Good advice, Jörg @joergkutter . . . Iâll keep that in mind 
Before I kick the bucket, Iâm considering a Rickenbacker 4003 vs a Fender American Professional II Jazz bass . . . both in the $2K range 
Cheers
Joe
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You are not making it easy for yourself, Joe 
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Assassins!!! 
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My Dean Edge 10 string. Sounds great but tiring to play after a short time. Itâs a touch top heavy
Sounds really beautiful through a chorus unit, Or really mean through a touch of distortion. 
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I agree, your talent will deserve that bass, soon, you are not quite there, but you will be, very soon, look below, I have a formula to let. you know when you will be ready.
and once I press control-optoin-v
I can post it below, and your magic formula for when you are ready for this bass, no for when you DESERVE this bass, is Mmmm. My eyes, damn them.
Itâs too small.
Its coming in clearer, but just canât read it.
Here. let me get some glasses and blow up that tiny text
Yeah, it appears your date is April 20, you can read it in the fine print.
Thanks for playing Know thy Bass, I have been your host
I am here all week.
Cm on everybody
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Itâs going to be a tough decision, Brian @TNKA36 . . . my sales guy says thereâs a few months wait for the Rick, and weeks to months for the Fender, so Iâll have plenty of time to think and research . . . 
Cheers
Joe
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One of my favorite days of the year, canât be a coincidence 
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That is one classy bass.
I love how they didnât go straight natural on the headstock, and I love they did not go green burts to math.
I do like this color, but the burst headtsocks can be a bit too much with a burst body IMHO. Like if they did this head stock either the darker color of green, or the lighter one, I think either would have worked, but to burst it I think yould have been too much, and I think they knew that too.
I like how they darkened up the roasted maple, and glossed it too. Really classy
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That day means NOTHING to me at all.
BUT, YOU ARE RIGHT, it canât be a coincidence for you, it is the day you deserve to have it.
that whole 420 thing, way before my time I guess, but even then, I am not a smoker.
I hate it, like really hate the feeling, it makes me purely uncomfortable, and I feel like I canât control my mind at all, and that scares the shit out of me.
I have played with plenty of hallucinations in my day, and although I would not really want to do any more trips, I think I would be a little nerve racked and would not have a very good time with it anymore
Some designer and club drugs, mainly MDMA
Lots of Yay and had my crazy meth days as a teenager, not sleeping for weeks, was horrible, moved on to the good stuff from there, and stayed down a bad path for a good long portion of my life, jumping from one deep dark cave into the next. LOL, just painting a picture. HAHA
Drinking was of course of course excessive and out of control, but I used it as justification that I was being good.
My babies mama would be yelling at me for drinking, and get my family involved, and my defense was alway, I am off the hard stuff, get off my back.
Well, for many years, alcohol was the hard stuff and it is every bit as bad, if not more then some of my other preferences.
But there is no good path for me to take except the clean easy, newly paved highway, for a nice smooth ride from hear on out, I will be just fine like that, substance free.
So, back to 420. I never got it, until I was told by kids, or kids my kids ages. and
Although I have tried, like probably at least 300 times or more, to like it.
There were many times I begged to like the stuff. Seems like life would be so much easier if I could handle it, I just can not like it no matter what I have tried, so I donât 420.
But I donât look down on anybody who does. My parents did raising me, I bet even back then they could have got dr to write them a legal rx for pot just showing them me, and saying, this is what we are raising, and we need something to help us get thru the fucking day without killing something
I believe in legalization and that there are many good uses for the drug as a medicine and sustainable crop for so many of our uses like papaer and cloth and all that stuff. etcâŠ
I just donât want it anywhere near me.
IU can appreciate a nice looking nug, and a whiff of (it when it is not lit up, just the nug).
And I funded all sorts of other drug use and partying buy selling it as a kid in high-school, and a bit past that. And would fund surf boards or wetsuits or snowboards, ski trips, lift tickets, ect⊠I funded a bunch.
(truth be told, it was the only drug I could sell successfully, and I learned this about sophomore year in high-school, maybe junior. IDK for sure???
but I dug a whole big depd after getting a few golf balls of Yay, and was supposed to sell it, step it down a little , do some and sell the rest to pay back that buy and get more
Well, (i feel a youtube clip coming on here)
Any of you watch the USA version of Shameless?
I think it is around season 6? maybe 7. I canât recall for sure.
