You carry on and on using your legs, they transport you to innumerable places at will, but of course, you don't think about this miracle because there is no need for it, they will work regardless.
It is said that the average person wold take about 7.500 steps per day.
You become conscious of your legs and their immense value the day you lose them, or the day you cannot walk for a few days or weeks, due to some illness, or an accident. then, curiously, when you cannot longer use your legs, they become obvious to you; they can be seen inside yourself, and you picture them foundly.
My bass guitar desappeared from my sight too..., because I have played it for about 15 years already, and so, it became transparent to me, just like my legs. This wonderful instrument you have heard so many times in my recordings was really like an extension of my own body. I could play with it with my eyes closed, and would know exactly what nuance I would get. While I had this amazing instrument with me, it did not exist, yes, because of its perfection, just like my example of a perfectly working pair of legs. that makes me realize that the best instrument for a musician, it is the one that desappears while you play it, becoming pure expression, like an extension of yourself. This was the case with my 4-strings death friend...
It died when its neck tensor in spanisch called "soul", broke. I have lived in Glasgow for quite a few years before coming over to Chile, and as you know, in glasgow it rains most of the year, so himidity is everywhere. In Santiago of Chile you can get, on the contrary, very hot weather as a hard contrast, so metal mechanisms can rust and stick without you realizing it. Well, this is what happend. I did not lubricate the neck mechanics, which was a mistake I can tell you now... Well, I even ever thought about it. So, please, those reading these lines, take advantage of this happening and: "do lubricate your instruments" tensors, as they can brake due to rust, when you try to adjust your neck action.
I have always played music the way I want. This has an advantage: you enjoy music like few people on earth do, because you don't concentrate in the money-side of things and if music gives you for a living, you take it, but if it doesn't, you keep going anyway and definetely, you don't sell yourself for cheap music just to have some green in your pocket. My music is not really commercial that we could say. But, of course, the down, hard side of it all, is that when something like that happens you are screwed becuase you cannot afford to get a new instrument. This is exactly the situation. I will be without a replacement for some time I guess... I feel mad when I turn and cannot rich for my old good bass.
Please, do yourself a favor, go right now and do lubricate your instruments. I had to learn it the hard way, don't do the same mistake.
It uses a blend of graphite and maple, so I can make a note sing forever, or beat zombies off the stage without going out of tune. It has the phonelic fretboard, headless body, and an EMG humbucker/piezo bridge combo piped through an 18v active amp/eq. So it runs pretty hot. I can track it at line-level inputs if I wanted to! But, certainly, it should be played before purchased, not everyone's cup of tea.
But a new friend will have to come to my life... 