I have cured my gas

[bobyoung53]

Today it happened. I walked into my local Guitar center and there spread along the walls were some Basses I have been gassing over for sometime. A few fender P Bass a Musicman stingray a fender dimension and so on and so forth. (my gas list takes to long to name I’m sure you can relate) anywho I decided to sit down and try out these Basses. Unfortunately I was unimpressed. Not so much by the poor guitar center set up or lack there of. Not by the sorry ass salesman who I wouldn’t trust to sell my little sister a box of Kleenex let alone recommend a guitar to actually players. It wasn’t by the tremendously bad playing that 80% of the customers that day were putting on display. I was just unimpressed because it wasn’t a Fender jazz. Having learned on a jazz bass and playing a jazz bass all these years I thought it was time for a change. I was wrong no bass feels the same they don’t play the same. The don’t do anything the same. Now of course this is because there completely different Basses. One would not expect it to sound like a jazz. I guess I learned that a Fender Jazz is home bass for me. I could go on the rest of my life just playing a jazz and happily I might add. I’m not sure why this didn’t hit me sooner. Maybe I still had hope. I know I have not played every bass in the world And I don’t think I’d want to. I just know that me and old Jazz have a bond that can not be broken. I guess I’m going to save up for a custom shop jazz and never Gas for anything again. CURED!!

Perfect description of the GC experience. I have a lot of different basses including a nice Jazz but Fender Precision is home bass for me although my Ric 4001 is a close second, A new sunburst-tort Precision was my first good bass and I have strayed but when i play one it just feels like home to me. I actually play an American Fender P/J bass nowadays but would still like to get a plain of P bass, I always favor that pickup anyway.

 

[bobyoung53]

Not to sound mean/angry about this (or to flame or start a war here), but I'm fed up with going into most music stores and the instruments are set up like crap, if at all.

One particular (big box-like) national music store got in a load of basses one day, and they simply went from the shipping boxes onto the hangers- not even getting tuned!

That is a major turn off for me. I'm a big believer in, "if you set it up properly, it will sell (maybe even faster!)"

Just my take on things but I don't really think the basses are set up that lousy when they come in usually just that nowadays they rush em out the door without letting them sit and acclimate so after hanging around in your local GC for a few months most of them need truss rods tweaks. I picked up both a brand new American Pro Jazz and a Precision a few months ago after they had just gotten them in and both basses played like butter, I bet they don't now if they're still there. It's just laziness on the music store's part more than anything.

 

[bobyoung53]

I don't understand how someones playing habits are soooo set in stone that they absolutlely cannot adapt and play a different bass.

When you buy a car do you buy the exact same car make and year every year?
Or do you buy a different car and adapt to it's difference?

I've been buying mostly GM cars since 1971 since i first got my license and coincidentally have been playing P basses since 71 although i own a lot of different basses. You get really used to a bass especially when you are first learning and play them for a long time afterward and that feeling will probably stay with you forever.

 

[SactoBass]

Today it happened. I walked into my local Guitar center and there spread along the walls were some Basses I have been gassing over for sometime. A few fender P Bass a Musicman stingray a fender dimension and so on and so forth. (my gas list takes to long to name I’m sure you can relate) anywho I decided to sit down and try out these Basses. Unfortunately I was unimpressed. Not so much by the poor guitar center set up or lack there of. Not by the sorry ass salesman who I wouldn’t trust to sell my little sister a box of Kleenex let alone recommend a guitar to actually players. It wasn’t by the tremendously bad playing that 80% of the customers that day were putting on display. I was just unimpressed because it wasn’t a Fender jazz. Having learned on a jazz bass and playing a jazz bass all these years I thought it was time for a change. I was wrong no bass feels the same they don’t play the same. The don’t do anything the same. Now of course this is because there completely different Basses. One would not expect it to sound like a jazz. I guess I learned that a Fender Jazz is home bass for me. I could go on the rest of my life just playing a jazz and happily I might add. I’m not sure why this didn’t hit me sooner. Maybe I still had hope. I know I have not played every bass in the world And I don’t think I’d want to. I just know that me and old Jazz have a bond that can not be broken. I guess I’m going to save up for a custom shop jazz and never Gas for anything again. CURED!!

Matty: I've owned a Fender Custom Shop Jazz. They are indeed very nice!

Regarding being "cured", it is my duty as a fellow TB'er to inform you that there is no known cure for GAS. Many have attempted to cure it, but to no avail.

 

[DiMarco]

CURED!!

No you're not. Absence of GAS is always temporary. Trust me...

 

[Ross W. Lovell]

Today it happened. I walked into my local Guitar center and there spread along the walls were some Basses I have been gassing over for sometime. A few fender P Bass a Musicman stingray a fender dimension and so on and so forth. (my gas list takes to long to name I’m sure you can relate) anywho I decided to sit down and try out these Basses. Unfortunately I was unimpressed. Not so much by the poor guitar center set up or lack there of. Not by the sorry ass salesman who I wouldn’t trust to sell my little sister a box of Kleenex let alone recommend a guitar to actually players. It wasn’t by the tremendously bad playing that 80% of the customers that day were putting on display. I was just unimpressed because it wasn’t a Fender jazz. Having learned on a jazz bass and playing a jazz bass all these years I thought it was time for a change. I was wrong no bass feels the same they don’t play the same. The don’t do anything the same. Now of course this is because there completely different Basses. One would not expect it to sound like a jazz. I guess I learned that a Fender Jazz is home bass for me. I could go on the rest of my life just playing a jazz and happily I might add. I’m not sure why this didn’t hit me sooner. Maybe I still had hope. I know I have not played every bass in the world And I don’t think I’d want to. I just know that me and old Jazz have a bond that can not be broken. I guess I’m going to save up for a custom shop jazz and never Gas for anything again. CURED!!

And all this time I thought there was going to be a story about a drummer that doesn't have to complain about someone's flatulence.

Disappointed............

 

[MEKer]

OP says, "I have cured my gas."

Only known cure:

 

[MEKer]

And all this time I thought there was going to be a story about a drummer that doesn't have to complain about someone's flatulence.

Disappointed............

as that drummer ignores everyone complaining of his own sour, egg-laden, rotten meat flatulence.

 

[matty4string]

I don't understand how someones playing habits are soooo set in stone that they absolutlely cannot adapt and play a different bass.

When you buy a car do you buy the exact same car make and year every year?
Or do you buy a different car and adapt to it's difference?

Who said I couldn’t adapt? Why should I have to if like what I like. As far as cars go I find a musical instrument to be way more personal than a car at least in my experience. If you choose to play 1000 Basses in you’re life so be it. I have played almost every major brand you can name at least a time or two. Should I just keep buying Basses and playing different things all the time instead of sticking to what I like because you think I missing somthing. I find a jazz bass to be the only bass one will ever need. Subjectively of course.

 

[ajkula66]

Who said I couldn’t adapt? Why should I have to if like what I like.

Some people get lucky like that...

Last year I got to hang out - after almost two decades - with the gentleman who bought my late 70s MM Sabre back in '89. He hasn't bought another bass since, and it wasn't for a lack of funds. To take matters one step further, he admitted to going through withdrawals while the bass was being re-fretted a few years ago and having to play his brother's Warwick for a couple of weeks...