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First Major GAS?

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What was your guys' first major GAS? Like, when you first started playing bass, or after a little while, you just NEEDED a certain bass, or amp or something. What was it?

Mine has always been a Wal. I love everything about them, and their style perfectly complements mine. Modest, yet Unique.

I'm kind of afraid that I'll never get my dream Wal, considering the extreme wait time, and the aging of Pete. But if I get enough money for a down payment one day, I'll gladly wait 5 years for one.
 
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my first GAS was in 1978 or so (I was about 10 years old).... My Grandfather was a guitarist, so I always had cool stuff to play when at his house... but the son of a family friend was getting a divorce and didn't want his 73 MapleGlo 4001 to get aquired by the soon to be ex and gave it to my grandfather for safe keeping. I use to just hold it for hours... made noises and such through Pop's guitar amps. I dreamed about it... it was such a cool thing.

I started playing 2 years later and it took till 1987 to actually get my own

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Unfortunately it got stolen a short while after this picture along with a rig. I will own another mid to late 80's Mapleglo 4003 with black binding and hardware some day!
 
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My first real bass was a 4001 Ric - white with black binding and guard, noo cover. Your pic takes me back. Of all the basses I've gone through over the years, that's really the only one I wish I still had.
 
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SteveC said:
My first real bass was a 4001 Ric - white with black binding and guard, noo cover. Your pic takes me back. Of all the basses I've gone through over the years, that's really the only one I wish I still had.
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my first real bass was an Ibanez Destroyer. I sold it and a bunch of other stuff to help pay for the Ric. I just scored a replacement Ibanez Destroyer from eBay a year ago (auction ended on my 3/17/2004... my b'day :smug: )

I'm always watching for a Mapleglo & Black Ric. They are my fav (though the limited edition baby blue are pretty killer too)
 
#13
My first real gas... Was when I first played the Geddy Lee Jazz. I love my Alvarez. But The Geddy Lee calls to me everytime I go into the music store. I stare at it, and it stares at me back going "buy me, play me, buy me pleeeease!!!" I love that bass sooooo much. I'll be bringing that puppy home in the summer :hyper:
 
#14
Warwick. When I first started playing bass in high school (around 1993 or so) and reading Bass Player magazine, something about Warwicks had me drooling at the back covers from day one. I was especially fond of the Fortress MasterMan.

Even nowadays when my GAS goes this way and that, I often seem to come back to Warwick. I may dismiss it for a while, but Warwick always comes back. It's like an on-again/ off-again GAS relationship with the brand. Even though the newer ones have fat necks that make me go "eep" I still end up GASing for a 'wick on and off, even though I know they're impractical basses for me and my hands.

So, yeah, my first GAS for a fresh bass was for a Warwick. And even though I know, realize, and justify that there are better basses that are a better value for the money than a Warwick and that practicality makes me cast off Warwick, something about Warwicks keeps me coming back.

I don't own a Warwick. I never have owned a Warwick. But the lust is there.
 
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My first major GAS was after that pizza last night.... Oh, I get it, equipment lust, I think it was when I saw Jaco with Joni Mitchell and He had a Guilde Hartke 4 x10. I had never heard anything like that! I got the second one in Detroit, Bootsy got the First "that Bas@^&*" . After that my first Buzz bass was deffinently a GAS product. I'll tell you nothing accellerates this thing like SADOWKY, I got my first this summer and all I can think about is getting more of them!!!!!!!!
 
#18
i'd always wanted a custom bass that looked more like a violin/tree than a standard bass (i had a fender jazz at the time) and after my jazz was stolen this summer (2 days before going on tour for a month!) i had this puppy built by warmoth with the insurance money (see attached pics). it's a custom tele body made of mahogany with a rosewood laminate and an f-hole, two sd hot jazz stack pickups, wenge neck and brazilian rosewood fingerboard. oh, and a gibson-style 2+2 headstock. it's finally broken in really nice (oh, the action / intonation adjustments!) and after i do some recording this week i'm having it disassembled and coated with lacquer, and while that's being done i'll be having a custom headstock-inlay of a jagged-ass looking sun.

ps. what the hell does g.a.s. stand for anyway?
 

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This bass was the first major gas i ever expirenced, it was pretty disappointing when it got sold before i saved up the money to put a depost on it. But 8 years later i found one on ebay and lost it and 2 weeks after that here on Talk Bass one came up for sale at a great price and now i own 2 of them the other one being the one i lost on ebay.I kept in touch with the winner and he sold it to me 14 months later i also have plans for having a custom one built.Yes i really do like these basses!. ;) :D :bassist:
 

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morgancurrie said:
i'd always wanted a custom bass that looked more like a violin/tree than a standard bass (i had a fender jazz at the time) and after my jazz was stolen this summer (2 days before going on tour for a month!) i had this puppy built by warmoth with the insurance money (see attached pics). it's a custom tele body made of mahogany with a rosewood laminate and an f-hole, two sd hot jazz stack pickups, wenge neck and brazilian rosewood fingerboard. oh, and a gibson-style 2+2 headstock. it's finally broken in really nice (oh, the action / intonation adjustments!) and after i do some recording this week i'm having it disassembled and coated with lacquer, and while that's being done i'll be having a custom headstock-inlay of a jagged-ass looking sun.

ps. what the hell does g.a.s. stand for anyway?
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That is very cool, glad to here you got a rockin bass out of your misfortune. :)
 

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