The 50+ Basses Owned Club!!!

[Mr. Ray]

This thread really got me thinking, I have owned a ton of basses. So yes please give me a number.
Ampeg-1
Acoustic-1
Brice-2
Charvel-1
Danelectro-2
Dillion-1
Epiphone-1
Espana-1
F-Bass-4
Fender-11
Gibson-2
Guitaron-1
Hagstrom-1
Harmony-1
Hofner-1
Homemade/Custom-2
Ibanez-2
Kay-1
Kent-1
Kramer-1
Martin-1
Modulus-1
Olivo-2
Raven-1
Rickenbacker-4
Silvertone-1
Teisco-1
Tempo-1
Warmoth-2
Warwick-1
Washburn-2
Wendler-1
Yamaha-2
I am sure I have missed a few. I made money on 90% of them thru sales or trades and have given a few away as gifts.
Out of all of those I still own 6 bass guitars and an Upright. There are only 2 I wish I still had.

 

[dukeplaysbass]

Nice work!

# 28 -- Shooter McGavin

# 29 -- Mr. Ray

 

[GeneralElectric]

Count me in.

I've had a lot of cheapy japanese stuff, but I've owned G&L, Warwick, Fender, Lakland, Rickenbacker, Nash, Gibson, Hofner, Eastwood, Danelectro, Jerry Jones, Musicman and a lot of others. Probably around 140 different basses.

 

[dukeplaysbass]

If I trade a bass, will the new one be added in my list?

Yes. It's not whether you keep them, it's how many have passed through your hands.

 

[dukeplaysbass]

OK, I'll add you, General Electric. You get #30

Just as a reminder, folks who want in should list manufacturers and a number for each when you add up your total.

Here's the club so far:

duke12 - #1
bovinehost - #2
bryanonbass - #3
danomite64 - #4
Templar - #5
rkingly - #6
DLEE - #7
Smakbass - #8
fullrangebass - #9
Eggman - #10
Chef - #11
CTbass - #12
Ric5 - #13
Spiritfield - #14
Nino Valenti - #15
funkytoe - #16
Rob L - #17
Delberthot - #18
tommixx - #19
mikezimmerman - #20

#21 is open. If anyone on the list wants to trade for it, let me know. Oreomeister365 was pulling my leg about all his Wals.

FLKnifemaker - #22
Chopper47 - #23
bikeplate - #24
fretless bill - #25
justabass - #26
davec - #27
Shooter McGavin - #28
Mr. Ray - #29
General Electric - #30

So, all in, we've got 29 members so far.

 

[Ziltoid]

Give me 10 years i'll get 48 others and ill be in

 

[bThumper38]

First one-Peavey foundation
Ibanez 1
Fender Jazz 6/1 precision
P.R.S. 1
Pre-Gibson Tobias 1
Clevinger E.U.B. 1
Kawaii 1
Rickenbacher 1
Modulus quantum 2
Warrior 2
Warwick 2
Hohner 1
Conklin groove tools gtbd 1
Ken Smith 1
Marleaux 1
Stuart Spector 1(which is my most recently coveted) and will probably keep me happy for quite awhile. Atleast till the G.A.S. emerges 24, well I'm just not quite there yet, though I ticked off 5 in the last 6 monthsView attachment Photo 8.jpg

 

[b_carville]

I've had a lot over the years. I used to sell/swap them.

These are the ones I actually played out.

11 Fender Precisions.
1 Fender Aerodyne.
2 Fender Musicmasters.
1 Fender Mustang.
1 Kingston 60's japanese bass.
7 Fender Jazz Basses
1 Fender Telecaster bass.
5 Ibanez basses various models
1 Gretsch hollow body. Forget the model number.Just like the one that Peter Tork of the Monkees used.
1 Rickenbacker.
1 Mosrite Ventures model. Single pickup.
1.Peavey Cirrus.
2 Ampegs. One of those "devil horn"60's models & a "Big Stud".
2 Hondo's.One P type& one whacko Flischman "Flash"model.
3 60's Danelectro's
3 Hofner's. A violin,club & a solid body.
1 Vox. Wyman bass.
1 SX jazz.
1 Kramer Duke.
1 Harmony hollow body. 60's single pickup.
1 G&L El Toro.
1 Renaissance. Weird heavy locally made Plexiglass model.
1 Sekova. 60's Japanese Hofner violin copy.

