RBB4 Bass Guitar Case
If you are a bass player, just Like us on Facebook and tell us your story in the comment section of this blog post (not on Facebook). We’ll highlight our top picks later this week and choose the most inspirational bass player’s story on Sunday, April 17th. The winner will be award the RBB4 guitar case.
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Rod Speed says:
When I play a bass gig, I sometimes want to bring both fretted and fretless. Good news – I have a gig bag for my fretted. Bad news – I don’t have one for my fretless, so I’m forced to drag along a case. A CASE? What are we, in the stone age? I need to drag myself into the 21st century, and this case just may be the first step!
Adam Bogle says:
I’m currently using an el cheapo gig bag to carry my Fender 5 string Jazz Bass to gigs in, one of these lovelies would work most excellent to protect it from my not so gentle skills.
8^)
Rodger Reed says:
I had the opportunity to see Jaco Pastorius perform years ago, and while I was transfixed by the sounds he made with his instrument, I don’t want to have to drag my bass on the ground from place to place. I would be happy to carry my bass in an RBB4.
Joe K says:
I actually used to have a bass case, but it burned on a fire…fortunately, the Fender Jazz bass in it survived…so I could use a new case!
Doug Child says:
I have an old Epiphone EB-250 bass that I’m rebuilding, and having a blast doing it! The plastic pickup rings did nothing for me, so I made some new ones out of rosewood. I also made the rosewood piece to fit inside the trapese-style tailpiece and inlaid some mother of pearl…..a first for me! I don’t know if it will fit this bass case, but I have an Ibanez that I know will fit it!
Tron says:
My bass is living life jammed into a guitar gigbag. Please help my bass, it’s having an identity crisis!
David Daw says:
My MTD 535 would look perfect in one of your cases! Of course in small town Kingston Ny Nobody carries a work of art like your case. We get offered chip board cases or what they like to call a “Deluxe Gig bag” and of course its a glorified garbage bag! Needless to say I would be the talk of the town with my fancy new bag if I win! People will go crazy as they will see the case while i am out gigging and next thing you know, The dealers in town will get tons of requests and YOU will have a new dealer! The RBB4 and my MTD are a perfect Match!
David Daw says:
And if I didnt mention it , Its my Birthday as well!! Now this would make getting older not so bad!
Aram Bedrosian says:
I play lots of local gigs around the Vermont area. I think the wildest time I can recall was playing on a Mardi Gras float in the snow and rain on a cold February morning. To start with, the parade was delayed and my band was stuck standing on a 20 foot platform on the back of a truck for a good hour… Freezing in party attire, I was doing my best to shield my bass from the conditions (boy could I have used an RBB4 up there right about then!).
Once we got started the truck was rocking back and forth as it moved through the snowy, party-packed streets… and I was doing my best to keep my bass from banging into my wabbling keyboardist who was a few inches from falling over the edge! We were having a blast though. I was really getting into it…so much so that I didn’t notice as we turned a corner that my head came about 1 inch (I’m told) away from a traffic light. Can you imagine?! Perhaps I should have a had a Reunion Blues case for myself that day… just in case!
In any case, I’ve had bad experiences with other companies bags and would love to try the best!
Paul Medoff says:
When you build the bass, you don’t get a case. The BB case is not for the 5-string Yamaha BB 5000 bass that I use with The Lovelight Blues Band (Oakland, CA), even though that case has done 24 years of protection with me (been playing bass since 1961). It would be for the 6-string I’m making from a Conklin body. Well, maybe if I’m gigging with only the Yammie; the RBB4 is a cool case with a comfortable handle (mine is no longer comfortable), stash pocket. . . hmmm. . .
William Johnston says:
Being mainly a guitar player, I haven’t got a case for my Yamaha 5 string bass. This would come in handy
Chris Nichols says:
I play bass in a band that does over 150 shows a year. That’s a lot of traveling and a lot of walking. Lugging around a heavy bass case gets tiresome. This case appears to be ready to lighten my load!
Dylan Kelehan says:
I am a music instructor who teaches both bass and guitar to over 30 students per week. I teach 6 days per week and every day I carry in to my teaching studio my EC 1000 electric guitar (in a hard case), my laptop, my lunch, my coffee, and my 1973 Fender P Bass (in a hard case). Usually, after I struggle opening the door, I can make it inside in 2 trips. However, I am certain I could make it in one trip if I could throw my bass over my shoulder in a nice sturdy gig bag. All the bags I have seen (with the exception of this one) seem to be too puny to put such a delicate and beautiful instrument into. This bag would help me do what I do with so much more ease.
DC Walsh says:
Reunion Blues makes the BEST soft cases!!! Who wouldn’t want to protect their ‘baby’ with one? I WANT this case BAD!!!
