Just fallen in love (ie WANT)

Gazlar
Gazlar Posts: 8,083
edited September 2010 in The Crudcatcher
for all you musicians out there, I have fallen in love with a bass guitar, I shall be strongly asking for one of these for my birthday
italia_MondialBass-green-NEW.jpg

That is all, i'm orff to drool and cry in equal measures
Mountain biking is like sex.......more fun when someone else is getting hurt
Amy
Farnsworth
Zapp
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  • psymon
    psymon Posts: 1,562
    c'est combien?
    FAST

    FASTER
  • Gazlar
    Gazlar Posts: 8,083
    380 notes, its what I'd call a bargain
    Mountain biking is like sex.......more fun when someone else is getting hurt
    Amy
    Farnsworth
    Zapp
  • psymon
    psymon Posts: 1,562
    looks really nice, in that colour too.

    I always wanted a Rickenbacker.
    or now inspired by Jack White (my hero) a Gretsch.
    FAST

    FASTER
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,716
    I'm tempted to order a cheap bass at some point. Need to get a Pod first though, as my guitar amp won't like having a bass run through it, so I'll need to put it through the computer.
  • Gazlar
    Gazlar Posts: 8,083
    whyamihere wrote:
    I'm tempted to order a cheap bass at some point. Need to get a Pod first though, as my guitar amp won't like having a bass run through it, so I'll need to put it through the computer.

    Since I stopped playing in bands, all i've got is a little 30 amp practice guitar amp, which is fine for running my bass through in the house, as long as its not overloaded they're fine for that kind of use
    Mountain biking is like sex.......more fun when someone else is getting hurt
    Amy
    Farnsworth
    Zapp
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Seems very small. Is it lifesize
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • Twonk
    Twonk Posts: 17
    Nice

    Fender Jazz (Jaco Pastorius=bass God) and Rickenbacker fan myself; always a great tone and nice to play, too
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Grondel wrote:
    Nice

    Fender Jazz (Jaco Pastorius=bass God) and Rickenbacker fan myself; always a great tone and nice to play, too

    never heard of any of those things.
  • Gazlar
    Gazlar Posts: 8,083
    Grondel wrote:
    Nice

    Fender Jazz (Jaco Pastorius=bass God) and Rickenbacker fan myself; always a great tone and nice to play, too

    I had a fretless fender jazz a few years back but it got nicked from my mates house, still it was insured. i've got an ernie ball musicman bass now which is the nicest bass I've evr played
    Mountain biking is like sex.......more fun when someone else is getting hurt
    Amy
    Farnsworth
    Zapp
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    sheepsteeth wrote:
    Grondel wrote:
    Nice

    Fender Jazz (Jaco Pastorius=bass God) and Rickenbacker fan myself; always a great tone and nice to play, too

    never heard of any of those things.
    You've heard of Fender, though, right?
    Fender Strat, (Stratocaster), most popular electric guitar of all time, and something of a rock icon.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    i have heard of fender, i just like to grondel that ive never heard of stuff as it upsets him.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Ah.
    He is so very easily upset.
    Bless his little cotton socks.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Isnt a rickenbacker a medical condition when you put your back whilst tying to suck your own schlapper
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Nah, it was the dog in Due South.
  • underdog
    underdog Posts: 292
    It's just too kitch for me, sorry :oops:

    A nice simple Telecaster, now that's where it's at 8)
  • Twonk
    Twonk Posts: 17
    sheepsteeth wrote:
    i just like to grondel
    Who doesn't?
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,716
    underdog wrote:
    It's just too kitch for me, sorry :oops:

    A nice simple Telecaster, now that's where it's at 8)
    I chart my maturity through which guitars I want.

    When I first started looking at guitars (years before I actually started to play), it was all about the Dean Razorbacks, Flying Vs, etc. When I started to play last year, I was loving Stratocasters (I'm still utterly appalling, but I don't think my Strat shaped Yamaha will be going anywhere for a very, very long time). I'd never liked Teles, but now, I'd kind of like one, where the thought of having a Razorback or one of the spiky BC Rich things fills me with horror.
  • Twonk
    Twonk Posts: 17
    whyamihere wrote:
    [I'd never liked Teles, but now, I'd kind of like one
    I started off on some ghastly nobrand SG/Les Paul hybrid, before finally (so I thought), after many years, settling on a Fender Jazzmaster (amazing sounding but a sod to play!)

    6 months later, I tried a Telecaster due to the Jazzmaster's fragility, and its amazing simplicity blew my mind.

    I'll never play any other guitar in a touring/live scenario; they're that reliable. And they sound good.

    Telecasters are God.
  • Gazlar
    Gazlar Posts: 8,083
    I agree on telecasters, they are just so simple and easy to play and have a lovely tone. I went to buy one a few years ago, but then I stumbled across the guitar I now have which was a peavey generation custom, kind of telecaster style but with a 1 closed humbucking, 1 open humbucking, a single and a piezio bridge pickup and its so versatile and so easy to play. My favourite guitar ever
    Mountain biking is like sex.......more fun when someone else is getting hurt
    Amy
    Farnsworth
    Zapp
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    it was inevitable really...and surprised that no-one has already...

    so here:

    Why are there four strings on a bass?
    Three are spares.

