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08-09-2012, 03:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Pittsburgh | | | who likes pointy basses
i have BC Rich Warlock Platinum and think pointy basses are pretty cool. i don't play in a worship band. |
08-09-2012, 03:11 PM
| | | | I like em. BC Rich, Moser, Monson, some Jacksons. As the 4 main ones I can think of.
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08-09-2012, 03:47 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Spector Basses/Genz Benz Amplification/Mojo Hand FX | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Dallas, TX | | | nah...i'm good... |
08-09-2012, 03:50 PM
| | | | Sure... But playability is far more important to me.
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08-09-2012, 04:04 PM
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08-09-2012, 04:24 PM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | sure do!
as a young teen in the early 80s I saw this (on HBO I think) and thought that was exactly how a bassist should sound AND look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htz9CS-Zmms
Then this hit the scene and I was hooked on pointy basses http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHA1Cv9XsBk
(no I'm not comparing the bands... but I was 15 years old in 1983 and as cool as the Who are, they were still my Mom's music  |
08-09-2012, 04:26 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | | Did when I was younger. I'll take comfort and ergonomics over pointy. Also didn't like how big and bulky many of the cases were or how fragile the points were. |
08-09-2012, 04:33 PM
|  | Tone that I have. Skill? Oh, that? Well.... | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Great White North | | I have a Dean ML, A Gibson V, Gibson Explorer, Epiphone Explorer, and a Warwick Stryker Mahogany.
Me? Pointy? Nah can't stand 'em 
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08-10-2012, 04:02 AM
| | | | love pointy basses, well mainly on pointy headstocks. i dont care what everyone says. Jackson headstocks are awesome! |
08-10-2012, 06:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Cayce, SC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by therev  i have BC Rich Warlock Platinum and think pointy basses are pretty cool. i don't play in a worship band. | Some look cool, I think. And I think you should be able to play it in a worship band, too. Nothing evil about it. IMO.
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08-10-2012, 06:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Penang, Malaysia | | | No one's mentioned the Warwick Vampyre Dark Lord yet? Wow.
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08-10-2012, 06:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Sussex, WI | | | Well, I'm gassing for a Katana. Love the pointy headstock and the abstract body shape. I've never held one, and I've read the ergonomics are really pretty bad, but that doesn't stop the GAS for me. I WANT!
A bit less on the pointy scale, but still sharply angular, a Fender Performer fuels that fire as well.
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08-10-2012, 06:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Logan,W.V.(not up some holler) | | Ahhh..... The salad days of my gigging career. The 80's!! People just don't get the 80's hair metal unless you lived it. And, boy did I ever. Great times.
Everyone has seemed to have forgotten these bad boys: http://www.edroman.com/detail_sheets...bass_d786.html
And, IMHO, how could one forget these? The king of pointy basses, taken to another level. I'd love to have one of these with B.C.Richs' "full on" electronics, with 2 P-pups: http://losangeles.backpage.com/Music...-bass/23461109 |
08-12-2012, 09:32 AM
|  | When I come around, homeboy, watch yo nuggets | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | I like looking at pointy basses, but so far haven't actually purchased one. I like the ergonomics of forearm cuts, the simplicity of universal cases, the freedom from neck dive, and being able to take a bass to any gig I want without looking terribly out of place.
I'm admiring them from a distance currently, but maybe someday I'll put together an Explorer or something fun to rock out with. |
08-12-2012, 09:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Kraków, Polska | | I do, even though I don't play any heavy music at all these days. Used to have a 70s BC Rich Mockingbird which is probably the highest-quality instrument I've ever owned, definitely the highest-quality electric one. Now I have a very very pointy Hembry doubleneck and use it to play happy pop songs about Adriana Lima - the combination looks absurd but that makes it even more fun. Maybe it provides good balance against my own stout, non-pointy looks.
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08-12-2012, 01:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Pittsburgh, PA | | I like them and they serve their "visual purpose" every now and then.  |
08-12-2012, 01:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | Quote:
Originally Posted by amimbari I like them and they serve their "visual purpose" every now and then. | Don't close that case!  |
08-12-2012, 02:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Pittsburgh, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by spade2you Don't close that case! | haha ya the pic was taken to show how much bigger than "normal" it actually is. ( I'd love to find another one ) |
08-12-2012, 02:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | Quote:
Originally Posted by amimbari haha ya the pic was taken to show how much bigger than "normal" it actually is. ( I'd love to find another one ) | That's kinda why I got away from them. I remember a guitarist who used the same practice place having a Washburn Dimebag guitar and the case was about the same length as my bass case and significantly heavier. |
08-12-2012, 02:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | I havent seen one of those Takamines in forever! It could serve as a weapon if you need it to... 
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