Its Official...

[Modo74]

You can't "sound good" playing "melodic minimal stuff" unless you have a USA made bass. Preferably a Fender.

From my local musicians wanted classifieds. I guess I won't be taking my Warwick $$, Custom 6 String, or modded 79 Ibanez silver series round to this dudes place then...

http://www.rockshop.co.nz/Classified...hp?siteid=9561

[perogato02]

I guess that he doesn't know what he is talking about ... or maybe he has some Fender stock-options?

[Fretless1!]

I don't know what to tell this guy but Pete Hook from Joy division didn't generally play Fenders.
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Gibson EB-0 copy - Hook's first bass, bought at Mazel's Music Shop in Manchester in 1976 and used live with Warsaw 1977 (there are photos of him playing it at a 1977 gig at Rafters, Manchester) and on the 18/7/77 Warsaw demos.[citation needed]

Hondo Rickenbacker 4001 bass copy - Used on Joy Division's 1978-1980 recordings and used live with Joy Division 1978-1980.[citation needed] Believed to have been stolen.

Yamaha BB1200 - Basically a neck-through Fender Precision Bass.[citation needed] Used on Joy Division's Closer LP and every New Order album.[citation needed]

Shergold Marathon six-string bass - Has a 30" scale putting it between normal bass (34") and guitar (around 25").[citation needed]

Eccleshall bass - Based on a Guild Starfire Bass, main live bass.[citation needed] He wanted a hollowbody with Yamaha electronics, so Chris Eccleshall took the active electronics from a BB1200 and built a full-scale neck-through bass with 24 frets.[citation needed]


Maybe he just meant he needed a bassist with good equipment and that's the only bass he knew by name.

[DudeistMonk]

Maybe he has a fender guitar and just wants to look cute up on stage by having matching instruments

[kayakbass]

Maybe he takes the short bus to gigs!

[professor_bills]

MAybe he wants to find out who has a MIA Fender and is into weak pop songs so he can follow them home hit them on the head and steal their bass?

[tyggis]

Originally Posted by Modo74

You can't "sound good" playing "melodic minimal stuff" unless you have a USA made bass. Preferably a Fender.

I tend to support that statement, but it have to be a p-bass.

[CrownandAnchor]

i'd interpret that post more as a description of a classic type of sound....like you don't wanna play that kinda music with a victor wooten tone ya know? I'm sure if you show up with a bass setup that sounds right for the music and you play well, he'd have no problem- if he does and its all about looks, then F him.

[troyus]

Email that guy tell him you play a Hondo-ho and when he says no let him in on the fact that the dude from Joy Div rocked one. Lol...

[bluestarbass]

Its an image thing as much as it is a tone thing. Ive gone to a few auditions where they required me to play a fender. In a hired gun situation you just do what your told. I showed up to a audition playing a $2500 warwick, nope next time they told me to show up with a p bass. I can understand cuz a warwick sounds alot more modern than a pbass. Some band leaders just have a vision for their music, and they want to hear that tone theyve heard on all their favorite records, most likely a fender.