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spend more time playing your bass
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spend more time lurking around TB
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about the same amount
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07-29-2005, 02:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Adelaide, Australia | | | Do you spend more time here than playing your bass?
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Do you spend more time here than playing your bass?
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07-29-2005, 02:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Switzerland | | | Guilty as charged. I never practice. Two gigs last weekend. Two gigs this weekend. I'm surfing TB quite a bit during the day.
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07-29-2005, 02:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Adelaide, Australia | | Yup, me too. 
In my defense, I can say that I have learned lots of valuable insight into my musicianship. I have gained heaps of interesting ideas and thoughts about my craft etc.
And I have made friends and had lots of laughs too.
When I say "guilty" its only with tongue in cheek. Of course I should practise more, but it would be harder to disguise a bass at my office desk than it is to troll around here when work is boring 
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07-29-2005, 02:44 AM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | I have not even turned on my amp to play bass in almost three months. I am thinking about turning my gear into a home theater system. I have not played my bass since early May.
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07-29-2005, 07:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Adelaide, South Australia | | Lately I seem to have spent more time looking at new basses to buy than appreciating and practising on what I have. |
07-29-2005, 07:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Adelaide, Australia | | | Sent you a PM , Cam
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07-29-2005, 07:47 AM
|  | (((o))) Moderator | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Antwerp, Belgium | | | Guilty, alas...
TB is evil! |
07-29-2005, 07:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: North Bay, Ontario, CANADA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Cambass Lately I seem to have spent more time looking at new basses to buy than appreciating and practising on what I have. | +1
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07-29-2005, 08:09 AM
| | (((o))) Moderator | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Antwerp, Belgium | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Cambass Lately I seem to have spent more time looking at new basses to buy than appreciating and practising on what I have. | That's why I've stopped visiting the Basses forum, seriously, it only makes me sad about my cheap Warwick and second handed combo. |
07-29-2005, 08:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Orlando/Coral Springs, Fl | | | i too am guilty... although i have been playing my bass much more recently.
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07-29-2005, 09:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Adelaide, Australia | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Vorago That's why I've stopped visiting the Basses forum, seriously, it only makes me sad about my cheap Warwick and second handed combo. |
I see no reason to be sad about that?? You could be stuck with a Cort..... 
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07-29-2005, 09:37 AM
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Endorsing Artist: FBB Bass Works/Barker Bass | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Monroe Twp, NJ | | My day gig is a series of spurts of activity, leaving me a fair amount of "downtime" during each day. So when I get to work, TB is logged on and stays on all day ... I pop in and out many times during the day ........
At home, TB is rarely up & running. What free time I do have is spent with family stuff, around the house chores, and the like. I practice at least 30-45 minutes each day (unless its a gig day).
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07-29-2005, 10:21 AM
|  | ... you talkin' to me ?? | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: DEEP in the Heart of Texas | |  guilty ... nah , not really .
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Originally Posted by Joshua Not guilty at all. I primarily hit TB during breaks at work. When I'm home and able to practice, I rarely hit TB at all... | i'm mainly on TB while here at work ...
i keep an open Window , strictly for TalkBass ...
at home , i pratice at least 8 hours per week { 1 to 1.5 hrs. per day },
and on the weekend , gigs and band practice ...
i have a VERY understanding wife ...
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07-29-2005, 10:29 AM
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Owner/Retailer: Jive Sound | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alexandria,VA | | I'm quite quilty  |
07-29-2005, 10:31 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central Southern Massachusetts | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by jive1 I'm quite quilty | You bastehd. I just shot soda out my nose. |
07-29-2005, 10:53 AM
|  | Now With More Metal! Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Harte fjord, CT | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Vorago That's why I've stopped visiting the Basses forum, seriously, it only makes me sad about my cheap Warwick and second handed combo. | I didn't visit this forum for a couple of months and had absolutely no GAS at all. Within an hour of logging back on I was figuring out what I could sell to get a new bass.
I usually check in here while I'm at work where I can't practice. I get about 30 minutes or so a day to practice at home and I wish I had more time, but alas it is not to be for the moment. |
07-29-2005, 11:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Guilty, but only because of work, normally I'm on TB and playing bass (and then just playing bass). But then work came along, now on breaks I TB.
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07-29-2005, 12:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Michigan, USA | | | About the same time here.
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07-31-2005, 01:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Ames, IA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by david meissner i'm mainly on TB while here at work ...
i keep an open Window , strictly for TalkBass ...
at home , i pratice at least 8 hours per week { 1 to 1.5 hrs. per day },
and on the weekend , gigs and band practice ...
i have a VERY understanding wife ... | Sounds like me, except my wife is going thru some major mood swings....she doesn't understand much at all these days 
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07-31-2005, 02:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Fort Collins, CO | | | Yes I do. But only because I can't play bass at work, unfortunately. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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