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11-16-2012, 07:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Northeast, US | | | I agree.
When I see a bass laying on friggin asphalt, I have to yell - what is the ******** thinking? Or not thinking?
My favorite has been - a guy selling a bass, with a picture of it balanced precariously on his fence. Once little gust of wind, and it's slamming to the ground. What a butt head.
No whining from your original post. You're 100% right.
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11-16-2012, 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by bolophonic  These things aren't made out of silk, you know. | Exactly what I was thinking. I owned a bass that took me seven years at least three nights a week to wear through the finish where my thumb sat near the bridge pickup.
Things like hardwoods, steel, plastic, etc. aren't exactly fragile. If you own a bass that would get scratched by a nice patch of grass then you got ripped off.
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11-17-2012, 05:57 PM
|  | Plus ça change, Plus c'est la même chose. | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Middletown, OH | | | People take pictures on the floor because it gives a neutral background so you can see the bass. Concrete I would have trouble with, but a wood floor or carpet? What's the problem?
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11-17-2012, 07:00 PM
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11-18-2012, 12:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Mexican Megalopolis | | | Agreed. Considering that a guitar-bass stand can go for as little as 8-10 bucks, there is no excuse really.
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11-18-2012, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by mpdd that's why i photograph mine on my cow hide couch, because the couch is rare, but the bass isn't | ^This.
The key to selling your completely ordinary bass is to shoot it resting on your one of a kind imported sofa.  |
11-18-2012, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by zortation ^This.
The key to selling your completely ordinary bass is to shoot it resting on your one of a kind imported sofa. |  
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11-18-2012, 10:45 AM
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11-18-2012, 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Ric5 | On the grass - a little stooopid, but not that bad. On concrete or asphalt - extreme stooopidity. On carpet or couch - no harm, no foul.
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11-18-2012, 11:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: MEXICANADAMERICA | | if i see feet, a dirty rug, or a filthy room i think twice about doing business. make it sexy, please! 
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11-18-2012, 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by pacojas if i see feet, a dirty rug, or a filthy room i think twice about doing business. make it sexy, please! | Feet problem, ay?
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11-18-2012, 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Ric5
Deal with it!!!
| Inside, I am crying a little. Or not.
Seriously, nothing wrong going on in these particular pictures!
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11-18-2012, 11:19 AM
| | | | The great/horrible thing about the internet is everyone can voice their opinion/complaints for everyone to hear/as if anyone cares.....lol/not really |
11-18-2012, 11:28 AM
| | | | Or how about a picture of the bass taken in a garage full of crap leaning on a pile of old newspapers and such?
Or laying on an old couch with a hideous floral design fabric that is enhanced with pizza stains, cat hair, and a half eaten bowl of fruit loops all of which is perfectly illuminated by the glow of a cathode tube television that is precariously perched above yet another broken console television inside a single wide mobile home with dark wood paneling?
I would say that inspires confidence like nothing else imaginable. |
11-18-2012, 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by LarryO The great/horrible thing about the internet is everyone can voice their opinion/complaints for everyone to hear/as if anyone cares.....lol/not really | +1
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11-18-2012, 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Ric5 Deal with it!!!  | What is that 5-string SG thing? Is that for sale? It's freaking sweet!
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11-19-2012, 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Ric5 | Heartless!!! 
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11-19-2012, 12:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: canada | | | I know what you mean!
I've seen so many ads of beautiful, high end bass guitars for sale. I go to look at the pics and the bass is laying in the grass in the backyard. Drives me crazy!
Or a crappy cell phone picture that looks like it was taken with my Nokia flip phone from 2001. Thanks for the pics bro!
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11-19-2012, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by guy n. cognito Nino Valenti always took pictures of his basses on the floor......and I'm pretty sure he takes pretty good care of them. Many of the professional pictures you see of basses are actually shot with the bass laying on the floor. Personally, I always take pictures of mine on the stand, but I've really never given a second thought to those that don't. | Not professional but it doesn't hurt the bass.
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11-19-2012, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by bluewine Not professional but it doesn't hurt the bass.
Blue | Laying an instrument on a smooth, hard surface doesn't hurt it either.
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