Oh jeez. you got me. it is all true. my heart was broken after I beheld a 1999 Fender custom precision on Ebay. unfortunately some evil individual beat me to it and severely shattered me. deep depression followed. i have since hated the world and find it hard to continue living. i take it day by day at this point. it's all i can do.
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Why have so many basses?
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There's a guy I play with every couple of months who isn't all that great but who's a nice guy & gets decent paying work. He hires the best players he can find & sometimes buddies of his that are not all that great. Several times he's had some local hotshot pros( not that I'm not,nudge,nudge ,wink,wink)that think they are above him musically & Yeah,they are. Some of those guys try to intimate him . A few years ago they wouldn't of considered doing a gig with him.Now ,with things being what they are,they ain't turning their nose up at a $100 per man gig. I always have to tell this band leader "Look,they ain't paying you,you're paying them! There there to make you sound good!"
Seems you already have an entire theme about me lined up. what can i possibly do to defend myself.
haha..this thread popped up as I am considering buying a Fender AVRI jazz bass. It' be the 3rd NB for me in maybe 5 months.
Im certainly no pro...maybe advanced amateur is more like it.
Why do I own so many?
Without typing out some wordy response it all comes down to how a bass speaks to me and makes me play.
For years my main bass was an Alembic SCSD I got to that bass after owning 4 Alembics at once.
I was basically on a mission to have a custom Alembic bass built, so I bought some used Alembics over a period of 2-3 years to see which configuration I was most comfortable with. Long scale series I, Med scale SII, than a SCSD short scale. At the end of the day I realized the SCSD was the right bass at that time for me so the others went and my idea of a custom went out the window as well as I realized that the SCSD, while it wasn't everything I was looking for, was "close enough" especially with an SF2 at my disposal. Worth pointing out that during this time frame I was heavily into the Dead and Phils playing.
Flash forward to 2017...I've grown tired of the Dead stuff, have realized that being a "clone" of someone isn't what I aspire to be or want, so started thinking about a new bass. Long story short, I didn't want to gamble on buying something online I wasn't familiar with so every Sat on my way to a jam session I'd stop at Sam Ash to see what they had. Fender basses were always there, but I always ignored them in favor of trying out some of the used exotic basses they would have from time to time.
I think a Fodera and Pedulla were some of the ones I tried, I wasn't impressed enough with them to pay the premium though...Than one day I pulled down a Jazz Elite and realized that it was the bass for me..sort of a homecoming as I had played jazz basses years ago but sold them off to fund my Alembic quest. That bass came home with me.
Since than I've bought a couple of other jazz basses as well as a P-bass. Why? Each one makes me feel and play differently...
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I am more of a Jaco person. not much into Wooten. Jaco had a pretty big ego.
Thank you for explaining. and at least you are not attacking me with crazy assumptions like others are. but it is amusing.
I am also way to busy actually playing music to be on here often. but for what it's worth i never joined this site to make friends.
Stop complaining about unworthy bass collectors and start playing your bass collection!
...-at least one of those statements is true.
Well if i didn't complain about it i would never have communicated with you. and my life would have been so much less complete.
Dude, have you seen the cars some people put away and never drive? Watch an interview with Jay Leno sometime. He can't possibly drive all of the cars he has accumulated. But he loves and is connected to each one.
Also, you don't need to be remotely good at something for it to be a passion. There are no prerequisites for what people like.
-You sound like fun to work with
Is that a genuine question?
Why do people acquire things they like? Because they like them and they can. Some people buy tons of pens, are you going to judge them on whether they can write amazing stories with them?
More great basses make you a better player delusion? Pointless and waste? Insecurity thing? I'm sorry but you do come across as a bit of judgemental donkey.
I don't think anybody needs multiple instruments to achieve anything... but at the same time I don't see why anybody else would give so much thought to why others buy what they buy. It has a nasty whiff of envy about it that I just cannot shake off.
I understand that. I am just a person that does not relate to having so many basses or guitars. just what is necessary. i asked for an explanation from people here. but most are just really defensive and are saying crazy things to me. no problem.
Or maybe because there are so many 'hobbyists' you get a chance of buying pretty good instruments at a fraction of it would cost you if the market were smaller without those people buying instruments...
I think most would agree that access to variety is a major factor in wanting to own multiples of anything. Even if you collect multiples of the same model of something, chances are that each individual item will vary to some degree from the next. We're human, we're curious, we have tastes, and we like what we like.
Of course, there are extremes to everything and one should know when to stop. But overall, it's a common scenario.
Of course, there are extremes to everything and one should know when to stop. But overall, it's a common scenario.
Well you can assume it is envy or anything you want. i could actually buy as many basses as i want. i don't see the point in buying more than i can be intimate with. my question was sincere.
someone else said the same thing. i already stated what i felt about this. again just my opinion.
I won't bother going over every single "point" you're trying to make, but where's your proof on this one? I tried an internet search trying to corroborate this statement but guess what?
Dead right with that one!
Sarcasm again. so witty. i am not fun to work with in a band. very much into getting things right and keeping it well oiled.
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