Show me your basses you'd never gig with!

I have an Attitude Ltd 3 and I only play at home. If you like it and can afford it, buy it. Pictures required of course....

 

I'll try to do that for ya shortly...

 

Got to it sooner than expected So what version of the attitide are you looking at?


And with it's new pick guard. I love mint on sonic blue.

 

I couldn't ever imagine owning any instrument I would not gig with. YMOV.

 

All of em.

Unless it's a fairly low volume gig, with acoustic instruments, my hearing ended my gigging career a while back. Ironically I have low freq damage - Above a certain volume, all bass notes sound exactly the same as this loud blurry "brrrrrrrrr". If it's all acoustic guitars, wind instruments, unamplified drums, paino, etc. you know, not loud, I can do ok. But super loud, not anymore.

I got deef'ed by my own basses and amps!

And nowadays, all my basses are FL so I can't intonate if I cant make out the notes....

But I could fake it with a fretted bass if things got too loud. I'd gig that attitude in a heartbeat tho lol. Those things are built like tanks, sound great and are made for gigging!

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Super cool, I don't see you regretting it. However, should that not be the case drop me a PM...

 

I was a school bus driver on a trip, had time to walk around what I'd call a small town. Happened on a little pawnshop, they had a couple guitars and 3 basses... every one of them desperately needed set ups. I offered to do it to kill time and the owner smiled and said no problem.

When I was done they were all good, or at least a lot better. There was one bass that I never thought I'd be interested in, but to be honest, other than my wife, I'm frequently attracted to what might be considered less than good looking... I made low a offer, the owner said he'd knock another 50 bucks off my offer so I got it for a steal.

Only issue... no case, and I don't have anything that'll hold it.

Now it sit's within arms reach on a stand most of the time I'm at a computer.

It'll never leave this room. Admittedly this is a stock photo of the same bass.... to take a picture... I'd have to move it to the next room.

 

sounds great plays great, light as a feather......but i guess the color is a bit loud for me. depends on the situation..this is more my lounge around the house practice bass

 

I'll never gig with my doghouse...to much of a hassle for me to transport.

 

Here you go:

 

I love this bass, but it neck dives like crazy. As a result it's home use only, sitting down.

 

Why would you want a bass you couldn't gig with? Everything I own and keep in my arsenal get's equal opportunities to play live.

 

Isn't an Attitude pretty much a hot-rodded P with a neck pickup addition? I always figured Sheehan's tone was in the signal chain and not the bass, and you could probably play an Attitude bass on any gig where you'd take a P.

 

I love my Skjold 6-string. I have gigged with it plenty, including this picture. But it has not left my house in ten years. I used to play in a very music-y original funk/R&B/reggae band, and the bass made sense for the music. That band is no more, and lately I've been doing party rock and wedding gigs where a P or J makes more sense.

So at this moment I am not gigging this Skjold. I am recording with it a lot though - it really sounds good.

 

So it's been said but I agree with these guys, all the basses I have get out of the basement to see the gigs.

 

All of my basses are in rotation. I will not bring certain basses to a venue I know might be risky..

 

I never understood the mentality "I won't bring it to a gig." What the hell did you buy if for? When I play at a sketchy place, or a place with no stage, the guitar goes into the case when I'm not playing it and one of the band members keeps and eye on the stage.

EDIT - I could see not bringing your $10K custom bass to an outside gig with a 90% chance of rain, of course. But a regular gig??