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Would you buy a Fender Bass V if Squier reissued it?
- Thread starter Robot.G
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Check again: it is 35 in both cases.
Agreed on all counts (not a good sign if a player tosses away an instrument with no audience present!), but my point was that it was never the Bass V that he publicly talked smack about, or violently disposed of. It never happened: it was another bass, not the Bass V he owned and used.
(Seldom, sure; briefly, perhaps; whatever - back in post #63, beside again setting the record straight about the tossing incident, I linked to a clip of him rehearsing with the fiver. Here it is again:
) Yet somehow this myth refuses to die.
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sorry… my morning math is broken. I could've sworn I needed to check again. Lol
35 in both cases. So the same damn thing. Kind of a waste unless a player can make use of the extra string and more compact neck. Eh…
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basslinger rob,
I'd love to get one if it ain't too spendy... been thinking about these since I was teenager... I have plans!
on bass, watt
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I'd love to get one if it ain't too spendy... been thinking about these since I was teenager... I have plans!
on bass, watt
mike watt's hoot page
On second thought, I played a few 6 string basses at my local GC today and I was actually impressed. But I still wouldn't buy a Bass V because it only has 15 frets. I'd rather buy another 4 string or a 6 string.
That's the entire point of it, you can play across the neck rather than up and down so it's easier when sight reading, for example.
And isn't it 36 notes? E1 to Eb4.
I kinda dig it but darned if I know where I'd use it. And I already have an E-C bass with many more frets.
I'm sure some people can put it to good use but I can't imagine it catching on the second time around.
I'm sure some people can put it to good use but I can't imagine it catching on the second time around.
I owned one and should have kept it considering what they sell for now. The one I had was burst/block (not dot) neck. I forget if the neck had binding or not.
That said, while it was a fun bass to play, the biggest problem I had with it was finding strings long enough that worked since the body is not a "normal" P/J/Mustang.
Today I would actually enjoy that neck more - but I can see for many it would be a novelty.
That said, while it was a fun bass to play, the biggest problem I had with it was finding strings long enough that worked since the body is not a "normal" P/J/Mustang.
Today I would actually enjoy that neck more - but I can see for many it would be a novelty.
I like it. In addition to JPJ both Tom Petersson (Cheap Trick) and Rick Price (Wizzard) used it for a while.
The bass was strung with a high C.
My teacher had one when I took lessons in 1971. He also played 5 string DB. He did it to minimize position shifts.
Google Chubby Jackson to learn about a professional player that played a 5er in the early days.
I forgot that bass existed, they must bring it back
One thing that is basically never mentioned is that for *ten years before* the introduction of the Bass V, i.e. 1955
(see either here
1955 Fender Catalog, Price List
or here, bottom of page 18 of the full catalogue with price list)
Dropbox - 1955 Fender Catalog.pdf - Simplify your life
as well as in every subsequent catalog with detailed string info, which not all have),
Fender had been making and having available single high C strings.
I'm gonna let that sink in.
Yep.
10 years before *any* 5-string electric bass guitar had yet been made,
a Fender high C string was available.
(Technically, one year before a 6-string EBG had been made, too.)
In all evidence, one or three very early adopters, between '51 and '55, had let Leo know they wanted to use the new instrument in ADGC tuning (what some now call with the oxymoronic "tenor bass" nomer).
(see either here
1955 Fender Catalog, Price List
or here, bottom of page 18 of the full catalogue with price list)
Dropbox - 1955 Fender Catalog.pdf - Simplify your life
as well as in every subsequent catalog with detailed string info, which not all have),
Fender had been making and having available single high C strings.
I'm gonna let that sink in.
Yep.
10 years before *any* 5-string electric bass guitar had yet been made,
a Fender high C string was available.
(Technically, one year before a 6-string EBG had been made, too.)
In all evidence, one or three very early adopters, between '51 and '55, had let Leo know they wanted to use the new instrument in ADGC tuning (what some now call with the oxymoronic "tenor bass" nomer).
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Yeah.
Nah.
Yeah.
I like the idea of being able to pluck freely in the 16-20th fret area and have a Singlecut-style stronger shorter neck. That recent demo video's slap tone was really nice on my earphones.
Seems really great for any players trying to maximize any similarity to the DB sound. A fretless version would be good.
I could see a 15 fret neck yielding good enough B's to warrant a 6 string version. I'd dig one with blocks & binding, a reversed headstock & 2+4 tuners and the mustang style pickup in the stock Bass V pickup + a second near the neck… Paranormal Bass V/6?
Nah.
Yeah.
I like the idea of being able to pluck freely in the 16-20th fret area and have a Singlecut-style stronger shorter neck. That recent demo video's slap tone was really nice on my earphones.
Seems really great for any players trying to maximize any similarity to the DB sound. A fretless version would be good.
I could see a 15 fret neck yielding good enough B's to warrant a 6 string version. I'd dig one with blocks & binding, a reversed headstock & 2+4 tuners and the mustang style pickup in the stock Bass V pickup + a second near the neck… Paranormal Bass V/6?
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