spacecowboy

My '88 Streamer. Waxed & Oiled. You love it.

I loved it. Good on him.

[quote name='ped' post='391077' date='Jan 25 2009, 05:31 PM']I know exactly what you are saying. I found my 'Wife (!)' bass a while ago (didn't know it then) and had always owned at least two fretted basses at the time. The beauty of this is that you can spend some time with both and sell the least fave for another top end bass (careful baying/selling will not lose you any cash) and over time it became clear that my 'Wife' bass was beating the competition hands down. All the while I had been playing it live, recording with it, making bumps and scratches on it and generally living with it and loving it. Somewhere along the line (about 6 or 7 basses into my 'comparison') I became bored of selling/buying and the hassle of it. I sold the competition and settled down with my wife (and her fretless sister ) and couldn't be happier. I am totally comfortable with the bass in any situation due to the time I have had it and have managed to compare it against every other bas I have fancied. That, mixed with the rarity and uniqueness of my instrument, meant that it became 'me' and 'my sound'. So - if the '88 is comfortable, works for you and feels like the one, keep it and start comparing it to other basses when you have the money/time. You might find something else, you might realise that it is 'you' - there is no way of telling until you have a try. That way, a few years down the line, you can sit back with your '88 happy in the knowledge that it is part of you and your sound, in the same way you wouldn't want someone else's eyes or summink' Cheers ped[/quote] That absolutely sums it all up to be fair! I think i can find peace with that! There is some part of me every time i listen to Meshell Ndegeocello that really wants to pick up a fender jazz that just works, my Marcus Miller and the Reissue i had really let me down! But like yourself i record with this bass, play this bass live, everyone who hears it can't say enough about it...... Out of interest what bass is it?

I have been wanting to post this for a while, I'm in a bit of a dilemma, when i started playing bass some 8 years ago, i found periodically i was never thoroughly happy with the bass i then owned and played, thus resulting in the very pleasurable task of buying, playing, and selling basses until i found "the one", what i liked about that phase was there was always the Honeymoon period to enjoy, the very second you get a new bass in your hands and have no worries about throwing the money at whoever was selling it, take it home, nail those tracks that you never were able to before on the previous bass because "it made you a bad player" but then! like always, sort of similar to having a nagging girlfriend you slowly develop a dislike to her tone and then eventually comes a break up as you suddenly have enough pennies to see what else is out there and no longer have to put up with it all.... sorry love, playing the field is fun... was fun... The point of this is, 2 years ago i found on this very forum my 1988' Warwick Streamer Stage II, and now the hunger for new basses has gone, i have sold every other bass i have owned and i have been a one bass man for sometime now, 2 years.... which isn't as good as it sounds, its like I'm scared to try anything new, for two reasons, [list=1] [*]The new bass will be better than the Warwick [*]The new bass will be worse than the Warwick [/list] Its like cheating.... do i try something new and just hope for the best, if its worse ditch it, but what if its better? I'd never want to ditch the Stage II, What makes it worse is this, i haven't found another bass that i want to own.... anything over 5 strings i don't want to know, even 5 stringers at push can be awkward, Fenders? no deal, i had a terrible one and like a bad meal at a restaurant its put me off for life, New Warwicks have necks i can't play & i really don't want another Warwick except maybe Lex's Casper, Musicman basses just aren't for me either... I'm stuck.....nothing has touched this Warwick. and now the hunger is building up, i think i can except the fact that the Stage II is THE bass for me, my numero uno, and bass for life, but at 23 i can't be tied down like that, i need something to make me want to deviate even just for a little while..... or should i just be happy with it? Perhaps its the buying and selling i miss? anybody else got what i suppose you could call a [b][/b]wife[b][/b] bass? did you have the one and then let another in? How did it go? and are you still with her?

Perhaps not under rated bands but definitely not as discussed as much as they should be; Cake's - Gabe Nelson and poor old Groove God Andrew Levy who has played the "Just The Bassist" card very well for so long. There's my two, Solid as rocks.

my god....

Haha i love that poster! "It'll be mint" If i can make it through!.... *im up for my birthday on the saturday from Portsmouth" then i'll bring my '88 Stage II.

[quote name='markytbass' post='384392' date='Jan 18 2009, 09:38 PM']Providing I've got a working car I'll come. Have you got lecky up there yet or central heating, if not don't worry I'll bring an extra jumper.[/quote] Log Fires, Imagination, and Willpower still I'm afraid......

Geordie Bassbash? with at least 3 of us Warwick'd up to the eyeballs it'll be too good to miss, i'll have to do some travelling to get back to my homeland but it'll be worth it, as at the moment im a Geordie in Pompey......... but in a year who knows i may have come back to my senses.

It will be very hard for me to ever let my '88 Stage II go, there was a minor low point when Warwickhunt came round to try it to buy it when i really needed money, and i'm so so so happy he left it cause i'll be happily playing this thing until my hands seize up.

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='376370' date='Jan 10 2009, 07:16 PM']Older than 93.[/quote] Amen. If you can't find a pre '93 model and you really don't fancy the new necks then aim your sights for a 2000 or earlier model, like the guy before me posted, the prices on LX's can sometimes be worryingly low.

[quote name='Galilee' post='375388' date='Jan 9 2009, 04:55 PM']They're going to see shed-loads more of those Rockbasses now they changed the headstock logo. Some lovely stuff there.[/quote] Definitely! put me down for a fortress 5 string! And i'm loving that Zender sig, its like a funkier Rick and a more conservative Ritter, those inlays however will have to grow on me, i'll be buying one regardless, i'll be interested to see the "more affordable" version of it too, it'll probably be a toned down Rockbass version without the daft neck, which inadvertently may be more popular because of it.

Signed. This Government is determined to destroy our country.

I have set myself the new years resolution of learning Jaco Pastorius's Teen Town, i bought a book of his containing a cd of backing tracks, i perhaps wouldn't have bought it if i had known in advance that the backing tracks were to be played by an army of 1980's casio keyboards on acid! But i did buy it, just lucky for me the transcription is spot on, now i have to learn it, however long that will take!