About 3 or 4 parts fender type basses I put together from various parts & pickups.Don't know if they count.
I might of forgotten a few.
I said it before & I'll say it again. Wish I kept some of them!

 

[ccbass71]

Hmm, let's see....

Lakland 1
Fender 1
Pedulla 1
GW Bass 1
NS Design 1
Eberhard Meinel upright 1
Cort 1
Peavey 4
DeArmond 1
12

Got a few to go....

 

[GeneralElectric]

OK, I'll add you, General Electric. You get #30

Just as a reminder, folks who want in should list manufacturers and a number for each when you add up your total.

This'll be kind of tough, since I don't really remember how many of certain things I've had, but I'll give it a shot. I just moved a lot of Fenders which certainly skews things as a whittle down the collection of crap. Things that are currently in my profile, I still own and haven't been included in this list.

1 Lakland
2 Warwicks
1 Rockbass
1 Brice
1 Rickenbacker
2 Hofners
1 Eastwood
1 Nash
2 G&L's
6 Ibanez
3 Musicman Stingrays
1 Musicanman Bongo
2 Gibsons
1 Jerry Jones
3 Danelectros
1 Dean
3 Epiphones
1 BC Rich
1 Hamer
2 Spectors
1 Hagstrom

I'm probably missing a few but I also played a lot of old Japanese cheapies that I used to pickup at Subway Guitars for cheap. Kents, Teiscos, Zimgars, Firstmans, etc This doesn't count the assload of Squiers I've had (I currently own 2, used to own 7 concurrently at one point) or Fenders (which I seem to go through fairly quickly) I recently sold about 6 Fender basses and I currently own 15 basses.

EDIT: Forgot that I bought a SX once...

 

[dukeplaysbass]

b_carville, I'll give you #21 so we can keep a full rack going....


GE, yeah, I know the feeling -- my G&L number is fuzzy. It's somewhere over 30 now, maybe close to 40. At least 30 I can distinctly recall.....

 

[dukeplaysbass]

I'm gonna update my list....

G&L - 30 (that I can remember right now)
1 SB-2 (old school)
1 SB-2 (new school, fretless)
1 SB-2 (new school, fretted)
2 El Toro
1 JB-2
1 L-5500
2 L-5000
1 L-2500
1 L-1505
1 L-1500
1 L-2000 fretless
5 L-2000s
3 ASATs
1 L-1000 fretless
8 L-1000


Lakland - 13
1 JO5
3 JO4
1 DJ4
1 4-76 DS
1 XS
1 55-94
1 55-63
1 JS
3 Skylines

Fender - 13
9 Precisions
3 Jazzes
1 Jazz fretless

EB/MM - 5
1 SR5
4 SR4

Epiphone - 4
1 Newport
2 JC (with a +1 since I got one coming this week)

Gibson - 3
1 LP
1 Ripper
1 EB-2

Ibanez - 2
2 80s looking axes

Guild - 2
1 Starfire
1 Pilot 5

Wilkins -1
1 Jazz-ish

Tobias - 1
1 whatever his famous fiver is

Cort - 1
1 P bass copy, long time ago

Ric - 1
1 4003

Hofner - 1
1 Club

Warwick - 1
1 Katana

Kay URB - 1

Englehardt URB - 1

Carruthers EUB - 1

Greco - 1 (Thunderbird)

Rob Allen - 1 (fretless)

OK, that's 83 right now that I can think of at the moment.

