Adventures in GAS: Retired from music, got too many basses, and yet...

Funny thing. I have GAS for a black JMJ. But I have 3 amazing basses, and I don't gig! (I will again one day though)

GAS is just GAS.

As Eckhart Tolle says; 'There are two sure paths to discontentment; to not get the object you want, or to get the object you want'

(Paraphrasing heavily)

 

I have the blue JMJ, what ya got to trade?

 

Jimmy i feel your pain...

at one point i was up to 35 basses....and i played three of them on the regular....it was painful to let some of them go...but I'm down to 8 currently...i went the whole of last year without buying anything and was quite proud of myself....but every year around my birthday...i look...and i'm currently eyeballing something in the semi-hollow spectrum...it's a constant struggle...

 

sig line....

 

Every time I see those little "P" pickups on a Mustang, I think they look like a happy pair of musical gumdrops. Mustangs look yummy to me

No shame in wanting to scratch that itch. Some of the magic seems to come with that whole process of getting to know one rig or another.

G.A.S... no predicting it, no reasoning with it. I picked up a terrific bass a couple months ago and it only poured more lighter fluid onto my soul. Just grabbed another one on Monday. Now my funk is delivered compliments of Tobias/Gibson - Nashville era as best I can tell, a Growler and a Renegade.

G.A.S. extinguished for now and I'm in heaven!!

 

Bah. You need a Thunderbird. It might be a short scale Thunderbird, but you need one. You may have sublimated that need, but it's there, just waiting for liberation. Don't fight it, come to the dark side, JimmyM, come to the dark side.

 

You tease. We all know that if someone posts the "should I buy the bass" on TB, they've already ordered it.

 

Fender Japan JB62M - 32" scale. Long out of production, and this is the only one I’ve ever seen with a maple fretboard. And I've looked! Cost ya, though. I gig with it (well...I did until last March), you can see me playing it in my avatar.

 

I thought about buying a Mustang, but it did indeed feel like a toy when compared to my Gibson SG, and my GAS ended in about ten seconds. Sounded great, though, and I would like a Mustang or a Bass VI in my realm one day.

 

I need another bass like I need another hole in my head, and have absolutely no need for a shortie. And yet… like you I find those mustangs alluring. Originally I wanted one in walnut with maple to match my P, but those are rare. I almost pulled the trigger on a squier cv when they could be had for $350, but like you, I'm not thrilled by the color choices. Every now and then I look, and the JMJs are contenders to light my GAS for sure.

 

had me goin' with all of that! hat is off for both the fun OP and the exercise in restraint!

bingo!

 

Seems pretty cut and dry to me...either get the bass and look sexy or get to the gym and become keto man to get sexy. Either way...focus on the true end goal...sexiness.

 

Eckhart Tolle got it right. But he was not the first to get it right!


From Quote Investigator .com

There Are Only Two Tragedies. One Is Not Getting What One Wants, and the Other Is Getting It


Oscar Wilde? George Bernard Shaw? Oliver Onions? Anonymous?

Quote Investigator: The psychology of human desire is paradoxical. The failure to achieve a goal can lead to unhappiness and ever despair. Yet, attaining an objective can produce an aftermath of uncertainty and lassitude. The following adage is humorous and poignant:

There are two tragedies in life—not getting what you want, and getting it.

This notion has been credited to the famous wit Oscar Wilde and the prominent playwright George Bernard Shaw. Did either of these Irishmen really employ this saying? Would you please explore this topic?

Quote Investigator: Both Wilde and Shaw used versions of this adage, but Wilde deserves credit for coinage. Oddly, the version in Shaw’s 1903 play “Man and Superman” changed over time as shown in the citations given further below.

The earliest close match known to QI appeared in the 1892 play “Lady Windermere’s Fan: A Play About a Good Woman” by Oscar Wilde. The minor character Mr. Dumby asked the character Lord Darlington whether the love he felt for Lady Windermere had ever been reciprocated. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI: 1

DUMBY
She doesn’t really love you then?

LORD DARLINGTON
No, she does not!

DUMBY
I congratulate you, my dear fellow. In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst, the last is a real tragedy! . . .

 

Jimmy, another variant is: "There are two kinds of personal suffering, that of denying one's nature, and that of indulging it."
Since both paths end the same way, I read this koan as a directive to buy that new bass

 

Good man Jim!

Being in heat is always aggravating.

I’ve discovered if I can make myself wait between 12 and 48 hours before pulling the trigger on something, the urge passes.

 

Of course!