{"id":2619,"date":"2010-01-06T19:55:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T19:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2010-01-06T19:56:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T19:56:24","slug":"from-the-never-write-a-craigslist-ad-while-on-crack-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2619","title":{"rendered":"From The &#8220;Never Write A Craigslist Ad While On Crack&#8221; Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"From%20The%20%22Never%20Write%20A%20Craigslist%20Ad%20While%20On%20Crack%22%20Department\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>My friends at\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkbass.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=615522\">Talk Bass<\/a> are having a field day with this one. Someone in LA is either <a href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.craigslist.org\/lac\/msg\/1539615860.html\">selling his bass<\/a>, or writing his life story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have a Samick Custom Bass for auction. The bass includes a hard case. This bass is like a child to me. You see how parents become nothing other than a wreck of tears when they have their kids taken away from child protective services? That&#8217;s the image of me when I have to take this bass to the UPS store to send it to the person who buys this bass from my auction. I have been holding onto this bass for over 7 years. IT&#8217;S irreplaceable! I have had hard times and made it through without selling this bass, but I cannot afford to put the idea off any longer. So, I am forced to sell this bass due to being impossibly broke and hopeless when it comes to needing money.<br \/>\nWhen I first bought this bass it wasn&#8217;t all that great. The pickups were crap, and it was nothing more than a pretty standard 5-string. But there was one reason i HAD to have it: The neck and it&#8217;s playability. The neck is unbelievably thin and flat compared to most basses, let alone 5-strings. (As you know a 5 string ALWAYS has a thicker, bigger, neck than a 4 string.) So, it&#8217;s incredibly easy to play. After buying it I did two things that changed the bass MASSIVELY: I changed the nut to a brass nut, and carved the slots so that I could string it tenor style, being that the bass has a high C string on the bottom rather than a lower B string on the top. I did this so I could play chords, and have a higher range in general, giving me more versatile ways to play it than if it had a low B. Basically, you can play with a high C string without having to buy a 6 string bass. This makes it a &#8220;tenor&#8221; bass, and you can really get creative.<br \/>\nThen I changed the pickups to EMG-HZ pickups. The pickups were pretty expensive, but to be honest I don&#8217;t remember how much they cost. But I know myself, and when it comes to things for me I always have to have the BEST, with no exceptions. I specifically remember going through all kinds of research to find that these pickups were the best option. They don&#8217;t fit into the already carved slots in the body perfectly, so there&#8217;s about a 1\/3 of an inch space between the body and the pickups. You really cant tell by looking, but if you ask me this gives it a sound that&#8217;s really unique, because it&#8217;s not hollow body, but there&#8217;s some space to make it somewhat hollow. This all came from a mistake&#8211;the guy at the workshop put in the wrong size pickup, and I freaked when I saw the mistake he had made. But, things have a way of working themselves out, so out of curiosity I plugged it in to see how it sounded before I told the guy to undo his work. In just a few notes later, I knew this guy&#8217;s mistake was blessing in disguise, because the bass sounded AMAZING!<br \/>\nThe fact is this bass is one of a kind. I&#8217;ve played customized basses before, but none I&#8217;ve ever found was as easy to play as this one, sounded as amazing as this one, and the brass nut giving way to a high C string makes this bass a one of a kind find for anyone who plays bass.<br \/>\nThe bass is in great condition, with only one major flaw. There is a chipped spot on the body where you normally rest your forearm while playing. It cant be seen unless someone is inspecting it. I put a photo of the chipped area so you can see it. The chip got there from me using the bass as weapon while me and my past band got into a fight with the band that was opening for us earlier that night. They spoke badly about us during their set, and me and my bass proved that me and my band meant business. This bass will mean business for anyone who is lucky enough to play it.<\/p>\n<p>Any questions or requests for more pics, just email me. Thanks for looking, and thanks to anyone lucky enough to be the next to own this beauty that I&#8217;ll never see again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- START CLTAGS --><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <!-- CLTAG GeographicArea=LA -->Location: LA<\/li>\n<li>it&#8217;s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"From%20The%20%22Never%20Write%20A%20Craigslist%20Ad%20While%20On%20Crack%22%20Department\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>My friends at\u00a0 Talk Bass are having a field day with this one. Someone in LA is either selling his bass, or writing his life story: I have a Samick Custom Bass for auction. The bass includes a hard case. This bass is like a child to me. You see how parents become nothing other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}