But Carl wanted out of the game, cuz his buddy killed the kid over the bike, and he was all depressed and did not want to be a gangsta any longer (probably a good thing for carl.
But he wanted out, so Frank shows up at the drop and picks up the Keys that Carl was supposed to take to Michigan or something.
So, he goes to Rick Foxâs character and wants to borrow a car.
Hmmmm
sound familiar?
Well, he shows Rick the yay, they cut into it and do a couple fatty boom battys. and then Rick puts in some baby laxative.
Frank keeps wanting the keys, and people keep coming in the office and rick keeps kicking down to the workers and umm⊠well
Well
Rick keeps frank there till the wee h ours of the night, and even says he will have a couple of his boys drop of the yay in Michigan so that frank doesnât need to use the car.
Yeah,
Hmmm
Yeah,
It wasnât so much that we did that in one night, and it was not about the party with all the people coming in and out, but it was me more and my buddy kept popping into it, and cutting it back and then braking into the next one, and doing it til we had taken about 80% of the stash and the rest was not baby formula to meet weight and for us to sell it.
But yeah, that is what happenes if I try to, or I would say, when I used to try to make deals with anything else.
I always fucked up a deal.
Like the week between Christmas and newyears 1999=2000
I mentioined rolling in the new year.
Me and my frined, we worked for a race team that did KART and nascar and Kool Atlantic, and Ivan Stewart offroad. Cool dompany to work at
We got paid and got time off between 4 and 5 weeks over december, into new year. it was great.
Well
That was the year of Buddha, the best MDMA I had ever had, I have only one other time, same era, just a few months earlier, we had some Blue Suede Shoes, (blue pill with a nike stamp) that smoked my ass.
Yeah, we collected everybodyâs money, and got everybodyâs stash ready for the big night, afterall, we were off work, everybody else was busting their ass all work week, we were doind them a favor.
So, lets call it December 26th at around 9am.
It could have been the 27th at 9am, that was a blur of a time back then.
So, Me and my buddy wake up to my Xwife taking the baby to her grandmaâs so they can watch the baby why my X worked.
Every body else was at work, and my buddy looks over, hey, we have to get down to my place today. I have to get Rick (his room-ate) that money for next month rent, before too late that day, since Rick was paying the rent a couple days early and heading out of the country to do y2k in Australia or new Zealand of something. side story, I think it was NZ, cuz they were going down there so they could ring in the new year, and make it back here by vlying around the world, the other way, or whatever.
Ok, so we are hung over, tired as fuck, needed some yay and other party favors to get going, and he says, hey, how many X pills we have.
I say 48 on hand, but I still have to pick up some more in two days.
he says - lets take one, get us going
I say - you know dam well same as I do, that if we take one of those right now, it will be 2 more in 50 minutes, and then 2 more every 50 minutes to 1 hour until the whole damn bag is gone, AND then we will have to get new stuff for everybody.
He says - No way, we can just do 1. well no, just 3, we can just do 3 and stop.
I says - I donât care, if you wanna go down this road, I am all for it, but you are equally responsible to buy back everybodyâ their shit after we eat it all.
So 2 pm we took one
2:55am, after the first puke, wee took two more
and every 55 min, like clockwork, for the next 10 hours, we were taking one to two more til that whole damm bag was gone, and we even picked up about 8-12 more somewhere along the way
So, yess, we paid to get everybody their stuff back. I was a little pinched for cash, so I only ended up with like 4-6 for the night, when I planned to do minimum 12
Had a good time, but it was not as good a time as it would have been had we nod got so lit on E, just a few days before doing it again. Its one of those things that doesnât work again good til your brain flushes it all gone.
Sorry, got a little lost in story time.
Yeah, gnjoy 4:20 twice a day, or enjoy it once a calendar year, or enjoy it every hour at 04:20 per each hour
enjoy it however you like it
And its cool you can get your dream bass on your dream day
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Ouch, that was probably a book.
I got stuck in 3 storyâs on this post, and had taken 4 phone calls, and get up and answer the door 3 tmes, each time coming back and typing more then I had intended to, but, at this point, what is done is done, hope some people get a few laughs out of it.
I know plenty that get a laugh out of my life
Even me some times, not so much so often these days, but remembering the good times helps to get out of the doldrums.
and sometimes reading about funny things that happens to others or that they did to the selves, can also help put a smile on the face of your heart. I ust hope it was not too much that you couldnât enjoy it.
