Do DBers get G.A.S.

[john turner]

Originally posted by Chris Fitzgerald
but when a DBer gets a GAS attack, it can permeate an entire high rise building and also sour the atmosphere for as much as two city blocks in each direction.

You are entering the deep end of the pool, my friend. Start waving those arms and kicking now and avoid the rush later.

yeah, no kidding. i've been scoping out some viola de gambas and barytons. jeezus h. those things are expensive!

[C.Veltman]

I have got G.A.S too !
Isn´t it also called the D.H.S ?
Don Higdon syndrome ? If true, I have both :-))

Started this last summer and already 5-6
DB´s have passed my hands.

The truly is something special about the DB´s.
Although playing EB all my professional life
this "new" era has given me a kick !

Kind regards,
CV
G.A.S & D.H.S savant ;-))
ps, the scan shows my latest bass...
http://www.geocities.com/trubeatse/magyarbass/side1.jpg

[Breitag]

Here's some G.A.S. for you. While at David Gage's today a nice young man named Sam placed a $ 40,000.00 Double bass in my hands. I must confess that the instrument looked and sounded beautiful in my arms. Although I have only been playing a short while, I was magically transformed into Gary Karr. I started to play some incredibly difficult piece that I 'd never heard before. The sound I was producing was so great that all 75 basses in the room started to spontaneously sympathetically sing in harmony with what I was playing. The traffic all over Tribeca stopped in awe.
But then . without warning, my Amex card flew out of my wallet glowing , spinning, savagely white hot. The next thing I saw was that very same card blasting a ten foot wide hole in the wall of Gages' audition room as it made for the hills.
Now that's G.A.S!

[mchildree]

I can tell you what new DB'ers get even worse than GAS: IAS (Information Aquisition Syndrome). New players enter the arena starved for knowledge, and tend to spend way too much time on the 'Net just trying to find any little tidbit of info. Bob Gollihur's page (All Hail!) is terribly addictive....