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How's the bass selection in your town?

#141
Killed_by_Death said:
Ha, I got busted for not having EZ-pass & driving in the EZ-pass lane, cost me $14
that was a long night, drove up to MD to get a MIJ Ibanez S470, about 6 hours of driving, total madness!

The selection in my area is pretty bad, which is why I went nuts when I found out I could be at GC & Sam Ash in 90 minutes.
The closest ones are adjacent to one another!
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Ibanez ends in EZ. Just an observation. heh.
 
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#145
Bass Viking said:
If I was a guitarist I wouldn't be complaining.

(Then again, maybe I would! :D)
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If I was a guitar player,I would be in the same situation.
The stores wouldn't carry a Strandberg Boden 7.
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Which is what I would want.
 
#146
40Hz said:
Who do you recommend checking out in NYC? I've been beside myself since we lost Manny's.
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The best basses in a store (VERY Boutique) are at Rudy's, who relocated to the Village in NYC (461 Broome St, New York, NY 10013). The basses and bass amps are in the "Basement"...naturally). You can get the more regular basses and bass amps at Sam Ash, relocated to 160 west 48th street (Larry Harte of Harte amps is there to answer all your bass desires), Guitar Center is further downtown at 25 west 14th Street. Those are good places to check out. Then you can go across the East River and visit the Fodera factory (if you can call it a factory...it's a place where a bunch of top notch luthiers build hand-made basses)...call for an appointment though. From there take a trip to Roger Sadowski, also in Brooklyn...and if you're still on the prowl, bite the bullet and take a trip to Woodstock (it's actually Kingston) to watch Michael Tobias and his son Daniel of MTD fame at work. The choice is vast and all-encompassing in New York, making bass shopping an all-day event...! :)
 
#147
BassFishingInAmerica said:
Ratio of guitars to basses is about 100 to 1.
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Yep! This is sooooooo true!

Here in Columbus, Ohio, we have a Guitar Center and a Sam Ash practically next door to each other and for me, it is so depressing to go into them both to see some basses. 100 guitars for every bass. And with the exception of a few, like 15 or less nice basses, mostly cheapo basses. So depressing!

The net is the best source for bass inventory.

Where the basses??????????????? (Next to the restroom.)

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#151
As a part-time upright bassist, living in the Phoenix area, good upright basses are few and far between. (I traded my last bass guitar and bass amp for a set of golf clubs - no kidding. I am done with 9-1 gigs.)
As said for bass guitars (there are a hundred guitars for every one bass quitar) there are a 100 electric bass quitars for every 1 upright.
Almost all upright bass players in this area got there bass somewhere else and brought it here. When I found a hand carved Krilling for $300 I was told it was a "starter" model hand-carved flat-backed bass. I knew that. The fact that it was hand-carved at all and was for sale was the astounding part. I've still got the lid off. It is a well made bass. I am glad to have it.
 
#152
Mike Saint said:
As a part-time upright bassist, living in the Phoenix area, good upright basses are few and far between. (I traded my last bass guitar and bass amp for a set of golf clubs - no kidding. I am done with 9-1 gigs.)
As said for bass guitars (there are a hundred guitars for every one bass quitar) there are a 100 electric bass quitars for every 1 upright.
Almost all upright bass players in this area got there bass somewhere else and brought it here. When I found a hand carved Krilling for $300 I was told it was a "starter" model hand-carved flat-backed bass. I knew that. The fact that it was hand-carved at all and was for sale was the astounding part. I've still got the lid off. It is a well made bass. I am glad to have it.
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Wow, now I remember...I was a doubler back in 1980 in Phoenix and brought an upright bass with me from Germany...and when it needed repairs, I had to drive to California to get it fixed...
 
#153
basspower said:
Wow, now I remember...I was a doubler back in 1980 in Phoenix and brought an upright bass with me from Germany...and when it needed repairs, I had to drive to California to get it fixed...
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Not surprising. I took a bass to a local bass luthier who told me it would be $600 just to take off the lid (the bass bar had come loose due to the dryness here. A constant battle). Which would be worse - a trip to LA or $600 just to unglue the lid.
 
#154
In Sonoma county, take a trip up hwy 101 from Petaluma to Santa Rosa and there are at least 4 decent sized music stores: Tall Toads, Loud & Clear, Stanroy’s, Banana’s at Large. There are always more guitars than basses, and most have the usual selection of basses……Fender, Ibanez, Yamaha, etc. Loud & Clear might be the exception here, as they primarily deal in consignments, so they occasionally have something outside the norm. If I want a Rickenbacker, I need to go to GC in Emeryville (an hour away), they had a few the last time I was there, late last year. Anything else will require some searching. Or just buy it online.
 
#155
Not so good. I went bass-shopping about 3 weeks ago, looking for a MIM Fender or Squier P-bass. Went to various stores and neither had Fenders (nor Squiers). The largest store had only 4 or 5 Epiphones (no high-end Gibsons); another store had only two basses: a 5-string Sterling SUB (which was actually very nice) and a crappy low-end Ibanez that was quite noisy and poorly built. Finally found a store that had 2 or 3 Squiers (Affinity P-bass and VM Jazz Fretless) and a couple of Yamahas (also nice). I liked the VM Jazz FL and it had a bit of discount so I took it home. Neither store had any mid or high end stuff. All of them had 10-15 times more guitars than basses.
 
#156
Selection? Selection you say?

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selection? I wish. Every bass I have ever owned has come from eBay, GC/MF, or the Talkbass Classified.

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#158
bassdude51 said:
Yep! This is sooooooo true!

Here in Columbus, Ohio, we have a Guitar Center and a Sam Ash practically next door to each other and for me, it is so depressing to go into them both to see some basses. 100 guitars for every bass. And with the exception of a few, like 15 or less nice basses, mostly cheapo basses. So depressing!

The net is the best source for bass inventory.

Where the basses??????????????? (Next to the restroom.)

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:roflmao::roflmao: oh man your last line just killed me.....there is an independent big box type store north of the city......they have walls of guitars like this and yup the bass section is right by the restroom too!!!
(they have a decent selection of basses though)
 
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Spoiled for choice here in Chicago. Places like CME and Rock and Roll Vintage have vintage and high-end stuff and some of the usual suspects like Craitslist and some GC's even have a smattering of great stuff you might not normally expect. We've also got a few good builders including Lakland, LowEnd, Serek and others.

And all that's before you head out into the suburbs....
 

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