Several years ago I traded in an early 70's Ric 4001 fretless in mint condition for a ridiculously low credit towards something else. Wish I had it now not to play it, but instead sell it for top $$$ to a Ric fanatic who would over pay for one.
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What is your biggest "bass mistake"?
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Painting a Peavey Foundation Maple neck "red" with Krylon ... to be fair I was a teenager & it seemed like a good Idea at the time 
The other biggest mistake was selling a Pre-Gibson Trace Elliot 600 watt Bass head & 410 cab
The other biggest mistake was selling a Pre-Gibson Trace Elliot 600 watt Bass head & 410 cab
Buying a cheapish (build, playability, sound & finances wise) bass as my first bass. It was frustrating to learn on but I didn't realize how bad it was until I got something better. To be fair I don't know how a beginner would know what type of bass suits them & I traded the bass satisfactorily for something else. No harm done.
The worst mistake I made was waiting until I was ... um older ... to start playing music. But I can't go back and fix that so I ain't gonna worry about it.
The worst mistake I made was waiting until I was ... um older ... to start playing music. But I can't go back and fix that so I ain't gonna worry about it.
In '69 my first bass was a mint '62 Jazz in black. Concentric knobs. Saw the Stones and Keith and Wyman were both playing Dan Armstrong Plexis. Traded my Jazz plus some $ for a plexiglass boat anchor.
I kinda got a bit hardcore about the sobriety thing. My surgeon even thought I was nuts. lol
Got rid of a early 90's Gibson Les Paul Deluxe bass. Great playing, I stripped off the paint, sanded down the neck and gave it a tung oil finish, was a gift from my parents. I always felt I should have kept it.
Traded a Fodera Monarch, still kick myself for that as well
Traded a Fodera Monarch, still kick myself for that as well
Basses that I've sold are my regrets. Music Man SUB active and an orange Ibanez RD707 back in the late 80s. I kick myself over those two every single day.
Worst mistake:
listening for so long to all the old school guys telling me I neede to scoop the mids, and then wondering why I always needed more power and still couldn't cut through the mix at all.
I could have kept that old Mark IV head I traded years ago, but you live and (hopefully) learn...
For all those who regret selling some treasured piece of gear:
at least it made the other guy happy when they bought it...
listening for so long to all the old school guys telling me I neede to scoop the mids, and then wondering why I always needed more power and still couldn't cut through the mix at all.
I could have kept that old Mark IV head I traded years ago, but you live and (hopefully) learn...
For all those who regret selling some treasured piece of gear:
at least it made the other guy happy when they bought it...
in 1986 My now wife gave me my firtst G&L L1000 for Christmas.
A few years later we (my wife and I) stopped playing in bands to raise our 4 kids.
I was told is was bad to not play a good bass every day as it would go to hell, so i sold it and all our gear thinking I was done with music. I made that same mistake 3 more times over the years until 1999 now the olny time I sell something is to get something else! Should have keep the bass just cause it was a present!
A few years later we (my wife and I) stopped playing in bands to raise our 4 kids.
I was told is was bad to not play a good bass every day as it would go to hell, so i sold it and all our gear thinking I was done with music. I made that same mistake 3 more times over the years until 1999 now the olny time I sell something is to get something else! Should have keep the bass just cause it was a present!
... trusting an internet scammer like Marc Serio dba Dr. Bass to actually produce promised product.....
I sold my Ashdown MAG300 head and Ampeg SVT-15e to a guy on craigslist for 100$ becuase I thought they were broken. I found out later that the Ashdown had a bad solder joint for the power cord (Which I thought was dead), and the Ampeg's speaker rattled loose and was just vibrating funny (Not a blown speaker like I thought).
He flipped it the next day for 500$. I was furious.
He flipped it the next day for 500$. I was furious.
Supposed to be mistakes here.. this sounds like a win to me.
I was doing an onstage pot re-solder at a gig with a butane soldering iron, when an unexpected flare caught the laquer on a 74 Gibson Thunderbird that isn't even mine! Spectacular flambe ensued which I swatted madly at to extinguish, only took a few seconds, but the thing already looked like charcoal. I no-longer use butane irons.
On the bright side it wasn't my bass
