I need a forum induced slap round the face..

ICBM

You don't need a vintage Jazz that expensive. If you want a Jazz you can buy a perfectly good one for a fraction of the price.

Sell the two Rickenbacker guitars and buy a 4001 instead .

Sell one or two of the other guitars and buy an EB-3 or a Thunderbird. Or sell the R8 and buy an EB-3 *and* a Thunderbird.

Sell something and buy a Hofner.

So many options… so many more interesting basses than spending it all on an expensive Jazz .

Bridgehouse

ICBM said:

You don't need a vintage Jazz that expensive. If you want a Jazz you can buy a perfectly good one for a fraction of the price.

Sell the two Rickenbacker guitars and buy a 4001 instead .

Sell one or two of the other guitars and buy an EB-3 or a Thunderbird. Or sell the R8 and buy an EB-3 *and* a Thunderbird.

Sell something and buy a Hofner.

So many options… so many more interesting basses than spending it all on an expensive Jazz .

Stop being so bloody sensible!



I also have a hankering for a "weighs the same as a small planet" Travis Bean TB2000

And I do want a 4001.

I also quite fancy a luthier commissioned custom job.

I'd love an original run thunderbird..

And.. and...


Shoot me now.

Teetonetal

So actually the thing to do is sell some guitars as you don't play them and don't buy a bass because it's a fad.

p90fool

My question in all these circumstances is "what's the gig?"

I play bass for loads of people live and in the studio, playing originals and a wide variety of covers and the only thing I have in common with almost all the world's greatest bassists is that I only need one bass.

By all means sell whatever you want to get the bass of your dreams, but don't start another collection, it's an illness.

Bridgehouse

This is now more like the slap I was expecting!!

Gassage

Here's the thing; I would rather have one pre CBS strat than 3 CS strats. So do it.

ICBM

p90fool said:

My question in all these circumstances is "what's the gig?"

I play bass for loads of people live and in the studio, playing originals and a wide variety of covers and the only thing I have in common with almost all the world's greatest bassists is that I only need one bass.

By all means sell whatever you want to get the bass of your dreams, but don't start another collection, it's an illness.

This is also true.

That's why I have my 4001 and….


… I gave my Fender Mustang Bass to my daughter.

I get occasionally tempted by a fretless, but I had one a couple of years ago and barely played it, so I sold it to a friend who wanted one.

Bridgehouse

You've all managed to collectively sum up where I'm at!

@Gassage is right - if you are going to have one good one, you might as well have one really good one

And @p90fool and @ICBM are also right. I bought the 74 P as it was a YOB not expecting that much for a 70s Fender - but it takes everything admirably in its stride. As I'm trying more complex stuff it's just lapping it up. It sounds great and it's so easy to play.

I probably don't need anything else. It probably is an illness I'm just wondering if it's worth chopping in some of the stuff that isn't being played for something that might actually get played.

First world bloody problems huh?

57Deluxe

...probably a Sea BASS...

Voxman

Bridgehouse said:

Posting your lovely R8 Lemonburst again is just cruel & unusual punishment !  

Bridgehouse

Voxman said:

Bridgehouse said:

Posting your lovely R8 Lemonburst again is just cruel & unusual punishment !  

What you going to do if I decide to sell it??!!

FX_Munkee

Is this the back of the queue?

PolarityMan

I have a cure for what you are experiencing..........buy a drum kit.

Bridgehouse

PolarityMan said:

I have a cure for what you are experiencing..........buy a drum kit.

The missus plays - we have two

Voxman

Bridgehouse said:

Voxman said:

Bridgehouse said:

Posting your lovely R8 Lemonburst again is just cruel & unusual punishment !  

What you going to do if I decide to sell it??!!

Burgle the buyers house.....

Bridgehouse

Voxman said:

Bridgehouse said:

Voxman said:

Bridgehouse said:

Posting your lovely R8 Lemonburst again is just cruel & unusual punishment !  

What you going to do if I decide to sell it??!!

Burgle the buyers house.....

Surely you'd want to own it honestly...


...just think how bad you'd feel every time you played it

crunchman

Gassage said:

Here's the thing; I would rather have one pre CBS strat than 3 CS strats. So do it.

The only problem is that there are places where you wouldn't want to take a pre-CBS Strat because it's too valuable.  You would need something less valuable as well.  Although there are times a CS would be too valuable as well.  I bought a Mexican one a couple of years ago so I can take it places that I don't want to take my more expensive guitars.

Bridgehouse

Now then, there's a '64 refin Precision on Basschat, all original except it's now natural and has a swapped out pickguard.. it looks like low end sex on a stick. And it is of course pre-CBS

I could part with the R8 and pick this up.. whaddaya think?

ICBM

No. You already have an unusually good (birth year?) Precision, why do you need another one?

If you want another bass that's different that's a different question...

Bridgehouse

ICBM said:

No. You already have an unusually good (birth year?) Precision, why do you need another one?

If you want another bass that's different that's a different question...

Stop that. Stop that now. Because that road leads to N1, Andy Baxter Basses, and a Jazz....