I’m down to one bass…

[Geek99]

After selling my P I’m left with a vintage est96a stingray clone, and a beaten up six string acoustic rescued by Simo from going to the tip. It cost me £7 for the parts to fix it up 
 

chap who bought my P says he has 27 basses. Twenty freaking seven. 
 

I only have one and understand scythes are being sharpened as I write this. Why are Amazon suddenly out of stock of both tar and feathers? 

Edited November 22, 2023 by Geek99

[chris_b]

1 bass is OK if you're not gigging. My minimum is 2 for gigs.

[Geek99]

Just now, chris_b said:

1 bass is OK if you're not gigging. My minimum is 2 for gigs.

Get that … understandable 

[NancyJohnson]

I was at one bass at one point.  I think I was about 14 years old.

[martin8708]

Before the days of eBay , internet , Basschat , I had 1 bass , 1 amp and my Ovation Balladeer . 
I didn’t want for nothing , because there was no temptation.

I’m actually envious of you .

[chyc]

I misread your username as @TheGreek and spat out my coffee all over the keyboard

[SumOne]

One Bass is fine, I like getting really used to just playing one. Lots of famous players seem to have stuck with one or two. I don't see much point in having loads that are similar all set up in a similar way,it's a bit like a stamp collection. 

 

....although in an ideal world I'd like one for each special task: one for slap (stingray with low action light and bright roundwounds), one for Reggae (Jazz with tapewound), one for soul (Precision with flatwounds), one for punk (Precision with roundwounds), and perhaps a fretless, an acoustic, and 5 & 6 string multiscale ones. So I would end up with about 10!

[Skybone]

Congrats to being in the enviable position where you only need 1 bass.

[BillyBass]

I'm sure if you went to the dole office and told them you were down to one bass you would find out you were entitled to some benefit or other.  That is, as long as you could prove you were actively looking for another one.

[itu]

49 minutes ago, SumOne said:

...although in an ideal world I'd like one for each special task: one for slap (stingray with low action light and bright roundwounds), one for Reggae (Jazz with tapewound), one for soul (Precision with flatwounds), one for punk (Precision with roundwounds), and perhaps a fretless, an acoustic, and 5 & 6...

A red Status 4 with 30-90 set for slap (no gigs, just for fun), Vigier 4 and Modulus Genesis 5 for gigs, fretless 4 and 5 for fun, maybe gigs, a double bass for jazz and classical, electronic upright for jazz... some modern 36" lightweight bass for noodling around, what else? An Alembic, and...

[dclaassen]

I’m thinking about only have 2..fretted and Fretless.

[itu]

5 minutes ago, dclaassen said:

I’m thinking about only have 2..fretted and Fretless.

But if that's 4-, 5-, and 6-string basses, you already have six!

[TheGreek]

1 hour ago, chyc said:

I misread your username as @TheGreek and spat out my coffee all over the keyboard

 

Me down to one bass???

😄😁😅😅😂🤣

[ahpook]

Risky. Now you're only one forgetful moment away from total baseless panic.

Edited November 22, 2023 by ahpook

[Burns-bass]

1 hour ago, Skybone said:

Congrats to being in the enviable position where you only need 1 bass.

Its called being a double bass player!

 

[Burns-bass]

1 hour ago, Geek99 said:

After selling my P I’m left with a vintage est96a stingray clone, and a beaten up six string acoustic rescued by Simo from going to the tip. It cost me £7 for the parts to fix it up 
 

chap who bought my P says he has 27 basses. Twenty freaking seven. 
 

I only have one and understand scythes are being sharpened as I write this. Why are Amazon suddenly out of stock of both tar and feathers? 

You should have stuff you want, need, and love. I truly believe we’d all be happy with less stuff, but I can’t help accumulating things as it’s part of who I am.

 

I have one bass I use, one spare in a case I take to gigs, and one I saved up for 4 years to buy (and will never sell).

[Lozz196]

25 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

 

Me down to one bass???

😄😁😅😅😂🤣

I’ve never heard anything so entirely unbelievable 

[Jackroadkill]

2 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

I’ve never heard anything so entirely unbelievable 

 

I've not been here long and even I know that wouldn't happen in a month of Sundays.  @TheGreek, you are the keeper of the flame!

[gjones]

I blame Basschat.

 

 

Although I have to say that 3 of the basses in this picture have been sold since it was taken and the only bass I gig regularly is the cream coloured Jazz on the far right. I will sell a few others in the next couple of years and I'll probably just be left with my USA Elite Precision, the 5 string G&L and the cream Jazz.

Edited November 22, 2023 by gjones

[ezbass]

11 minutes ago, gjones said:

I blame Basschat.

Me too. I have 7, inc an EUB. I’m fairly sure I only need* 2.

 

 

 

 

 

* I must apologise for using that offensive term.

[msb]

For many years I just had one , and then I began to bring them home. I have twenty something now , there’s really only a couple I’d sell. Not in any hurry to buy another, recently I’ve bought about one a year. 

And the last one was last January so I’m due.

[ezbass]

5 hours ago, Geek99 said:

 

I only have one and understand scythes are being sharpened as I write this. Why are Amazon suddenly out of stock of both tar and feathers? 

 

 

Edited November 22, 2023 by ezbass

[Geek99]

29 minutes ago, ezbass said:

Me too. I have 7, inc an EUB. I’m fairly sure I only need* 2.

 

 

 

 

 

* I must apologise for using that offensive term.

That’s okay, at least you didn’t say “guitarist” 😅

[neepheid]

I'd love to tell you that the time I don't spend justifying my basses/number of them to people was spent improving my bass playing...

[Guest]

I only have two. I'm saying "only" now, I've been thinking about thinking about selling one. I won't before I have to though. They are both the same model, Sandberg Grand Dark, a four string and a five string.

 

Not that it is very interesting but it happened in a quite strange way:

I ordered the first, the five string, from Thomann. Delivery was stated as "several months away".

A couple of weeks later I found the four string in a Spanish shop called Todobajos and bought it thinking I'd cancel the other order if I liked it.

Three days after Todobajos had shipped it I got a mail from Thomann informing me that the five string was now shipped and at that point I saw no other way to handle the situation but to remain undecided about which one to return until it was too late to return either of them.

 

I highly recommend Todobajos by the way, they are an "only bass and bass equipment" shop in Madrid and were excellent even though I don't speak Spanish and only one of them spoke English well. All of them were very nice people. The bass I bought was discounted too.

The shop looks brilliant and if I ever go to Madrid I'll pay them a visit. https://www.todobajos.com/en/

 

edit: sorry for babbling on. 

Edited November 23, 2023 by HornetPinata
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