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Just tried to recall all my basses...its a fair list.


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[quote name='dmccombe7' timestamp='1352533130' post='1864240']
is there a specific reason why you decided to buy or change your basses
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Noobly speaking, for me it's all about knowing nothing and feeling an eagerness and a [s]need[/s] desire to have experienced it all before settling with the ones that have the sounds and necks that do it for me.
Not doing well though, as I can't imagine selling any of them right now.

It's also about psychology. I always delve intensely and deeply into stuff that interests me.

best,
bert

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I think I might try and see if I can compile a list...

As to why I've bought and sold so many basses: part of it must be insecurity in my abilities as a player. Another is that I am a damned perfectionist and have been looking for that one bass that would fit me perfectly. Also, I pretty much got the sound I wanted out of my URB with a visit to the luthiers and a set of Obligatos.

I've never been able to get all the sounds I want out of my electrics. (Funnily enough, as different as my MTD 635 and Spector NS6-XL are/were tonally, I got the response 'THAT is the best bass tone I've ever heard, it's exactly what I've always thought a bass should sound like!' from a couple of musos completely unrelated to each other. I blame the Read preamp and ACME cabs.) I got very, very, near with the Fodera, but I realized I wasn't comfortable taking it to all my gigs. Just too much of an asset, not replaceable enough. I'm currently trying to do the Marcus thing with my MTD, which is far from a universal bass, but we'll see how it goes.

Doubtless I'll end up buying a Fodera AJ bass again.

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** = still got

'64 Hofner Artist **
Columbus Jazz copy - stolen from me by a supposed friend
'80 Wal Pro II-E ** - going to my grave with me :)
Jaydee Roadie 1 fretless
Squier HM5
Maison 5-string - bought in Jakarta for peanuts
Tobias Pro 6-string - wish i hadn't sold it :(
Squier Jazz ** - now in bits
Yamaha RBX765A ** - defretted by Jon Shuker
Sei Flamboyant 5-string - beautiful
Status S1 Deluxe 5-string **
Shuker custom J 5-string ** - my baby
Overwater 'school bass' ** - long term project
Ibanez BTB406 6-string **
bitsa P ** - using neck from aforementioned Squier Jazz
bitsa J ** - project
OLP Stingray 4 **
Tanglewood 'Rosewood Reserve' ABG **

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What I can remember from the past few years

Warwick Thumb 5 String BO wideneck
Warwick Thumb 4 string BO
Status Matrix
Status Series II
Status Stealth 6 string
Zon Sonus
x2 1989 Kubicki Ex Factors (pre-fender crossover)
Status Rebop DLX 4 string (Zebrano)
Ibanez BTB405QM
Zoot fretless bass
Fender Jaco Pastorius fretless jazz bass
ACG Harlot Singlecut
Warwick Streamer Ltd Edition 1990
Alembic Epic

There will be others I have forgotten about too!

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[quote name='bobpalt' timestamp='1352450700' post='1863108']
Here we go.

Pedulla Rapture (x2).....
.......
.....G&L 2000

And loads of others I cant remember at this moment in time. Not got many left, but I'll never sell my gigging Pedulla Thunderbolt and Yamaha 2024x.
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[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1352455061' post='1863191']
[size=2][color=#000000][font=Verdana]Starting from my first bass, in 1987, roughly in order of purchase, present haul in [b]bold[/b]. [/font][/color][/size]

[size=2][color=#000000][font=Verdana]1980 Washburn ....[/font][/color][/size]
[size=2][color=#000000][font=Verdana].....[/font][/color][/size]
[b][size=2][color=#000000][font=Verdana].....2012 Fender Precision, ’66 Slab project, self build, nearly there now![/font][/color][/size][/b]

[size=2][color=#000000][font=Verdana]Actually, just noticed I have 13 basses, clearly unlucky. Must buy another![/font][/color][/size]
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Gentlemen - I will be printing these lists out next time I need to justify a bass to the powers that be and explain that she's getting away lightly.

Also Rick- A status shark in 1989? surely they only started making them in 93-94?

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[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1352552719' post='1864519']
Also Rick- A status shark in 1989? surely they only started making them in 93-94?
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Really?, I must be older than I thought?, I remember where i lived when i had it, (Bought it from Musical Exchanges in Birmingham), and i only lived there for a year, perhaps my memory deceives me, I've had too many basses, clearly. :unsure:

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Aight, here goes:

