Temptation!

It sounds like you want it.  You may be sorry if you wait and it's gone.  Go with your gut, bud.

mutants say "get bass must have bass bass good" 

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That's not temptation, Zurf, that's OPPORTUNITY!

And you wouldn't want to pass on a great opportunity, would ya?

I'm still tempted, but I think I'm going to pass on it.  I have two electric basses here, and I've already got a fiddle and an autoharp and a sack full of harmonicas lined up for me to learn to use before I learn that ol' hillbilly slap technique on a bass.  It'd sit unused for too long for me to justify the space.   Now, if I can find a decent space in my pitifully small office/studio/laundry room, then I will go buy it and suffer the consequences. 

My wife was funny.  She was saying, "Why would you buy that?  Your jam sessions are all at campfires.  It's not like you'd take that thing camping with you."  "You think I wouldn't?"  "Oh, yeah.  Forgot who I was dealing with there.  You would." 

- Zurf

Hey Zurf ,
I had an experience not unlike yours last summer ... There's a pawn shop that I drive by two or three times a week in the summer and I decided to stop one day ... Right away I saw a nice little black Oscar Schmidt 335 copy .. Price 150.00 ... Really tempted too because I play a black 330 copy and always wanted one like it to keep tuned different ...
Well I asked what bottom dollar was and the gal said the price is on it ( and was'nt very nice about it ) , and when I asked to plug it in and try it out it seemed like a lot of bother for her , L O L .. Anyway I left without buying it , but every time I drove by there I wanted to stop and buy the thing anyway .... About two weeks later I decided to go buy it and it was gone ..... So I say buy the bass then decide if you want to keep it .... Wish I had done just that , L O L ..
                Jerry

We'll see.  Good story, though GSE.  These folks couldn't have been nicer.  The guitars they were showing were out of tune.  We've had some changes in weather recently.  They usually keep them in tune on the floor, but their employee who's a musician was on a trip to see some family and wouldn't be back for a little while.  Totally understandable.  They offered to loan me a tuner and let me tune them up for myself however I liked, but then I got the call that my morning appointment had showed up after all and so I had to rush back home. 

I think I'll hold out for getting a better quality acoustic guitar, maybe an A/E model.  If I need a new bass, I'll sell my Ovation Magnum on e-Bay and be able to afford both an A/E bass and a used plywood upright.  I don't play the Magnum any more anyway.  It's a really good rock bass, but I don't play rock much.  When I play bass it's usually country, folk, or praise music.  For that I've got a Yamaha fretless with sweeeeeeet GHS flatwounds and it plays just as smooth as butter.  For any real deal playing, I'll replace the pickups, but for the backporch picking and jamming sort of things I do the factory p/u's will work fine. 

Now if I could just figure out time to start learning that fiddle.  I've got the perfect first fiddle song to do too, Louisiana Saturday Night.  To be followed shortly after by Si Kahn's Wild Rose of the Mountain.  I play both of those on guitar and it would be cool if I could figure out an arrangement and record both parts. 

Plus, my neigbor has an upright that he's offered to let me use anytime.  I could get my chops up on it before buying my own and take up space in his basement.

All of that said, I'm seriously considering calling a drummer buddy who has tons of space, empty nester with a house bigger than mine, and see if he can "hold" it for me.  He plays bass too, so I'm sure by the time I found room he'd be way more advanced than I will ever be. 

- Zurf