I've posted before the story (stories?) behind my first bass guitar. I'd link if I could find them, but I guess I was sloppy tagging whenever it was. Here's a recent one. And an oldie of me playing it.
Anyway, long story short: I bought my 1st bass guitar at a pawn shop on the North Shore area of Pittsburgh, back in mid 1978. I did a few bad mods to it (like adding pickup on/off switches), and played it the for abut a year. Eary summer 1979, I replaced it with my Guild Jetstar (which I still have), and sold this to a friend. About 30 years later, I met up with him in a bar at my old hometown, and he mentioned that he still had it, but it had been sitting in his basement (not in the long gone case). He graciously gifted it back to me.
Point is, there's a sticker on the headstock, saying "Invest In: The Realies". Now I don't remember ever putting such a thing on the bass, neither did my friend. And no clue what it really means (pun intended). But, during 1979, we changed the name of our band from "The Readymades" to "The Reallys". There would've been only a short time that I owned the bass while the band carried that name. So why?
Anyway, that's not what I came here to talk about. I wanted to get y'all's opinion on these 2 photos of the sticker. Which is do you prefer? And why? Maybe I'll ask ChatGPT and see what it says...
