Do you have a bass you will NEVER get rid of?

[exiledarchangel]

My bolt on epi with gibson pups. It's my first bass, I learn how to play (or something) there.
I really like its neck, feels like home to me. Yea, I know, I'm officially a weirdo.

[Granny Gremlin]

Then again, though, the Triumph resulted in this track, which is one of my favorites: Kha-Tess part 3.8-4 - now I'm conflicted!  

That's a heavy jam! Very nice.

What's the fx chain there?

edit:  Oh damn, the reverb/delay just kicked in!  I am at a loss for words here.

[Highlander]

... or leave it to my son.

As above...

Once I buy an instrument I keep them - I have only ever parted with one bass and I still regret that (fixed neck Jazz that I bought on a whim and sold a month later back in mid 80's) - but the obvious answer for this thread is my PC...



I have broken a few, mind you...

[Granny Gremlin]

Now that is interesting.

[hieronymous]

What's the fx chain there?

edit:  Oh damn, the reverb/delay just kicked in!  I am at a loss for words here.

The first part is Fulltone Bass Drive - then MXR M288 Bass Octave Deluxe (before the Fulltone). After the drum break there it's Fulltone with EHX Small Stone Nano - I think the delay on that version is the TC Electronic Flashback. All run through CAJ tube compressor and Alembic F-2B preamp.

Gibson EB-2
Rickenbacker 4001CS
Steinberger L2(previously owned by Dee Murray)
Hamer B12S

Wasn't it supposed to be one bass? 

[Rob]

A 62 Precision. . . it was my first bass and I haven't offed it yet. . . .42 years

[fur85]

Does it count if you let it reside somewhere else for a few years, and then bought it back?  This time, it's here to stay.  I promised it to my daughter when I die.

I'm getting a little choked up... I was lucky to have played this special one for a few years.

[chromium]

For me, a scruffy 76 Thunderbird that has it where it counts would be last-man-standing if it ever comes to that:

[patman]

I've only got two "electric" basses now, and I think they're both keepers...my beat up Mexi P tuned BEAD (with EMG Select pup), and my Dano Longhorn signed by Bootsy.
Sold one other to my son (it was his originally-it needed to go back to it's "real" owner), and traded another for yet another banjo (my daughter's been trying to learn to play, she is using it).

Still have the Guild acoustic and the Pace Bass, also.

Live, I just use the Precision and the Pace.  Makes life simple.

[Bargeon]

My Lakland Skyline hollowbody, fretless
Purchased in 2004. It's the only bass I ever really wanted.

[Chris P.]

My '76 Bird. Period!

[gearHed289]

the Rickenbacker is a bass that I can always go back to, and in many ways allows me to most fully express myself.

Same here!

[Basvarken]

My 1969 Gibson Les Paul Bass ain't going nowhere 

[drbassman]

Oh yeah, this is a tough one.  I've got multiples.  My LP Triumph and Signature basses won't go anywhere, not to mention the NR I rehabbed.

[Granny Gremlin]

My 1969 Gibson Les Paul Bass ain't going nowhere 

Right on; that's what I'm talking about.   

I just wish they were more common in another colour besides that walnut brown; the only reason I prefer my Triumph - though I dunno if pee pee is that much better than poo poo but most of the time I just pretend it's still white, and the back of the neck, which is mostly what I see when playing, still is, or more aptly, is again, since the yellowing nitro is mostly rubbed off there.