Are you defensive about your gear?

[Thunderbird91]

Are you defensive about people touching your bass stuff?

If someone touched your gear what would you do?

[rushfan73]

Depends who it is and if the old hands were clean. You gotta respect a dude's stuff esprcially if it is stuff you are not familiar with.

[BassGod]

Yes, very. I will only let certain people I trust touch my basses, and even then, I feel anxious the whole time. Just about no one is allowed to touch my Sterling, and when they do, I watch them like a hawk.

Amps I don't care so much. I don't like people using my pedals either.

Graeme

[Magical_Max]

Voted: "Very much so"
I don't mind my band mates using my basses, effects, amps. However I do keep a close eye on them. Other people I don't know/trust go no-where near anything.

[moogboy]

if someone touches my stuff, i just change it back, but, if someone tries to touch my bass as im playing it, i flip OUT. if they mess with my amp, i just change it back and continue playing. i wear 'Police Line Do Not Cross' straps on most of my basses, so when people ask about them i just say 'dont touch me while im playing'

[rushfan73]

what?

[werbo1]

I can't help but giving the MAKE SURE IT DOESNT CLIP sermon.

I let most people play my stuff who I know are actual bassists.
If they let me touch theirs, they can touch mine...

[jenderfazz]

Clean hands basically. That's about it. I don't like it when other people get my basses sweaty and rust my strings up. My guitarist has particularly acidic hands, so I don't let him play my bass when it's got new strings haha.

[ulrich]

Kinda, I don't mind adult, bass players. Strangers, (FOAF maybe OK,) guitards, persons under 25 step off!

[Ricky Daion]

Get your own gear and your own gig.

[IanStephenson]

One time a guy who tried out for a band I was in. I came back from a break, and he had taken my bass out of it's case and was playing it... He didn't work out.

I've been with the current band over a year now, gigging every week - in that time I've not once seen ANY member of the band even touch another guys gear, other than during load in/out. They're some of the few guys I'd trust to with my gear, but they wouldn't dream of messing with my stuff.

Ian

[MAJOR METAL]

Only with idiots.

[JansenW]

Since I'm the only bass player, there really isn't any reason for others to touch it.

If they are thoughtful enough to ask me to play my bass, I'm most likely to let them (with me watching of course).

[EDIT] If I catch them touching my stuff without permission, that's a no no.

[Benjamin Strange]

I care not. My stuff is completely indestructable. So much so, in fact, I'd rather have some more clumsy people to play them so they start to look like they've actually been used. My main bass is over 20 years old and it still has barely a scratch on it!

[Scott01]

Meh, if you want you bass to look "used" just play without straplocks. I did, and found out the hard way

And my gear is pretty cheap, so I dont care if people use it - however as many above have said, I hate it when they take it out of the case, set it up and start playing without asking at all. That pisses me off.

[superbassman2000]

i don't get too defensive, but if something breaks, i'll get very offensive

[ALiP BoB]

Gonna be.

[SpankyPants]

Well, after being in bands with some real POS's, I have become quite protective. I got tired of being screwed over. I'm involved in a lawsuit right now because my last band broke and stole alot of my gear and money. Never again.

[bass-shy]

I'm very defensive about my gear. While I don't have a lot of expensive stuff, it's expensive enough that I don't want to replace any of it.....especially because some retardo screwed it up. Keep your mitts off or it's FISTICUFFS!!!!!!

[funkalicious101]

ugh, every time my drummer used to walk past me when im playing he would tap the strings with his sticks. eventually i hit him back, rather hard. i gave him fair warning though