Carl Thompson Bass for $14,995. Please school me why.....?

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madbass6 said:
Ok.. sorry for who ever doesnt think thats just simply redeculus!! Call me crazy if you want but i would rather get 2 top of the line Basses like a smith 5 For about 7k and a very decent fodera for another 8k VS one Carl Thompson Bass !! for 15K (ooops sorry, $14,995) ;)
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I'll take an American J, an American P, an American Joe Osborne, a StingRay 5 neck-through and a Ric 4003s. Maybe a Sadowskly to round out the collection....
 
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I think the same as the Ric lightshow, that it's some form of "price anchoring" that's been made. That later on, some OTHER basses of boutique kind, ain't that expensive comint to think of it. My limit is like 3-4 K. I think by and large, you can't even hand build from scratch anything that's worth more, than say 3-4 K. That's in sound, tone, versatlitly, and longevity and sturdy build, and everything just gels. Going above that, it's just abalone inlays, bling, bling and added ornaments, laqcuer, finish, exotic near extinct woods, that you can't really better. Say a BMW can't get better if it has some flashy finish or paint on it, or bling.

A Rolex wont get you more in time for missing meetings, trains, busses...ahhh sorry, if you wear a Rolex you probably don't go by bus or train....;)

It's the Rolex of basses...
 
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MegaSwing said:
Nothing ever made in history EVER went unsold.
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The Famous Zappa/Hendrix Burnt Guitar

"In May 2002, Dweezil finally put the guitar up for auction in the U.S, hoping it would fetch a cool million dollars, but it failed to sell. It was put up for auction again in September of the same year, this time at the Cooper Owen auction house in London. Dweezil lowered the asking price to £450,000 (765,000 Euros), but once again the guitar failed to sell. The highest offer was a telephone bid of £300,000 (510,000 Euros), which was refused by Dweezil."

510.000 EU = 563,000 USD and Dweezil bailed out on that one. Only time will tell... or he keeps waiting for the inflation to rise, and in his retirement years he demands the same price again, which is "worth" a whole lot less in that time...an auction is supposed to have a raising bid price with the asking price as a starting point. An auction is no place for bargaining. I think this turned out too embarrassing for Dweezil.
 
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Honch said:
The Famous Zappa/Hendrix Burnt Guitar

"In May 2002, Dweezil finally put the guitar up for auction in the U.S, hoping it would fetch a cool million dollars, but it failed to sell. It was put up for auction again in September of the same year, this time at the Cooper Owen auction house in London. Dweezil lowered the asking price to £450,000 (765,000 Euros), but once again the guitar failed to sell. The highest offer was a telephone bid of £300,000 (510,000 Euros), which was refused by Dweezil."

510.000 EU = 563,000 USD and Dweezil bailed out on that one. Only time will tell... or he keeps waiting for the inflation to rise, and in his retirement years he demands the same price again, which is "worth" a whole lot less in that time...an auction is supposed to have a raising bid price with the asking price as a starting point. An auction is no place for bargaining. I think this turned out too embarrassing for Dweezil.
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Clearly, the price isn't right. The marketplace does not yield to pride.
 
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MegaSwing said:
Clearly, the price isn't right.
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The thing is if he waits too long for it, other opportunities have come up for those kind of customers. Those customers are very few, far and in between, so since there's no grab-and-scamble thing going on, it may very well end up that he won't ever sell it. It will not ever be sold. He may end up donating it to Hard Rock Café or Rock'n'Roll hall of fame. Maybe his kids do sell it, for less price. I know very well things that has been tried to sell, real estate and so on. Finally, the wrecks and ruins of a real estate has been DONATED to anyone, just because they want it moved away from the premises. Well then, there you go, not until that gratis thing, it was the right price. But, still not sold, but donated.
 
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I completely agree with your question and understand its nature. You will be made to feel like an idiot for asking such a horrific question here.... I dont understand why the literal sense cant be taken and discussed like intelligent human beings without all the analagies and comparisons.
 
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Jeff Scott said:
We went with soapstone. :)

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Now, how does this tie in with a bass guitar? The soapstone is on top of the base bass cabinets :smug:, and is part of the backsplash backline :woot:.
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Would look lovely on a pickguard, but would probably add too much weight, even for me.

Serpentine is a cool looking stone, too.

Anachronism said:
Forget the counters, the most important thing in those pictures is the Kitchen Aid mixer.
A well-fed bassist is a happy bassist.
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Ah yes, the Kitchen-Aid mixer. I grew up with one, so it's always weird seeing relatively large kitchens without one.

HubbardsFate said:
People are free to charge what they hope to get for an instrument, and buyers are free to (A) meet that price or (B) make a lower offer, and hope it gets accepted. Free market, supply and demand, and all that stuff...would I spend almost $15,000 USD on a bass? Probably not even if I won a lottery...but someone else out there might, and hey, if they have the cash and wherewithal to do so, more power to 'em, and to the seller as well.
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If I won the lottery, I'd totally get a Carl Thompson. And an Alembic. Honestly I'm not sure what I'd do with that kind of money besides get a modestly sized, decent house, and a bunch of music gear.

alaskaleftybass said:
Oh yes, the BMW. I'm going to need a BMW mini-van to haul my gear!

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It's adorable. I wonder if I could fit my cab in that.

gln1955 said:
You can say that about every vintage Fender sold. What something sells for originally, or how much work was put into it, is irrelevant in the used market for rare things. The bass in question here will eventually be sold to someone for a price that person thinks is a fair deal.
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My dad had a book about old houses in our area. Our house was listed in it. Originally it sold for $2600. Now it's obviously worth much more than that. Inflation plus increased demand in this area for housing.

theretheyare said:
A few months ago I went down to hear Carl Thompson play his weekly restaurant gig, and had the opportunity to talk to him a bit. CT in his 80ties is something wonderful and inspirational to behold, totally transparent and vibrant dude who has music on his mind, just wants to have more time to practice and play. He can't care less about marketing or branding himself. His basses are light as a feather and sound organically huge, which you are not going to get out of something CNC'ed in a factory somewhere. To me it is people like CT that make me want to support an honest craftsman instead of some faceless corporation. And what an online seller asks for a CT has nothing to do with CT himself.
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He doesn't need marketing. His work speaks for itself.

alaskaleftybass said:
I could actually haul gear in this BMW/custom trailer..

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Ha ha, I would totally rock up to a gig in that.

madbass6 said:
Ok.. sorry for who ever doesnt think thats just simply redeculus!! Call me crazy if you want but i would rather get 2 top of the line Basses like a smith 5 For about 7k and a very decent fodera for another 8k VS one Carl Thompson Bass !! for 15K (ooops sorry, $14,995) ;)
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If I was going to buy a Carl Thompson bass, I would have it built new to my specs.

Then again, short of winning the lottery or getting very wealthy in some other fashion, I don't see myself ever ordering one. Or a Smith or a Fodera. You might pay 7K and 8K for them respectively. I wouldn't, because basses that cost me around $1600 and $1300 do everything I want them to do. The build quality on Foderas and Ken Smith basses is superb, no doubt, but they seem to be pretty much extremely fancy basses based mostly on the Fender Jazz type, which, frankly, doesn't really interest me. But that's okay. Not all basses are made for me.

jpeck02 said:
Most of my favorite bass players owned and performed on either a Fender or Music Man bass.
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My favorite bassists have played basses from Fender, Rickenbacker, Gibson, Alembic, John Birch, JayDee, Wal, Electrical Guitar Company, Ibanez, Vigier, Lakland, Aria, Sadowsky, and Peavey.
 
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