If you could only keep one forever

[XXL]

I have reverse GAS these days. Sold off almost all of my basses except for my Blackburst L2K.

It is my forever bass.

Swamp ash body and quartersawn rosewood neck.

 

[JoeWPgh]

I cannot answer this question without knowing what day it is

 

[Just go for it]

Yamaha BB1500A (With a good amp)

 

[jmlee]

My '68 P-bass. It was my only bass for 20 or 25 years and I never felt I needed something else. I still have it, although I don't take it out much anymore. Out of my cold, dead hands...

 

[CallMeAl]

Yay, someone actually admits that they love rounds on a P bass

Thank you, I agree. Jazz neck? Perfect!

This one is currently strung up with DR Sunbeams, but my new set of GHS Pressurewounds is rapidly becoming my favorite. (IDK if those technically qualify as rounds though.)

I have a set of Chromes, and Fender Flats I’ve been messing around with. They’re fun and all, but if I had to pick one....

 

[dkelley]

<--- For me it's the fretless carvin icon in my thumbnail profile pic. J99a single coil jazz pickups (highly regarded, not like some of their much older models). 3 band eq with semi-para midrange, piezo bridge with blend, passive mode, hard-as-nails fingerboard coating.

 

[swink]

Is a tangle of Basses considered as one bass?

 

[RumbleBot]

Is a tangle of Basses considered as one bass?

So like a bass king instead of a rat king?

 

[Eddie LeBlanc]

What ? No Spectors????

 

[hardtop]

tough call, but probably this one.

 

[bobyoung53]

Sorry to repost it to the point that you recognize it

62 is the year

I did that long before I ever saw "The Wife." Matter of fact, they both started life in that configuration about the same time. So there was no way I could have seen it.

I'm thinking of pulling that Guild humbucker and putting in a Hagstrom Bisonic copy as that was my original intent. But at the time, I couldn't get one and put the humbucker in, instead.

Keep posting it! That bass is unforgettable. I traded an early 70's Tele bass for a late 60's P bass in 1977 that had an EB-0 pickup next to the neck, the guy took it out though before I took possession of it.

 

[Jephmo]

It would have to be my Schecter C4 Apocalypse. I have others but I also come back to this one, also had it the longest.

 

[bordinco90]

My purple P Bass

 

[PennyroyalWe]

The tele bass on the left. Not the most versatile tone, and probably should pick the p bass on the right, but the tele bass’s tone is like crack to me. I get withdrawals if I go too long without it.

 

[Steve88]

I would have to go with my Lakland 5594. Sounds good with nice tonal variety, balances well, and the feel of that neck is miles ahead of anything else I've owned or played. I have a love/hate thing with the pickguard though...it's usually off.

 

[4stringfarley]

I only keep one at a time. So until I play something I like more.

 

[selowitch]

I would have to go with my Lakland 5594.

Maaaaaan, that's a nice bass! I just looked up the price and almost died, though.

 

[bobyoung53]

The other day I posted my Fender P/J but I could probably also be happy with this one in most situations, it's a 1979 Rickenbacker 4001 with extra light gauge La Bella DTF's on it, with bridge pickup cap bypassed, it was refretted at one time and the varnish was taken off the neck and it has two long allen screws on the bridge which go through two little holes drilled through the tailpiece into the body so it never tips. This was my go to for many years after the P basses and before the current P basses. I've owned many Rics in my time but this was always the best sounding and playing one that I had.

 

[hieronymous]

This is a really hard question for me. My first answer would be my '76 4001 - my future wife was with me when I found it (back in 2002), I had always wanted a Ric, and a fundamental part of me comes out when I play it, especially with a pick and distortion. But the Les Paul Triumph also has an emotional connection - my future wife had become my wife by then, and we went to the Golden Gate Bridge administration offices to try it out and pick it up, it was crazy foggy and just such a great adventure. But it's so heavy!

 

[sotua]

if you could only keep one bass forever and never play a other bass what bass from your current arsenal would you chose. Let's see them.

My MIJ Jazz. It's ugly (one of those mid-90s that have a full plastic pickguard and white knobs like a strat instead of a metal control plate with black knobs like a jbass), heavy, but it sounds and feels[1] like no other bass I've ever played.

[1] It was defretted and refretted, so now the neck feels like a skinny jbass that also has about 2mm of fretboard shaved off, 12" radius, and thin vintage fretwire, so it's really not a regular jbass feel.