Does your bass collection have a theme?

[u84six]

I know mine does and would like to hear others. Some people might choose different sounds, maybe just color, number of strings, whatever. The theme to my collection is to have all the standards. I know that might be a bit subjective, but this is how I see it. I have MIA Fender P, MIA Fender J, Hofner Viola Bass, and a RIC 4003. To wrap it up, I'm thinking I'll have to add a Gibson Thunderbird and a Musicman Stingray. Does that complete the theme? And do you have a theme to your collection?

 

[LowNotes1]

An objective observer would look at my collection and say the theme is: "cheap".

Never paid more than $500 for a bass (for my 1982 MIA Jazz).

 

[Jim Carr]

Three: Vintage, Vintage, Vintage, hahaha.

 

[arock0627]

My wife hates them.

 

[Baird6869]

Covering all the basses is all I try to do. I play metal, funk, country, blues, 80's covers, etc.

5 string active Fodera with dual coils
4 string passive Jazz with rounds
4 string passive P with flats
4 string active Fretless
Acoustic bass

Not many tones I can't nail with these 5 basses IME.

 

[gpx1200]

right now I think of my(small) bass collection as my spector and the basses i'm probably going to sell to get another spector

 

[u84six]

An objective observer would look at my collection and say the theme is: "cheap".

Never paid more than $500 for a bass (for my 1982 MIA Jazz).

lol pretty cool.

 

[2meterbassman]

My collection in the moment is: one bass.
Though the theme of my collection is: buy a bass you like and play it.
And it was the same when I had 5 basses....

Grretz

 

[TimothyGroovy]

Theme: Sounding good.

 

[u84six]

right now I think of my(small) bass collection as my spector and the basses i'm probably going to sell to get another spector

That good? Interesting. I never played one myself.

 

[u84six]

Theme: Sounding good.

Yeah, um nice collection. haha

 

[u84six]

Covering all the basses is all I try to do. I play metal, funk, country, blues, 80's covers, etc.

5 string active Fodera with dual coils
4 string passive Jazz with rounds
4 string passive P with flats
4 string active Fretless
Acoustic bass

Not many tones I can't nail with these 5 basses IME.

Nice theme! By genre!

 

[u84six]

My collection in the moment is: one bass.
Though the theme of my collection is: buy a bass you like and play it.
And it was the same when I had 5 basses....

Grretz

I can relate to that.

 

[u84six]

My wife hates them.

lol

 

[taurus1]

Leo Fender, since it's all Fenders and a Musicman

 

[eyeballkid]

my theme is awesomeness.

 

[gpx1200]

That good? Interesting. I never played one myself.

not for everyone i'm shure but I love them, since I got my euro lx4 I don't feel the need to play any other bass, except more spectors, i'm hoping to replace my ibanez 5string with a spector rebop5 this weak(bolt on euro version of the ns style body) and hopefuly get up the cash for a USA made ns-2 someday
every bass player should play a NS style bass at least once, their realy is no other bass like it.

 

[SactoBass]

I never really stopped to think of my bass collection as having a theme, but now that sit here looking at my basses, yeah, I see:

a body
a neck
a headstock
some tuners
some strings
pickups
a bridge

And each of my basses seem to have these, so, yeah, I think I see a pattern emerging.

 

[guitar<bass]

Buy basses that need work and spend WAYYY too much time working on them so I never actually practice...

 

[edzaa]

Not intentional. All three have a burst finish. A lakland 55-60 sunburst a MIM fender 4 jazz in sunburst and a BN5 brownburst.