This is my last bass !!!!

[butterfingers1]

Probably not until I'm on my death bed.

Senator Strom Thurmond, a notorious serial impregnator, it is said they couldn’t close the lid on his coffin .

 

[neddyrow]

I have all the basses I need and am very content.

My problem is that I love to build basses and it's an itch I love to scratch. So I can't say I won't build another bass even though I have all i need.

 

[Jogobass]

My new Ibanez GWB205 comes close to being my last bass. Got it last year and haven't played anything else since. My other bass is a Yamaha Attitude custom, pre-sheehan model, but it's in pieces. If I can't put it back together again I'll need another 4 string with frets. But as it is now I only have a 5 string fretless. I want to specialize in fretless and ignore bands that specifically want me to play fretted. Just do what I like and if I happen to find people that also like it then that's extra.

 

[Bassinthemudd]

There’s a cycle I go through. I get up to about 7, each of which I justify in some way (e.g. I don’t have a fretless, 6 string etc.). Then I realize I only play one bass 95% of the time, and I feel stressed that I own (and can’t really afford) way too many.

So I go through the headache of gradually selling them off. I feel liberated when I finally get down to THE one bass. But….

In the quiet of the night, when no one else is around, I secretly begin to ogle other bases on the internet. Maybe the grass is greener? I try to fight the urge, but the pull of those other basses is just too much. When I’m holding THE one, I’m thinking of another, and suddenly THE one is not so special anymore. Before I know it, I’m back up to 7 basses, and the whole cycle repeats itself.

Does the same bass always remain "THE one?"

 

[bassGtar]

Some people need therapy dogs, others therapy basses!

 

[Mike in MI]

Does the same bass always remain "THE one?"

Excellent question! I meant to address that in my post. THE one typically becomes one of the new 6 or 7 basses I end up buying before the sell off happens again. Right now it’s a USA L-2000! I am now back to sell off mode so who knows what will happen to it in the future.

 

[JRA]

i thought my custom-built PJ (circa mid-90s) was my "last bass." then i retired in 2012, got busy modding, and then parts building, and now i have seven "last basses" --- and a pile of bodies/necks for some more...

my "last bass" (03/2022):


but if parts basses don't count: i may have purchased my last bass in 2012. IDK. it's a gray area.

 

[groovepump]

Three times in the last 3 months.
Two of these were in the last week, one of them was last night.

 

[Geogio]

Lessee... after the great apartment B&E and later an edit/mega-cull...
1 J-Type ROK
1 P-Type ROK
1 PJ-Type (Canadian)
1 Höfner clone
1 Extended 6 with actives. ROK
1 junker SS necktrough ROK
1 experimental fretless (my 3rd)

If I got rid of the fretless I would probably gut it and sell the carcass.

I should also move the extended 6 and the PJ.

 

[Bassinthemudd]

Excellent question! I meant to address that in my post. THE one typically becomes one of the new 6 or 7 basses I end up buying before the sell off happens again. Right now it’s a USA L-2000! I am now back to sell off mode so who knows what will happen to it in the future.

You're not helping relieve my L2000 gas.

 

[Green Knight]

I've never been so relieved to have overread a subject line.

 

[Kael]

Last bass I bought was a touch over ten years ago. Between a fretted P 5'er (nordy), a fretless J (parts bass) and my upright I don't find that I need or want other instruments these days. Only thing interesting me is perhaps a rob allen fretless.

 

[rtslinger]

Okay so I bought my last bass #13 followed by 11 other last basses the last time I counted my last basses last week
but I will get the last count tonight to make sure and let you know the last bass I got last and let's see how that will last RTS

 

[TerribleTim68]

I've given up on buying them, because the argument with the wife got to be too much. So I've taken to building them myself.
I've already built my last 2 (one was a 5-string fanfret, the other a fretless 4 shown in my profile pic) and I have 1 more build planned, but first I gotta finish up this Telecaster build for my buddy.

 

[El Trueno]

I’ve given up lying to myself. I know it will never end. Hi, my name is El Trueno, and I’m an addict…

 

[GeorgesEric]

This is my last bass !!!! without trying it first.

 

[Buster Brown]

Sooo
How many times have you bought your last bass ???
Me ?
I can't even begin to count
Lol
I'm not only the president
I'm also a client !!!

Funny, isn't it? Over the years, I have bought my last bass (in particular, Rickenbacker) on 5 separate occasions. I now have my "last" 4003.......

Same with Fenders - although since I have discovered Sire, I will probably never buy another P or J. Hell, I thought I had bought my last sire, then came another and then another. I discovered that companies OTHER that the majors CAN and DO build basses that the "everyday" person can purchase.

 

[Gravedigger Dav]

Upon buying my seventh, and what would be the last bass I could possibly justify, I found I needed one more wall hanger.

So I went to Amazon and bought a pack of four.

Empty wall hangers are obscene.

 

[Rebel Rocker]

I'm telling myself I purchased my last. A Fender 1960 Custom Shop. I loved the way this thing plays and sounds. It's number 18.

 

[r00r1]

Since I own only one bass (FGN P), and it's a hobby, passion, it is waaaay sufficent for me.