(No not me, the bass!) I was very lucky, when i first started playing the original version of this bass cropped up in a magazine and i cut the pic out and stuck it in the front of my A-level English folder, that was my dream bass. A few weeks later same magazine ran a review of the japanese '62 reissue, which i duly cut out and stuck in the back cover of my A-level English folder, this was more achievable, although not by much at that age, £500 or £5000 both were sky high. A few years later i found a mint one in my local store and had enough to buy it, and its still my number 1 at least 17 years later. Its been butchered a bit, and modded up and down, but i still love that bass which was my first crush, and indeed a more porky and recent me is wearing it in my avatar on the left!