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02-05-2008, 04:17 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | | Fender Double Bass!!
Arrgh - the new Ford Focus ad campaign has big pictures in magazines of a Double Bass made out of the "Fender" of the car - who thought that up!!?? 
So - the website has music apparently played by all these instruments and you can mix them to hear the DB part : http://www.fordeumicrosites.com/focu...&locale=en-gb#
I'm not sure what I think about this and whether they actually made a real playable Double Bass - surely it would sound like crap if it was made from the Fender of a Ford!!?? 
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02-05-2008, 04:20 AM
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Endorsing artist: MarkBass, LeFay, Rotosound | | | | | ah, you got me!
I thought Fender (brand) came up with an EUB !!!
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02-05-2008, 04:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Georgia | | | i prefer the higher end line of Fenders - BMW, Mercedes, Rolls, etc. But if we have to go American, I prefer the GM line - a little more durable - hold up better in adverse conditions...strings don't break as easily.
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02-05-2008, 04:59 AM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Maybe we need a discussion of the tonal qualities of Italian vs. German....?
Ferrari, Lamborghini etc. vs. Mercedes and BMW!! 
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02-05-2008, 05:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Rockledge, FL | | If I'm gonna play a fender, I try to go for tone.  |
02-05-2008, 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by ArenW  If I'm gonna play a fender, I try to go for tone. | Is that pic an idea of how "old-fashioned", one of today's high-flying ad executives would find the idea of a carved wooden DB!!??
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02-05-2008, 09:09 AM
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what a bunch of idiots.
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02-05-2008, 09:51 AM
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02-05-2008, 10:02 AM
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Anyway, this is kind of interesting. At least it means that the marketing types know there IS such a thing as a double bass.
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02-05-2008, 10:05 AM
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That is unbelievably cool. |
02-05-2008, 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by mesmithnm Or in the south, Fix Or Repair Daily
Anyway, this is kind of interesting. At least it means that the marketing types know there IS such a thing as a double bass.
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But they think it should be brightly-coloured, shiny and metallic.... 
I do agree though - it was interesting at first to open up a glossy magazine and see a picture of a Double Bass - but then it was disappointing to realise it was an ad for a car!
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02-05-2008, 11:43 AM
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Right now in our market, there are a lot of TV commercials featuring DB for all kinds of products. Its always good to have acoustic music/instruments get more exposure like that. |
02-05-2008, 11:51 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sergeantsville, NJ | | | split lip rayfield, a bluegrass band on speed. their bass player plays an upright bass made with a gas tank - I think he said it was from an old chevy van. it sure doesn't look as nice as that "Fender"
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02-05-2008, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Jake deVilliers Wow, that is very cool!
Right now in our market, there are a lot of TV commercials featuring DB for all kinds of products. Its always good to have acoustic music/instruments get more exposure like that. | A particularly nauseating one for Viagra comes to mind.
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i think it stars Cleon from The Warriors. which is even funnier
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02-05-2008, 03:46 PM
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02-05-2008, 03:53 PM
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02-06-2008, 04:31 AM
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Originally Posted by J.D.B. What's that thing to the left of the frame? A tranny-bass?
Josh |
If you go to the web site I linked in my first post and click on the Treble Clef (sic) buttons - you can see they have made a whole load of different instruments out of Ford Focus body parts - flutes,trombones, harp, guitar etc.
I was only alerted to the Double Bass as it featured in a big colour spread in a magazine I bought yesterday!
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02-06-2008, 04:49 AM
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Originally Posted by MingusAmongUs A particularly nauseating one for Viagra comes to mind.
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i think it stars Cleon for The Warriors. which is even funnier | That's the first one I thought of. Those ads are getting just as deceptive as the Geico 'I saved on my auto insurance' ads a few years ago.
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02-08-2008, 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by ArenW If I'm gonna play a fender, I try to go for tone. | Is the '40 Ford woody yours?
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02-08-2008, 09:53 PM
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