Andrew Scott says:
I just bought a new bass recently, one I’ve been after for some time now. It is really the final piece to my working set up, but unfortunately the shop I bought it from only includes a cheapy paper-thin gig bag. Now I didn’t go and blow this much money on my ideal gigging set up just to be afraid to transport my bass there. Help me not be afraid anymore! Let my transport my new baby in a bag I can put my trust in!
Charles Churchwell says:
Got bass “bagged” , saddled up, headed to the next show!!!
ollie says:
im actually a guitar player….but my singer accidentally kicked my bassist’s pedal chords out so he got cut out during the bass solo thingy for “good times, bad times” by led zepplin
Spencer Pyne says:
In 1964 when I was 14 years old I was totally infatuated with the Ventures as well as the Beatles and the Stones. I had been playing my sister’s acoustic guitar and really wanted a bass guitar. I was totally hooked on the look of the early Fender P-Basses and I would fall asleep most nights looking at them in the Fender catalog. Somehow I managed to convince my parents, who were by no means wealthy, to spend $90.00 for a used 1953 Fender P-Bass in a chip board case. It had a maple finger board and had been hand painted black with a brush. Someone had made a red plastic pick guard for it and it was totally ugly. The neck was slightly twisted and the action was pretty high but I didn’t care, ’cause it was my very own “real” Fender P-Bass. I plugged it into my Dad’s stereo system and started playing along with all the pop tunes of the day. Thus began my ongoing journey as a bassist. More than 45 years later I’m still playing regularly and I have bought and sold more basses than I can remember. It’s been a great ride so far and being a bassist is now a part of my DNA. But oh how I wish I still had that old P-Bass! It was my very first real musical instrument and I hope whoever owns it today treats it with the love and care that it deserves………………….the same kind of care that these beautiful and well engineered Reunion Blues bass bags provide!
Spencer Pyne says:
Oh, one more thing to add. My adopted 15 year old daughter, Jasmine, has now picked up my love and appreciation for guitar and bass playing and has started to play out on her own. She bought a used SX P/J bass guitar with her own money and has now started playing in a band with her friends. She is also a singer and has written over 80 songs, some of which can be heard on her website: http://www.jazzyrenee.com. I know she would love to carry her bass to rehearsal and shows in a new Reunion Blues bass bag!
John Dwyer says:
The long and the short of it… I have several instruments. I purchased ny furst leather Reunion Blues bag for my drum sticks back in the mid-70s. Somebody must have liked it more … they broke in my car and stole the bag with many pairs of sticks. SO I have not had that quality since… I do have a bass guitar and it is looking for some good protection. This would be great!!!
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Pam Byrne says:
About 2 years ago, a fellow teacher mentioned wanting to sell her bass guitar. I bought it from her and then gave my self the gift of guitar lessons following my graduation from the University of North Texas. Now I am part of a group of musicians who play every Friday and Saturday night. I have since upgraded from the small scale 4-string Rogue bass I bought from my colleague to a 5-string Fender j-bass. I also have my eye on a vintage small scale SG 4-string. Sure could use a cool gig bag
Holly Delossantos says:
I started playing bass when I was in 8th grade and since that time I’m still using the same case I have kept over the years since I moved here to the U.S.A. from Japan. However, even though I had this case for more than 15 years, it’s time for me to get a new one and let my old case retire. Especially when it holds a lot of fond memories.
Holly Delossantos says:
At 25, I’m still in love with playing my bass that I have now, without music, I wouldn’t be able to fall for the music I hear and play all these years. It has been amazing through all my life since then and will never stop playing the music that all my friends and I play, and sing. We gather together, even though we are in two different countries, we all play the same music on Skype and Live.
Mike De Lucia says:
The bass is such a crucial part of modern music. I love it!
Henry Douglas says:
For years, I swore by the hardshell, but there have been quite a few gigs where room to store it while playing comes at too great a cost. Enter the gig bag. They can be like a woman’s purse, in that they sometimes carry way more than a mere instrument, and how they sometimes get swung around and abused. It’s not a question of whether or not I am in the running to win a gig bag, but rather, is Reunion Blues’ gig bag tough enough to withstand the abuse that my gigs might give it?
Sheridan Duke Tom Jr. says:
I have played bass and shows for 6 years now and I have a case but during my travels to California and back to Indiana, the airport damaged my case and are not liable for those kinds of damages.
Noah Fishman says:
Reunion Blues cases have a sort of mystique,
Their construction and beauty are something unique.
I never have owned one, due to prices so high,
so when I read of this contest… I just had to try!
So here is my story; I am just a teenager,
But I auditioned for the “Keep An Eye” workshop; what a wager!
It payed off quite well, for this summer I will travel,
To Amsterdam, Holland, where my story will unravel;
I’ll play jazz at the conservatory, with grad students from afar,
and then jam all night in clubs with my beloved bass guitar.
The problem is, I have a lovely Modulus Quantum rig,
But Delta won’t fly it – my old hardshell case is too big!
I hope I can win this RBB4 case, man,
So I can fly my bass safely to play jazz in Amsterdam.
