Use a stand when not playing???

[JimmyM]

Why wouldn't you put it in a stand? It's so much easier to get to and start playing than putting it in a case, and it's much safer than leaning it up against a wall. I don't understand the wall-leaners. Must not have had them fall yet. You will.

 

[BellBottomBlues]

Why wouldn't you put it in a stand? It's so much easier to get to and start playing than putting it in a case, and it's much safer than leaning it up against a wall. I don't understand the wall-leaners. Must not have had them fall yet. You will.

I tend to leave basses wherever. Leaning on an amp next to me is a bass. There is one on the coffee table, and there is one on a chair.

I've had them fall, its no biggie, you just find something else to lean them on. I guess I'm just couldn't care less.

 

[JimmyM]

I guess that's OK if you use Fenders, but when one with an angled headstock like a Gibson or a Hofner falls, it ain't pretty! Especially Gibsons. Holy crap, their headstocks are weak!

 

[Raul Amador]

I prefer to leave my basses in the case but if I am in the room I will set in a stand for a short while.
Some stands have rubber tubing as a cushion than can break down over time and damage the finish.

 

[MPQW11]

I allways put my musicman back i its case after playing, but I leave my squire leaned against a wall, dont really care if it falls down

 

[Handyman]

Gibson: Keeping luthiers in business with headstock repairs for over 100 years.

There's an Olde Proverb that goes like this:

If You're NOT Playing the Bass, It goes in The CASE!!!

 

[Wayauste]

I have in the past put industrial rubberbands over the fingers to keep the children from pulling the instruments out

Thats a good idea. Keep those childrens fingers off the basses.

 

[BellBottomBlues]

Gibson: Keeping luthiers in business with headstock repairs for over 100 years.

lol

 

[Mon Rominee]

Naw man, that's just the Gibson patented auto-headstock-eject system. It actually deploys a millisecond before impact, to keep the entire instrument from exploding.

You pay extra for that. The instrument would otherwise be 800 bucks.

 

[JimmyM]

I wish Gibsons were $800!

 

[Rob Martinez]

Stick your bass on a stand and enjoy it!

It's a BASS, not something to believe in!!!

 

[Rob Martinez]

I wish Gibsons were $800!

Oh, I keep my Gibsons in the case!!

 

[embellisher]

I prefer to hang mine on the wall, but a stand is fine too, as long as it isn't in a location where it is likely to get knocked over.

 

[meev992]

what I want, is a bass with some sort of levitation device, so it can stand itself up.

Possibly, with a force-field, to prevent theft.

 

[four2oh]

+1 on Hercules stands.. those things are built like tanks!

 

[905]

My acoustic is on a stand (and the guitar is behind it, against the wall).
My electric is in a gig bag leaning against the wall and the desk with a hardcase containing another guitar supporting it.

My point: I have parents.

Parents have money.

Money can be used to buy things, like new basses if old ones should fall down and break.

So, in essence, I can buy new basses if the old ones fall down and break.

 

[Mon Rominee]

My acoustic is on a stand (and the guitar is behind it, against the wall).
My electric is in a gig bag leaning against the wall and the desk with a hardcase containing another guitar supporting it.

My point: I have parents.

Parents have money.

Money can be used to buy things, like new basses if old ones should fall down and break.

So, in essence, I can buy new basses if the old ones fall down and break.

Yeah, I have parents too, but I'm a big boy and have my own money to buy my own basses, and you someday will to, and when it's your money talkin, maybe you'll take better care of the ones you've bought.

 

[Count Bassie]

My acoustic is on a stand (and the guitar is behind it, against the wall).
My electric is in a gig bag leaning against the wall and the desk with a hardcase containing another guitar supporting it.

My point: I have parents.

Parents have money.

Money can be used to buy things, like new basses if old ones should fall down and break.

So, in essence, I can buy new basses if the old ones fall down and break.

Your parents won't be able to buy you your self-respect, which you're going to need someday, master 905.

 

[JimmyM]

Why kids today suck:

My acoustic is on a stand (and the guitar is behind it, against the wall).
My electric is in a gig bag leaning against the wall and the desk with a hardcase containing another guitar supporting it.

My point: I have parents.

Parents have money.

Money can be used to buy things, like new basses if old ones should fall down and break.

So, in essence, I can buy new basses if the old ones fall down and break.

 

[Count Bassie]

Why kids today suck:

It's why society today sucks. One thing leads to another... and anything considered successful in our two-dimensional, anti-spiritual culture is by-and-large connected to the accumulation of material wealth.

For this reason the powers that be have most of us cranked down face-first to a soul-swallowing job that alienates us from our spouses and kids. Those of us who do well and want our kids to do well might therefore lack focus concerning exercising a truly sound value system, and in helping their kids to get one as well. Or maybe they do "get" the bigger picture, and decide there's no redeeming it and just load up their progeny with priviledge!

So I brashly speculate: 905's parents have got their boy up a rung from the rabble, but haven't given him the tools to move on his own in the world: As soon as he falls off his upper rung he's fodder for the system like everyone else, because he's learned that Mum and Dad are the lever to push that gives him the prize- so he's not developing his own skills. And they're going to leave him someday...

The stinky, callous, elitist attitude is just a symptom of all this bad upbringing.