“Don’t sell your first bass. Even if you never play it again, in later life you’ll wish you still had it”: With a stage name coined by Bootsy Collins, Freekbass names the one bass that “like an idiot” he ended up selling

Freekbass.

“My first bass guitar was a Fender Musicmaster, the short-scale one. I still remember the smell of the case when I lifted up the lid. It went when I was at the age when I was selling one thing to get another, but I’m so mad that I don't have it any more.

“Anyone who’s reading this, don't sell your first bass. Even if you never play it again, in later life you'll wish you still had it.”