-Noah Fishman, Bassist
Peter Najdzin says:
I have a super-modded 67′ Guild Jetstar Bass. It has been real MF to find the right case to protect a bass that a lot of love and hard work went into getting to where it is now. Cut the body, refinished, new Precision pups, and a new pick guard. Still thinking about replacing the tuners, and I really need a better case (please) for this one-of-a-kind classic.
Dave U. Hall says:
My basses get only the best care. If I had one of your bags for it, I might consider taking the ones that I have OCD over out to a gig.
Greg Riddle says:
I gig out a couple weekends a month. We do a lot of benefits for local people. I’ve got 3 basses that don’t have a gig-bag or case. I only have 1 decent gig bag for them. I have a road-runner case, but, I lent it to a friend along with one of my basses, it came back with the top chewed off by his rotweiler. I have to rotate the half-eaten gig-bag now between my back-up basses. It’s a pain in the butt, and risky for the headstock of my basses. But, if I had one of your wonderful new RBB4′s I would use that for my primary, have a good bag for my back-up bass, and I can give the road-runner back to spike.
Cyrus Johnson says:
ever since i started playing stringed instruments i wanted to play bass. i began playing viola in 3rd grade because we had to pick violin or viola, but one of my friends fathers is a professional bassist whom i had heard play and i thought it was totally beast. when i was in 4th grade, i was able to switch to the upright bass. i did not become an electric player until around 6th grade, but when i started playing on my dads Fender coronado, i was hooked. i saved up for almost 3 years so i could buy my Jazz bass, and through rock camp usa and the private instruction of many great teachers, i have come accomplish many things, from winning battle of the bands at my highschool, to the most nerve racking performance i will have played in my entire life–an audition which will determine if im going to my college of choice or not to study bass more!
stasia rose brooks says:
I’ve been playing bass over ten years now, still learning and having fun, I have 3 right now and yes I could sure use a case, it would be nice…nice site you have here I’m sure I’ll be returning …
Noah Fishman says:
I already commented, but my computer told me it didn’t register, so I’m trying again:
Reunion Blues cases have a sort of mystique,
Their construction and beauty are something unique.
I never have owned one, due to prices so high,
so when I read of this contest… I just had to try!
So here is my story; I am just a teenager,
But I auditioned for the “Keep An Eye” workshop; what a wager!
It payed off quite well, for this summer I will travel,
To Amsterdam, Holland, where my story will unravel;
I’ll play jazz at the conservatory, with grad students from afar,
and then jam all night in clubs with my beloved bass guitar.
The problem is, I have a lovely Modulus Quantum rig,
But Delta won’t fly it – my old hardshell case is too big!
I hope I can win this RBB4 case, man,
So I can fly my bass safely to play jazz in Amsterdam.
-Noah Fishman, Bassist
Billy Mitchell says:
I’ve loved music my entire life. It’s power to stir memory never ceases to amaze me. If I’m not listening to music, I’m either playing or writing music or lyrics. I was a band geek growing up in southeast Texas. I started playing the trumpet, then the baratone, and finally the tuba. That’s when I started paying attention to bassists such as Steve Harris ‘Iron Maiden’, Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted ‘Metallica’, and Geezer Butler ‘Black Sabbath’. I was hooked! I bought myself an old, beat-up Ibanez 5-string bass and started jammin’! Man, I really sucked…at first anyway. I started playing by ear and could play a couple of recognizable tunes in a few short months. After a few years, life got in the way of my playing and I have just gotten back into playing. Surprisingly, I can still play those tune I taught myself but this time I want to do it right. I have bought myself a really nice 5-string DeArmand bass, a Marshall bass amp, and several bass technique books. I’m teaching myself the proper way this time. My step-son and his best friends have formed a band called ‘We Eat Planets’ and they actually want ME to play bass for them! I could really use you guy’s help. I don’t have a bass case and I do need one because we are not always practicing in the same place, which requires me to transport it constantly. Keep it loud and proud!
Billy Mitchell says:
FYI: Sunday is April 17th, not the 16th…Hope I didn’t miss the deadline!
jeffrey robinson says:
i saw this on my facebook today. i really need a new case for my 1999 dean edge 5. my favorite bass. the case is totaly worn out.to many road trips i guess i could really really use a new one..hope i win..
Jimmy Arcade says:
My current bass case has a problem with the lid no longer overlapping on the body, so it will no longer snap shut without a fight. I could definitely use a quality case and Reunion Blues Gig Bags would certainly fit the bill.
Luis says:
I currently hace a bass gig bag I tought I bought because of the qulity I thought it had.
I was wrong. As time passed the zipper started getting stuck with the inside fabric until it slowly ripped it apart. Another thing is that two of the tuner posts on my bass perforated the fabric on the top part of the cases. So yeah.
I really wish to have a new gig bag so I can replace this one. I know that Reunion Blues offer products with very good quality so I’m looking forth for this.