Do i deserve a new bass?

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

This seems like a silly question to me. I think if you feel you deserve to play a better instrument, have the money and feel that it's not going to set you back, then absolutely you deserve to have the bass you want.

However, this is usually where GAS begins in the life of a bassist.

 

I've been playing bass for five years now. I started off on a cheap Ibanez starter bundle, and in my first two years I kept buying nicer and nicer basses and justifying them by telling myself that I deserved better instruments as my skills grew. I got into some pretty nice basses -- Warwick, a few MIA Fenders, a Music Man...

I've now sold off most of those instruments and my main squeeze is a Squier.

Just saying.

If you have money burning a hole in your pocket then by all means spend it, but don't get caught up like I did in having the absolute latest and greatest this early in the game.

 

You do if you can afford it.

 

This would have been my response as well.

 

If you have to ask the question, then the answer is NO !.
This is Talkbass we all deserve a new Bass.

 

I think you should buy 2!!

 

I agree, the moderators need to pony up some new gear for all of us.

 

And so do I, so I just ordered one.

 

I never let it stop me.

 

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Lord knows I'm not good enough to merit all my gear

 

When you reach adulthood you do not need to ask other adults if you deserve to buy something............unless of course you are married in which case the above rule does not apply.

Damn it's great being single again. If I can afford it I deserve it.

 

Sure. Go get the nicest basses for you that you can afford.

 

Want trumps deserve.

 

William Munny said "Deserve's got nothin to do with it."

 

Never ask TB if you should buy or deserve a new bass. we're all GASed up here so of course you get the "GET THE NEW BASS NOOOOOOOOOW" response. It's not the subjective environment for such a question

 

if you havent sacrificed any small woodland creatures lately>?...then yes ...you deserve a new bass!!!!!

 

Of course, especially if it will be a fretless. I bought my first fretless about a month ago and it's a completely different instrument, and so much better than a fretted, in my opinion, but that's just me. But it will take some time before you'll be ready to gig though.

 

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