus he had pics of them together). Great bass. I sold it, other basses and gear when 2 of my daughters got married (within 6 months of each other). Worth it, yes, they're still happily married, but I still miss that bass

 

[jd56hawk]

Just a parts bass but definitely I'd buy it back if I saw it for sale.

 

[johniecid]

I'm sure this is purely emotion and the playability was bad but I just don't remember, but...

I had JB Player Sledgehammer bass that people called a Sting Ray knock off but I thought of more as a Sterling knock off. It had a thin, fast neck. Sounded great with that passive HB pickup, at least to my teenage ears. I had leant it to others to use who were learning after I upgraded. Eventually, it disappeared. It popped back up in a picture a few years after from another friend's church, then disappeared again.

I don't have any desire of buying one or seeking them out, but if it somehow made its way back to me, I'd be happy.

 

[Deleted member 394181]

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Is that a new one for the Japanese market?

 

[Deleted member 394181]

Ouch. I feel your pain.

It wasn't a bass, it was a pre-SG Les Paul Jr which I bought used for about $200 in 1966, traded away in 1970, and today goes for an easy $7,500 on ebay (when you can find one).

That Rick had aged to a great off white, not a scratch on it. Like my ex-wives, what in the he'll was I thinking??

 

[Deleted member 394181]

I’ve owned a few Modulus Q5s but this one was special. Honestly, what I liked the most about this one was how under the radar it looked. Its tone was incredibly growly and punchy. It could cut a mix while simultaneously filling out the entire low end. I’ve reached out to the guy I sold it to a few times over the years saying if he ever decides to sell it to let me know, but I’ve never heard anything back. Funny thing, I’ve never seen another one like it. I know Geoff is still making basses. Kind of wonder if I could ask him to remake this one.

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I tried and could not afford a Modulus, but I would have bought it.

 

[Deleted member 394181]

My first bass, a '63 Gibson EB-2D which I modified. I sold it ca. 1981. It was not muddy at all and sounded really nice.


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My wife and I went to music store once. On a cabinet behind the counter was a 1969 EB2, see through Gibson Red for $900.00. My wife saw me staring at it, it was of course beautiful, and told me to buy it on the spot. 20 years ago at that time I just lost a job and would have felt guilty so....

 

[Basvarken]

For me it's this one. The Brooks EB-TB that I built a couple of years ago.
My mistake was that I put it on the website/webshop for the BaCH bass guitars that I sold about ten years ago. The site was basically empty, since I quit the dealership with BaCH. I used the site as a place to host the pictures of this new bass I had built. Never with the idea someone would actually buy it.
But one morning I started my computer and saw someone had hit the "buy now" button.
So reluctantly shipped it off to the USA to the guy who bought it...
A weird mix between pride that someone had actually bought my bass, and regret that it went to a complete stranger.

It was a very nice bass. One of the best I've built.

 

[gmarcus]

THis....ugggg

SOLD - 5.9 lb Paulownia body 5 String

 

[rojo412]

My most egregious one still makes me pretty sad to this day...
I had a completely amazing 1991 Stingray 4 and it was amazing. Beautiful ash body, maple fb, figured neck, the peak of the golden era.
But alas, I was young and playing more 5 string stuff, so that bass was more of a closet queen at the time. I got the idea in my head that I wanted even more strings to play with and convinced myself {the heaving starts} that I needed to buy {gag!} a Conklin GT7 {wretching worsens}...

If time travel existed only enough to just go back to after that happened, I'd go back to my old self and punch myself square in the crotch for that mistake.

 

[H K]

So many. Just over the last 2 weeks I missed 2 4001's, a 74 and a 79. Pretty beat up, but still in decent condition. One white w/black trim like urs, and one red.

But mostly I regret selling my danelectro 64, my CIJ jaguar, and the Black Eagle original I found in MINT condition w/ OHSC for 150$... The last one I straight up told the guy what he was selling, and he panicked. Now he's been refusing to sell it for years, even tho I've made several fair market offers. Funny how he was more than willing to let it go for 150$ when he didnt know the value, but after knowing the value he wont even let it go for value... Oh well.

 

[freemont]

We all have the story of Basses we should not have traded, or sold, but which one do you miss the most? I let a 1974 White with Black binding and hardware, Rickenbacker 4001 get away. Stupid.

Same here. White Rick, except 4003 I think, probably was an '86-or-so model. Blue fur case. I was still playing keys then (~ 1988 when traded) and decided that a Midiverb would be more useful to me.
Yeah, I traded a white Rickenbacker for a Midiverb.
At least I still have and use the Midiverb and play my Rhodes through it.
But that one hurts to think about.

 

[ad9000]

2003 Sadowsky Tokyo - sold in 2015 because I had a couple more 5-string Jazz Bass style axes than I could justify keeping at the time. It was a great sounding bass that played effortlessly, and I miss it quite bit.

The one I should have jumped on but didn't - an all original '52 P-bass in decent condition that I could have had for $800 in 1994..