One Bass Only: A short treatise

[Munjibunga]

Any one else feel roughly the same way?

No.

 

[Jarrett]

No.

LOL, not even roughly?

 

[AMJBASS]

As a professional player who makes all of his income from music I don't find it practical to have only one bass. A backup is a necessity, and of course the variety tonally is also a necessity especially for studio work(Upright, Precision, Jazz, fretless when needed).

 

[Munjibunga]

LOL, not even roughly?

Not even smoothly. I have 17 basses. I didn't even have to contemplate my response.

 

[zortation]

I thought this way when I was broke too...

 

[Santraginus]

I took my girl out on New Years Eve for some dancing, and there was a great band playing, crowd of about 1500 I'd guess. They played a very wide variety of dance type music, from Elvis to modern top 40. The guitarist was great, and actually managed to sneak in all kinds of cool stuff into the tunes, from Van Halen to Satriani and even Yngwie licks. The thing that stood out to me, was with this huge variety, he was playing a Charvel strat with one humbucker, straight into a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe - no pedals, nothing.

Funny, isn't it?

 

[tedw]

I like having a few really great basses.