Whenever Mrs Shaggy has a go at me about the number of basses cluttering up the house, I usually show her cetera’s list to show her there are bassists with a worse problem than me...... (I’ll now include Hellzero’s list)
Mine; in roughly chronological order, so starting back in 1977, those still with me in bold:
mid-‘60’s Kalamazoo KB1, black/white pg / rosewood (cost me all of £25, paired with home-built amp)
Columbus Jazz bass copy, 3TSB/ tort / rosewood (urgh......)
1979 Ibanez MC900 Musician, natural stained ash / ebony (the only one on list bought new)
bitsa fretless P, natural ash/maple (only bass for the next 16 or so years......)
1980’s Graham Crook custom neck- thru fretless, natural sapele / ebony
1980 MusicMan Sabre, natural alder/ black pg / maple
1977 Ovation Magnum 1 fretless, natural mahogany / ebony
A couple of self-build bitsa P’s
OLP MM5, natural quilt maple / maple
1973 Rickenbacker 4001 (Jetglo)
1990’s Listerud Totem 7-string, natural wenge / maple
1972 Fender P (modded P/J & fretless conversion, 3TSB/tort/ebony)
1978 Gibson RD Artist (modded passive, natural maple / maple)
1980’s Gordon Smith Galaxy bass (semi), cherry sunburst / rosewood
1990’s USA BC Rich Eagle NT Custom, tobacco sunburst / ebony
1997 Rickenbacker 4003 fretless, mapleglo
1980’s Steve Smith long-scale “EB-2” (semi), Cherry sunburst / rosewood
1978 Gibson RD Artist, Fireburst / ebony
1965 Fender Precision (L-series), 3TSB / tort / rosewood
Paulman Custom 5 string, natural quilt maple, rosewood
1985 Wal Mk 1 Custom fretless, American walnut / ebony
1969 Gibson EB-2DC, cherry / rosewood
1976 Alembic Series 1 (long scale), birdseye maple, ebony
1975 Travis Bean TB2000, natural koa / alu neck
1965 Gibson Thunderbird IV, sunburst, rosewood
1972 Rickenbacker 4001, flameglo
1958 Gibson EB-2, tobaccoburst, rosewood
Custom Warmoth Fenderbird, cocobolo, rosewood
1977 Kramer 650B, American black walnut / alu neck
2000 USA Fender Jazz ‘75 AVRI, natural ash / maple
1985 Gibson Explorer bass, Ferrari red / rosewood
1983 Wal Mk 1 Custom, wenge / rosewood (acquired in modded state and restored by Wal to original spec)
1966 Vox Wyman bass (made in England), tobaccoburst / rosewood
1957 Fender Precision, tobaccoburst / white pg/ maple
1982 Wal mk1 Custom, amber flame sycamore / rosewood
1979 CF Martin EB-18, natural maple / rosewood
1977 Kramer 450B fretless, American black walnut / alu neck
1981 Gibson RD Artist CMT, vintage sunburst / ebony
Bitsa P (“Sid Vicious” tribute), Oly White / tort / maple
1998 Warwick FNA (MIG), amber flame maple / wenge
2001 Warwick LX Streamer Jazzman (MIG), French violet flame maple / wenge
Two things apparent to me when making the list- 1. I’ve kept too many of them, and 2. how many basses I’ve traded with a certain Mr Chris Beedster (there were a few amps and acoustic guitars too....)