I'm looking to start my 6th or 7th pedalboard. Probably should sell the others that are just sitting around. They have universal guitar / bass appeal, so should be a quick sell on Craigslist.
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For a while I thought I was set with three basses.
Then, in 2020, I bought four more, stimulating the economy, and I thought...seven basses, that's perfect, one for each day of the week.
A few months went by and I saw a Reverend Thundergun that I had to buy to replace the one I'd sold when I was down on my luck.
Earlier this year, B-Mac, knowing I had a blue and a black Dean Exotica, informed me of an Exotica on Ebay, the quilt ash model. There was no way I could pass it up, so I bought it.
Once more, I thought I was done.
I wasn't.
Last week I saw something I've always liked, something that looked unlike anything I had...an Italia Imola in a very rare color. Never saw one in this particular color, don't think I'll ever see one again. It's a $900 bass but the seller was asking for half that...he finally let it go for $400...and if I passed it up, I knew I'd regret it.
So, I've learned two things buying my "last" bass.
Italia makes a very nice bass and it seems very few people know. Seriously, nothing better than a pleasant surprise when it comes to learning more about this or that bass.
Also, I've learned there's no such thing as "I'm done buying basses" for so many of us.
I'm just going to learn how to deal with it.
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It’s my playing that always needs adjustment. The nicest bass is never going to make my need of refinement any easier to fix. If anything, it would just enhance it.
Have you given serious consideration to writing your favorite boutique hand-wired pedal maker and asking them to make you something special? Doesn’t have to be crazy, just unique enough that nobody else has it. I know a lot of small makers will do personalized tweaks and even housing art for a pretty small adder if you ask. Then you can post pics and TB nation will want one so you’re also doing a favor for the pedal maker. Win-win.
I will check with Status about the cost of their necks. A fretless neck on my SBMM Stingray 5 sounds like a winner depending on the cost.
At today’s exchange rate, the neck would $469.37. After VAT and shipping, it might end up pretty pricey.
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Somewhere along the way, “enough” became “more” and it all went downhill from there.
So much this. I am what you might call overeducated, but for all that exercising of the intellect I still can't resist the allure of marketing and thrill of novelty, even though I think I know better.
Even though we’ve evolved technologically, socially we are still primitive. We still need status and power. We don’t gather goats and wives but we still measure our worth by what we have rather than who we are.
Because you haven't reached a point in life where you want to wear your mojo into some favored basses?
Capitalism thrives on desire and abhors contentment. Look at razors. Remember when there was only one blade? Then they came out with two, and truth be told, it was a smoother shave. When they introduced the three-blade razor, I started to feel like a mark. Now some have six blades and look like cheese graters but don't shave any closer, but you know ...
Maybe you simply desire to play your best for the Lord during Sunday service?
I guess you have to tuck both lios inside your mouth and shave straight down from nose to chin!
I think many of us get caught because we see/hear a bass live somewhere and like it but when we play a sample at room volume in perhaps not our own amp, it falls short. Alternatively, we try a guitar at low volume in a store and it sounds great, make the purchase and at its first gig the sound is not the same and we get disillusioned resulting in the continuing search.
In the black and white days of long ago, we didn't have choices, certainly not the choices of today so we persevered with the gear we had to get the best out of it and left it alone. I think that's why we played the same basses for years on end and never really had a problem with them back then.
In the black and white days of long ago, we didn't have choices, certainly not the choices of today so we persevered with the gear we had to get the best out of it and left it alone. I think that's why we played the same basses for years on end and never really had a problem with them back then.
We tend to always think the grass is greener on the other side, even if our own grass is as green as it can possibly be. I've been playing Sadowskys blissfully over 25 years. The honeymoon never ended.
With that fact in place, I still want a Fodera, and I can afford one at this point in my life. I think they're profoundly beautiful pieces of functional art. That said, I absolutely know for certain that none of their offerings will work for me in terms of tone, playability, ergonomics, or appearance in any circumstance I perform in. So I don't pull the trigger, but it is nice to look.
With that fact in place, I still want a Fodera, and I can afford one at this point in my life. I think they're profoundly beautiful pieces of functional art. That said, I absolutely know for certain that none of their offerings will work for me in terms of tone, playability, ergonomics, or appearance in any circumstance I perform in. So I don't pull the trigger, but it is nice to look.
I go through this, but lately I've been feeling like I should just move back to one.
I just put some tenor strings on my Fodera Standard, Im not really using that bass for much so its like a cheap way to find new life! I got a 6 string set of DR Black Beauties and used the high 4 and I must say, those are really nice strings. The black look is cool, and the coating feels really nice.
Because we're addicted to immediate gratification rather than long-term satisfaction from things like practicing with what we've got.