 

[GeneralElectric]

GE, yeah, I know the feeling -- my G&L number is fuzzy. It's somewhere over 30 now, maybe close to 40. At least 30 I can distinctly recall.....

Only bass I've ever regretted getting rid of was my G&L L1000 in transred.

 

[b_carville]

Thanks!

Yeah I forgot I had 3 Corts. A bantam,a red,white & blue P copy & one of those newer ones with the Korean bartolinis.

Out of all this stuff I only have 3 workhorses & 3 or 4 in various parts.I think I still have the Hondo Flash.That weird thing probably needs a little work.only paid $25 for it.

 

[Bone]

50+, thats for rookies I'm waiting for the 100+ club.

Should edit to add that would be Fenders only.

 

[Joe Nerve]

Musicman 4
Warwick 4
SX 2
Yamaha 1
Squier 2
Dean 3
Fender 3
Peavey 3
Carlo Robelli 1
Minarik 1
Dan Electro 2
Douglas 1
JBP 1
Michael Kelly 1
Alvarez 1
Cort 2
Gibson 1
Aria 1
Kramer 1
Tiesco (or Telestar) don't remember 1
Upright 1
No (or forgot the) name cheapos 3

40.

Damn!

Got some bass buying to do. And I thought I had a problem. pfffft!

 

[paul_wolfe]

Uhhhh...quick question.

3 or 4 basses I can see, have basses that specialise in different things. I could maybe stretch that number to 6. And if you were a top pro maybe you'd want a back up for each.

So that' s12.

But 50?

Why would you want that many???

(PS not a critiscism - I'm genuinely perplexed....)

 

[dukeplaysbass]

50+, thats for rookies I'm waiting for the 100+ club.

Should edit to add that would be Fenders only.

That made me laugh!

When I started this club, I was kinda irritated that TB had so many dopey "clubs". <screechy little boy voice> "I've got a Lakland!" "I've got a Tobias!" "I've got a fretless! </ screechy little boy voice> This club was actually started as a joke -- I didn't think anybody (well, maybe bovinehost, Templar, Wilkins and Chef) was as GAS-y as I am......

Plus, if I was gonna join a club, I wanted a low number, not some 4-digit marker in the stratosphere.....

I really didn't figure that the old farts like me would come to appreciate a club where we could take pride in the amount of GAS we'd experienced.

Here's how it came to be 50: I did a quick count of my own axes and hit 50, and was sort of amazed -- so I figured that would be a good cutoff.

There's a couple of cats here who could hit 100 -- I'm close -- but it's probably be better to call them the "pathological flippers club" or something.....

So, Bone, you want a number?

 

[dukeplaysbass]

Why would you want that many???

It's not how many you have right now. It's how many you've owned, lifetime.

I don't have anywhere near 83 basses right now. I've sold some off, upgraded to others, etc.

But it's like women (or men if that's your thing -- not that there's anything wrong with that). You might finally settle down with one (OK, maybe more than one in certain parts of the US) but there's nothing wrong with spending some time with a number of them along the way to see what works for you......






And not to get all Wilt Chamberlain on you, it's more socially acceptable than bragging about the number of women we've slept with.....

 

[Bassman822]

Thought I was close but I can only recall 23 (have 5 at the moment)

Current:
G&L L2000 (82)
Lakland Skyline 44-02
"Parts" fretless (Koa body)
Fender MIM Jazz
Dearmond Ashbory

Used to have:
early 60s Jazz (I'd love to have that one back!)
Rick 4001 Burgundyglo (72?)(toaster pu/crushed pearl/checkerboard)(I miss it too)
Rick 4001 natural
2 Ampeg Dan Armstrongs (1 fretless)
Danelectro DC
Gibson EB3
66 Jazz (butterbean tuners/block inlays)(I miss it also)
early 70s Jazz (maple fb w/ black blocks)
5 Precisions
SX Pbass copy
Westbury
Kay UB
Ibanez 5 string