when did you start caring about your bass?

[jomahu]

did you automatically want to know more about the ins and outs of your bass (pickups, wood type, blah blah)? or did it take a while for all?

also, how long ago did you start playing bass? just curious, since the internet has made things sooooo easy to look up...and GAS for.

edit: this could apply to amps as well.

[meev992]

I automatically wanted to know about setups, how things worked, as soon as I started playing electric guitar.

...When I switched over to bass, I knew pretty much all I needed, so I was just concerned with the ins-and-outs of learning basslines

I have GAS for basses too, but I can't justify getting another one unless I can find a different way to tune it, hahah.

[neurotictim]

Originally Posted by meev992

I automatically wanted to know about setups, how things worked, as soon as I started playing electric guitar.

Ditto. Except for the playing electric guitar part. I have always been a bass player.

Originally Posted by meev992

I have GAS for basses too, but I can't justify getting another one unless I can find a different way to tune it, hahah.

I don't feel like a noob anymore... Because I understand this reference!

[meev992]

Originally Posted by neurotictim

I don't feel like a noob anymore... Because I understand this reference!

That, and my significant other won't allow me to get another, she'll put me on a guilt trip.

[BellBottomBlues]

When I started, I wanted to know all about my bass, especially how to fix it if something broke. It took awhile, but now I can repair pretty much anything that breaks on my bass.

When I say the thread title, When did I start caring for my bass, I thought it meant, when did I start not to toss it around. I still do.

[CincyBassMan]

It took me a little over 15 yrs before I started to get interested in the ins and outs of my bass. Mostly because I had only 1 bass ('75 Fender P natural w/maple neck black pg). It was pretty much a workhorse instrument. I knew how to change strings, but that was it.

Everything changed when prices dropped in the 90s, then internet/ebay and then finally TalkBass... It's been all downhill from there...

[Valerus]

I started in Sept '02.

I was really interested in how the bass works about two years ago.
I learned about the different pieces of a bass and stuff.

Until then, I just loved playing the instrument, but I didn't know too much about it.

[bassaficionado6]

I started playing bass in 2004, and I genuinely became interested in all the intricacies of bass when I joined TalkBass.