You ever go through phases?

[Kristopher]

i feel the same way thats why i own so many basses. sometimes i feel like a sterling, sometimes i like 77 ray, i love variety (did i spell that right?).

Yeah, you spelled it right.

In your sig you have a 100th aniversary Stingray? Am I missing something, or do you time travel?

 

[5Stringer]

It would be a NAMM 100th Anniversary StingRay. We made 100 of these to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of NAMM, and we featured them at the NAMM show 2001. Of the 100, 49 went overseas, 49 stayed in the US, the NAMM folks got one, and the last stayed here. They had an Inca Silver finish and a Status graphite neck.

Dan

 

[PzoLover]

I swear, some days the only thing that sounds good to me is my Sterling, to the point where I consider letting go some of my other basses, but then there's days like today where my Stingray sounds like the holy grail and I can't believe I thought about letting it go. It really is days like today that make me realize that I really need to think twice before parting ways with any of them. I can always make more money to buy what I want and still keep what I have, right?

I know I'm lucky that I own multiple basses. And I really appreciate BP's comment recently about how it's okay to collect and have a lot basses, because I feel guilty sometimes. You know, starving kids in China and all. And those other comments I hear sometimes like "why do you need all of those basses?" Because I want them...?

How about you?

Hey Kristopher, it's not as though yer stealing food fromchildren's dinnertrays ... EBMMbasses are sacred things 'musical instruments'and they got special protection under Universal laws AS long as you play them with real feeling and a good heart
a singer/songwriter friend of mine combines charity drives (clean, dry sock donations for homeless people (WITH some gigS) as a community consciousness thingand usually fills the house and a few empty boxes

may god bleSS you with many fine basses And the heart to play them well.


cheers
/PL

 

[AnthonyD]

I am a bass or two away from going through "phases" - for now it's the main bass and the back-up.

Been yearning for an HS Dargie Sterling - now that would introduce some "phasing" for me for sure...

 

[KennethB]

I'm going through a phase right now! A 5-string phase really. I'm only just a week into it, but I'm very exited about it. The transition going from 4 to 5 has been really smooth and easy.
It must be some kind of EBMM-magic 'cause I have owned a 5-string by another brand in the past and I couldn't make it work at all with that bass.
Well, I shouldn't be suprised really cause the same thing happened with the Silhouette guitar: instant comfort! It's like these basses and that guitar has been custom made for me and my specific biomechanism. It's really weird.

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

I swear, some days the only thing that sounds good to me is my Sterling, to the point where I consider letting go some of my other basses, but then there's days like today where my Stingray sounds like the holy grail and I can't believe I thought about letting it go. It really is days like today that make me realize that I really need to think twice before parting ways with any of them. I can always make more money to buy what I want and still keep what I have, right?

Happens to me all the time!

I've sold a few Basses which I've latter regretted

 

[thunder]

It would be a NAMM 100th Anniversary StingRay. We made 100 of these to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of NAMM, and we featured them at the NAMM show 2001. Of the 100, 49 went overseas, 49 stayed in the US, the NAMM folks got one, and the last stayed here. They had an Inca Silver finish and a Status graphite neck.

Dan

thanks.

 

[thunder]

Happens to me all the time!

I've sold a few Basses which I've latter regretted

it's hard to keep everything.

 

[Kristopher]

Hey Kristopher, it's not as though yer stealing food fromchildren's dinnertrays ... EBMMbasses are sacred things 'musical instruments'and they got special protection under Universal laws AS long as you play them with real feeling and a good heart
a singer/songwriter friend of mine combines charity drives (clean, dry sock donations for homeless people (WITH some gigS) as a community consciousness thingand usually fills the house and a few empty boxes

may god bleSS you with many fine basses And the heart to play them well.


cheers
/PL

cheers to that!

 

[Musicman Nut]

I swear, some days the only thing that sounds good to me is my Sterling, to the point where I consider letting go some of my other basses, but then there's days like today where my Stingray sounds like the holy grail and I can't believe I thought about letting it go. It really is days like today that make me realize that I really need to think twice before parting ways with any of them. I can always make more money to buy what I want and still keep what I have, right?

I know I'm lucky that I own multiple basses. And I really appreciate BP's comment recently about how it's okay to collect and have a lot basses, because I feel guilty sometimes. You know, starving kids in China and all. And those other comments I hear sometimes like "why do you need all of those basses?" Because I want them...?

How about you?

All through the years and New Basses, Bongo, Sterling, Music Man Has Kept that Signature sound in each of the basses. The Quality Has Stayed very consistant with high end Custom Basses. to me it's this way, The Casey Lee Bongo gets Played more then it's share, then Stingrays then Sterlings, All my Basses with the exception of a few weigh 9 pounds or less.
But I do Donate a lot to Charities and Pay well into my share of taxes so when I buy 4 or 5 Ernie Balls at a time I don't feel guilty. DJ

 

[n!k]

I am a student and a working musician and I have to sell whatever I have to get whatever I want. It tends to really slow down those "phases." I'd totally own more than one bass if I could though; no shame in that.

Edit: No shame as long as you play the damn things.

 

[JimB52]

Oh yes, definitely.
Thats why I have a 20th Anniv. Stingray, a buttercream Sterling HS and a Bongo HH.
Variety is the spice of life.
Jim B