How did trying bass become this?

So I’ve heard people say one is not enough but I shrugged it off. But since starting B2B over 2 years ago & also taking lessons in person, I can’t explain how my one 1st bass & practice amp turned into this?

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Bass is an obsession for me as well. I have 7 basses and am looking for another one as I type. I haunt Reverb, Ebay and TalkBass classifieds on a daily basis. I also have 4 amps, cases for the basses, strings galore, effects processors and all the MusicNomad tools and kits it takes to keep them in tip-top shape. I think within the last year I have bought a new bass on the average of once every two months. But it could be worse. I could be a meth head spending my money on that or at least that is what I tell my long suffering new little wife.

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GAS!

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I hope to get like that some days. Congrats.

This is me then I started (restarted at the beginning of Covid-19’s. At that point I only have that and 6 others in the storage, lol.

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If once you start down the bass path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume your wallet it will

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Is that a Zoom Bass on the back right? (Best lolly ever, btw!)

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My wife only sees them after a while & turns a blind eye to it but I like your reasoning. :laughing:

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That’s a nice bass

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I’m doing the same thing! I had 7 basses, and came up with the idea that 4 is actually the magic number. Not too many, not to few, just right to cover all desired sounds. I just sold one on Reverb, and started looking for it’s replacement even before I received my payout. What is wrong with me? My wife does not give me any hassle over this, but she does think I am a little crazy…

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Ha, I used to joke with her that it was the same bass, but I just got it painted. Then she asked one day if it was difficult to route out larger holes to replace the jazz pickups with humbuckers… :lying_face:

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FYI - in the US of A, these are red white and Uncle Sam blue, and are callled…Bomb Pops! Cause, you know, we are good at blowing things up.

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I think I can….

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Wow that’s a lot. A whole lot of basses.

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Paging @Al1885 - show him ‘a whole lot of basses’ please.

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Ok a few only please, lol. I don’t wat to scare him just yet. That’s future him next year, lol.




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That is so cool that you live at Guitar Center!

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Oh, much, much better than Guitar Center.

That there is a bona fide fine bass collection curated by a very knowledgeable bass aficionado.

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You can’t blame just the bass. That’s a nice PA you have there in addition to the bass amp. At least it looks like a PA :slight_smile:

What do you run in to that?

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