Those 40th Anniversary Squiers were on my radar when I first started B2B, but no one had them in stock. Now the stock seems stabilized and many retailers are currently offering them at $500. I had also been looking at the Vintera series, however they are 2x the cost (about $1049). The third option would be to hit up Ikebe Music again for one of their Red P Basses and possibly swap the pickguard from white to gold. This might actually be cheaper than opting for a Vintera.
I usually end up playing one song with different basses. Some songs give different inspiration to the bass and the types of bass. That’s how I became so passionate about the wider nut width and string spacing. It sets the vibe to the songs.
While playing an old trusty bass would give you a warm fuzzy feeling, changing it up bring fresh new approach to a song. Since most of us are not tied to any endorsement tana single instrument we could play whatever we want, lol.
GAS may have reared it’s head. I am thinking of buying the Schecter Corsair Semi Hollow. It has T-Bird pickups and has gotten great reviews. Schecter makes good stuff. I had considered the Guild Starfire I, the Jack Casady Epiphone, the Gretsch G5442BDC, or the Epi RumbleKat. Talk me out of getting any of them. Show me how anti-gas you can be!
Every Schecter I’ve ever had has been awesome. I would never talk someone OUT of getting one.
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I mean, unless it was, like, a choice between eating, or paying rent or summat, and buying a Schecter. In that case, don’t buy the Schecter, pay your rent, or go get some food.
@JustTim Just curious: I notice from time to time you use this word “summat,” which I have heard before, but always spoken by British folks. Have you had an English influence at some point in life, or is this word much more common in the U.S. (or maybe California?) than I realize?
Personally, sometimes I notice that when I want to say the word “something,” lazily as “sump’in’,” it does not come out right; it sounds like I’m saying “sommmm” with no second syllable. But that’s another story, and not worth getting into.
But no, seriously, my mom, her brother, and her mom immigrated to the US from England when she was… in her teens. She came over on the Queen Mary when it was in service. My dad’s mom was into genealogy, and she traced that side of the family back to historic Scotland (Huntly Castle). So yeah, there’s been a very strong English/Scottish/UKish influence on my life, from my earliest years.
I don’t know why I use “summat” in informal dicussions (like on forums and the like); I don’t use it in professional discussions (like work emails or chats). It’s just something I picked up from those English influences, and it’s kinda stuck.
Ever since I started playing again I seem to spend 75% of my playing time on fretless. When I stopped playing years ago I was starting to get into fretless playing. I guess the passion for it I was developing stuck with me.
This is the song that made me want to get a fretless 30 years ago. Also the first i heard who would become one of my favorite bass player. Michael Manring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzQ_ftzNdaE
