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01-18-2012, 12:37 PM
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Anyone else catch that on Jay Leno last night? Poor girl (bassist) looses her strap in the first 10 seconds of the song. 
So there you are on national television backing some American Idol singer...whoopsie, bummer deal.
Straplocks are cheap! I'm sorry, but I really don't know why folks avoid using them.  |
01-18-2012, 12:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: North Bend, WA | | | I really didn't know people did not use them. It seems like such a no-brainer. I bet she'll invest in a set now.
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01-18-2012, 12:44 PM
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01-18-2012, 12:44 PM
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01-18-2012, 12:49 PM
|  | I'm gonna love and tolerate the **** out of you! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | | Meh, I've seen strap pins strip free from bodies before (and even a strap lock won't stop that!). |
01-18-2012, 12:49 PM
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01-18-2012, 12:50 PM
| | Sponsored by Jagermeister | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Seattle / Tacoma | | Link?! but then I'd feel like such wuss having to search for Adam Lambert videos. 
It was nothing catastrophic anyway. |
01-18-2012, 12:51 PM
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01-18-2012, 12:52 PM
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Originally Posted by fenderhutz  | Looks like it, her strap falls off from the base of the body. She takes a knee and starts playing.
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01-18-2012, 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Caca de Kick Anyone else catch that on Jay Leno last night? Poor girl (bassist) looses her strap in the first 10 seconds of the song.
So there you are on national television backing some American Idol singer...whoopsie, bummer deal.
Straplocks are cheap! I'm sorry, but I really don't know why folks avoid using them. | Evidently she's not as smart as you. But ... she's on Leno, and you're not. 
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01-18-2012, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by fenderhutz | It is, at 1:32 she re-attaches it and stands the rest of the time.
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01-18-2012, 01:07 PM
| | America's Favorite Hot Dog! | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CHI/NWI | | | 3 commercials in a row just to watch her drop her bass? It wasn't even catastrophic. *sadface* |
01-18-2012, 01:16 PM
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01-18-2012, 01:25 PM
|  | RockYourSaltyNutzoff! | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Raleighwood, NC | | | hate the straplocks
makes the strap stick out too far
more things to remember to tighten up
damage the bass' finish when they hit the body
make the strap harder to roll-up and put away
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01-18-2012, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by RustyAxe Evidently she's not as smart as you. But ... she's on Leno, and you're not. | That's quite alright. I can still sleep at night with that fact. |
01-18-2012, 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by buzzbass "stupid is, as stupid does" F. Gump - 1963 | This deserves an LOL |
01-18-2012, 01:33 PM
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01-18-2012, 01:39 PM
|  | You rang? | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Oakland County,Michigan, USA | | | Yeah, I can't imagine why someone wouldn't use them either.
Someone mentioned them stripping out of the body - personally, I put a drop of 5 minute epoxy on the threads before screwing a straplock (Dunlop style) on, and be sure to have a good felt or leather washer between it and the body. If you position them on your strap right, even with the pin pulled they are hanging in the locks. That the strap might be harder to roll up? - hmm, try replacing a neck, or a whole bass if it is neck-through. I personally can't imagine rolling up my strap - I go for the thick and wide, so no rolling up is practical.
They sell knock-off Dunlops on ebay as low as $12 for 6 sets. Virtually identical to Dunlops, work on the Dunlop pins.
TO each their own!
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01-18-2012, 01:41 PM
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01-18-2012, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by StrangerDanger The only time I have ever dropped a bass (and it was on stage) was when I had Schaller strap locks. No more straplocks for me. | Schallers seem a little cludgy(to me) - look at Dunlop style, very different. Pin drops into a pocket on a Dulop, snaps onto the end on a Schaller. You make a bad "clip" with the Schaller, next sound you hear is "oh cht!"
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