When do You know that You have enough basses?

[FlashBazbo]

In all seriousness . . . it depends on why you want them. If the ONLY reason you buy a bass is because you want to play it on a regular basis, the number is finite. There are only so many you can become "one" with in the musical sense. If, however, buying basses is the objective, you can never have enough. Bass ownership is a completely separate hobby / avocation than bass playing. They can almost become contradictory at some point. (Because, after all, the more basses you have to maintain and gawk at, the less time you have to play the instrument.)

 

[Element Zero]

There’s always one more

 

[PJ Muzikmansky]

When do you know you have enough basses?

Well, in my case {no pun intended}...

1) Making my latest selection, then arranging for it to be shipped to a location other than home for fear of the wife haranguing me about buying yet ANOTHER bass;

2) Spending a week figuring out how to get it into the house without her seeing it; and...

3) After it has arrived and I've relocated it into my music room with the necessary stealth befitting the occasion, having her walk in on me practising with it and asking, "Is that another a new bass?", only for me to reply "No darling, I've had it for ages", to which she replies " Funny, I don't think I've seen that one before"...

 

[chris_b]

When do you know that you have enough basses?. . . . . . . . when you discover that you haven't looked at another bass in the last 6 months.

 

[btmpancake]

When you start sneaking basses to your house thinking she won't know or leaving your old bass to rehearsal and buying another bass in a similar color thinking she won't notice. Don't ask me how I know.

 

[Clark Westfield]

One of these days in going to have a Sadowsky NYC, then I’ll be done!

 

[LBS-bass]

My answer isn't really up there, but it sort of is. It's when I find I'm not playing them. I have a few basses but I really only want to play the one, so I went with "the one you've been looking for" even though I was never looking for it and I have had other basses that I enjoyed playing more.

So for me it's "when I only pick up one of them, almost every time." I have occasional reasons to pick up the others but if those reasons aren't in play, it's always the same one.

 

[shai-ga]

When you are the cause of this:

 

[EXCAV8]

I own my dream bass. If I didn't feel the need for a backup then I'd sell off the backup and only ever use the dream bass.

 

[chris_b]

One of these days in going to have a Sadowsky NYC, then I’ll be done!

Mine is a Metro, but that's when I stopped.

 

[Samatza]

When something catches your eye but you pass it up even though it’s a good deal.

I think I’m there, some of my basses are to old to take on the road, the rest cover any territory I’m likely to explore so I think I’m good... until the next one.

 

[Geddaric]

I`ve settled on 3(my holy trinity of Fenders - p, j, pj), partly as a marital concession, and also because I felt that if one starts gathering dust, I really don't need it.

 

[Bottom 4]

A simple question...

A simple question...

I would say when you continue to buy new Basses and you realize they’re not better than the one you already have. That’s been it for me...

 

[Bassndrums73]

When there’s no place in the house left to store them.

 

[Gravedigger Dav]

What a silly question.
Like how high is up.

 

[J-Bassomatic]

When I buy one that I want but do not need. I could have stopped when I got the Jazz but then I saw that Noir Precision, and the Squier CV50s, and the Danelectro Longhorn. I'm pretty sure I'm done though. It's hard to tell.

 

[Gaolee]

I believe the amount of basses that you should own is:
x=c+1
x is number of basses you should own
c is current number of basses that you own

This is dog math. It's the basis for calculus and all other higher forms of thought and logic. It's also true.

 

[Heroinsheep]

Trick question, there's no way of knowing.

It's a philisophical question actually.
What is "knowing"... What can one "know"... Good one

 

[Eddie LeBlanc]

When the Angels tell me that's enough. But they are just winging too.

 

[BasEd]

Mine is a Metro, but that's when I stopped.

I thought I’d stop with a Sadowsky Metro but I wasn’t that keen on it after a while. I didn’t like the preamp and hum cancelling single coils. So the bass GAS continued for several years. Seems to have calmed down now!