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Top 5 "Bucket List" basses

#164
1. 74 Ernie Ball Earthwood Bass (8" depth)
2. 74 P-bass
3. 74 J-bass (fretless)
4. 74 Rickenbacker
5. 74 Hofner violin

Since I have to die the day after acquiring these basses, I would like to be sealed in a climate-controlled capsule with them, and launched into space. The capsule will continually broadcast my playlists until the solar cells die.

Thank you for understanding.
 
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#165
Stranger Danger said:
Alembic Anything
Modulus Quantum
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Yep but already have those.
Remaining:
5 string Ric, Toaster, Horseshoe, (Would get a reverse mortgage on the house to get a 6 string Ric)
Fodera (pant, pant)
No Sadowsky (don't dig the tone)
Ritter (not sure if to play it or look at it in a glass museum case)
High end Dingwall and a Torzal Twist so I can die knowing if all the weird stuff is something or nothing.

And as long as we are dreaming, a 6 string fretless USA G&L L2500 (L2600??)
 
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#167
smogg said:
1) USA Peavey Black n Maple or Black Teal n Maple Millennium 5 (as back up to my black teal & pau ferro 5 when budget allows)
2) Black or Orange USA Peavey Grind 5
3) Black or Green USA Peavey GV
4) Dingwall Super P5 (black n maple or sunburst n pau ferro)
5) Dingwall D'Bird 5 (black or white)
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USA Peavey and Dingwall, you have impeccable taste, Sir!
 
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#171
Well...
For one thing, my "Bucket List" is considerably longer than just 5 basses. It actually runs to about 17 of them. And, at the moment I have 24 basses, but 6 of them are not really on the list. They're parts basses, or project basses, or - in the case on my second Gibson Thunderbird; well, Gibson isn't real big on lefty basses, and, I got a little carried away...
The list only has 3 specific basses on it. The rest are all either brands - like "Gretsch", or types - like "neck through" or "active". And, after many years - finding a left handed Gretsch bass, for example, was kinda like searching for a live unicorn - I'm down to only one, to complete my list. So far, though, finding a left handed, 34" scale hollow body bass hasn't been like looking for a unicorn - it's more like looking for a live Velociraptor. I sometimes think that I'm going to have to just give up; buy a righty; and cough up the $$'s to have it converted. But, I found a lefty Gretsch Broadkaster; there's got be a lefty White Falcon out there somewhere...:whistle:
 
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#174
Jigmay said:
I would love to know what percentage of you guys have actually played the basses you desire? I'm not trying to be snarky at all. I would love to own or try most of the basses listed, but I've not touched 99.9% of them, and never even seen 99.9% of them in the wild. And yes, I live in Canada.
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I know I want to spend long afternoons spooning Kate Beckinsale. I have not tried it, I just know it in my bones.

Given that the owner operated music store is a thing of the past, I think anything in a large music store is fair game. When I go to a large music store, I feel I smell sulphur and suspect the minions of hell work there.
Don't put a card on a high end bass saying ask before playing, that's what you have insurance for. Its better to ask forgiveness than permission. If salespeople get uppity, I tell them I'm a bass player and therefore cant read.

All that said, much on this thread I have never seen in a music store and suspect I never will.
 
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#178
All mine are 4s:
1. Carl Thompson semi-frills 4-string in probably 32" scale
2. That one perfect Ric that some people find for them, but that I have not as yet - potentially the Chris Squire model
3. Sandberg Patchwork jazz (like Sybil but in 4-string)
4. A Gibson G3 exactly like the one I bought and returned, without the twisted neck that made me return it (a 1978 at a mere 8 LBS!!!)
5. Probably the 1977 Ibanez Black Eagle that I stupidly let go and Ward from Vintage Guitar Magazine won't sell back to me.
 
#179
One of my first basses was a 72 Fender P Bass. I sold it when I was 17 or 18. Stupid teenager. I’m 63 now.
My bucket list includes replacing that P-bass
I now have a Jazz Bass
I also want a fretless j- bass
A walther
A Horner
And possibly a rickenbacher
 

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