Why did I do this? After playing the guitar for 49 years and recently putting the guitar down again for a couple of years why did I decided to start back into music but on the 6 string bass this time? When I decided to start playing again I went out and bought a Mark Bass combo amp and a Yamaha TRB 6 sting bass......I was just incredibly tired of being a guitar player......tired of being around other guitar players all the time..........guitar players can be such assholes....I got tired of being the arranger in every band......I want to stand there wearing my bass until somebody else decides what line I am going to play. I wanted to play and play with other people without the drama...so I now consider myself a bass player---6 string no less because the standard jokes about bass players does not apply to 6 stringers. I am the bass player---if i don't feel like talking there is no problem--cause I'm the bass player they often don't talk much---if I want to be off in my own little world at band practice that Ok because-------------well because sometimes bass players are in their own little world all the time....I just did not want to be who I had turned into and do what I always did.