Cat Burrito

When it stops being fun. I've seen lots of retired people playing at Blues jams and age just isn't an issue these days. I'll keep going

[quote name='blackmn90' post='1059673' date='Dec 15 2010, 03:54 PM']I think you must have a minimum of 6: 1X Fender P bass (My preference would be a 60's example) 2X Fender Jazz Bass (1X60's, 1X70's) 1X Musicman Stingray (obvs a 70's) 1X5 string fretless 1X5 string fretted (Fodera, Alembic, Ken Smith??? Happy dreams) If you had all these what gig couldn't you do?[/quote] Drummer?

[quote name='flyfisher' post='1058578' date='Dec 14 2010, 02:40 PM']Since us single-owners seem to be in the tiny minority here, can someone explain how they manage with multiple basses?[/quote] Owning half a dozen I tend to have one main gigging bass and I use the rest recording and playing around the house - usually on some sort of rota (in my head - I'm not sad enough to actually put pen to paper on this!). I admire those who do have one or two basses as I have for most of my playing career - it's only been since 2004 which coincidentally was when I discovered the original Bassworld site that the collection grew. I could always sell a couple if I had too but it's nice to have nice things and over the last 18 months I had some pretty rotten things happen so it's good to have things that cheer you up.

I wonder how legal the original sellers actions are but a great story

I like the tone here but I'll be sticking with my foam.

I think this band's problem doesn't stop at the guitarist

I only own two electric basses - a Jazz &, um, five Precisions. Hey, works for me

Hey Iain - Welcome to the forum

Well I'm tempted...and that's not good!

Special mention must go to the Epiphone Jack Cassady

[quote name='Muzz' post='1057194' date='Dec 13 2010, 12:44 PM']Not a musical gig, but I'm nominating my father-in-law for services to door security work - he had 11 hours of chemotherapy last Friday, and put in a 10 hours shift on the doors yesterday. He's 71. They bred 'em tough in Salford in the 40s...[/quote] Christ! He has my respect. That chemo is heavy stuff. I had a one off sky high dose & it wiped me out for the month pretty much. Good luck to him

Welcome to the forum

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='1057557' date='Dec 13 2010, 05:37 PM']Having a ton of bass gear really started to get on my nerves so i've been slowly downsizing.[/quote] I hear you! Me too & I've really downsized this year - over half of it is gone. There is room in my music room but that's upstairs and the point of the thread is more about my laziness carting heavy gear upstairs as opposed to being about having excess kit. At the moment the big cloth over the amp is looking favourite.

I appreciate the replies to my OP; [quote name='Lozz196' post='1056657' date='Dec 12 2010, 09:55 PM']I tend to keep my cab in the boot of my car.[/quote] I've done that too but I keep work items in the boot normally so not an option. Plus I'd like to avoid the head going outside if possible. [quote name='Big_Stu' post='1056876' date='Dec 13 2010, 01:28 AM']My amp head was kept in a damp leaky lock-up for 18 years & still works OK. Now it's kept in the garage in an insulated case & it's fine; in this really cold weather I've brought it in, but normally it's kept in the garage.[/quote] The garage is an option for the cab & both are flightcased but it's a vintage head which needs real TLC and therefore not something I want in my old garage. [quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1056877' date='Dec 13 2010, 01:33 AM']Live in the House of Bass.[/quote] In my mind, I already do! [quote name='mrtcat' post='1056996' date='Dec 13 2010, 10:04 AM']I'm 34 yrs old and still keep our band's entire PA system, lighting rig and my bass cab in my parents garage which has been part converted so is warm, dry and secure. I get the feeling I'm pushing it a bit tho as they've recently started talking about moving away from the area.[/quote] A former singer I worked with did this too. My parents are thirty miles away so sadly not really an option for me [quote name='lojo' post='1057454' date='Dec 13 2010, 04:11 PM']We sometimes get involved with creative storage solutions, but its difficult to comment without seeing the area and equipment in question[/quote] It's really just a cab and a head - everything else is fine. Ignoring the bass, I've attached a photo of the offending gear

I appreciate the replies to my OP; [quote name='Lozz196' post='1056657' date='Dec 12 2010, 09:55 PM']I tend to keep my cab in the boot of my car.[/quote] I've done that too but I keep work items in the boot normally so not an option. Plus I'd like to avoid the head going outside if possible. [quote name='Big_Stu' post='1056876' date='Dec 13 2010, 01:28 AM']My amp head was kept in a damp leaky lock-up for 18 years & still works OK. Now it's kept in the garage in an insulated case & it's fine; in this really cold weather I've brought it in, but normally it's kept in the garage.[/quote] The garage is an option for the cab & both are flightcased but it's a vintage head which needs real TLC and therefore not something I want in my old garage. [quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1056877' date='Dec 13 2010, 01:33 AM']Live in the House of Bass.[/quote] In my mind, I already do! [quote name='mrtcat' post='1056996' date='Dec 13 2010, 10:04 AM']I'm 34 yrs old and still keep our band's entire PA system, lighting rig and my bass cab in my parents garage which has been part converted so is warm, dry and secure. I get the feeling I'm pushing it a bit tho as they've recently started talking about moving away from the area.[/quote] A former singer I worked with did this too. My parents are thirty miles away so sadly not really an option for me [quote name='lojo' post='1057454' date='Dec 13 2010, 04:11 PM']We sometimes get involved with creative storage solutions, but its difficult to comment without seeing the area and equipment in question[/quote] It's really just a cab and a head - everything else is fine. Ignoring the bass, I've attached a photo of the offending gear

A lot of Roland DB700's show up here around the £250 mark. They were £700 when they first came out & are really good bits of kit

Recently I've been learning some Beatles lines but last night I was messing around with the Pink Panther and the Star Wars Cantina Band theme

[quote name='Soloshchenko' post='1056721' date='Dec 12 2010, 10:31 PM']It was all going well until I saw the close up of the headstock holes....[/quote] I was thinking the same

His tone changed a fair bit over the years so I wondered if the OP perhaps referred to any particular era? I was never a "big" fan personally but he did have my respect and was a cool looking cat in the 60s [quote name='Happy Jack' post='1053674' date='Dec 10 2010, 07:52 AM']And a new bass.[/quote]

There are a few of us with a lot of gear and a lot of us with a fair bit more kit than me. I have a music room in the house but I'm struggling with where to store a flightcased head and cab. The music room is upstairs which is fine for carting basses up and downstairs at 2am after shows but the subject of my cab / head came up at home this week. Apparently putting the cab under the breakfast bar and just leaving the head on the side in the kitchen lacks a long term solution! I wondered if others had the same problem? I was thinking of disguising the cab / head by throwing a cloth over them and having an occasional table. How do others get around extra kit that is too bulky to cart around the house? I don't really want to be storing a vintage tube amp in the garage.

Rivalling Mr. Fudge, I gigged during my cancer treatment and chemo last year. In fact I dragged my upright bass up to London for a couple of those shows which was no mean feat. Silly bugger that I am.

God, the Old Angel! I drunkenly fell off that stage in December 1994 trying to adjust a mic stand... Happy days! Welcome to the forum

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