1996: Rocky P-bass clone
1997: Epiphone El Capitan
1998: Warwick Corvette natural brown wood. Wenge/wenge neck. Aggressive as sh*t.
1999: Ken Smith BT5-G or summat, tiger maple
then, I forget the years
Riverhead 4 - last passive bass I'd play.
Guild pilot 4
Spector NS2
Music Man Stingray 4, teal 3-eq - had the weakest g-string ever. Loved the sh*t out of that bass.
Stingray 5
two custom builds, a J-clone and a Lakland-clone
Yamaha JP2
Wal MkII 5-string
NS5-XL
Moon Larry Graham 5
F-Bass BN6
Dingwall Prima Artist 6
Then, I found internet fora, and I've got pics of most of these basses
Skjold CS6, and after that
Kenneth Lawrence Brase 5
Brubaker KXB-6
Celinder Custom 6
Conklin GTBD-7
Dingwall AB-5
Rick Turner Electroline 5
Esh Theo something custom 6
a CIJ Fender
F-Bass BN6
F-Bass Studio 5
[i]an 80's us Fender[/i]
[i]another mij fender[/i]
[i]a usa fender[/i]
[i]another us fender[/i]
[i]a cij fender[/i]
[i]a sting signature fender[/i]
NOTE: I never played these basses, I just knew them to be easy to flip
Jerzy Drozd Excellence 6
Kenneth Lawrence ChamberBrase (2?)
Lakland 55-94
Leduc Masterpiece 6
Laurent Kah Remige 6
MTD 635 bloodwood top
MTD 535 slapper's delight
[i]another StingRay 5[/i]
[i]H-H Stingray 4[/i]
[i]EBMM Bongo 5[/i]
[i]another StingRay 4[/i]
NOTE: haven't gigged or rehearsed a StingRay in 10 years or so
Dingwall Z1
Noguera Yves Carbonne deluxe 6
Nordstrand NX6 - the only one in the world with a set neck
Overwater progress III 6-string
Pedulla MVP 5 - shockwave re-finished this one
Pedulle MVP 5 - rare figured maple top and fingerboard
RBass SC 6
Roscoes: SKB3005,
SKB3006,
Century Signature VI (now owned by member njoha),
Century Signature VI (sold to shep),
Century Signature VI (sold to antonio or fiat 123545),
Century Signature VI
Sadowsky Metro mv5vtc
Sadowsky Metro UV70
Skjolds: CS offset 92
ECS6 fretless (sold to overwater #1)
ECS6fretted
CS 4
PS 5
Smiths: Black Tiger Elite 6
BSR6-GN
BSR5J-G
BT6EG
BT6TNV - another black tiger, the tone was killer, the weight more so
Spectors: apart from the abovementioned JH5
Redwood LTD NS5-XL
NS6-XL - a killer bass
Stambaugh custom afzelia fretless
tobias basic 5
W&T Chronos 6
Wal mach II in shedua this time
Wal mk I 4-banger
valenti 5-string
warwick neck-through thumb 4, pre-switch to ovangkol
warwick $$

I reckon I must be missing a few.

A-ha!

Fodera Anthony Jackson Signature 6
MTD 635 blackened redwood top

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I don't think I can call something 'the best I've ever played' convincingly - my 'best' obviously changes with the moon! :D

And besides, over certain price you pay for a vision a lot of the time. If the vision matches yours - great! If it doesn't - well, it's still a brilliant instrument!

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Blinking heck people!!!!!!! HOW MANY BASSES!!!!!!!

Here is my modest addition:

Madisson cheaply beginner bass (going to sell with the practice amp it came with)
Ibanez 304 with a Maple neck
Fender style fretless P bass
Ibanez 305 - my first dance with a 5 string

However, I have only been a bassist for 6 months.... So not bad for a start I reckon :lol:

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Squire precision deluxe
Squier jazz bass 20th anniversary :(
Shine violin bass
Spear 5 string singlecut
Precision bass copy
Status energy 4
Squier jazz bass vm (maple)
Squier jazz bass vm (black)
Olp stingray
Status matrix

All gone now and only have:
Jaydee roadie 2 active
Status series 3000

Amps:
Ashdown mag300
Ashdown 4x10
Ashdown little giant
Ashdown 2x10
Trace elliot blx combo
Ashdown electric blue combo 12
Tc electronic rs212

All gone, just have
Ashdown 8x10
Trace elliot ah600-12

Craving:
Gb spitfire
Musicman stingray
Some sort of 5 string
Fretless jazz

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All left Handed:

Ibanez GR200
Alembic Epic
Schecter 6 string fretless
P bass copy
Jazz bass copy x 2
stingray copy
[b]MM 5 string stingray fretless[/b]
[b]Rick Turner Electroline fretless[/b]
[b]MM 4 string stingray[/b]
[b]Warwick Corvette 6 string[/b]
Warwick Fortress 5 string
Aria 4 string thing.
ACG Recurve 6
H+k 7 string
ACG recurve 7
Letts 6 string fretless

The ones in Bold i no longer own.

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[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' timestamp='1352400911' post='1862652']
Er..

[b]Westone Raider 1[/b]
Columbus Series 2 Jazz
[b]'96 Vigier Passion 5 Series 3[/b]
[b]'97 Warwick Streamer LX6[/b]
'90 Musicman Stingray 5 fretless
[b]Ovation Celebrity[/b]
[b]Hohner B2A 5[/b]
Ibanez SRX 700
Iceni Zoot Chaser prototype
[b]Yamaha Attitude 30th Anniversary BS Sig[/b]
Ibanez EDB600
[b]'04 MIA Fender Jazz (s1)[/b]
[b]'02 Warwick Infinity SN4[/b]
[b]OLP MM3[/b]
[b]'09 Status Streamline 4[/b]
[b]'97 Warwick Fortress Masterman5[/b]

I [i]think[/i] that's it....
(Edited for forgetting that I still have the Raider 1, and that those I still own are in [b]BOLD[/b])
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30th Anniversary?

You sure? ;) Haha!

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