So if you are enjoying it, keep reading, if not, donât keep reading, cuz if it gets offensive in any way, it probably wonât stop anytime soon
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IDK Joe, I think you are thinking way too hard about it and putting yourself into an early grave over this.
I think you should, no I command you rather, to get ONE OF EACH
and get them both off the list.
And then when you go, take them with you!!!
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Thatâs what Iâm doing TOBY, @T_dub, I already told Mac @Mac,
They are going with me into the ovenâ:+1:
Cheers Brian
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there you go, even better then a decked out coffin.
Each side a sleeve too drop in gig bag style.
Stereo Monitors in the pillow
Heck, you can get that one new practice amp they advertise all over youtube these days, the one that supposed to sound good, and has all the apps to set up your pedal chain, and amp models, and cab sims, and if it doesnât fit in nicely, we can rip it apart and use the electronics, and build a touch screen dash board, with the amp speakers down by the feet, set to run stereo with the monitors in the pillow.
Then add a playing stool, and you are set for the new life 24/24/7/7, everything for ever and ever.
But I like burning with them, and living amongst the ashes.
Maybe use some of the ash to make a good stain to black wash some swamp ash and make a body finish from the ashes
mix some ashes in some glue and use that glue to glue the 5pc wood neck together and the fretboard.
Probably some ways to use them for decoration on an amp and cab stand.
two other things I will do with my ashes (with the bass mixture) is
take a small bag, a good golf ball size corner of a bag full of my ashes, sifting out some of the dust, getting more of the larger chunks from very small to pebble size.
I will use it in a semi breathable type of bag, with a twisty
I will have two made
first one will be put in the media container of the filter on a fresh water planted tank garden, something, one of the last I will ever design and bring to fruition, so I will aquascape and get fully growing and filled in before I die.
second one, in similar fashion would go into the media section of a canister filter on a reef tank. I will probably start this " The One" a few years out, it takes time to really get a good ecosystem, looking like actual crystal blue water Caribbean reef, with a host of animals, small, calm section that can host at least one clown fish and shrimp (I forget the shrimp type they live symbiotically with, is it a trigger, no that is a fish, hmmm, I will have to thing about it, anyway, small enough to show off tons of zoos and lots of micro shrimp and crabs. lots of pom pom crabs, those are bad ass.
Ok, anyway, getting off topic here, but yeah.
Bury with you,
or
burn and share ashes together,
one way or another, I am riding into ummm, gulb, er, yeah, riding into the afterlife bass or two in hand.
The possibilities are endless
Speaking of endless possibilities,
I saw a guy on offer up selling a fishbowl toilet.
Like for real, the fish lived in a small tank in a tank,
more like a tank frame around a tank, so its probably cramped, and they just swim around the flusher trapped in about a 1.5" to 2" wide at its widest tank.
Hardly bliss for the fish.
Now, I believe, if the bathroom kept really clean, and the proper type fish used, this could be pulled off, sanitarily.
Past aquarium experience that I have says I can pull it off.
BUT, BUT
It made me think.
an aquarium bass.
Purely display only. Yes it could be strung, but it really shouldnât be moved around if fish are going to be in it , living in it, but
I mean,
come on,
Its better then a toilet of fish. 
and donât actually share the water, but it is supposed to appear that
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They would be vibrating all around the bass tank every time you strum a string 
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Thanks Brian, I never would have thunk that.
Ha Ha ha, thats why I said not for playing, just for having a bassquarium.
you know, for the Bassist that has everything already.
Reminds me of Fly Guyâs Pimp Shoes that had goldfish in the heel, in that movie, âIâma Get You Suckaâ. one of the Wayons brothers, before the wayons brothers, but with the Wayons brothers.
Robert Townsend, I think that was the other guys name that was producing the wayons brothers in his movies til they started doing their own productions.
He was the guy that did Hollywood Shuffle, and probably Carwash.
Funky bass lines in all of those movies.
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After researching a bit more, it turns out that removing the pickup cover from a Rickenbacker is NOT as simple as just removing two screws . . . 
I do have a Autumnglo 4003 in mind, though . . . but the pickup cover will have to stay in place if I get it . . .
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That doesnât look too hard, why would you have to keep it in place?
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Limited Edition, MIJ P-bass Noir
This has officially replaced the Aerodyne as my favorite Fender product ever. What a fantastic looking bass.
Right around 920 euro.
https://www.soundhouse.co.jp/en/products/detail/item/282555/
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