even rockstars play the same stupid riffs when at the music store.

[Illbay]

Originally Posted by mjolnir

If only someone woul open up a bass store in the area...

yeah, yeah, I know....

So, discuss: What would be the MINIMUM REQUIREMENT for such an operation, just to start up?

What would you carry in stock? What boutique brands would you rep?

DBs as well as slabs?

How about other gear: Amps, effects, etc. Any need for "general interest" items like pro audio?

What else?

[envika]

i play GG Allin's "Bite It You Scum"

seriously, i usually play a busy but not difficult bassline such as sublime's "santeria"

[mjolnir]

Originally Posted by Illbay

yeah, yeah, I know....

So, discuss: What would be the MINIMUM REQUIREMENT for such an operation, just to start up?

What would you carry in stock? What boutique brands would you rep?

DBs as well as slabs?

How about other gear: Amps, effects, etc. Any need for "general interest" items like pro audio?

What else?

Started a new thread in misc. about this so we don't hijack this one:

If you were to open a music store...

[FuryZ]

I usually do jazz melodies and improvs that take me all over the fretboard. I'll often start off with Anthropology, then do Caravan and Four Brothers. If I still like the bass I'll test the slap tone and play Brickhouse or Chameleon.

[BEADGCF]

I like "Dazed and Confused" because it gives an idea about the basic sound of the instrument on all (or most of) the strings. Then hit some harmonics to get an idea of the resonance, and see what it's like in the higher registers. Then do some scales, and a little bit of patterns to feel the "groove". Then see what it's like to pop, because I can do fingers and pop, but my slapping is subpar By then I have a basic idea of how it sounds and feels, and if I want it.

You know, the only way to find out what something sounds and feels like -- especially compared to gear you already have -- is to play the same or similar stuff and compare the sound and feel yourself.

[punkbassistfc]

I cant play so i hide it by hitting random single notes and looking around smiling

[Happynoj]

I find that every time I go to try out a bass, I am the only person trying anything, and I can hear everything really nicely. Then after I have been there for about 2 minutes a guitarist comes in to try out an amp. So of course he has to try it out REALLY loudly so that he can "hear what it sounds like cranked". I can now barely hear my bass over the guitarist, and I certainly can't hear the tone. Then as soon as I turn up my amp to compensate, he stops, so then I end up slapping the open E string on full volume to a silent store.

[Gubna]

I've never heard of Pillar.

[nubs]

Originally Posted by Gubna

I've never heard of Pillar.

thats okay, i am pretty sure pillars never heard of me either! !

[Beamrider]

Originally Posted by The BurgerMeister

for bassists, it's that pulling teeth thing.

Guilty.

Plus, here in Spain I've heard a few other music-store favourites (read: stuff that makes store employees grind their teeth and curse their jobs):

- Another One Bites The Dust
- Billie Jean
- L'Ombelico Del Mondo (google this one)

guilty on playing all of them too, sigh.

[Seb_VitusFreak]

I play old-school Saint Vitus doom metal riffs in music stores.

[worker201]

Originally Posted by ThunderLizard

Mark my words...
the next group to be identified as 'going postal' will be music store clerks. Can you imagine listening to kids play metal riffs for 3-4 hours at a time?
Pretty soon taking the law into your own hands will be called 'going Guitar-Center'.

Guitar Hero has made electronics stores even worse. Anybody who works at Best Buy or Circuit City will tell you that they want to beat everyone who test-plays that game to death. Hearing junior high metal riffs all day is one thing. Hearing people butcher Jimi Hendrix is just torture.