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Old 11-07-2007, 11:37 AM
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I had one last night:

I get home and go to pick up my bass, but then
The fretboard has 3 chunks that have just fallen off, just below the G at about the 7th, 12th, and 17th frets!!
I spent the rest of the dream trying to figure out what the hell happened to my bass. Here are some of the things I did:
-looked really closely at the humidistat to see if it was really dry and the wood just dried out and started to fall apart
-looked at where my bass case was stored to see if it could have falled
-noticed it was the WRONG bass case. My bass didn't fit - someone must have been playing my bass and ?? Accidentally left the wrong case when they brought it back? Or what?

Oh the horror!



So I'm sure you've all had nightmares about bass or bass playing or gigs. Let's hear 'em!
Funny or interesting dreams too!
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Old 11-07-2007, 11:45 AM
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I have had a dream where i keep going to pickup my bass and the neck and body just seperate...oh the horror
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Old 11-07-2007, 11:59 AM
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These aren't nightmares. These actually happened to me:

Playing live. Starting the second set with a 3-song medley, probably 7-8 minutes long.

The tip of my guitar strap breaks just a couple of measures into the medley and I just do catch my Ric with both hands. In order to play, I sit on the stage indian-style and do my best. How awkward. I then had to find another strap and there was a long pause.

Other than that - more like a band nightmare. Twice had gigs where into the first song we manage to trip all the circuit-breakers and everything electronic, including most of the lights, shuts down.
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Old 11-07-2007, 12:22 PM
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I dreamed my sixer was a grizzly bear and that it attacked me but I subdued it by slapping it in the E. Then I drug it to the local ho-down and played the night away while the grizzly sang. It had a beautiful voice...
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Old 11-07-2007, 12:34 PM
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...just last night I dreamed that I was at a tiny music store, checking out the instruments....playing around with ukes, basses, guitars, etc....
...there's one really cool looking bass hanging on a rack that catches my eye - for some reason, it reminds me of a person hanging up there....when I pick it up, the neck just below the headstock stretches out about eight inches, like a trombone, changing the pitch of the strings as it does....makes the bass sound like some demented squeezebox...
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Old 11-07-2007, 01:43 PM
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I had a nightmare that we finished packing up gear--and my bass was gone. Stolen. I wept.

Glad it was just a nightmare. But it'll sure keep me alert for the next little while.
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Old 11-07-2007, 01:45 PM
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I had a dream FedEx delivered a MM SUB that was flawless to me with a dime sized hole in the box and a puncture dent in the back of the bass, I then dreamed I sent it back to FedEx and they claimed they couldn't find the damage.

I woke up and remembered I am living this nightmare right now.
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Old 11-07-2007, 01:57 PM
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dropping my best bass.....and it cracking....or breaking apart............omg....i dont even wanna think about it....

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Old 11-07-2007, 02:33 PM
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I had this nightmare in which I had sent my bass in for some repairs and when it came back it was a different bass made of some plywood ****...
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Old 11-07-2007, 03:25 PM
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I've dreamt that for various reasons my neck snapped off and I was left with a now useless neck-thru bass =*(
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Old 11-07-2007, 06:22 PM
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I dreamed that I showed up to a gig in my underwear, when I got my bass out it was a big rubber ball on a broomstick. I had to bounce the ball for every note and how hard it hit determined the pitch. I actually played it pretty well tho.......
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wow you guys have some weird dreams..i just dreamt that it turned into a guitar...
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Old 11-07-2007, 09:00 PM
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I think that in this case the nightmare came true... I feel so sorry for him
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Old 11-07-2007, 09:11 PM
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I dreamt that I made a thirteen string bass that played intune and sounded amazing recorded but no-one in the whole wide world believed me!!!

Oh it was horrible!!!!
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Old 11-07-2007, 09:18 PM
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Several nightmares ...

1 - I wake up, and I'm in a world where there are nothing but Warwicks to play. (yeah, I know, let the flaming begin! )

2 - I find myself at a gig with label execs, and all of my basses are strung with flatwounds. We're playing rock and roll, too.

3 - I'm in an alternative universe, where only Wish basses are available.

4 - A record exec offers me a contract, paying me 10 million bucks a year. He shoves the contract across the table, but says "you know, you'll have to play country."

5 - The same scenario as above, but he says "you have to play I-IV-V for all eternity, and listen to guitar players jerk each other off all night." In my case, this is known as bass player hell.

6 - I wake up, and Alembic never existed.

7 - I arrive at a gig only to have a Behringer as the amp of choice. (more flaming to begin shortly! )

8 - I'm hired by Rush, after Geddy's departure, to replace him. I show up with an Alembic, and they say, "say, can't you play that old P-Bass in the corner instead?"

9 - My custom Series II Alembic John Entwistle replica arrives, except it's in the shape of a Warwick Buzzard, with a Warwick neck. (Flaming, part III)

10 - I arrive in Heaven, am hired to be the bass player in the house band, and God is a disco fan.

With tongue firmly planted in cheek,

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Old 11-08-2007, 10:53 PM
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Was due a fret job too after a decade + of roundwounds.
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Old 11-09-2007, 02:38 AM
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I had a dream I jammed with Fieldy once.

Didn't bother me, but I'm sure that qualifies as a nightmare for many of you.
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Old 11-09-2007, 02:48 AM
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well i start a vacation where my main goal is to play bass all day. First day of vacation i got to lunch. Returning to find 2 basses I have had less than a month have been stolen. that one came true and now i am very perinoid. The other is my bass falling and breaking during a gig
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i dreamt i was playing my bass when all of a sudden the finish started rubbing off where my hand and arm had been and all the paint kept falling away till it revealed a huge behringer logo that had been painted over it was awful
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I had a really weird dream that I was asked to play a worship gig as a session bassist.
I got there and began to set up and my Shergold begins to shriek loudly. The cable then blows out all my (original) electrics. The bass then falls apart.

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