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12-22-2012, 09:04 AM
|  | My SQUIER is on Fire! | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Blimp City USA | | | Thanks for the advice but this is one way I would never buy a bass...trust me.
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12-22-2012, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Lightningbird  Wow, talk about guys being butthurt. Asking a fashion oriented girl about the looks of a bass isn't a bad idea. People with "style" can be much better at judging how colours match together than someone who doesn't really get involved in fashion and general design.
Mind you, asking a girl with no musical experience whether to buy a P or Jazz is a more or less ridiculous idea, but when it comes to stuff like finish, pickguard, hardware colour, etc, some people are better at judging what looks good or not (from the general view of society).
People with style would also take the general look of the guy into consideration, which she did. I guess some guys on here just think of girls with a sense of fashion as bleach blonde, pink wearing bimbos that love pink "girly" basses. Looks and image is a big part of performing and looking good with a nice fitting bass can make the appearance of a band much better. Isn't there already a couple of threads complaining over bands that don't plan together on what to wear on gigs? | Yeah, I think the OP's concept has merit...
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12-22-2012, 09:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Lancaster, PA | | | Just buy a P bass, sunburst with a black or tort pickguard.
They look good with everything.
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12-22-2012, 09:06 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Memphis, TN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by thisSNsucks My Fiance is smoking hot, but thinks my Rickenbacker is ugly. Her opinion on basses is now null and void lol. | You know the rules. No pics, no smokin' hot fiancee... 
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12-22-2012, 09:10 AM
|  | Registered Spector Addict | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Highlands Ranch, CO. | | I tried this once, and she suggested the guitar pictured here in the first few photos. http://www.google.com/search?q=wangc...w=1600&bih=774
I bought a Spector instead....
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12-22-2012, 09:10 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: conditional upon harmonic Hz | | | Without getting into a philosophical debate about how one must eventually free onesself from the judgment of others to be truly free...
And the frequency of ground earth pklima has a good thought:
The better looking bass player will win the "hearts and minds" over the "choppiest" one - for the masses. We still live in a cognitively simplistic world where folks judge on first appearance...
As mentioned, interaction with the opposite sex is recommended at any and all opoortunity, even if its a rhetorical question about your next bass....
Caution: the tastes of young woman can change on a montly basis, so today's yes answer may be tomorrows YUCK!
Have seen many modern players "dressed" in old skool sunburst with white guards ( a look I dont care for) - which tells me they've not asked their GF's.
I mean Bootsy's basses used to ATTRACT GF's, so you know.......
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12-22-2012, 09:11 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Waco Texas | | | Before you buy a bass talk to a pretty girl. Might be your last chance. |
12-22-2012, 09:13 AM
|  | I want to be HER bicycle | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | I always ask my wife- whom I find extremely attractive as well as a very snappy dresser- how a bass looks on me. It's usually *how does this one- that I already own- look w/this outfit* as opposed to *should I get this one or that one* and no more than half-serious at the most. Still, OP has a point. Most importantly, ML 177/177A.
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12-22-2012, 09:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by 254 stringer Before you buy a bass talk to a pretty girl. Might be your last chance. |
Wise words. 
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12-22-2012, 09:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Spencer, MA, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jazz Ad I talked to the pretty girl.
She said enough with that crap, why don't you play me instead?
So I slapped her. | Leave it to the French to get to the heart of the matter!
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12-22-2012, 09:16 AM
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Im an art student at a fashion University, and I totally agree with this! BUT NEVER ASK A POLISH PERSON. they're the most unfashionable people every! they still wear shell suits!
but yes, a cool bass is always important! its got to look good for the people that dont know about them!
This is one of the reasons I chose my fender over an ibanez or an g&l. and the colour (sunburst) is easy to mix with clothes! |
12-22-2012, 09:17 AM
| | I want to be HER bicycle | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | Another thought: No one notices the bass player anyway. 
*semi-kidding*
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12-22-2012, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by stratovani Leave it to the French to get to the heart of the matter! | Yeah, but he left out the part about her beating him up afterwards ...
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12-22-2012, 09:20 AM
|  | Ninja kick the damn rabbit! | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Snohomish, WA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by EagleMoon I understand the thinking on this. Music is show business whether we like it or not. How you look does make a difference. | This ^.
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12-22-2012, 09:26 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Fancy Gap VA or Bermuda | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Salamenster Why would I give a single !@%$ about how my bass looks to some pretty girl? Isn't the one you're asking just one in a million? Maybe some other pretty girl might say the exact opposite. Taste is relative. | The above likely being true a viable solution would be to ask many pretty girls their opinions over a long time span.
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12-22-2012, 09:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Spencer, MA, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by georgestrings Yeah, but he left out the part about her beating him up afterwards ...
- georgestrings | True dat! 
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12-22-2012, 09:31 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperRich Im an art student at a fashion University, and I totally agree with this! BUT NEVER ASK A POLISH PERSON. they're the most unfashionable people every! they still wear shell suits!
but yes, a cool bass is always important! its got to look good for the people that dont know about them!
This is one of the reasons I chose my fender over an ibanez or an g&l. and the colour (sunburst) is easy to mix with clothes! | WHAT!!!
Polish woman are smokin hot!!!
Just check out some of the photos pkima has put up in the Chicks at shows and I back a hot singer babe threads.
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12-22-2012, 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by stratovani True dat! | I thought it was a pretty funny joke, though...
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12-22-2012, 09:39 AM
|  | Gettin' medieval on yo' bass... | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Like old Hampshire, but New | | Quote:
Originally Posted by superdick2112 | I want to meet the girl who suggested that instrument. Now. Immediately. I have cash. Please.
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Originally Posted by pacojas because of your post, i have just quit my band!  the truth is liberating!  infact,... i think i'm about to leave my wife!!! and move to Canada!!!! and buy a boat!!!!! | |
12-22-2012, 09:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Creedmoor N.C. | | | The last show we played I used my newly acquired SR4 . Black cherryburst , matching headstock , maple neck , killer bass. The guitarist wife noticed I had a new bass and I assumed it was because of the awesome tone I was getting. Turned out it was because the stage lights were reflecting off the chrome control plate. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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