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What is your biggest "bass mistake"?
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1.Blind trading my sansamp rbi for an eden wtdi. what a dumb dumb.
2.Letting my ex convince me to move back to nh when i was in a touring band based in boston. lost the girl to a "friend" in another band, and then getting into a car wreck which i ended up with a felony charge. i've missed 3 opportunity's to be in full time world touring bands but because i cant leave the country i had to say ,"sorry i cant". moral of story DO NOT listen to girlfriends "advice" no matter how naked and hot they are!!
2.Letting my ex convince me to move back to nh when i was in a touring band based in boston. lost the girl to a "friend" in another band, and then getting into a car wreck which i ended up with a felony charge. i've missed 3 opportunity's to be in full time world touring bands but because i cant leave the country i had to say ,"sorry i cant". moral of story DO NOT listen to girlfriends "advice" no matter how naked and hot they are!!
3.Not taking lessons either. ive been playing for 10 years now and im doing good, but i think i could be doing great.
4.Throwing away my first bass.
this thread should be called "Oh bass how I've failed thee...."
4.Throwing away my first bass.
this thread should be called "Oh bass how I've failed thee...."
modded my warwick streamer std. It was an awesome color green but the paint was chipping where i popped. So i tried to sand it off and restain it. I ruined the electronics when i removed them. And the restain was terrrrrrrible.
Luckily i still had the wenge/ ovangkol neck and got lucky enough to find a warwick corvette body on ebay for 225$. I put the guitar together and sold it on ebay for 450 or so.
The mistake was somewhat redeemed, because this money went into buying my Worrell fretless 5 string. Which is the best bass i have ever played, especially in the fretless category.
Luckily i still had the wenge/ ovangkol neck and got lucky enough to find a warwick corvette body on ebay for 225$. I put the guitar together and sold it on ebay for 450 or so.
The mistake was somewhat redeemed, because this money went into buying my Worrell fretless 5 string. Which is the best bass i have ever played, especially in the fretless category.
Early gigging days, allowing the guitarist to make me think it was my fault that I couldn’t hear myself.
Months of miserable gigging, and ended up kinda wasting a nice cab.
Months of miserable gigging, and ended up kinda wasting a nice cab.
I dont know how this turned out for you but... Since you know the former owner was interested in getting the Ray back, why not see if the shop owner can put you in touch with him?? Maybe he has something you'd want or maybe you guys could just work out a cash deal. I know you wouldnt want to take a bath on the Ray and the former owner wouldnt probably pay you what you paid for it, but maybe there's a middle ground in there somewhere???
1. Buying a Fender MIM Jazz Bass Standard....WORST bass I've ever played!
2. Buying boutique (expensive) aftermarket pickups for the MIM Fender Jazz thinking it would sound better! It sounded the same only louder. I was a teen and very naive and had nooo bass knowledge.
3. Losing the opportunity to buy a used Warwick Streamer Jazzman in burgundy color (flame maple) at the bay that went out at $750 (give or take)!! Well...if I think about it...Theres was probably something wrong with the bass...Anyhow, I regret it big time! But I didn't have that kinda money at the time...
2. Buying boutique (expensive) aftermarket pickups for the MIM Fender Jazz thinking it would sound better! It sounded the same only louder. I was a teen and very naive and had nooo bass knowledge.
3. Losing the opportunity to buy a used Warwick Streamer Jazzman in burgundy color (flame maple) at the bay that went out at $750 (give or take)!! Well...if I think about it...Theres was probably something wrong with the bass...Anyhow, I regret it big time! But I didn't have that kinda money at the time...
