BarnacleBob Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 You big rock star you! Love the hat! BB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarhead Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Good god guys, I'm practically crying at the missed opportunities you've just listed on here. Seriously, some of them actually worry me. Zach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low End Bee Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 [quote name='BarnacleBob' post='524079' date='Jun 25 2009, 08:08 PM']You big rock star you! Love the hat! BB[/quote] Love the cape! I dress to embarrass my kids these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Selling my first bass (Sunburst Gibson 1962 EB2) originally bought in 1974 for £120 in 1980 as I'd bought a Series One white Squier Precision which I sold a year later for £150. I don't mention the Jaydee sold for £400 or the Truvoice ( Selmer T& valve head I gave away to someone who cut down a tree in the garden for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMa Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 [quote name='Marcus' post='519693' date='Jun 20 2009, 11:08 PM']Guys.... In 1986 I walked into a ropey little music shop in SUnderland called "Symphony Sound and Lighting" looking for my first Bass with my dad. In there was a (badly) beat up sunburst Fender Jazz. I tried it out because it was the cheapest in the shop and my dad only had a hundred quid to spend !! We haggleg with the guy in the shop and got it to a hundred quid. We but pushed a little harder to get a set of strings thrown in. The guy took a phone call about a pa hire..... lost interest in selling the bass and we left bemoning the poor customer service we'd experienced ! Later that day we took a train ride to Newcastle where we visited "Grott Guitars" and I became the proud owner of a Jedson Fretless, my first Bass guitar !!! Only later did I realise that we'd turned down an early 60's (most likely pre CBS Jazz) for a hundred Quid !![/quote] Grott guitar was mental im sure half the stuff was nicked,you could get bargains galore i remember a gibson flying V for 250 quid and a fender coranado for 200,i dont think vintage interest really went mad till the late 90s. The blokes in there were the funniest thet used to buy beers in the morning so if you went in the afternoon and they were mullered it was brilliant price wise. I suppose it probably flats or a coffee shop by now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 I had the offer of a Hofner violin bass for £75 (about 20 years ago) and didn't buy it because it was such a dreadful thing to play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 [quote name='tauzero' post='527561' date='Jun 29 2009, 11:35 AM']I had the offer of a Hofner violin bass for £75 (about 20 years ago) and didn't buy it because it was such a dreadful thing to play.[/quote] If it's any consolation, you didn't buy it for the right reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheddatom Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 [quote name='molan' post='519019' date='Jun 20 2009, 01:05 AM']Completely forgot - sold my first ever bass which was a really nice little brand new '78 Fender Musicmaster in white[/quote] I have the exact same regret! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussFM Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Selling my old battered mid-80s Jap Jazz. It needed some fret work doing, and the output was weak, but I should have just waited until I could afford it, it was so light! Oh, and my GK 1001RB-II / Neo212 while I was out of work, but I fully intend to buy that rig again when I can afford it in a few years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottomEndian Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 [quote name='YouMa' post='524124' date='Jun 25 2009, 09:08 PM']Grott guitar was mental im sure half the stuff was nicked,you could get bargains galore i remember a gibson flying V for 250 quid and a fender coranado for 200,i dont think vintage interest really went mad till the late 90s. The blokes in there were the funniest thet used to buy beers in the morning so if you went in the afternoon and they were mullered it was brilliant price wise. I suppose it probably flats or a coffee shop by now.[/quote] I don't get much chance to get into the toon these days, but it was still a guitar shop last time I noticed, maybe a couple of years ago. Not Grott... something like Big 'n' Loud, or Fat 'n' Juicy, or Big 'n' Bouncy. I think it was run by the same bloke that has Making Music in North Shields. Mind you, I've got no idea if that's still there either. Fat lot of good I am. Anyhoo, I can't see Old Eldon Square getting turned into flats any time soon. It's had a bit of a makeover, and it's much more commercially inviting. Not sure if the goths still hang out there though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clauster Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Something have done - Selling a '78 USA Precision for even less than Molan sold his '77 Something I didn't do - I passed over a Gibson Grabber to get a Hondo II SG thing (which I did love, but passing up a Grabber???!!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Not taking the offer tabled from Hodder. I had an agent who said he could get more. Stalled, went back to Hodder and they said no. Long story (literally). P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Not having any lessons when I started bass at 16 Not wearing earplugs ....um...ever (eh?) Going to Uni instead of staying with the band Swapping an Orange valve head for a bike in 1980 because I didn't realise you had to change the valves Giving up bass for 10 years when the kids were small Not buying a Wal when they were £500 s/h Selling my brother my '72 Les Paul deluxe gold top ages ago - b@stard hasn't touched it Not having the confidence to sing Some of the dodgier stage gear. I won't go into the sordid details, just think "leather trousers"..... I feel quite depressed now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 [quote name='Shaggy' post='527690' date='Jun 29 2009, 01:10 PM']Not buying a Wal when they were £500 s/h I feel quite depressed now [/quote] Would it depress you more if I told you I paid £330 for mine..