I hate this place

[bigdaddybass12]

I hate this place every time I come in here to pick up some strings. I try a guitar I can’t do without. Is there any help? Therapy? 1-, 800 number to call? Link Removed

 

[pingvuiini]

 

[ArteK]

Are those bullet holes from when you've gone in there and suffered?

 

[Lo-E]

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But…. you DO need another bass.

 

[poochiecheeks]

It's like the alcoholic going to the liquor store "just to look around"
Trust me

 

[CryingBass]

Agreed to the above.

You came to the worst possible source of reasonable advice on this topic. But then again, you probably already knew that, eh?

 

[WG Plum]

I hate this place every time I come in here to pick up some strings. I try a guitar I can’t do without. Is there any help? Therapy? 1-, 800 number to call? Link RemovedView attachment 7313409

Go to the Seattle GCs. That’ll solve that problem toot suit.

 

[Dincrest]

BassBuzz has a video on how to curb GAS.



...and for me, the past 21 years of GAS were most fueled by the TalkBass classifieds.

 

[billiard]

My friend works there, he hates that place too.

 

[TurnColors]

I hate this place every time I come in here to pick up some strings. I try a guitar I can’t do without. Is there any help? Therapy? 1-, 800 number to call? Link RemovedView attachment 7313409

Lol! It's eBay and Reverb for me - I am not to be trusted with Internet access on payday. Sympathy and solidarity from a fellow sufferer of Gear Acquisition Syndrome.

 

[Koshchei]

I hate this place every time I come in here to pick up some strings. I try a guitar I can’t do without. Is there any help? Therapy? 1-, 800 number to call? Link RemovedView attachment 7313409

There's a cure - start writing music that makes you stretch yourself technically and theoretically and then start performing it. You'll realize pretty quickly that the instrument plays little to no role in that process, and that switching all the time is an active impediment to performing your music because it's hard to interpret things on a bass you aren't totally 100% familiar and comfortable with.

 

[Salem6127]

Online markets are a bigger danger to my wallet, because while at the store I can at least notice if the feel/tone isn't exactly how I like it and the GAS dies down... Pictures of basses on Reverb however, I can just tell it's gonna be PERFECT for me!

 

[shirojiro]

Go to the Seattle GCs. That’ll solve that problem toot suit.

What is the issue with Seattle Guitar Centers?

 

[WG Plum]

What is the issue with Seattle Guitar Centers?

The worst bass selection, not to mention the condition of what inventory is available. I found them utterly depressing after enjoying the late 90s/early 00s heyday. The downtown GC was a crack den for me in those days. Thankfully there are still a couple of alternatives, though nothing like Bass Northwest.

 

[Smooth_bass88]

the last two GC's I visited had a impressive selection of basses. USA EBs, Fenders, a used lakland, Dingwalls, and these cool MarkBass basses. They even had a freaking Fender Custom Shop Jaco bass.

 

[KohanMike]

I don't agonize it anymore, calling it GAP, gear acquisition PASSION. I have 15 mini bass guitars, 10 tenor ukuleles and 7 diatonic harmonicas. In the last 12 years, I've gone through about 60 basses and ukes.

 

[CoughSyrup]

I don't have this issue because the bass selection in both of my local GCs pretty much sucks. One will get some interesting used models occasionally, but they are either 15 feet off the floor and no one's around to get them down for me or they can't be sold for 30 days, by which time my GAS passes. I mean, goes away.

 

[pwilson]

Maybe buy your strings online?

 

[devnulljp]

 

[tb-player]

That place provides me zero temptation.