How many times has your bass failed you?

[JRA]

How about you?

batteries. but i'm playing passive axes these days so the only battery i fret over ( ) is the one in my phone/tablets.

 

[generalduncan]

If it's an open air venue, or indoors with windows open, strings may break if you leave the instrument out of its case under air current. Happened to me once. I wouldn't like to notice it when I went on the stage to play.

 

[Haans]

My Stingrays battery compartment is a failure. I'll have to replace it if I ever want to be able to trust it.

 

[Rabidhamster]

Everyday! The beautiful sound in my head gets all jammed up when I try to reproduce it!
And it's clearly the Bass. (Abigaile) ( yes her name is Abigaile, rhymes with Abba-whale? What am I talking about, what thread am I on? I , oh. Yes my bass always fails, because I fail. And no need to take 2 basses- they will equally fail, because I don't practice , Good?

Rotfl awesome name that show is the best Have you seen the toe knife?

 

[Hasty]

I play mainly Double Bass. It's hard enough getting just the one in the car... even if I had two I can't imagine getting both in my vehicle.

This topic always sort of fascinates me because I seldom see drummers, trumpet, trombone, or Sax players having this conversation. If they bring a second instrument it's something completely different for solos.

 

[jonnybass1]

Never. I still always bring a second bass just in case...

 

[ed morgan]

None of mine has ever failed. Cords yes, basses no.

 

[dbsfgyd1]

I was reading some stuff about having a spare bass at gigs in case that something goes wrong with your main one, but how many times you guys have really experienced that? do you think that you really need a 2nd bass on stage (considering that you don't change your tunning)?

I have more than one bass for sure, but I never take a backup, never needed to either. How about you?

Once in over 50 years of playing bass. On my active Warwick, the lead to the battery broke while changing the Battery.

 

[Rum Ham]

Rotfl awesome name that show is the best Have you seen the toe knife?

It's in the couch, Right Charlie?

 

[bholder]

My bass has not failed me. I have failed my bass.

 

[bassdude51]

My bass has never failed me but the jack has.

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[2112]

My bass has never failed me but the jack has.

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[bassdude51]

Yeah, and AC/DC did..........well, you know the song.

 

[Hasty]

My bass has never failed me but the jack has.

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I bet that jack would fail you. It's a switched jack so every time you plug it in something disconnects...

 

[zontar]

My bass has never failed me but the jack has.

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Still part of the bass--same part that failed me once, ONCE!

 

[Marty Forrer]

I've been gigging since 1963, and never carried a spare.

 

[Bob_Ross]

Put me down in the "never" camp. Gigging since 1973 and not once has a bass failed.

Now, ask me how many times my pedalboard has failed me...

 

[taught]

I did not have a car accident in my life, but I am still going to use my seatbelts.
Same applies to every other safety measures in my life.

 

[fretno]

Not once. It's always battle ready. Now how many times have we failed the bass ?

 

[generalduncan]

Not once. It's always battle ready. Now how many times have we failed the bass ?

This reminds me how many times I began songs in the wrong key. Bass had no fault.

However I would not like to be that guy who stopped the show because his bass is out of battery/has a broken string/jack.

Bringing two different basses is a kind of show off btw. The more difficult part is bringing stands for two basses.