You Have to Play 1 Bass For Life: What Do You Choose?

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  @dallassurfersclub8872 · 1 year ago

  I would say Fender P-Bass. Simple, effective.

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• ST

  @steverendall8284 · 1 year ago

  My Warwick Thumb VI.  Built in 1989 and bought by me, utterly inappropriately and out of obsession, in 2003.  In 1987, eighteen-year-old me saw a bass for sale in a Newcastle guitar store tor £999.98 (yes, 98p) and was stunned that an instrument could cost that much (it's a lot now, but in '87 . . .).  Then I started seeing bassists on Top of the Pops playing basses with more than four strings and was utterly stunned by that too.  Then, years later and thanks to the new-fangled internet, I finally  put two-and-two together and began fishing for a six-string thumb.  Finally found one, second-hand and affordable, at The Bass Gallery in Camden in December 2003, just as the end-of-year bonus was about to be paid.  It was a confluence of so many events that it still puts me slightly in awe to this day and that bass has been mine ever since.  It's way above my pay-grade, but it's a possession cherished beyond monetary value and I will never, ever, part with it until infirmity and circumstances dictate otherwise. Probably not the reason behind the question asked, but the question was asked and that's my answer.  My 1989 Warwick Thumb VI.  I am so happy to have had legitimate reason to make that public, thanks Janek . . .🤗

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• BA

  @basementstudio7574 · 1 year ago

  I've had my Spector Euro5 LXTW for about 15 years and have no intention of buying anything else

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• AD

  @admarhermans1 · 1 year ago

  I would pick one of my (Fender) Precisions: any level, any style/genre, any era, any look, and.... very easy to fix or replace any part anywhere in the world.

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• CO

  @CorinthianPSS · 2 months ago

  gonna have to go with the goat, fender jazz bass

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• CA

  @cambioderumbo · 1 year ago

  What a nice collection!!!<br><br>I my situation... My main bass; My Mayones Comodous custom. I did it for 20 years, and I&apos;ll continue doing it! :)<br><br>Hardly modified; 6 pickup positions, a John East U-Retro deluxe, custom ramp and I did all the mods. :)

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• RO

  @robertnewquest656 · 1 year ago

  70’s style Jazz Bass

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• JP

  @jplater9191 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Great vid!<br>I built my own bass when i found out i wanted one i couldn’t afford. It sounds amazing,feels amazing and turned out so much better then i imagined. I took everything i learned from studying high end basses and what luthiers said about their instruments, Super long scale, 5 string, six screws bolt on carbon reinforced rock maple neck, mahogany single piece body, through body strings with single string bridges and an open headstock. It has an Active Nordstrand fat stacks set and a low action. It took a luthier to set it up properly and now i am learning to play it for the rest of my life 😊 &nbsp;Because if there’s anything i have learned it’s that i am the limiting factor, not my instrument.

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• MI

  @michaelanthony9068 · 1 year ago

  Janek man, I just love you brother, you make a video about “If you could have only 1 bass for life…” and in the middle of the vid, you admit you’re designing ANOTHER BASS!!! &nbsp;My hero !!!

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• CD

  @cd0u50c9 · 1 month ago

  I&apos;ve found that it&apos;s real freedom when one stops obsessing on minutiae and just locks in with the instrument for the music, not for the instrument.

• KR

  @KreaperSlayer · 1 year ago

  I&apos;ve owned and played a ton of basses, but the one I always go back to is my Rickenbacker 4003, that&apos;ll be the one I keep forever!

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• KE

  @kevinsavo718 · 1 year ago

  I love your false harmonics thing

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