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12-01-2010, 06:10 AM
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12-01-2010, 07:25 AM
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12-01-2010, 07:28 AM
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12-01-2010, 07:30 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Indiana, USA | | | The guy from the Sword plays a MIM jazz....
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12-01-2010, 08:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Chicago, IL | | | I believe Dixie Dave Collins plays a MIM P bass. But I wouldn't call him famous, just awesome. |
12-01-2010, 08:15 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Champaign, IL | | | There's an Opeth video on youtube where you see their bassist with a Squier Jazz, though I think he plays a Marcus Miller for live performances.
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12-01-2010, 01:42 PM
| | | | Famous bassists? No. I don't think any of them really do.
I'd think a lot of punk bassists would, though!
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12-01-2010, 01:48 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Manhattan | | | These days anyone with a major contract will be given endorsements and it'd be foolish to turn them down. But many of the great recordings were played on stock instruments.
A lot of guys use Ibanez basses and they're pretty much in the same class as Squiers. |
12-01-2010, 01:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Madrid | | | why would a famous basist play an entry level bass. I mean, he could, and would sound good but if you play bass for a living you could afford an expencier instrument. Squiers are good basses but if I were a teacher or earning money with it IŽd go for the real thing.
just my 2 cents
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12-01-2010, 02:26 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Emibass why would a famous basist play an entry level bass. I mean, he could, and would sound good but if you play bass for a living you could afford an expencier instrument. Squiers are good basses but if I were a teacher or earning money with it IŽd go for the real thing.
just my 2 cents | The budget bass might give you your sound. Check out Mike Mondesir who uses an inexpensive Yamaha BBNII5. A man who gets gigs with Jeff Beck and Whitney Houston probably just needs to keep doing what he's doing. 
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12-01-2010, 02:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: JaxBch, Fl | | | wasnt there some jazz bass player that used the Squier Active 5 string...
What about Fat Mike? Danelectro.
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12-01-2010, 02:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SF Bay Area North CA | | | This is one of those always incoming threads that ultimately does not make sense.
Is there a real motivation behind the posting, like inferior complex based on the instrument someone owns? If so there are other solutions than boasting that this person is using the same cheap stuff I'm using.
Ultimately does not matter what someone is using if it sounds good. Works the other way around, too. If someone needs a special brand just so they feel they are real players, that's pretty sad. |
12-01-2010, 02:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: USA | | | I don't keep up with Chevelle. But I'm pretty sure at one time they had a bassist who played an Epiphone Thunderbird. At $300, that's certainly an entry level bass. |
12-01-2010, 02:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Four Corners, USA | | Paul McCartney. And he has more money that any other musician on earth. |
12-01-2010, 02:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Tifton,Georgia | | | pete wentz....even though he has a fender version,he has played his squier version on stage.
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12-01-2010, 02:41 PM
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12-01-2010, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by ksandvik This is one of those always incoming threads that ultimately does not make sense.
Is there a real motivation behind the posting, like inferior complex based on the instrument someone owns? If so there are other solutions than boasting that this person is using the same cheap stuff I'm using.
Ultimately does not matter what someone is using if it sounds good. Works the other way around, too. If someone needs a special brand just so they feel they are real players, that's pretty sad. | I'll second that emotion. If by magic I suddenly became "famous" tomorrow I'd still play my Squier Affinity P-Bass. It's well set-up, feels good in my hands, sounds exactly like a P-Bass should, and i'm familiar with its quirks. Why would I play anything else? As usual, YMMV.
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12-01-2010, 02:41 PM
| | | | expencier
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12-01-2010, 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by plangentmusic A lot of guys use Ibanez basses and they're pretty much in the same class as Squiers. | hahahaha, yeah except the Prestige line, those are pretty good basses, but anything below a 7 series is pretty much entry level.
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12-01-2010, 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by plangentmusic A lot of guys use Ibanez basses and they're pretty much in the same class as Squiers. | I would disagree.
Squier is a dedicated budget brand, topping off at what, 400 dollars? Ibanez on the other hand is a full fledged brand with instruments ranging from 200 bucks to a few grand.
Sure, they kind of have a reputation for being a cheap, japanese brand, but it's unfair to just equate it with Squier wholesale. That's like saying macdonalds is a healthfood store, because they sell a salad.
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