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Title: G&L: does G.A.S. ever go away?
Post by: Denis on October 21, 2009, 07:55:38 AM

This G&L LB-100 came home with me Saturday. Man, is it nice! I mean NICE! Sounds freakin' great too!

(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l111/bigtreebluesea/DSC05656a.jpg)

Title: Re: G&L: does G.A.S. ever go away?
Post by: Chris P. on October 21, 2009, 08:56:08 AM

Nice score! Congrats. I want to try a double-humbucker with all those switches once.

Title: Re: G&L: does G.A.S. ever go away?
Post by: Denis on October 21, 2009, 10:26:05 AM

Thanks! I think between the '74 Fender, the Cowpoke and this one, I'm covered from the P-bass angle!
Those double humbucker G&Ls are supposed to be terrific basses!

Title: Re: G&L: does G.A.S. ever go away?
Post by: nofi on October 21, 2009, 10:55:28 AM

i think gas goes away when you realize that owning a certain bass will not make you play any better. ;) imo. of course i can't collect anything. call me the anti hoarder. if something is not getting used then bye bye in a hurry. ;D

Title: Re: G&L: does G.A.S. ever go away?
Post by: Denis on October 21, 2009, 11:31:14 AM

A buddy of mine at the shop told me G.A.S. has gone too far when you are buying guitars and basses you don't even like.

Title: Re: G&L: does G.A.S. ever go away?
Post by: Highlander on October 21, 2009, 02:04:28 PM

G.A.S. ...?

GAS Gasoline
GAS Great American Smokeout
GAS Government Auditing Standards
GAS Germany, Austria, Switzerland (group of countries)
GAS Games And Sports
GAS Guilty As Sin :-)
GAS Growth Arrest-Specific
GAS Greetings and Salutations
GAS Glass Art Society
GAS General Adaptation Syndrome
GAS Get Away Special (Space Shuttle)
GAS Global Assessment Scale
GAS Gear Acquisition Syndrome (mainly bass guitarists) :-)
GAS Guitar Acquisition Syndrome
GAS Genetic Algorithm Solution
GAS GPS Antenna System
GAS Government Account Series
GAS Governance Advisory Service (Australia)
GAS General Adaptive Syndrome
GAS Gong Appreciation Society
GAS Graef, Anhalt, Schloemer and Associates Inc.
GAS Gunner's Auxiliary Sight (secondary optics on an M-1 Abrams tank)
GAS Guild of All Souls
GAS German Academy of Science
GAS Gate Allocation System
GAS General Audit Software
GAS Ground Analysis Software
GAS General Air Staff
GAS Graduate Assessment Survey
GAS Geometric Analysis of Sections
GAS General Appraisal System
GAS General Automotive Support
GAS Geospatial Annotation Services
GAS Gatewick Aviation Services (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
GAS Ground Aided Seeker
GAS Group A, B-Hemolytic Streptococci bacteria

Now I know...  ;D

Title: Re: G&L: does G.A.S. ever go away?
Post by: SKATE RAT on October 21, 2009, 06:28:57 PM

nice score,i've always liked those. i also like the first SB1's with the single coil (leo loved his "student" basses)

Title: Re: G&L: does G.A.S. ever go away?
Post by: luve2fli on October 22, 2009, 07:08:55 AM

Damn Bro! That's a beauty ....... congrats!

Title: Re: G&L: does G.A.S. ever go away?
Post by: Denis on October 23, 2009, 10:50:32 AM

Thanks, guys! It's nice, simple, and pretty light. The sound and the color sold me. I read the LB-100 was made from '93-2000 but I couldn't find actual numbers. I'd be curious to know how many they made, but I suspect it's one of G&L's more common ones from the time period but I could be wrong. A buddy here in town has a G&L Interceptor he bought new. Only 400 of those were made!

Title: Re: G&L: does G.A.S. ever go away?
Post by: gweimer on October 23, 2009, 11:17:09 AM

After having only 1 bass for about 20 years (the old Embassy), my wife got me an '81 L-1000, which I still have.  It's a better bass than my old '64 Precision ever was.  I've been collecting, sort of, ever since.

Title: Re: G&L: does G.A.S. ever go away?
Post by: ack1961 on October 30, 2009, 02:18:41 PM

That's a real beaut.
I think owning one just makes you froth for another.
My L-2000 is tremendous, but ever since I saw an orange ASAT Bass, I've wanted it.

It's a disease.

Title: Re: G&L: does G.A.S. ever go away?
Post by: Highlander on October 30, 2009, 06:43:58 PM

Poverty cures it...  ;)