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The world's most expensive bass...

#61
What's more interesting is the story below the bass. Madonna offered 1 Billion to perform in Vegas. She could buy a hundred of these basses!

I agree, 1,000 is the point where I found the bass transformed into being really nice to play, quality. As for the Ritter bass, the first thing I used to do to new basses was walk through the house with it and WHACK! find a door frame and jam that sucker into it. Make that first big gash, then you won't worry about getting dinged up. Take it to a gig, a two for one night where everyone's really drunk. Whack a couple drunks with it. You'll feel a lot better after it's broken in.

Very nice design, but I wear a plain gold band. Too much bling for me. But let's play a little bit. Can anyone even begin to try and speculate what the bass would play/sound like?

BTW I love the squirrel!
 
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JShogunE said:
I feel like there's a price point out there with musical instruments where the musical output plateaus and you begin just paying for looks.
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You say that like it's a bad thing.

TBH when you get up on stage the main thing the average audience member notices is not your awesome bass sound or the effortless playability of your instrument but whether it looks good or not.
 
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alaskaleftybass said:
Can anyone even begin to try and speculate what the bass would play/sound like?
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AFAIC Ritters sound tremendously GENERIC to me (as Jerzyes, and many other boutique furniture). There's no Ritter sound per se, IDK, I'd take the sound of a good old MIJ Geddy Jazz over those 2 pickup Ritters any day. On the more MM sounding Ritters, well I have a couple of the real thing so, why?
 
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GaryCorby said:
McCartney's beat up old Hofner would be worth considerably more than that.
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I think this bass might be worth a bit more...
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I was wondering where that bass went. I'd ordered it back in 2008, and UPS delivered it when I was out of town and left it on my front porch, and when I got home - nothing there. Ritter swears they sent it "signature required", but I'm not buyin' it!
 
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alaskaleftybass said:
I agree, 1,000 is the point where I found the bass transformed into being really nice to play, quality. As for the Ritter bass, the first thing I used to do to new basses was walk through the house with it and WHACK! find a door frame and jam that sucker into it. Make that first big gash, then you won't worry about getting dinged up. Take it to a gig, a two for one night where everyone's really drunk. Whack a couple drunks with it. You'll feel a lot better after it's broken in.
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Ugh, just reading that sent shivers up my spine. I've done that before, and that sound never leaves your head once you've heard it.

edit: Now I'm laughing uncontrollably because that is one of the funniest, truest things I've ever heard in my life.
 
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Everyone has a different trigger point where they feel the law of diminishing returns kicks in. For some the move from a MIM to a MIA Fender is that point.

At this point ($250K Ritter) it's more art than an instrument. It's not that it would play 250X better than a $1000 guitar. It's a piece os hand crafted art and if you have the cash you can do whatever the hell you want with it! Play it, hang it on a wall, store it in your safe, your choice.
 
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