What's the longest you've ever been...

[AlphaMale]

Whats the longest you've ever been needing a string? This is specifically for 4 or 5 string players but you're all welcome.

I'm so poor I've gone so far 4 weeks without a G string.

[PrimusNut]

Not long. I can't stand missing a string.

Keep your old ones next time you change them, that way you'l have a backup, even if it is worn.

[Atoz]

The longest I've gone is about 5 minutes.

[Kenbuntu]

wow you sir are a champ, if i loose a string ill take any old string i can find as long as its tunable to the string i need. but had i no extra strings id proabbly stop playing till i did, it just doesnt feel right.

[AlphaMale]

Dude I feel like an idiot but I keep playing because I guess I have to keep practicing.

[The Golden Boy]

I usually have a set or two of old strings in each bass case- just in case.

I used to change strings every couple months- because I could. Now, I've got a few sets of new strings that I'm just waiting until I absolutely need to change them.

[Atoz]

Originally Posted by AlphaMale

Whats the longest you've ever been needing a string? This is specifically for 4 or 5 string players but you're all welcome.

I'm so poor I've gone so far 4 weeks without a G string.

You want me to mail you one of my old ones?

[ModuMan]

I always have spare sets but the more basses I get the more expensive that "insurance" is.

[AlbertVII]

A month or two. I didn't have money to buy a new set.

[Thunder Pulse]

Alpha male? Dude, please. After this embarrassing admission it's more like omega male.

[Rune Bivrin]

Probably two years. But then that was the thin G on my 12 string guitar

On bass? Hasn't happened yet (to quote John Hiatt)

With those financial recources your sig should read "I am to ramen as Wolf is to Dog"

[CrazyArcher]

A few days, when I broke a string that came with my first bass.

[IanStephenson]

I've only ONCE ever broken a string, so it's a non-issue.

However when I do change my strings I always keep a complete USED set in my gigbag.

I figure if I ever did break a string at a gig, then putting on one fresh zingy string would sound weird compared to the other worn in strings (12 month old ground-wounds - 60+ gigs, with about as many rehersals). If I broke string live i'd put on a "pre-worn" one so the sound is at least a little coinsistant.

Ian

[*smb]

I keep spare bass strings. I've gone months without the high E on my g**tar.

[AlphaMale]

To make things worse, I found a D string and mistook it for a G string, cut it and put it on my bass and now the D string is completely useless because it isn't long enough to go on the D string (don't what word to use) slot? cause it won't reach.

[Wesley R]

Originally Posted by Atoz

The longest I've gone is about 5 minutes.

Best of Luck,
Weley R.

[Thunder Pulse]

Originally Posted by Thunder Pulse

Alpha male? Dude, please. After this embarrassing admission it's more like omega male.

Originally Posted by AlphaMale

To make things worse, I found a D string and mistook it for a G string, cut it and put it on my bass and now the D string is completely useless because it isn't long enough to go on the D string slot? cause it won't reach.

Make that omega male minus 1.

[Phalex]

I once finished a set minus an A string. That was something like three tunes, so....12 minutes? Must have been about 1994 or 95 I'd guess.

[brianrost]

A G string only costs $3. You must be really poor.

Be glad you don't play upright, the last set of 4 I bought was $200. The cheapest I've seen (and they are awful) are still about $60.

[mjolnir]

I went six months without a G on my sixer once. I just played another bass until I got the money to buy a set for a sixer.