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My bro said he would teach me bass, and to go buy
a $50 bass. The closest I could come was $60. It
wasn't even on display in the local used guitar shop
but was hanging over their toilet, from a bent wire
coat hanger and a nail in the wall.
It had no name and I came to realize that this was
cuz the neck and body were not original to each
other. I hadda cram a pile of shims into the neck
socket cuz when I got it you could fly a 747 under
the strings.
It was basically a P-type. The PG was broken away
where the output jack lived but had been patched
up with roof flashing metal. Someone put a BadAss
bridge on it. I sold it to one of my teachers for $40
so he got his $$-worth in that bridge, but he wasn't
using it for parts. He was gigging it. I did try to buy
it back, but he said he needed it, and I know how
broke he was so that hadda be believed. So I don't
have it anymore but I can be happy knowing what
purpose it served after I parted with it
My first actual intact bass was an Epi Les Paul. That
also went to a friend. I think my Kramer Ferrington
was more or less simultaneous to that Les Paul. I'm
not sure what became of that one, but I missed it so
I now have another one. That would be the closest I
have come to still having my first bass.
Current Ferrington: