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Ever get that "Didn't realise how lucky I was" moment.....?


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2 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

Do it.

15 pages of feedback and 358 replies. It would take a team of university scholars to document my shame. Plus the universe would go bang. Hard to see the upside from doing it

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I’d also suggest this thread doesn’t focus on the cost of basses and sale prices through time (you have been better off buying Greggs shares than Wal basses) but the inherent greatness of basses. You can’t quantify greatness in something like pounds. 

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1 minute ago, Burns-bass said:

I’d also suggest this thread doesn’t focus on the cost of basses and sale prices through time (you have been better off buying Greggs shares than Wal basses) but the inherent greatness of basses. You can’t quantify greatness in something like pounds. 

 

Yep, let's celebrate how lucky we've all been and still are, I started the thread for that exact reason, I was searching for photos of a specific bass I used to own (the MM Sabre with fretless Status neck) and realised as I went back through hundreds of photos what an extraordinary privileged journey I've had, certainly by comparison with my expectations when I first started out, sitting noodling with my Satellite (subsequently upgraded to a Columbus and then after a few years of saving to a Westone Thunder) while looking at adverts in the music papers for Stingrays, and thinking 'One day'.......

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12 hours ago, Clarky said:

If I were to share photos of all the basses I have bought and sold on BC it would destroy the cloud, creating a singularity that would end the universe. So I think it best I don't

 

I found this schematic of what might happen should Clarky unleash his basses owned photo library…..

 

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21 minutes ago, Beedster said:

 

I found this schematic of what might happen should Clarky unleash his basses owned photo library…..

 

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And at 13.78 billion years, the only ones left alive would be Willie Nelson and Keith Richards

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Oof Chris, that LPB Precision 😢

 

I’ve let go of far too many nice basses, though either to pay for my first flat, or for other of life’s demands, or just as they weren’t for me. 
 

Of all my (many) vintage Fenders (57-69), a beaten up 66 P is the only one i’d like back. I sold it for a lovely 64 P that then got sold to pay towards my first flat. But I wouldn’t pay today’s crazy money for that ‘66. 
 

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I’d ’maybe’ go into debt to get back ‘79 Sabre that I sold to fund a 64 Jazz - great Jazz, but the Sabre was special and long term was the wrong move. 
 

But the main one I’d love back, and definitely hit the credit card on, is a Modulus FB4 - sold to @hiram.k.hackenbacker when we needed a new floor and couch and I got my priories completely wrong 😂 big mistake. Got another FB4 a few years later but it wasn’t the same. 

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I had a reissue Rivoli. The classic British Invasion bass. It had a DiMarzio Model 1 pickup in place of the reissue Mudbucker. The Mudbucker apparently sounded awful. It had a big middy thump. It wasn’t one I played that much but I loved to look at it. 
Still miss it.

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4 hours ago, Beedster said:

 

I found this schematic of what might happen should Clarky unleash his basses owned photo library…..

 

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Wait for mine and you'll understand how wrong is the Big Bang theory... :biggrin:

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