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11-10-2005, 09:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
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11-10-2005, 10:16 AM
|  | Official Forum Flunkee | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | I can't spel
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Originally Posted by BIGGUS It doesn't stimulate GAS for me...it does help me to make informed decisions based on what people have posted here. | Lets see here, NS LaScala... iAmp... Bose amp... Velvet Anima's... No wonder you don't feel gas... you got everything!!!  Quote: |
Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield Strings aren't GAS for me - from research around here and other DB sites I got the impression that 90% (or more?) of Jazz DB players have used Spirocores - put them on my bass and I'm happy - that's what most DB Jazz players use - why change? 
If they're good enough for Dave Holland... | Sure but wait until you try this bass with those <insert string here>. They sound even better than spirocores and they're easier to play!!!
And then once you've tasted the fruit, you would've fallen out of the Garden of Spirocores and into the Hell which is GAS.
I think the only real cure to GAS is satisfaction. I you ain't satisfied, well you're screwed. Actually I don't think basses are like wives. You can't upgrade your wife or the way she acts if you get frustrated wit her.
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11-10-2005, 11:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: The Abyss | | You guys are nutz, I am gonna trade my Kay in for the new Hondo EUB with the 12 soap bar pick ups and the built in pick holder. 
Mike
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11-10-2005, 12:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: North Carolina | | | resisting GAS
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Originally Posted by bassame I think all of you have made good points, especially the point about concentrating on your practice and technique rather than searching for the next brand of string, pre-amp, pickup, cabinet, amp, or bass. But isn't there another point to be made? Isn't there something about reading Talkbass that stimulates GAS?
I remember in the 70s I had a subscription to Stereo Review and everytime I heard of a new receiver or speaker I lusted for it. Then I got a sub to PC Magazine and the same happened with computer equipment. Reading Talkbass has the same effect on me - I am a weak, materialistic fool.  | The above quote is what I feel has happened to me over the past few months, since I have begun reading TalkBass on a fairly daily basis.
I've bought some strings from some members here and was tempted to do so again, just the other day (and I may do it yet) but I RESISTED.
But, then again, a buildup of GAS can sometimes be painful! <G> |
11-10-2005, 01:07 PM
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I think the only real cure to GAS is satisfaction. I you ain't satisfied, well you're screwed. Actually I don't think basses are like wives. You can't upgrade your wife or the way she acts if you get frustrated wit her.
| Not so -- plastic surgery, corrective psychotherapy, and as a last resort, remarriage to someone else. Costs about the same as a pro DB anyway...
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Originally Posted by HollowBassman Doesn't she know that they're not really people until the age of about three? | |
11-10-2005, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Aaron Saunders Not so -- plastic surgery, corrective psychotherapy, and as a last resort, remarriage to someone else. Costs about the same as a pro DB anyway... | All of which can lead to some sort of satisfaction. I'm happy (satisfied) if my wife looks/acts/is like "this". But looking at divorace rates these days it seems that spouses and DB's are no different. Which begs the question, what's really going wrong here? Or is this the way things have always been/will be? |
11-10-2005, 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Baron Flounders Not so -- plastic surgery, .... Costs about the same as a pro DB anyway... |
This is another syndrome called SAS (Surgery Acquisition Syndrome). It seems to be a strange parallel to GAS.
Symptoms
Tummy Tuck (1st Bass)
Breast Augmentation (Small amp)
2nd Breast Aug. (bigger amp)
Full Blown Hee-Haw Hooties (Complete Rig)
Face Lift (Boutique Bass)
Butt Lift (Flight Cases)
Gluteal Implants (Designer Gig bag).
Scary aint it.
Mike
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Dont give me that "Jaco only needed 4 strings" tripe! - John Turner
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
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11-10-2005, 04:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ontario | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by mikemulcahy This is another syndrome called SAS (Surgery Acquisition Syndrome). It seems to be a strange parallel to GAS.
Symptoms
Tummy Tuck (1st Bass)
Breast Augmentation (Small amp)
2nd Breast Aug. (bigger amp)
Full Blown Hee-Haw Hooties (Complete Rig)
Face Lift (Boutique Bass)
Butt Lift (Flight Cases)
Gluteal Implants (Designer Gig bag).
Scary aint it.
Mike | Day-um.
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Originally Posted by HollowBassman Doesn't she know that they're not really people until the age of about three? | |
11-14-2005, 11:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: The Abyss | | I know it's pretty hard to digest.
Mike
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Dont give me that "Jaco only needed 4 strings" tripe! - John Turner
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
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11-25-2005, 08:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ontario | | | Oh, sweet crap...I've got string GAS!
Eudoxas, Flatchrome, Dominants, Velvets...oh dear.
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Originally Posted by HollowBassman Doesn't she know that they're not really people until the age of about three? | |
11-26-2005, 03:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | I think "string GAS" is probably the most common ailment among DBers. It just never seems to end, does it? I mean, I'm just ass-over-teakettle in love with Animas, and I still found myself starting a thread on Spiro combinations a couple of weeks ago. Weird.
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11-30-2005, 11:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: San Diego, Calee'forn'knee'a | | In wind surfing it's called "gear queer"...
Starter rig is:
3 boards, 5 sails, 3 masts, 3 fins (at least, comparable to strings), harness, designer bags to put it in, trunks, van...
The wife multiple - Always admit to the stuff costing 1/3 what you really paid 
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