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass-ic Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 I got bought my first bass when I was 5. I started actually playing bass when I was 41. what a waste of time, I might actually be able to play now. Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linus27 Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Easy one this for me. When I was learning to play bass, my dream bass was a Musicman Stingray. When I got a record deal and our advance, I went and bought my dream bass, a brand new Teal Green 3 EQ Musicman Stingray from the old Bass Centre in Wapping. It was a beautiful bass and the best neck ever on a Musicman. I loved it. I recorded with it on our album and toured with it. In a moment of madness I sold it and I regret that so so very much. It was not my main bass and it did not suit my style but the memories of it, especially as it was my dream bass that I bought with my first advance gives it so much sentimental value. Just wish i still had her. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatboter Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Regrets : not studying bass when I was younger, I learned everything myself and this has its advantages but also its disavantages. I landed in a coverband environment which is well paid but isn't really rewarding musically. To be honest I miss the drive of starting something now since I miss that enthusiasm when you are in your twenties. Third regret : I bought a Wal MKI around 1993, I sold it "because it didn't sound enough like Mark King's basses..." (....!). If I had kept it at the time it would have been my main bass since I ended up (about sixty basses later) on mainly Wal basses which I had to buy again.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDM Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Not missed out on any huge deals on basses, but I've missed a few amazing deals on guitars (eg. Ibanez Universe PWH for £400). The only thing I really regret is not learning as much theory as I should have done when I started playing, at the time I was sick of all the classical music theory I had to do to play piano so I started bass with the mentality that I'd use tabs and not really focus on technical ability and just jam songs I liked. Fast forward 5 years later I'm doing a grade 8 exam next week and my ear sucks (better than 5 years ago, mind you), I don't know nearly as much as I should about scales and my technique is a bit lazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lfalex v1.1 Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 [quote name='chris_b' post='518714' date='Jun 19 2009, 06:34 PM']No.[/quote] Nearly "no" My one regret was that I didn't buy a Ken Smith VI in 1998. My then girlfriend said it was too expensive, and I listened to her. Last time I've done that. These days, new instruments just magically appear. I [i]resent[/i] the fact that one band I was in disintegrated, but that was beyond my immediate control... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamapirate Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Slightly OT, but my worst live playing mistake was probably at the beginning of a new song at my church which was in 6/8, and the intro was G | G | C | C| then some other typical worship stuff, but I kinda read it as G | C | and when everyone was playing something else I presumed it was another song and didn't realise it was the real song until about 3 1/2 bars in.... This was ina church with about 600 people. *face turns to beetroot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jensenmann Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Definitely my biggest mistake was to sell my custom coloured 1964 Gibson Thunderbird IV. AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH it still gives me sleepless nights Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 [quote name='jensenmann' post='528219' date='Jun 29 2009, 10:35 PM']Definitely my biggest mistake was to sell my custom coloured 1964 Gibson Thunderbird IV. AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH it still gives me sleepless nights[/quote] Ouch! What colour was it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyJay Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 [quote name='iamapirate' post='528158' date='Jun 29 2009, 09:39 PM']Slightly OT, but my worst live playing mistake was probably at the beginning of a new song at my church which was in 6/8, and the intro was G | G | C | C| then some other typical worship stuff, but I kinda read it as G | C | and when everyone was playing something else I presumed it was another song and didn't realise it was the real song until about 3 1/2 bars in.... This was ina church with about 600 people. *[b]face turns to beetroot[/b][/quote] [Emphasis added by me] Schoolboy error there. For future reference, pretend it was a solo and put on your best [b][i]Bass Face[/i][/b] [sup]TM[/sup] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jensenmann Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 [quote name='Shaggy' post='528337' date='Jun 30 2009, 08:29 AM']Ouch! What colour was it?[/quote] Metallic green. That made it look kind of UFO-ish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 [quote name='Rich' post='527716' date='Jun 29 2009, 01:43 PM']Would it depress you more if I told you I paid £330 for mine..? [/quote] Come the revolution; you will be the first against the wall, and your Wal liberated by the proletariat (ie; me) [quote name='jensenmann' post='528396' date='Jun 30 2009, 10:12 AM']Metallic green. That made it look kind of UFO-ish[/quote] Damn, that sounds lush. never heard of / seen that custom option. Any pics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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