I'm in the middle of a two week holiday and being without my instruments ive been wondered if there is a cheap but useful double necked lightweight guitar/ bass that I could take on future holidays.
 
Jazzyvee

Your optimistic idealism is one of your most charming traits, Jazzy!

I had one of the little Martin backpacker guitars for a while and though it sounded tinny, it played nice. It recorded nicely as a high string guitar too for some reason.
 
Dave

For travel, the Baby Taylor kicks serious butt on the canoe paddle Martin calls the Backpacker.  For electric, check out the Hofner Shorty - essentially a neck with pickups.  The Fernandes Nomad is also a decent travel electric with a little built-in amp and speaker.  Fernandes also makes a bass version of the Nomad.  Perhaps two Nomads and a roll of duct tape might meet your requirements!
 
Bill, tgo

Sometimes it is better to have a break from playing..sort of cushions the blow when you get back from a great holiday when you pick your instrument up and play again...well it does for me

As far as trumpet playing goes I sometimes keep a mouthpiece in my pocket and just proceed to BUZZ  in a moments notice _____
 Without the trumpet ,___just the mouth piece _____
 
 I am still waiting for the Magic Alembic Pocket Size Collapsable Bass _____

Hey Terry I think you have a good point. I have a festival gig when I get back so maybe I will be fresher.  Jazzyvee

jazzyvee..here in the uk  there is a company called playaway guitars.com .uk phone number. 01273.423950 I have one of their minstar basses it realy is quite nice.

jazzyvee..here in the uk  there is a company called playaway guitars.com .uk phone number. 01273.423950 I have one of their minstar basses it realy is quite nice.

Put them in the cases, throw 'em under the bed and GO.  You will have a fresh take on things when you've walked away for two weeks.  How can you take your work with you and call it a holiday?
 
J o e y

If one's career is their passion, then it is not work . . .
 
And I should be so lucky, got my termination notice 3weeks ago. What do I want to be now that I'm grown up???
 
Pardon the hi- jack, we now take you back to your regularly scheduled topic. . . .

I was missing my basses so much on last year's vacation I was forced to drop into Alembic to get a fix :-)
 
Graeme

That sucks, Paul; good luck on finding a new gig - which you like more & pays better!
 
Peter

I tend to drop into music stores to get a few minutes of string-rash when I travel.  I actually bought a cheap acoustic bass guitar to take on vacations and have something to play at the campsite, but after taking it once I doubt I'll do it again because it's just kind of a pain to have to worry about one more thing when I should be not worrying about anything.  Of course, re-routing to Santa Rosa has worked a couple of times as well..
 
Paul, I am so sorry to hear of your job situation.  Welcome to the New Economy, right?  I don't have any advice other than to suggest that this is a good time to evaluate where you want to be and what you want to do.  If there is anything I can do to help, drop me an email (it's in my profile).
 
John

However... on my latest travel to Spain (2009), I had intended to go to the todobajos.net store in Madrid to have a feast and possibly bring home one of their beauties (I had some Warwick in mind back then...). Instead, I got very sick and couldn't get there, nor buy my any kind of bass (although on the first day I tested a nice Sandberg jazz). Frustrated, I came back home in Venezuela, and a month later I finally got at home the bass I was hoping to buy there... only better: My Epic 5!.