If you could only have 6 basses...

[JRA]

...lets say your wife said you can have 6 basses...

i'd keep six of these:


i'd give her the one that's marked out.

 

[Plectrum72]

1. Squier Affinity Jaguar Bass H (32" w/humbucker centered between neck and bridge).
2. MIJ Fender Jazz Bass Special
3. Epiphone Thunderbird Pro IV
4. Hofner Club or Hofner Violin Bass
5. 5-string Stingray
6. Rickenbacker 4003

 

[prowla]

No can do - I'd have to sell two of my Rickenbackers!

 

[yodedude2]

"If you could only have 6 basses..."

i would.

 

[Spirit of Ox]

I only have 3 basses. 3 Jazz and 4 P basses. If I had to modify my arsenal to 6 distinct basses it be as follows.
1. MIM Sunburst Geddy Lee Jazz bass
2. Gibson Non Reverse Thunderbird
3. My Sunburst Fretless Pbass with Bartolini Classic P&J pickups all customized by Mouradian
4. 73 P Bass
5. 74 Jazz bass
6. Rickenbacker 4004

 

[GregT]

Red Precision
Blue Precision
Sunburst Precision
Green Precision
Pink Precision
White Precision

Just Kidding, but someone had to go there......

 

[Ric Vice]

Frankly, I couldn't afford to maintain and string that many instruments. I own two double basses a Mirecourt 5/8th's and a Kolstine Busetto Travel Bass. plus two Lakland 55-94's a fretted and a lined fretless
If I replaced all the strings at the same time and did setups on the Laklands it would cost upwards of $700.00 every 18 months. So, I rotate when I replace strings and only use flatwound strings.

 

[Sam Dingle]

Damn. I think if i could only have 6 i'd have:

P bass with rounds
p bass with flats
p bass setup a whole step down
Jazz Bass
Hollow body (either my guild starfire or my Orlando)
Some active 4 string tuned BEAD

 

[groovaholic]

I have 3 basses;

• a Japanese Squier Precision (like my very first bass, but heavily modified)
• the bass I traded #1 for on my 17th birthday (unique, and built by a local luthier)
• my Dingwall Z2 (that I converted into a Z3, and have continued to customize)

And every time I think about buying another bass, I have to ask myself:
"In what scenario would I leave my Dingwall at home and play this instead?"

So the number stays at three.

 

[arbiterusa]

None of what the OP listed, that's for damn sure.

2 Steinberger XL2W UF
2 Status Stealth fretless fivers
1 Squier 40th Anniversary Jazz bass in Ruby Red
1 Marleaux Diva fretless fiver

Done.

 

[GTx2]

I would be so excited b/c I'd get to shop for 3 more!

 

[STROMERO]

1) my ric 4001
2) my hot-rodded MIM P bass
3) My other hot rodded MIM P bass
4) My Gibson Les Paul bass
5) an EBMM Stingray
6) probably another ric

 

[JMarkD]

Modulus Quantum 5
Modulus Vintage Jazz w/Audere preamp
Lakland Joe Osborn Jazz
G&L CLF L1000
Steinberger L-2
'64 Fender Jazz Bass

 

[squarepeg]

1. Gibson EB0
2. Gibson EB1
3. Gibson EB3
4. Gibson Thunderbird
5. Gibson Les Paul Jr DC
6. Epiphone Newport

 

[Stranger Danger]

I would have to get 4 more basses

 

[ImTheOnlyOne]

...I'd still have only two hands....

...a couple of Jazz basses, a Mustang, something boutique, and a couple in rotation.

 

[satantango]

4003
stingray
70s style jazz, don't care by who as long as it's nice
p with flats
gibson grabber for the hell of it
wild card? I'd have to really think about that one. or another 4003 or jazz.

 

[Discount Bassy]

If I added a G. Gould fretless GGi-5 and a fretted GGi-6, I'd still be at only four total. Maybe include an upright 5 string and an electric upright 5 string as well? That makes six. I guess its time to start saving money again.

 

[thunesBARROW]

1) 5 string Jazz Bass
2) Jazz Bass
3) P Bass
4) Fretless PJ
5) Hofner
6) Bass VI

 

[Manticore]

These will cover all the sonic territory I need addressed. The reality is the one on the far right can stand as a reasonable surrogate for any and all of those to the left, and more

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