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One Bass...no GAS

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Jul 26, 2005
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Riverside, Ca
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#1
I know there's at least 100 threads about "if you could only have one bass"... Well I only have one bass, and find myself NOT GASing over any others. Just wondering if anyone else feels the same way?.

Before I started on bass I played guitar and was on a never ending quest for tone, ending up with 9 guitars and 12 amps. I've been playing bass for the last 5yrs and I feel weird not lusting after different bass's etc... My one GAS ending bass is an 03' Lakland Duck Dunn Pbass. Anyone else?.
 
#4
well yeah i too feel the same way. i just have a squier jazz bass and i dont really every gas for anythign else, i have played a lot of other basses and a lot of very expensive basses but no i am never pushed from inside to get one for myself. maybe because i dont have the kind of money, but i think its because i know there is so much more to learn and there is so much more i can do with this bass. its has a few issues but there are ways to counter them and maybe yeah i would get a better bass someday but thats very far from now
 
#8
I too don't GAS for anything at the moment and have not done for a good while.
I love my amp, I play the bass, the sound of which I like better than any I have heard and all I would like is another bass exactly like the one I have now, in order to have a back up.
 
#11
idoru said:
What happens if you blow a string on a gig, or drop the bass, or step on the cable and stuff the jack? One bass is asking for trouble - you should have a backup for live work, even if it's just an SX :)
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I have played for 34 years and hardly ever brought more than one bass to a gig. Even when I was touring/playing 7 days a week for a straight 10 month period --- one bass. I still play 99% of my gigs with 1 bass and only bring a second, my SX fretless, if the gig might call for it. I have blown a string two or three times in all those years, but if you know your way around the neck well enough, it's possible to work around a blown string. Been there, done it. Never dropped a bass. Can't figure out how that could happen unless you're being careless, drunk or letting some fool handle your equipment. Stuffing the jack? Simple solution - run your cable through your strap.

Maybe I have been lucky. Maybe good handling practices render good results.
 
#12
i have sold all my basses but THE ONE. and i definitely don't gas for any more basses. but i will admit that i'd like a new amp though:D.

i don't know if this counts, but i double, so i consider having one electric and one upright to still put me in the ONE bass category. and i am completely happy with both my electric and my doublebass. i couldn't be happier. and i wouldn't trade either of them for ANY other instruments!

over the years i have had alot of expensive axes. customs and stuff that cost way over $2K. but my current set-up is all i need. my upright is just incredible. an absolutely perfect instrument. end of story.

as far as the electric bass goes. my babydoll/workhorse/go-to/holy-grail/funkmachine/bass-of-doom is my frankenstein fretted four string. assembled out of spare parts. ugly as hell and not worth a dime to anyone else but me. but i swear, i wouldn't sell this bass for $5K!

my wife split on me a year and a half ago, and i lost the house, cars, dogs, everything. all i got to keep was my motorcycle and my basses. so, when i needed money to buy my new house. i decided to trim the fat, i realized that this bass was always the first one i'd reach for. every single time. it sounded the best out of all my electrics and it was lighter and more comfortable than any of the others. it was always the bass everyone wanted me to use for ALL of my different gigs. it sits perfectly in the mix, and it just records wonderfully.

so i sold all my other basses. i guess i'll just keep taking extra strings to my gigs, and if i break something, i'll just have it fixed. same with the upright!

but the amp situation... different story!;)
 
#13
I decided to trade in a couple of basses, get down to just two electric - and one acoustic/el...and thought that was it. One main bass, one backup, and the acoustic for the occassional open mic or what have you.....that lasted about five minutes until I saw a Fender Jazz - Olympic white, tort guard, maple finger board hanging on the wall at my local music store. Now I've been selling of a bunch of old gear to raise funds for a jazz bass.
 
#14
well i no longer have only one bass but i still have my first bass. THis was also my ONLY bass for the first 12 years of my bass playing life and i never GASsed for any other basses. I guess about 5 years ago was the first i ever really had bad GAS. now i have another but still gassing for more. I miss the simpler days when i just had one and was perfectly content with it.
 
#15
idoru said:
What happens if you blow a string on a gig, or drop the bass, or step on the cable and stuff the jack? One bass is asking for trouble - you should have a backup for live work, even if it's just an SX :)
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Wise words from Idoru! Even since I learned the hard way (at age 17), I have ALWAYS brought along two basses (usually my MIJ jazz bass and one of my Yamahas).

Out in the truck I always keep spare strings, a spare amp (carefully hidden), and a spare lead singer.
 
#16
Well, I had only one bass for 25 years and quite honestly, I did have some gas over the years for some instruments I have admired, but really didn't take any action on it, until I found this place!
Been a member here for maybe 3-4 months and I now have three basses and two amps! This place is killing me!
I'm also currently seeking a gas reliever as I have been actively trying out new basses and seeking advice fro the good folks here, with respect to some of the higher end basses out there.
I think I need BEANO!
fishheadjoe!
 
#18
funkybassplayer said:
well i no longer have only one bass but i still have my first bass. THis was also my ONLY bass for the first 12 years of my bass playing life and i never GASsed for any other basses. I guess about 5 years ago was the first i ever really had bad GAS. now i have another but still gassing for more. I miss the simpler days when i just had one and was perfectly content with it.
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+1

Played my first and only bass (a MIA Jazz) for 10 years before the GAS struck and I woke up one day with a fiver in my hands. Thought that would do it, but I've been eyeing up some of those Rondo fretless basses lately.
 

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