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Your ideal bass collection

i pretty much already have it:

'55 P Bass
'62 P Bass
'69 P bass
'70 P Bass
'72 P bass
'73 P bass
'91 AV RI P bass
'66 Jazz bass
'68 Jazz bass
'72 Jazz Bass
'73 Jazz Bass
'68 Tele Bass
Blue Floral Tele Bass
'85 Alembic Distillate
'68 Gretch 6073
'68 Hofner Beatle Bass
'02 Hofner Club bass (german)
'91 Rickenbacker 4001 V63
'09 Rickenbacker 4003
'68 Gibson EBO
'68 Gibson EB3
'69 Gibson EB1
'66 Gibson EB2-D
'68 Gibson EB-2
'01 MM Stingray
'09 Fender Jaguar Bass
'10 Bach Thunderbird IV-non reverse (modified)
'05 Mockingbird Bass
'64 St. George Bass
and the two Jazzmaster basses that I'm currently building
 
My collection would be like this

57 P Bass
59 P Bass
63 P Bass
73 J Bass
78 P Bass
68 Tele Bass
86 Kubicki X Factor
Lakland Glaub
Lakland Osborn
Fodera Monarch
Fodera Emperor 5 String
1996 Fodera NYC Empire Bass w/ Lane Poors
65 Hofner Beatle Bass
Nash 57 P Bass
 
A good few Fender P Bass's
A few fender j-bass's
Lakland Duck Dunn
Lakland Darryl Jones
Epiphone Jack Casady
Gibson EB-2D
Gibson Ripper
Gibson Thunderbird
Fender 51' p bass
Rickenbacker 4003
Rickenbacker 4005
MM Stingray
Fender Mike Dirnt P Bass
Fender Geddy Lee Jazz Bass
Fender Mark Hoppus Jazz Bass
Hofner 500/1

That would be nice...
 
1) Low End Jazz 5
2) Fodera Emperor Deluxe 5
3) Sadowsky 5 P/J 5
4) Modulus Q5
5) Emenence EUB
6) Upton Bass Deluxe Hybrid 5/8 size
7) Some kind of custom built Gibson EB2 shaped 5 string (w/ custom Darkstar pups)
8) Taylor 5 string acoustic bass

Yup...honorable mention would be a 5 string Wal, and 5 string Rob Allen
 
I already have two of them:
  • Peavey International Series Milestone II (most underrated bass of all time?)
  • Spector Euro 5 (actually an older model that had a different name, but it's the same bass)
And here's a list of what I really want right now:
  • Fender Jazz
  • MM Stingray 5 HH
  • MM Stingray Fretless