What is the absolute bare minimum you can get by with ?

[JeezyMcNuggles]

What would be the last to go in your collection?

Pj and my rb112. It's the absolute least I can do everything with. Because I hate in ears, and preamp pedals.

Although, I could probably just go with my q-strip and a tuner. But, I'd rather have anpeg in the mix.

 

[Standalone]

This ‘82 Ibanez is becoming my go to. More versatile than my ‘85 that I also love.

 

[Black Out Jazz]

My longest held instrument ever, going on 12 years. I’ve never removed the pickups. Every time I think about parting with it, I take it to a gig, and that’s the end of THAT foolishness.
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Beautiful. Are you a member of the BlacknMaple Club?

 

[MegaSwing]

Beautiful. Are you a member of the BlacknMaple Club?

Midnight Wine

 

[MultiScaleMale]

A P bass with an E, A and D string with some means of amplification and a cable / strap.

 

[blowinblue]

I didn't take the OP's post as a Fender/P-bass question. I took it as, "What bass would you be most reluctant to give up as a performing/recording tool?" For me it would have to be my Stambaugh ODB fretted 5-string. But I also would have to hang on to my Elrick e-volution fretless. Not that practical for a lead-singing bassist but the Elrick was a surprise gift from my wife. It's not going anywhere. So there you have it. My minimum to get by with. Sadly, my other three basses are eminently cool, and would be sincerely missed.

M. M.

 

[shnapper]

There’s two completely different questions here….

I can’t answer as I’m feeling “totally Spicoli” by the possible answers…

 

[EatS1stBassist]

What would be the last to go in your collection?

SOX AND UNDERWEAR

 

[EatS1stBassist]

This parts fretless I builtView attachment 4379934

Bitchin bass!

 

[pfschim]

I have a few very nice basses; Lull M4V, 2 Roscoe Beck IV's (one stock, one fretless), fretless Rick Turner Ren 4, MIJ '51 P RI. I like them all very much, for different reasons, and I'd hate to lose any of them. But, I also have a dead stock 90's MIM J I picked up used that I use as my road/touring bass because, while I would not LIKE to lose it, if it got stolen or busted up while being dragged all over the place, it would not crush me.

I could easily do all the gigs I do these days with that MIM J

 

[west al]

I only have my Epi EB-0 left, so where it goes, I go!

 

[2F/2F]

Speaking only of basses, probably my early '77 white pickup Stingray...but purely for sentimental reasons. It was the bass I learned music on, from age 8.

Speaking of all my instruments, hard call. But it might be my late father's old '20s Martin all Koa Hawaiian guitar. Either that, or his all-original '68 SG Standard, which was the electric guitar that was always around when I was growing up.

 

[Bunk McNulty]

What would be the last to go in your collection?

Whoops! Not the question I was expecting!

 

[JW56789]

OH NO ! ! ! !

QUOTE: ' . . . . . you simply pick up, and start again.'

. . . . and then you buy more stuff. Geez, it's just insidious ! ! !

 

[lbbc]

Bare minimum for me...my 1986 Alembic Persuader and Genz Benz 6.0 210T Shuttle

 

[FrenchBassQC]

Noooooooooooooooo do not ask me this!!!!

 

[walksupright]

A couple of times I played out of town and a very generous friend in that city let me use his 78 Pbass. SVT at venue. So, I got away with taking nothing.

 

[PJ Muzikmansky]

this one

 

[MegaSwing]

SOX AND UNDERWEAR

Jaco.

 

[west al]

this one

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Nice Yamaha!