    How many Bassist jokes are there?
    Just one -- all the rest are true!

    Son: "Daddy, I want to grow up and be a bass player."
    Father: "Son, you can't have it both ways."

    Little Johnny's father finally agrees to teach him to play bass, just like his dad. For the first lesson, Dad shows Johnny the E string and tells him to practice thumping on just that string. Nice, even quarter notes. For the second lesson, Dad shows Johnny the A string, telling him to just thump away on it - again, nice, even quarter notes. For the third lesson, Dad shows him how to go back and forth: A - E - A - E. Back and forth, just like a Country bass line. Nice, even quarter notes. When Johnny doesn't show up for his fourth lesson, Dad calls his wife at work to see if Johnny forgot about his lesson. The wife replies, "Oh. Didn't you hear? He left this morning to tour with Garth Brooks."


    Just before rehearsal is about to start on the Orchestra's "Bring Your Child to Work Day," the conductor is horrified to see the bass player hitting one of the children.
    "You can't do that!" he yells. "Why are you hitting him?"
    "He slackened one of my strings" replies the bass player.
    "No problem," says the conductor. "Just tune the string up again."
    "I can't!" screams the bass player. "He won't tell me which one."
    Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.

    H.G. Wells.
  • Gazlar
    Gazlar Posts: 8,083
    In response, all I'll say is

    THIS
    Mountain biking is like sex.......more fun when someone else is getting hurt
    Amy
    Farnsworth
    Zapp
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    whyamihere wrote:

    my Strat shaped Yamaha will be going anywhere for a very, very long time

    pacifica? brilliant for the cash though.

    I can't chart my maturity through guitars...'cos i still got them all!

    Current LIst:
    Yairi Classical Parlour guitar..handbuilt in 1964...number 312 of 500. dad bought it new.
    Original AC "Authentic Closet" beast with 13s and action so high you could base jump off it.
    Rather nasty faux Gibson Epiphone Acoustic
    American made fender strat (in awesome eighties white!)
    Korean made fender tele (in classic red)
    Takamine 12 string acoustic (with factory fitted pickup and eq)
    Les Paul copy in black.
    Dobro Resonator
    Martin 6 string jumbo
    Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.

    H.G. Wells.
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    gazderry wrote:
    In response, all I'll say is

    THIS

    Mark King i concede is an awesome player...the fact that he can still play like that when singing (as he did in L42) is cool too...

    but...you can't escape the fact that its a bass solo (only outdone by drum solo's)....on a headless stock....with frickin leds in the fretboard....and its not even fretless! Its absolutely everything thats wrong with the bass!

    The guitar is an instrument of finesse....requires dilligence when learning and can be described as the souffle of musical instruments...

    the bass is angel delight!

    :wink:
    Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.

    H.G. Wells.
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    but you should definately get it...noise making machines are the way forward!
    Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.

    H.G. Wells.
  • Gazlar
    Gazlar Posts: 8,083
    oh yeah I agree that bass and that solo is everything that was good, and therefore bad about the 1980s all rolled into one. I'm fortunate that I've been able to play both bass and guitar in different bands but I think I lean more towards the bass now as it wasn't my first love, I grew to love it
    Mountain biking is like sex.......more fun when someone else is getting hurt
    Amy
    Farnsworth
    Zapp
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    gazderry wrote:
    In response, all I'll say is

    THIS
    See, I hate Mark King with a Passion, and all other slap-bassists.
    You're playing BASS, pingy twiddling is not BASS, it's, well, pingy.
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,716
    cee wrote:
    whyamihere wrote:

    my Strat shaped Yamaha will be going anywhere for a very, very long time

    pacifica? brilliant for the cash though.
    Yep.

    I set myself a budget of about £250 for a new guitar. I played a few that were suggested, and ended up choosing the Pacifica that I got for £150 over all of them. I love the versatility of it, the 5 way pickup selector combined with a splittable humbucker in the bridge means I've got loads of sounds to play with, and it's so easy to play (which is important when you're a crap newbie).
  • Twonk
    Twonk Posts: 17
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    See, I hate Mark King with a Passion, and all other slap-bassists.
    Listen to Jaco Pastorius and/or Victor Wooten and they'll probably change your mind

    Mark King's not that great really, and would make me hate slap-bass if he was all I used as reference

    ps. And yes, Flea sucks, before anyone mentions that pretender
  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    Mmmmmm....

    NadineVelazquez.jpg

    Nadine Velazquez

    Keep your bass guitars... :lol:
    Boo-yah mofo
    Sick to the power of rad
    Fix it 'till it's broke
  • Twonk
    Twonk Posts: 17
    RTW-Chaz wrote:
    Mmmmmm....
    Nadine Velazquez
    Keep your bass guitars... :lol:
    U R KEWL M8

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