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09-24-2012, 06:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: NY | | | Where does it stop?
Finally got my dream bass, why do I still find myself "window shopping"? Still browsing online, visiting stores. Life's guilty pleasure I suppose. Am I crazy or plain greedy?
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09-24-2012, 06:14 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Purple Mountain Majesties | | | I have a bunch of dream basses. I could use one or two more.
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09-24-2012, 06:16 PM
|  | Non Serviam | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Schenectady NY | | When I got my dream bass, that's when the GAS kicked in for real. There's no high in the world like a great piece of new gear. 
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09-24-2012, 06:23 PM
| | | | I plan on eventually upgrading from a Squier Standard Jazz Bass to either a Squier Vintage Modified Mustang Bass or a Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar Bass SS (why bother upgrading to an actual Fender when Squier has proven that their basses are just as good), but I still catch myself browsing for other basses (particularly short scale basses apart from the aforementioned ones). I just think it's fun to do.
As long as you don't let it completely occupy your mind, interfere with your responsibilities in life or keep you from enjoying your current bass, then it's perfectly okay to look at other basses.
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09-24-2012, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by thedovewarlord  Finally got my dream bass, why do I still find myself "window shopping"? Still browsing online, visiting stores. Life's guilty pleasure I suppose. Am I crazy or plain greedy? | Nope, you're neither. GAS affects us all. Some more than others! Until recently, I was lusting after all sorts of basses, amps, strings, effects.....hell, you name it.
Quite honestly, I haven't had an attack in a while, but I in no way think I am cured......... 
There IS NO CURE...... 
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09-24-2012, 06:42 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Grand Rapids, MI | | | As long as she (your dream bass) does not catch ya looking at other basses. Use your peripheral vision when looking, do not stare directly at other basses!!! You should be fine.
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09-24-2012, 06:58 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Ohio | | | I'm so inspired at the moment with my new, used Alembic.
I will need to buy an amp sooner or later. I want something nice, but not too nice. Not so expensive that I'm afraid to leave it while I'm packing away my bass. A nice Peavey Combo 300 would be cool. I had a nice Fender BXR 300, but lost it. Wouda done fine. |
09-24-2012, 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by bassguitarthund As long as she (your dream bass) does not catch ya looking at other basses. Use your peripheral vision when looking, do not stare directly at other basses!!! You should be fine. | THAT'S FUNNY!!! Almost too much truth in that.
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09-24-2012, 07:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Central Washington | | | You are crazy..just like the rest of us. It never ends! Its a curse!
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09-24-2012, 07:34 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: NY/NJ Metro Area | | | Focus on theory.
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09-24-2012, 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by CJAtheBassman I plan on eventually upgrading from a Squier Standard Jazz Bass to either a Squier Vintage Modified Mustang Bass or a Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar Bass SS (why bother upgrading to an actual Fender when Squier has proven that their basses are just as good), but I still catch myself browsing for other basses (particularly short scale basses apart from the aforementioned ones). I just think it's fun to do.
As long as you don't let it completely occupy your mind, interfere with your responsibilities in life or keep you from enjoying your current bass, then it's perfectly okay to look at other basses. | Uhhh, yea...keep telling yourself that Squier is as good as an American Standard Fender...it's not really true. It's ok if it makes you happy, but to throw in a statement like that is a bit incredible. But, I understand the rest of your post.
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09-24-2012, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by thedovewarlord Finally got my dream bass, why do I still find myself "window shopping"? Still browsing online, visiting stores. Life's guilty pleasure I suppose. Am I crazy or plain greedy? | The best cure for GAS is bass lessons from a great teacher. It's a better use of your money and should humble you into realizing that gear is not the solution.
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09-24-2012, 08:16 PM
|  | Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion. | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Ohio | | | that Squier is a Fender and if you play it well enough I doubt if the crowd cares in fact I don't think the crowd cares what you play it's how you play they care about? |
09-24-2012, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by thedovewarlord Finally got my dream bass, why do I still find myself "window shopping"? Still browsing online, visiting stores. Life's guilty pleasure I suppose. Am I crazy or plain greedy? | Neither. You're just trying to validate the purchase of your "dream bass".
Which is a perfectly natural endeavor. imo. |
09-24-2012, 09:35 PM
|  | ACME,Line 6,QSC,Seismic,Greco user/BOSE PAS abuser | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: South Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by thedovewarlord Finally got my dream bass, why do I still find myself "window shopping"? Still browsing online, visiting stores. Life's guilty pleasure I suppose. Am I crazy or plain greedy? | Never enough.
I've contented myself to buying VERY cheap basses($99~$400) and making them gig-worthy, fun, ear candy for me, and eye candy for the audience.
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09-24-2012, 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Modern Growl Focus on theory. | +1 |
09-24-2012, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by thedovewarlord Finally got my dream bass, why do I still find myself "window shopping"? Still browsing online, visiting stores. Life's guilty pleasure I suppose. Am I crazy or plain greedy? | LOL! It's GAS, and welcome to the GAS station known as Talkbass!
I've been playing bass for 40 years now, and I find that part of the enjoyment of playing bass is getting new gear to play with. IMO, it's normal, and it's healthy. It's all part of having fun in life! And for me, that's what life is all about.
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09-24-2012, 09:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Portland Area, ME | | | Porn is porn. Get down with it.
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09-24-2012, 09:50 PM
|  | The Magician | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: City of Angels, Hell on Earth | | | It's like meeting the right woman. Once you meet her, the rest just fade into the scenery.
It won't be the one that checks every box and passes every test, it'll be the one that just makes you want to be better.
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09-24-2012, 09:55 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: So Cal | | Where does it stop?
It never stops.
The "One" is a myth... like the unicorn 
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