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08-12-2010, 07:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: NEW YORK | | | Why do I continue to read and listen to TalkBass
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Why do I go through threads after threads? Listen to people trying convince me that there views are better than mine? Listening to players tell me which amp goes to which cabinet? Which bass has a better tone for rock, jazz or funk? Who has the best technique? Who has the best pedals? Even down to the pedal board they use. Which company makes the best strings for jazz, funk,? Which is better Flats, Semi flats, round wounds, steels nickle, light gauge, heavy gauge, long scale, short scale,...? Which is better woods, maple, cedar, alder, rosewood, no wood (metal,etc)? Which amp is better, tubes, digital, hybrids, etc? Why am I starting to find Talkbass uninteresting as of late? I have my amps which I love - Thunderfunk, Alembic w/Crest CA6. I have the basses which I love, - Alleva-Coppolo and Sadowsky. My favorite Cabinets by Aguilar, Bergantiono and Accugroove. My favorite pedals - many of them and players I listen to -Many of them. Also I like listening to the music.... I like listening to. I mean I respect everybodys opinion. I even made mistakes with buying an amp that was recommended to me on talk Bass for the sound I was seeking. I could not wait to sell that amp. So why do I visit and as of late (not always have and was a big fan in some ways) find it unpleasant. I don't want to feel this way.
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08-12-2010, 07:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Fairfield, CA | | | You've become too hip for the room. It's terminal I'm afraid, the door is that way ---->
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08-12-2010, 07:39 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Columbus, Ohio | | | I can't tell you why you do it but I do it because it saves me money. You see, a wise man learns from his mistakes but an even wiser man learns from the mistakes of others. I'm not a rich man so I like to read.
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08-12-2010, 07:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: WI, USA | | | Best. Thread. EVAR! |
08-12-2010, 07:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Northern Cal | | Maybe, you should look for people to help with all of your acquired knowledge. Share your wealth.
If not, well Jkramer5 pointed the way if your so bothered.
HOWEVER, we will always welcome you back when the pain subsides.  "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
Albert Einstein
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08-12-2010, 07:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: S.E. Connecticut, USA | | | I use it as practice in being polite to people I would otherwise be slapping the s**t out of. |
08-12-2010, 07:46 PM
|  | Lone Wolf and Renagade Miner | | | | | I dont know.......Why?
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08-12-2010, 07:54 PM
|  | Livin' it up at the Hotel California | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sacramento California | | | The reason you continue to read and listen to Talkbass is the same reason the rest of us do it..........because there is something WROOONG with us.......something SERIOUSLY WROOOONG with us!
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08-12-2010, 07:58 PM
| | | | You have to know the risks when you take an advice. Don't blame your dissatisfaction on the board, blame it on yout naivety.
And I don't see the point here. When you want to leave you leave, you don't start a thread and make a big drama about it. |
08-12-2010, 08:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: NEW YORK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by kreider204 Best. Thread. EVAR! | Hope so. Got a few people pissed.
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08-12-2010, 08:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: New Jersey, US | | The times, they are a changin', I suppose. Best of luck if you leave, better yet if you stay!
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08-12-2010, 08:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Redmond, Washington | | | because half of us are right half the time and the other half are wrong all the time. what half am i again?
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08-12-2010, 08:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: NEW YORK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by GianGian You have to know the risks when you take an advice. Don't blame your dissatisfaction on the board, blame it on yout naivety.
And I don't see the point here. When you want to leave you leave, you don't start a thread and make a big drama about it. | Hmmmmm drama. Not the intention . Shall I take it off? Or is it something I should leave on? Don't want to insult anyone. Wasn't written for that. I did say I respect there opinions.
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08-12-2010, 08:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: NEW YORK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ster Because there is a lot of good advice. Ask yourself if any of the gear you love has been based on recommendations from fellow TB members?
Personally, I probably would have never heard of Thunderfunk and Sadowsky if it wasn't for Talkbass. | Good point.
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08-12-2010, 08:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: New Jersey | | | Because there is a lot of good advice. I am sure some of the gear you love has been based on recommendations from fellow TB members.
Personally, I probably would have never heard of Thunderfunk and Sadowsky if it wasn't for Talkbass. |
08-12-2010, 08:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Gainesville, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jkramer5 You've become too hip for the room. It's terminal I'm afraid, the door is that way ----> | Ha! Sigged.
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08-12-2010, 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Bassist30 Hmmmmm drama. Not the intention . Shall I take it off? Or is it something I should leave on? Don't want to insult anyone. Wasn't written for that. I did say I respect there opinions. | It looks like drama to me, I mean, where are we going with this thread? No offence inteded, but you listened to people's opinions and advices, bought something you didn't like, sold it and probably lost a few pennies in the long run. So what? It is life, we don't always get it right.
You could add a "just nedded to vent" at the end, so it will be clear that you are just looking for some emotional satisfaction by sharing your dissatisfaction, nothing wrong with that. Or you are telling your story to people because you think that the board may benefit from it...maybe. But you just didn't make it clear either. |
08-12-2010, 08:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: New Jersey | | | People usually have the best intentions when it comes to recommendations. I have been through the same trials and errors. But its all good. The more stuff you try the more you find out what you like and don't like.
Any type of message board you go on there is always an extreme gamut of opinions.
Why do all of us keep coming back here? Because we are all hopeless bass addicts!! |
08-12-2010, 08:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Nashville, TN | | There's a lot of useless rambling about gear here - that's true. But there are some great folks that can teach you a lot about music. Those are the threads worth looking for.
I'm closing my browser now to go practice.
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08-12-2010, 08:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Metro Detroit | | | Here we go again!!!!! Just because something works for one person, say an amp, doesn't mean it's going to work for someone else. That's the beauty of the internet. You can do RESEARCH before going out and buying something. I'm not going to go out and buy a $1000 amp just because Joe Bassplayer says it works for him.
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