Hollow body madness!

[Pinball]

Years ago I bought a crafter acoustic bass learned the hard way that "acoustic basses can be feedback monsters", so gave them a wide birth for years. That was until 2019, when I got my beloved semi-hollow Peerless Cassidy bass. Then a couple of months back I scored a smart, Gretsch short scale, which I noodle with and play at work when I'm learning stuff. All well and good but things have now got out of control.

My aim was to sell but Instead of selling I traded my jazz for a Lakland hollow Body bass. I bought a Dearmond Starfire bass locally about 2 weeks ago, which is currently getting its electrics sorted, and now I bought a Spectocore fretted 5 as my spare for gigging. My head hurts!

I consider myself lucky but maybe I'm just going nuts! 

1. I can't keep em all, which do I keep?

2. Where an I going to store them even??

3. Will the Spectorcore be good for rock and metal 😂?

4. Am I insane?? No need to answer the last one!

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Pinball

[HeadlessBassist]

1. Keep the ones that you can't imagine yourself being without, or which you love the sound of. (In my own personal case, I keep the ones that earn me money. Everything beyond my core 6-7 is up for grabs.)

 

2. I currently have 9 basses stored in a very small music room/extension. Nae problem.

 

3. The Spectorcore might be a little on the soft side for metal material, but with that bity EMG, will probably hold its own in the average rock band.

 

4. Nah. You're just a bass player who wants to be fully equipped. Nothing wrong with that.  

 

Btw, I forgot to add... "He who dies with the most toys wins!"

Edited June 7 by HeadlessBassist

[Pinball]

7 hours ago, HeadlessBassist said:

1. Keep the ones that you can't imagine yourself being without, or which you love the sound of. (In my own personal case, I keep the ones that earn me money. Everything beyond my core 6-7 is up for grabs.)

Thanks, sound advice (excuse the pun) and its good to know I'm not alone. No more peeking at other basses for me for a while, well maybe a quick peek before I sleep!😂

Note: I'll know how the Spectorcore works by next weekend, maybe I try try a comparison

[ezbass]

In terms of storage, our very own @Beedster came up with an interesting solution, which is also now for sale.

 

 

[Grahambythesea]

I had a Spectorcore Fretless, a great bass,  very versatile.

[Pinball]

20 hours ago, Grahambythesea said:

I had a Spectorcore Fretless, a great bass,  very versatile.

It will be interesting to try the fretted version. Based on my past experience with an Esh, with a similar system it should cope with everything I throw at it but we'll see.

I just love experimenting.

 

[Grahambythesea]

I just read this again and noticed that you say your “Casady” is a Peerless - snap! Although I like to think of them as replica Les Paul Signature basses.

[Pinball]

So an update a few months on. I have decided which I am keeping, simply because I'll keep the ones I'm using.

 

I've use the Lakland live with a band called Thermions, for semi acoustic sets. It is solidly built, sounds great and looks great.

The Gretsch is lovely in every way, but I haven't used it other than at home so I have decided to move it on. Note: I don't use my short scales so they will have to go, lovely though they are (I also have a supro)

The Spectorcore is my Hellcats back up, It has been used for a gig and for rehearsals. Its nice and light and sounds great so its a keeper

My peerless, I have already invested in and it looks cool. It's my 4 string "rock bass" and used for live informal work 

 

 

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Pinball

[HeadlessBassist]

12 minutes ago, Pinball said:

So an update a few months on. I have decided which I am keeping, simply because I'll keep the ones I'm using.

 

I've use the Lakland live with a band called Thermions, for semi acoustic sets. It is solidly built, sounds great and looks great.

The Gretsch is lovely in every way, but I haven't used other than at home so I have decided to move it on. Note: I don't use my short scales so they will have to go, lovely though they are (I also have a supro)

The Spectorcore is my Hellcats back up, It has been used for a gig and for rehearsals. Its nice and light and sounds great so its a keeper

My peerless, I have already invested in and it looks cool. It's my 4 string "rock bass" and used for live informal work 

 

 

 

 

 

There you go  All sorted.

 

I periodically do the same. I have to make sure that the basses I have are all either earning money, or actually appreciating in value, otherwise they need to go out the door to be exchanged for pictures of the Queen. This plan usually works, although I recently got a '95 Stingray and having had some work done on it, it's rapidly become a firm favorite. My beautiful Am.Perf.Mustang is up for sale at the moment, too. It only did half a live tribute show, so it's a case of "Door"!

Edited 2 hours ago by HeadlessBassist