Well, i'd been thinking of buying a bass for a long time and when the day came i was so very confused on which one to buy, when to stop shuffling through them, etc....
Taking Putta made the job easier. We went to the usual "GUITAR PLACE"..... Rhythms (wahahahahahhahahahahaha) to buy the one guitar. Putta and I tried all the makes in that shop but then decided what the shopkeeper said was right... "Their products were inferior!".... Plus we couldn't stand the emotional torture the Business-minded shopkeeper put us through, actually only Putta was the tortured one.... Anyway having had enough, we went to another one of those "Land Of The Rabbits", World Of Music and began the usual picking and "Naah, do you have any other?"
The guitars we saw here were ones we had never heard of before, Ritfeller, WS, etc..... After 6 total hours of "This one sucks......", we decided to get down to the INEVITABLE! Putta asked the shopkeeper if he had any more basses in the godown and Voila! We found 2 awesome guitars! One was a JHATANG Grason (MAN! They never stop making fakes... Givson then Gulson then Gibtone and now Grason!). But apart from the jhatang quality looks, the sound was amazing! We asked him to get another one.... and there came the GIVSON! That's the make we decided would be the last resort! Normally, when you tell a guitarist that you are going to buy a Givson bass, he'd be like "ANYTHING BUT THAT!!!" But this one had amazing sound, tone, sustenance, frets and looks (Metallic Silver).... so...... I BOUGHT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Plus this was a one in a million case...GIVSON coming up with such a great product for 6,500 grand! WOAH!!!!!
So now it's there at home while I'm in Mumbai...tsk, tsk.......
The best part is Putta actually dreamt of me playing totally radical solos on a Givson! Little did we expect the dream to come true! I actually did end up buying a Givson!!!! Well, now i have to work on making the latter part of the dream to come true "PLAY RADICAL SOLOS!"
So with the INTENSIVE BASS TRAINING coming my way through Putta's expertise, let's see..... Eventually maybe..........
