I called this person and made arrangements to look at it today. We talked, and he had listed 5 Carvins for sale, none of them slouches and this one bass was the cream of the crop. I asked him if he had other guitars for sale and he told me he did but wasn't sure of which ones he had for sale. "How many guitars do you have" To my amazement he replied, "One Hundred Fifty". I'm still sitting up but getting shaky. "One hundred fifty?, Are you a collector"? Hows that for a brilliant observation. I could hardly wait to see this today. Now I can tell you that none of us guys has a problem and most of us are rather wimpy compared to this. I have a long way to go folks, I am not even a third there!
The plot gets even thicker today when I get there. This person has had a lot of disposable income and has nothing but high end guitars including several G&L's, all Legacys, and that he was laid off from his job some time back. He only owned about 4 basses. He has 14 of the highest end Tom Andersons. It turns out that he is selling off his guitars to pay bills. The economy is not the best to be selling guitars, but he said it will keep him going. It certainly changed my mood about buying but he assured me that it would help him out and I guess after putting things into perspective, maybe I was but I wasn't feeling good about it. Anyway, I brought it home and spent 3 hours on a complete setup checking it out.
It is a Carvin L-75 solid KOA bass with Piezo bridge and in like new condition. It has more controls than I am used to and I discovered it has a push/pull volume to go from active in any setting to passive. It is also the lightest bass I have ever owned coming in at 8.4 LBS. Ginny treats me very well but I felt bad for the previous owner. He has figured out how to move forward. -- Darwin
