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08-01-2009, 12:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Mesa, Arizona | | | Ending G.A.S.: here is my 12-step program
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This is going to be really hard. I am going to do this for a month. And then see how it goes...
1-Do not visit Guitard Center (even for strings)
2-Do not visit eBay, except for selling stuff
3-Deactivate the daily eBay saved searched emails
4-Do not visit Craig's List Musical Instruments section
5-Deactivate the Craig's List Musical Instruments RSS feed from my Outlook
6-Do not visit Pawn Shops
7-Do not visit the Pawn Shop's Web sites either (like Maxit's)
8-Do not visit the "basses" section of this Web site
9-Deactivate the model & brand-related subscriptions from this Web site
10-Do not watch gear-related Youtube videos
11-Do not visit the manufacturer's Web sites
12-Take a calm look at what I already have and repeat: "I have enough instruments, I am happy with them, I don't need anything new".
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08-01-2009, 02:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Baton Rouge, La. area | | | Good luck......I'm starting to withdraw already. |
08-01-2009, 03:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: san antonio/austin | | Quote:
Originally Posted by NickInMesa  This is going to be really hard. I am going to do this for a month. And then see how it goes...
1-Do not visit Guitard Center (even for strings)
2-Do not visit eBay, except for selling stuff
3-Deactivate the daily eBay saved searched emails
4-Do not visit Craig's List Musical Instruments section
5-Deactivate the Craig's List Musical Instruments RSS feed from my Outlook
6-Do not visit Pawn Shops
7-Do not visit the Pawn Shop's Web sites either (like Maxit's)
8-Do not visit the "basses" section of this Web site
9-Deactivate the model & brand-related subscriptions from this Web site
10-Do not watch gear-related Youtube videos
11-Do not visit the manufacturer's Web sites
12-Take a calm look at what I already have and repeat: "I have enough instruments, I am happy with them, I don't need anything new". |
You forgot the main one.....DONT VIEW THE www.talkbass.com site......which is pretty hard to ignore..dont cha think?  |
08-01-2009, 03:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Mesa, Arizona | | | No, Line6, I already said I would avoid the basses section.
But I can still come hear to read and post about other topics.
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Bassists who drive a Volvo club #1
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08-01-2009, 03:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Chicago | | | I would have to avoid at least half of the sections here.
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"The constructive use of riches is better than their possession."
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08-01-2009, 03:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: san antonio/austin | | Quote:
Originally Posted by NickInMesa No, Line6, I already said I would avoid the basses section.
But I can still come hear to read and post about other topics. | you did mention it....my bad |
08-01-2009, 03:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Kennett Square, PA | | | Here's my 2-step program:
Make bank.
Buy it. |
08-01-2009, 03:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Wisconsin | | | I bet he lasts about two days.
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Originally Posted by Joe Gress I suppose I would have passed out naked with my ass to the sky by then, so no, I would join ya. | |
08-01-2009, 03:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Las Vegas | | | You forgot one ~ don't go to a NAMM show.
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08-01-2009, 09:06 PM
| | | | chris's 1 step gas ending program - get dead broke. can't buy anything with no money.
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Acoustic bass fetish club #146 Quote:
Originally Posted by JDJen Ive been in bands before that couldnt handle my profesionalism | |
08-01-2009, 11:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Columbus, OH | | | You left out: Don't go to a GTG.
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08-01-2009, 11:42 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Steps.
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Originally Posted by NickInMesa No, Line6, I already said I would avoid the basses section.
But I can still come hear to read and post about other topics. | Isn't it line 8? |
08-01-2009, 11:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Minneapolis St. Paul, MN | | | Honorable effort...
__________________ Grace and Peace, Rob- Ampeg Club#73,
- Christian Bassist #58
- Blk 'n' Maple #41, Fender Fretless #5,
- Fender Precisions #42, Fender CIJ #44
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08-02-2009, 02:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Mesa, Arizona | | | Well, day 2 has started but I have to admit that I scrambled through my box of electronic components and I have enough to make my own envelope pedal, so it's not GAS but GBS (Gear Building Syndrome).
Is it cheating?
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Bassists who drive a Volvo club #1
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08-02-2009, 03:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Columbus, OH | | | Not if you build it yourself.
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Yamaha Member #102/Short Scale Member #36/Gibson Member #32/ Ohio Bassist Member #1/ ANIME-ted bassist #2
'65 Gibson SG eb0,Yamaha RBX374, 2008 MIM Fender P, Line 6 LD300 Pro
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08-02-2009, 09:06 AM
|  | bass... in your fass | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: TalkBass > Band Management | | Quote:
Originally Posted by NickInMesa No, Line6, I already said I would avoid the basses section. | I'm much more affected by the Amps and Cabinets For Sale forum.
So for me, your program is like an alcoholic removing all the liquor, wine, and beer from his home, but retaining a flask of whiskey. It just won't work.  |
08-02-2009, 11:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Socorro, NM | | My 2 step program:
1) make less than $4k a year for 6 years in a row
2) spend a few months living purely off the savings you manage scrape together in those 6 years
You really learn what you NEED, as opposed to what you WANT 
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Acoustic Bass Club #43 Fretless Club #261 Quote:
Originally Posted by BassChuck Remember, half of the people you meet today have an IQ of less than 100. | |
08-02-2009, 12:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: PA. | | | Have a kid, wait 16 years, make him get a job, and show him how to play bass. He will buy the gear you "suggest" he should play. |
08-02-2009, 12:28 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Upstate, NY | | | I'm destined to relapse..................
....................On this program! 
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08-02-2009, 01:29 PM
|  | Thunder and Lightning | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Oak Park, IL | | It seems to me like you are trying to manage your addiction. Never works!
Step 1. We admitted we were powerless over effects and our pedal boards had become unmanageable! 
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