Ou7shined Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Are we confusing Got to Aquire something Syndrome with just being drawn to something while window shopping... or has the original meaning of GAS evolved into something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass-Thing Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 [quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1342290944' post='1732948'] It strikes me that if the internet didn't exist there wouldn't be much in the way of GAS and I was thinking. If I sold every bass I have, and had just a (good) passive jazz bass.... well all the music that I want to play that could do. and wouldn't it be easier that way? [/quote] I've always felt that if I could only keep one of my basses it would without hesitation be my Geddy Lee. I don't think you would ever regret buying a really good jazz bass and surely it would be ok to make it a 3 bass only rule? I have always fuelled my GAS by looking in the windows of music shops and browsing. As a young boy it was Charing Cross Rd and Denmark St. Now I'll go in and ask to try something which really doesn't help. I don't think the net has made that much difference in that I've always preferred seeing the real thing to looking at pictures Sadly the net does make it easier to impulse buy though I'm glad I didn't buy a gorgeous and ridiculously cheap Squier deluxe iv (I've tried one and it's surprisingly good) that was for sale on here yesterday (black with badass and gold hardware £120 for f*** sake!). Fortunately it's gone already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingBollock Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Thinking about it, the only really bad case of GAS I have ever suffered started in 1989 while working in the Guitar shop. I wanted a BC Rich Warlock. We'd never stocked them, the only BC Riches we had in were a pair of Iron Bird 6 stringers, they were lovely, but not Basses. I had only ever seen Warlocks in pictures. What I [i]really [/i]wanted was a BC Rich Warlock, made of clear Perspex with a pink crackle in it, like a marble, with a Widow headstock and a whammy bar! I finally got a Warlock a few months ago, though it's just black and doesn't have a whammy bar. I had still not even held one until it turned up at my door. It was the internet that made this finally happen for me but it started nine years before I even got online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1342294616' post='1733012'] I used to keep a stack of Exchange and Mart in the bog. Another small pleasure lost to technology. [/quote] yes, but [i]proper[/i] porn is easier to get, surely? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingBollock Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 (edited) [quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1342366615' post='1733799'] yes, but [i]proper[/i] porn is easier to get, surely? [/quote] Yeah, the RS catalogue was massive and came as a set of books! Much easier online. Edited July 15, 2012 by KingBollock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFRC Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share Posted July 15, 2012 [quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1342347329' post='1733430'] But look how much time is spent on here talking about minor aesthetics or furthering daft internet myths and using these factors as excuses to drive a purchase, instead of concentrating on what makes them playable or good to hear from an audience's perspective. [/quote] best point I've read on basschat for a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFRC Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share Posted July 15, 2012 So I started this thread partly cos I was listening too too much jazz bass based funk and thats a tone I can't do. But then was at church, and the fella was playing a jazz.... and I remembered why I like my bass in the mix over what a jazz bass can do. Somepoint I will buy a jazz- but for now I'll be happy with what I've got. I may however try to find a preamp that I can use to tame some of the high mids on my streamer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megallica Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 In the late eighties when I was starting to play I would buy Guitar for the practicing musician (mainly for the bass tabs) and then bass player magazine, then bassist magazine when it came out. At the time I had a cheapo Yamaha bass and a Marshall combo which was all I could afford and I would dream about trying a Warwick or Fender bass. The adverts and reviews in magazines were what fueled my gas back then - I still remember seeing the advert for the Warwick Masterman or seeing a picture of Jack Bruce with his thumb bass and thinking one day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Vader Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Back pre-internet you had to buy the thing you were lusting after in the shop before someone came in and bought it from under your nose. Now you can be fairly certain that something similar will probably turn up later on. This allows a cooling off period, which has helped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Vader Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 btw, I am still miffed about the oly white and black 79 strat that I saved for for months back in 1991, and on the very day i had that 250 quid in my pocket it had gone. I will never love another strat like that one, not even the one I have... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matski Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 [quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1342291127' post='1732951'] The web has made things easier and quicker, but before that there was Loot, Exchange and Mart and the Melody Maker classifieds. [/quote] Not to mention musical instrument shops... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 [quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1342348448' post='1733455'] Are we confusing Got to Aquire something Syndrome with just being drawn to something while window shopping... or has the original meaning of GAS evolved into something else? [/quote] I thought it was Gear Acquisition Syndrome; that was how I first came across it several years ago, defined as the sad and hopeless compulsion to buy just one more guitar, bass, amp, whatever it takes, to reach some mythical dream of perfection. I am inclined to agree with you that a lot of it is actually just curiosity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass-Thing Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 [quote name='spinynorman' timestamp='1342478514' post='1736029'] I thought it was Gear Acquisition Syndrome; that was how I first came across it several years ago, defined as the sad and hopeless compulsion to buy just one more guitar, bass, amp, whatever it takes, to reach some mythical dream of perfection. I am inclined to agree with you that a lot of it is actually just curiosity. [/quote] At the end of the day it's because we can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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