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04-19-2003, 08:52 AM
|  | Student of Life Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, KY | | | What's the ratio of Plankspankers to Doghousers in the World?
A recent friendly debate in another thread left me wondering. 20:1? 50:1? 117:1? 4,358:1? I know there's no way to quantify this exactly, but any educated guesses out there?
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04-19-2003, 09:12 AM
| | Talkbass' Tubist in Residence | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Silver Spring, MD | | Yeah, the thread got me wondering that too. I would have to say somewhere between 50 to 100:1, for two reasons.
1)A good bass guitar can cost as little as $400 (give or take), while a good DB costs in the multiple thousands.
2)Its a lot easier to start playing bass guitar than it is double bass, because anyone who plays guitar (and there are quite a few of them out there) has a head start on bass guitar just because of the similarities in technique.
Oh yeah, another reason:
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04-19-2003, 11:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Ft. Worth | | | Until I started playing bluegrass, i knew 0 (zero) DB players and now I know probably 20 so I'd say more than 100 to 1. Probably for the reasons sited by Mr. Kick-a-Cann especially since DB is a seriously expensive habit to feed. I've been playing for just over 3 years and just finding my desired string height will set me back a couple of hundred dollars (too stubborn to go with an adjustable bridge) and strings have been another 5 or 6 hundred. If I didn't have a gig, none of my experimentation would be possible - thank the IRS for write-offs. Nextly because - every string bending guitarist thinks he/she can be a bassist and that ratio is like a million to 1.
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04-20-2003, 02:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: office chair | | (sheepishly admitting) From someone who has recently taken serious interest to the upright bass... I'd say maybe 100:1 (?) Simply trying to find one in my town just to PLAY, (lets not even discuss any attempts at BUYING one) has been a loosing battle thus far... (culture bereft hicks ) I won't be defeated by such a pitiful lack of diversity in my town 
(sorry, tangent)
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04-30-2003, 08:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Fabulous Northern Illinois, Home of only 2 seasons....Hot and Cold. | | | I think a critical definition of a bass player should be put forth before considering this ratio. Much like knuckle dragging guitarist wanna-be's, there is a similar horde of shockingly bad noise makers who think they're bassists because all you really need to play is the open E string (and maybe the first fret on turnarounds for that dark metal feel). Those numbers alone are enough to drastically impact the ratio. But with that in mind, I'd have to say 2500 to 1/4. |
05-04-2003, 12:20 PM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | | Let me get you started: I play bass guitar.
(That's one.) |
05-04-2003, 12:30 PM
| | Talkbass' Tubist in Residence | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Silver Spring, MD | | I play both, so my votes cancel out, so it is still 1:0 |
05-04-2003, 12:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: UK | | Quote: Originally posted by DPKolba
I think a critical definition of a bass player should be put forth before considering this ratio. Much like knuckle dragging guitarist wanna-be's, there is a similar horde of shockingly bad noise makers who think they're bassists because all you really need to play is the open E string (and maybe the first fret on turnarounds for that dark metal feel). Those numbers alone are enough to drastically impact the ratio. But with that in mind, I'd have to say 2500 to 1/4. | That's how I started. Anyway don't forget the fat kid with no friends who wants to join the school orchestra and gets given a double bass. |
05-04-2003, 12:34 PM
| | Talkbass' Tubist in Residence | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Silver Spring, MD | | Quote: Originally posted by CS
That's how I started. Anyway don't forget the fat kid with no friends who wants to join the school orchestra and gets given a double bass. | Hey, that's mean. I'm the fat kid   |
05-04-2003, 04:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: UK | | | You don't count-you have friends they just spend their lives online pretending to be musicians (do I have to include a smiley?). |
05-04-2003, 04:38 PM
| | Talkbass' Tubist in Residence | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Silver Spring, MD | | Quote: Originally posted by CS
You don't count-you have friends they just spend their lives online pretending to be musicians (do I have to include a smiley?). | Thanks! I think  |
05-04-2003, 06:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Fabulous Northern Illinois, Home of only 2 seasons....Hot and Cold. | | | I think I need to apologize...I re-read my post and thought it was rather harsh. I too started out on a bass guitar, and I put a lot of time into learning how to play. And I'm sure that there are many people who have done the same, and that is regardless of age or skill level. I meant to address the annoying, but highly visible, population that skate by on a minimum and don't care because they 'rawk hardkore'. Having heart while you play is commendable no matter the style, but picking up a bass because it satisfies an image is horrible. There have been so many times when people have mentioned to me that they want to play bass because it's easy (after all, it only has four strings), and they only want to learn a couple of songs. Every time I hear such things uttered, it's as though I've instantaneously lost a couple million brain cells, and it's angers me because it trivializes the musicianship of bass players. But then, I'm an angry person anyway...... |
05-05-2003, 06:34 AM
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It took my wife a long time to teach me that people are allowed to just play around with music and have fun.
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05-05-2003, 02:50 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by Chris Fitzgerald
A recent friendly debate in another thread left me wondering. 20:1? 50:1? 117:1? 4,358:1? I know there's no way to quantify this exactly, but any educated guesses out there? | Do 1337 fI31dY w0r5hipP3r5 count as Plank Spankers? And what about doublers? Does electric upright count as doghouse? (You could probably fit one of those little Pomeranians in there...  ) |
05-06-2003, 04:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: UK | | Quote: Originally posted by DPKolba
I think I need to apologize...I re-read my post and thought it was rather harsh. | No need to apologise as far as I'm concerned. I found it amusing. |
05-06-2003, 02:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Tracy CA | | | How do you count the players who go both ways? Real bass and toy bass that is.
Joe
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