I played around with the idea of getting one of these:



But I have decided not to get a Bass and concentrate on my guitar stuff. Gasing for a Blues JR amp now.

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RK

2007 Fender Highway 1
2012 American Deluxe
2015 MIM Dave Murray HHH
2010 Fender Blacktop
1987 Fender Avalon Acoustic
2012 Marshall DSL 15 watt head

In addition to a Hofner Beatle Bass I'd really love to have a Fender Jaguar Bass.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

Here are my basses:



It'd be cool to have the P and J as US basses (P is a MIJ Squier, J is a MIM Fender), and the T-bird as a Gibby rather than an Epi, but frankly I'm not really gassing for anything. 5 is plenty. Though it'd really cool to have a Ric and a Music Man.

I've owned a number of basses over the years but I feel I have "arrived" with my current bass and no longer suffer from bass related GAS.



It's a 2002 Fender Victor Bailey Jazz which later became the template for the newer American Deluxe FMT basses.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

Basses I have:

- AmDeluxe J-Bass
- AmStd P-bass
- Fretless Jazz Special (MIJ)
- Gibson SG Reissue (had an EB0 "back in the day," but long gone now)
- Ibanez Ric 4001 clone (from the "patent wars" days)
- Ocean fretless short scale with active pups
- Breedlove acoustic/electric (this model is the best I ever found in the ~ $1,000 price range and it holds it's own with 6 strings in an unplugged environment like camping)

Wish List - not much here - maybe a "real" Ric 9001/9003 some day and I'd love to run across the fretless P (maple neck) circa 1973 I found in a store one day.

Wow Brian, that first bass looks really cool, what brand and model is it?

Thanks, that's my Peavey T-40. C. '78-79. The T-40 was the bass flagship of the Peavey line, and shared the same innovative tone circuit as the Peavey T-60 guitar (I have one of those, in black, as well). Designed by Peavey mastermind Chip Todd (who's still around and living in Texas), for which the "T" stood, on each pickup the tone control acts as a regular tone circuit between 0 and about 7. From 7-10 the tone control is actually a coil-split, and reduces the second coil of the humbucker until it's all the way out of the circuit. So you have HB and single-coil sounds in one bass.

I'd been wanting to get one for a long time and finally picked this'un up in 2009. They can be very heavy though. Unlike Fender's lighter Swamp Ash, Peavey used Northern Ash for the natural-finished T-series guitars, and they can be very heavy. I think mine at 10.5 pounds is actually light for a T-40!

I have a 2009 Am. Std. Jazz Bass, Charcoal Grey Metallic, black pickguard, with a Maple neck.

Actually the only basses right now I would like to get are fairly cheap instruments. I would like both a Squier '75 Jazz Bass VM, and Telecaster bass VM (with the humbucker), and Epiphone's EB-3 and Flying V basses (the long scale versions).

Right now I have a late C19th double bass, and a Fender Jaguar bass, with Jazz Bass pickups. I like it a lot, but reckon I'll buy a P Bass soon. I'm a guitarist first so getting a better bass just isnt a priority.
My last band we had a few basses we shared, and we swapped instruments a bit. Over the years my fave basses I've used would be -

Ricko 4001
Burns Bison bass
1890's German orchestral upright
'69 Precision
Danelectro Longhorn (seriously, they're not just fun but they sound pretty good)
Takamine TB10 acoustic f-hole bass
Maton 'Bindara' acoustic bass

One of the other guys in the band has the Takamine now, but I'd love to have one of my own. It's a huge, deep, grand piano kinda sounding bass. The current ones are fretless but ours was fretted and has a great SVT style crack if you put a lot of right arm into the strings. Here's a photo of me at soundcheck, you can't see the bass that great, but you can see the curved top, floating bridge, and how deep the body is. Damn I want one!
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/lh/photo ... directlink

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"...Compared to the flowers and the birds and the trees, I am an Apeman."

Currently I have a Squier Standard Jazz Bass. It has a nice walnut finish and plays really well. I would like to get a warwick Corvette $$ bass but it wont' be anytime soon.

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I tried to think of something clever to put here but- OH! Something shiny!!!