tastes of bass players

[kitcar765]

when i first started playing bass, i found that i just loved the look of some bass guitars and hated the looks of other bass guitars, and now after playing a little longer, i found my tastes have compleatly changed, for example, i thought jazz bass's were ugly as sin when i first started playing, but now i think they are sexy!, its strange how this has happend, i never thought i would love warwicks, and other such bass guitars, but now i would kill for one. has anyone else found that their tastes towards bass styles have compleatly changed?

[canopener]

I think it's a normal thing for your tastes to evolve. For me, not so much in basses themselves, but my taste in music has changed quite a bit over the last decade or so.

[Mr.Krinkle]

I just started playing with an Ibanez and I think they have the best looking basses hands down. I dont have enough experience for my taste to have changed yet.

[superbassman2000]

not for basses, but i am kind of in that process for guitars...i never really liked the strat shape, but they are kinda growing on me...same with the tele...i hated that squished-looking headstock, and i still do, but i love the sound, so i discovered the 72 tele custom with the pre-cbs headstock...excellent guitar all if i could afford it

i don't think that has happened with basses, i haven't met a bass i didn't like (wishbass included)

[steve21]

When I first started playing I used to think Fenders were balls, and would never have considered one.

Then I went to a pawn shop and played one, a sunburst MIM. It played really good. But was too much money.

I went to another pawn shop and picked up my Jazz (Arctic White MIM) and there was no other choice.

Earlier on in my bass playing time I thought Warwick was the best brand out there... now I know that they don't fit my hands/ears very well (well, most of them. Love the Corvette Fretless Standard).

[Lazylion]

Originally Posted by superbassman2000

i haven't met a bass i didn't like (wishbass included)

+1 they've got some kooky shapes!

I have only one objection re: body shapes. I hate it when they look like a gun. I'd rather not play than play a guitar shaped like a gun. That is just wrong, wrong, WRONG.

[Thor]

Originally Posted by Lazylion

+1 they've got some kooky shapes!

I have only one objection re: body shapes. I hate it when they look like a gun. I'd rather not play than play a guitar shaped like a gun. That is just wrong, wrong, WRONG.

Sheryl disagrees with you.

[Minimaul]

When I first started playing bass I disliked any 'burst' bass. But, that all changed when I picked up my `78 Fender Jazz. I fell in with 'burst bass's once I saw one in person.

[mvw356]

i think your taste in everything evolves with time, be it bass related, food, clothes, anything really. (your taste in gf/wife shouldn't change though)

[MAJOR METAL]

Yeah taste can really change, for me I think it also came with being alittel more open minded on some stuff.

[Lazylion]

Originally Posted by Thor

Sheryl disagrees with you.

That looks more like an actual gun!

[kitcar765]

got a jazz bass copy today, i think it looks sexy, and i always saw them as ugly, maybe bass players are more open minded than guitar plays and so we exept change in designs more openly, yes i know there are loads of, lets say, guitar designs, but to me, nothing seems quite as wacky as what i have seen in bass players hands

[paulraphael]

How great that our tastes keep changing.

Remember how everyone used to write "don't change!" in everyone else's yearbooks?

Looking back, it's hard to think of a worse curse.

[Thor]

I laughed when I saw that Sheryl Crow pic. Now that she is
in the news again > bump

[i_got_a_mohawk]

I used to hate the look of MM Stingrays, now i have two

[SGT. Pepper]

I used to hate Ibanez but now I love"em.
I used to love Fenders but now I hate them. Go Figure!