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How many basses do you own?
- Thread starter Atticus
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Five right now but I'm not-so-actively selling one of them. Might get a Yamaha BB1000 pretty soon though.
My lucky #6.
Gonna sell one. Have most of the bases (pun intended) covered, just really missing a fretless, so I'm going to sell one and then probably replace it with a Squier Vint Mod Fretless. Other than that my collection is satisfying, and I can't see myself really buying anything else for quite awhile. Been playing almost 10 years, and 3 of my basses were just this year. Bought an acoustic Kingman, Yamaha 5 string and a Squier p to play around and mod, so it is really the year of branching out, fretless would sit nice in the arsenal. I really ultimately want a nice Fender Jazz (either Vintage, or reissue), Precision and that would be it. No custom builds or anything, looking at my collection it's nothing too crazy. Worse than some, better than some, but I play them all and enjoy them all, even if some go in and out of rotation.
Have always wondered though, how often do you people with 15+ basses change your strings, and how can you afford to?
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Gonna sell one. Have most of the bases (pun intended) covered, just really missing a fretless, so I'm going to sell one and then probably replace it with a Squier Vint Mod Fretless. Other than that my collection is satisfying, and I can't see myself really buying anything else for quite awhile. Been playing almost 10 years, and 3 of my basses were just this year. Bought an acoustic Kingman, Yamaha 5 string and a Squier p to play around and mod, so it is really the year of branching out, fretless would sit nice in the arsenal. I really ultimately want a nice Fender Jazz (either Vintage, or reissue), Precision and that would be it. No custom builds or anything, looking at my collection it's nothing too crazy. Worse than some, better than some, but I play them all and enjoy them all, even if some go in and out of rotation.
Have always wondered though, how often do you people with 15+ basses change your strings, and how can you afford to?
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At least 50.. know I've owned at least 600 over the years.. have had over 100 at once.
I'd like to get the number under 10 since I'm not going on any nutty tours in the foreseeable future.
I'd like to get the number under 10 since I'm not going on any nutty tours in the foreseeable future.
I have four that cover pretty much all the sounds I need. The P bass works for 95% of what I play, then for the other 5% I always keep a passive J-style, active J-style, and a fretless.
2 many. Six and still looking, gassing, although it rarely gets the best of me these days.
Still what's the harm in another USA Peavey Fury for $150?
Still what's the harm in another USA Peavey Fury for $150?
14 total. 2 - 5 strings, the rest 4. 1 acoustic-electric. 6 neck-thru's, 1 set-neck, the rest bolt-on. 6 are active (1 with Bart's, 1 with EMG's) the rest are passive. MIA, MIM, MIJ, MIK, Indonesia, & China. Fender, Gibson, Peavey, Rickenbacker, Epiphone, Spector, Tobias, Ovation.
Yeah, quite the variety...
Yeah, quite the variety...
Hello everybody, my name is BassBenj and I'm a GASaholic!
Over 10 and except for a couple weird ones they all get played with some regularly depending on the kind of music I'm into at the moment. (For a while it was all 6ers and now it's all 5ers)
How many basses do I own?
When I used to drink, my ego would say "Evry one I play dammit!"
But when I sobered up and heard the playbac....just 3.
When I used to drink, my ego would say "Evry one I play dammit!"
But when I sobered up and heard the playbac....just 3.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Four. All Rickenbackers at this time. I owned four others (all something other than Rics) before that. But four basses is the most I've ever had at any one point in time.
I know nobody cares, but for posterity's sake, and for the sake of the giant floating brains from space that want to learn everything in the universe and then destroy it:
I currently own five basses. Three are with me now (Fender Jaguar, MIM Frankenjazz, Roscoe SKB3006), and one is, uh, somewhere (el cheapo resonator bass). The last is currently being made by Dan Atkinson and will soon be with me.
Having five basses feels really excessive to me.
To be fair, I'm selling the Roscoe, I haven't actually seen the resonator in a few years (I really gotta find it eventually), and I never play the Frankenjazz any more. I don't know if that makes things sound better or worse.
I currently own five basses. Three are with me now (Fender Jaguar, MIM Frankenjazz, Roscoe SKB3006), and one is, uh, somewhere (el cheapo resonator bass). The last is currently being made by Dan Atkinson and will soon be with me.
Having five basses feels really excessive to me.
To be fair, I'm selling the Roscoe, I haven't actually seen the resonator in a few years (I really gotta find it eventually), and I never play the Frankenjazz any more. I don't know if that makes things sound better or worse.
Damn, I have 7 now but two are for sale...
'78 Yamaha BB800
'79 Peavey T-40
'86 Fender P (MIJ)
'91 Squier P Deluxe
'01 Reverend Rumblefish XL
'05 Yamaha RBX 775
'09 Ibanez Jet King
Officially the most basses I've ever owned.
'78 Yamaha BB800
'79 Peavey T-40
'86 Fender P (MIJ)
'91 Squier P Deluxe
'01 Reverend Rumblefish XL
'05 Yamaha RBX 775
'09 Ibanez Jet King
Officially the most basses I've ever owned.
15 here. I guess I am sort of hopeless! Can't really get rid of any of them. And lately I do not play around so much as I was used to in past years!!!
Funny that 3 and ten or more have the same amount but the rest is quite varied. I wonder...
Anyways I have three. A 97 Warwick, An Am Std Jazz - fretless (not sure of the year) and a cheap Ashton acoustic bass. Looking to sell that and get a P of some sort. Then I'll consider my bases (punintentional - unintentional pun) covered. Then I need an upright though...
Anyways I have three. A 97 Warwick, An Am Std Jazz - fretless (not sure of the year) and a cheap Ashton acoustic bass. Looking to sell that and get a P of some sort. Then I'll consider my bases (punintentional - unintentional pun) covered. Then I need an upright though...
Sold all my "high end" basses due to recession. Play my back-up 4 as a regular and have a beater 5. So 2 basses total, only 1 live-worthy.
i own too many....i esp have a weak spot for jazz basses.... now i'm GAS-ing for a 6 string.
can't help myself!!!!!!!!!!!
can't help myself!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, I'm gonna try something novel here, and I'd love to see others follow suit. I'm gonna post existing pictures of me playing each of my basses, and see if I can get all of them. Here goes:
2009 MIJ Fender Jaguar:
2000 MIM Fender Frankenjazz:
2002 Roscoe SKB3006 (ugh high school era photo):
Well, I don't have any of me playing my el cheapo resonator, and my Atkinson won't be here for another month, so I failed. I'm a failure! I'd love to see some of you guys with 10+ basses try and pull this off. Who can succeed? Remember, they have to be existing photos!
2009 MIJ Fender Jaguar:
2000 MIM Fender Frankenjazz:
2002 Roscoe SKB3006 (ugh high school era photo):
Well, I don't have any of me playing my el cheapo resonator, and my Atkinson won't be here for another month, so I failed. I'm a failure! I'd love to see some of you guys with 10+ basses try and pull this off. Who can succeed? Remember, they have to be existing photos!
