Does Your GAS Level Go Up and Down or Just Stay the Same?

[Jazzin']

Does your GAS level go up and down or just stay the same? After not purchasing anything for a long time, I get a GAS build-up. It increases my will to buy something(s) even if I don't have the money. Then after buying some stuff, I have cleared some GAS. Then I am temporarily satisfied. Eventually my GAS level climbs back up to that irresistable high and the whole process is repeated.

Am I alone, do you just always have GAS? Or is this how your GAS works too?

[superbassman2000]

i am the same way...i like to keep a rotation of extra gear, just in case i need something new, even if its a cheap effect pedal or something

[B-NoteCowboy]

Fixen to give in to the desire to buy a black Stingray 5. Making the downpayment tomorrow!

After that, I'm thinking hard about a rig that I don't REALLY need, but sure would like to get.

GAS is incurable.

[ebladeboi123]

It really depends. I have a minor gas for alot of basses. I'd love a sadowsky, roscoe, ritter, dingwall or any of those other boutique basses, but I reailze it just can't happen on my awesome minimum wage salary. Instead, I tend to buy pickups and preamps and do it that way. But thats not as bad, since you usually don't take to hard of a loss on them.

But recently (past few months, actually since christmas). I've been gassing real hard for a new head. I've been trying to figure out how to finance it, but I don't think I can. I REALLY want a Eden WT550, it's beyond sick. But I've also been stuck with my GK for about a year and half now. The thing that really has cured my gas (for bass) is owning a good bass of the 3 big familys. Precision, jazz and MM.

Dan

[markjazzbassist]

my gas is always constant. i find the bass gear i want and usually work hard to get it. then when i do i realize there is other gear i want. like now i have this burning desire to pickup the congas. i need a new classical guitar, set of drums, you see where this is going. basically i need to own enough gear so if a band and orchestra came over to my house to jam, they wouldn't have to bring anything.

GAS will never leave, it just morphs into other items.

[funkasaurus]

My GAS goes definitely goes down after I buy a new piece of gear...for about 24 hours! And yet I continue to read all those Sadowsky, Nordstrand, Epifani, etc. posts here. That definitely doesn't help the GAS either.

Please, I need help.

Honestly though, I think I will be satisfied for awhile after I get a new rig this summer.

That's what I keep tellin' myself.

[morf]

Yeah I work the same way. Although I've recently received three (!) new basses and I'm already wanting more...

[addylewis]

My gas just keeps going up!

There are some basses I want pretty bad and some I'd love but could never realistically afford...and theres that Kustom Groove rig I've been gassing for for the past year...thats the main priority at the moment.

2nd on the list is a Fender '62 RI precision (which is the affordable one...) then an ASAT or Stingray (which aren't QUITE as affordable) then theres the old humbucker tele-bass which would HAVE to be in orange with a dark blue tortoishell pickguard which you can't get anywhere SO...it'd be a case of - buy one for £1500-2000, get a refinish (perhaps what...another 500?) and find someone to do that pickguard if they can...Hmm...£2-3000...lummy, thats one for the high end of the "if I ever get enough money" category (like the ASAT's and the Stingray with Piezo...although they're lover down). The '62 RI P is in the other section (the "I've got enough money BUT..." section) - simply because I don't really need it, I'm trying to save up, I've not got the space, my parents would probably go mad if they found out...y'know!

but yeah - that precision is the number one on my BASSES gas list...my GAS is usually cured for a few months or until I see something and I think "hmm...I'd like one of those for my collection..." Although my justification for the 62 precision is that I've already got a '62 re-issue jazz which, together with a P, would make a VERY nice pair or axes...

[Fastfwd]

It is at an all time high right now mostly because I'm getting back into music. Already had a really nice guitar and PA so I got a really nice multieffect/amp modeler/8track.

Now I want to get a nice bass guitar too and a drum. Also looking to get a guitar amp but that's really overkill.

I think that I should put less energy into gear and more into practice. Maybe set myself goals: when I can play this at tempo 140 then I can buy that thing.

[Philbiker]

I have no GAS. All the gear I have is all I need. I went to Chuck Levin's the other week for the Marcus Miller Clinic and looked at basses and amps and all I could think was "There's nothing here that interests me at all". I want my cousin's '64 Jazz bass. There's a Custom Shop Relic P bass in a local shop that I want. No way either of those is ever going to happen.

[d8g3jdh]

I have GAS for just about everything, but I'm also exceedingly cheap, which is nice because my thrifty nature overrides my desires.

[mjolnir]

It is always increasing, never decreasing. I bought a new amp the other day and that only made it worse...