my old yamaha bbn4III, it was originaly black and real rock and classic tone, i wibe it and torn it white, realy bad work, but it still rocks, best four strings neck i have tried
Many years ago, I had my Fender P-Lyte that was gathering some dust in favour of my newly bought StingRay5, and beside it was my very first bass ever, a Hondo P-bass. I had refinished both necks myself with tung oil, and while they temporarily being shunned in favour of the new girl on the block, I certainly had no intention of getting rid of them. Anyway, a guitar player friend of mine asked if he could borrow both of them, as he was doing some jamming and recording with a group of other fellows. I decided to lend them out - after all, I actually knew this guy quite well, and we had jammed together often ourselves. As the story goes, it seemed like every time I asked when they were coming back to me, I got one excuse or another about how they were at a rehearsal space, or one of his buddies was practicing or laying down a track with it, or he forgot that we were meeting that day, etc etc etc. I was so enamoured with my StingRay that it didn't bother me that much. I guess it should have, because after a few months, my "friend" and my basses had disappeared half way across the country, never to be seen again. The Hondo maybe had a little sentimental value, but realistically it was worth $5, so no great loss. The P-Lyte was only 2 or 3 years removed from being bought for over $1000, but on top of that I really enjoyed it, and often miss having that bass as a part of my stable. Lesson learned hard, I tell ya.
Gave up playing bass after high school because I had no venue within which to use it and focused on guitar. Picked up the bass again seven years ago after a 21 year hiatus... all those lost years. Found a really sweet used Stuart Spector NS4 1 1/2 years ago and love it.
$500 won me a practically pristine mint 1973 Gibson Ripper bass w/OHSC on eBay back in 1999.
Used it to record on an album that was never released.. then sold it on eBay because I was too afraid of damaging it.
I was 19 at the time. That bass was amazing.. I think I read somewhere online a while back that there were only 21 Rippers produced that year.
I wish I had a time machine!!!!!!!!
Used it to record on an album that was never released.. then sold it on eBay because I was too afraid of damaging it.
I was 19 at the time. That bass was amazing.. I think I read somewhere online a while back that there were only 21 Rippers produced that year.
I wish I had a time machine!!!!!!!!
I went to a guitar store in 1988 with the intention to buy a Gibson RD Artist. The store guy talked me into buying an Ibanez soundgear SR-800. Well, it was an okay bass, but I didn't like the tone very much. I barely used it (in 1996 I bought a Gibson Q-80 which I used thereafter as my main bass) and in 2006 I ended up selling it. In the same year I bought a Gibson RD Artist.
2 basses I sold due to dumbass GAS.
Ibanez Affirma AFR305 and 1980ish Fender P Special (with the white pickup and active preamp).
Got them both cheap too.
Ibanez Affirma AFR305 and 1980ish Fender P Special (with the white pickup and active preamp).
Got them both cheap too.
no i didnt mean it was her fault, it was all my doing and irresponsibility. it was a chain of events that led to my un doing.
I started playing bass in the 8th grade. In the summer of '67 after the my 10th grade I sold my bass to finance spending the summer in Haight-Ashbury.
It was a great summer but it took me two years to save up enough to buy another bass. I haven't been "bassless" since.
It was a great summer but it took me two years to save up enough to buy another bass. I haven't been "bassless" since.
Selling a bass to pay for an old girlfriends engagement ring. I did get the ring back and sold it to a co-worker. Hot girl or hot bass, stay with the bass!
I had a pre-2002 Warwick corvette 5 string. I believe they were made in germany back then. Beautiful bass, very well made. It had the infamous split in the back but still sounded amazing. I was a starving college student on my own and I needed to make rent, so I sold it to Gc for 500. Dumb dumb dumb.
Idolizing Pete TownshendAnd maybe having a bad habit of tinkering or being rather violent with gear. Has led to the premature deaths of many beautiful basses I've owned.
Wow this thread is tough to read. Tough to think about too. Some painful stuff.
I REALLY learned to despise The Who. I had no opinion about smashing instruments at first. Those guys were rich; I didn't care, (I thought it would have been better if they gave them to the audience though) until something really taught me a lesson.
I should never have left my first (& perhaps most beloved) Bass alone.
I was at a party in the 1970's and had my Bass (early J Fender). I Left it alone to use the bathroom........basically what I got was a ruined Bass (actually close to beyond repair) soaked with pool water Tequila enhanced vomit. The "fatigued look" or "road worn" image hold no fascination for me.
Imagine you're 20 yrs old looking down on your favorite instrument laying on a concrete floor, smashed so badly one of the frets was bent out of the neck. It made my car smell it was so bad. Even the tuning pegs were bent. I don't think there was an area where it wasn't scratch or ground up.
I can't even think about it anymore.
