| Author | Message | ||
| gtrguy
Senior Member Username: gtrguy Post Number: 692 Registered: 9-2004 |
How do you know if you are a Bass-aholic? Watch out for the dreaded signs! You are only a bass-aholic if you own 12 or more basses. Then you have to be in denial (and have to listen to things like, "but you can only play one at a time, why do you own so many?" from another person in your household). – OR – if the basses you acquire go from 4 strings to 5 and then 6 or more and have fancy woods and inlays and many knobs, - OR - if you are in danger of being crushed under falling bass guitar cases that are stacked to the roof from your hoarding then you may have a problem, - OR – if you feel the need to take any kind of a BASS SOLO, at any time, then you definitely have a big problem. Do not despair, there is help…. Then, you can begin the 12 step bass-oholic program. That consists of selling your basses one at a time to helpful members of this forum at ridiculously low prices; YES, WE ARE HERE TO HELP! Do not delay and post some now in the 'for sale' section of this forum. Even going another day could be too late for you, and you might be tempted to acquire yet another one. "I am a bass player, but I can change, if I have to" (repeat as needed). Or take up guitar, and then you can own as many guitars as you want to, and take 4 - 5 to gigs in case you break a string on one! | ||
| jazzyvee
Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 3827 Registered: 6-2002 |
Hmmmmm if I draw a parallel with wine. If someone has a wine cellar with lots of fine & expensive wines they are seen as a connoisseur and not an alcoholic. Therefore if you have a number of expensive basses, for example alembics, you could not be a bass-aholic but a connoisseur of fine basses. And according to the Oxford English Dictionary: connoisseur noun 1. an expert judge in matters of taste. :-) :-) Jazzyvee ps: do you have something to confess about your bass ownership status? :-) (Message edited by jazzyvee on January 21, 2014) | ||
| gtrguy
Senior Member Username: gtrguy Post Number: 693 Registered: 9-2004 |
Oh no, this is not about me. Trying to blame others for a person's bass addiction is a common denial trait that is known in psychology circles as 'projection'. Now me, I can be happy with just a P bass to dink around on. Maybe even a MIM P bass. I know I can and I can stop anytime I want to. | ||
| dead_head
Junior Username: dead_head Post Number: 24 Registered: 12-2013 |
I'd be willing to do my part to help the poor bass-a-holic by offering to help lighten his burden of "one-too-many-basses." For ridiculously low prices, of course..........  ))) Rob | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 1654 Registered: 10-2006 |
What's the difference between a connoisseur & a wino? $30 a bottle. You only have a bass problem if you collect Fenders. Peter | ||
| peoplechipper
Advanced Member Username: peoplechipper Post Number: 392 Registered: 2-2009 |
Just tell people that they're art supplies...no one questions a painter's number of brushes; they are all paintbrushes and do they're own thing...I am a goldsmith and own over 150 metal files; a luthier friend freaked out saying he'd never seen so many files in one place...I pointed out that there were many very specialized shapes that got used once a year, but damn you were so happy you had that file when you needed it...anyway, that's my excuse for so many instruments and I be sticking by it...Tony | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 2106 Registered: 9-2002 |
Playing and thinking about playing and practicing and rehearsing and burning up the web kept me up nights for most of my adult life. It doesn't any more. J o e y | ||
| 5a_quilt_top
Advanced Member Username: 5a_quilt_top Post Number: 239 Registered: 6-2012 |
"How many basses is too many?" "Just one more..." "I don't have a bass acquisition problem." "I acquire them, play them and then acquire some more - NO PROBLEM!" | ||
| terryc
Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 2169 Registered: 11-2004 |
I had 15 at one time...but they are all gone except the MK and my Alembic powered Squier P bass so I guess I am cured!! At the meeting;- "My name is Terry and I am a bassaholic" LOL | ||
| rjmsteel
Advanced Member Username: rjmsteel Post Number: 219 Registered: 7-2008 |
Oh, oh... I got up and counted... I HAVE 12 instruments! 3 are Alembic`s! | ||
| jcdlc72
Advanced Member Username: jcdlc72 Post Number: 297 Registered: 11-2009 |
Currently 13. And willing... | ||
| 5a_quilt_top
Advanced Member Username: 5a_quilt_top Post Number: 245 Registered: 6-2012 |
14 currently - 4 Alembic... Uh oh... ...I guess D'Nile is not just a river in Egypt! | ||
| dead_head
Junior Username: dead_head Post Number: 25 Registered: 12-2013 |
If you consider that Allen Woody(R.I.P.) had a bass collection numbering in the hundreds, and he didn't seem to have a "problem", I would think that could be used to legitimize continued collecting on our parts, don't you? I mean, if he could do it, can't we?(if we build an addition on the house?) | ||
| sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 3202 Registered: 5-2009 |
The "OX" had just a few as well !!!!! | ||
| sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 3203 Registered: 5-2009 |
A few _____http://alembic.com/club/messages/411/8194.html?1259966777 | ||
| jcdlc72
Advanced Member Username: jcdlc72 Post Number: 298 Registered: 11-2009 |
May Allen Woody´s example lead us all through the path of Bass-aholic-ism! May the WIckersham´s lead us all through the path of Alembic-holic-ism! | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 1657 Registered: 10-2006 |
And that is just a small sample, Wolf; John had one of the world's greatest collections, and an entire warehouse to hold them! Peter | ||
| sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 3204 Registered: 5-2009 |
Peter , I think I would have been a willing ticket buyer to view the OX's collection. Was it all sold at auction ? Wolf | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 1658 Registered: 10-2006 |
I don't know; Oliver, are you still here? Peter |
