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Am I getting weird, or are these cool?

#41
PZapdos said:
which is weird cause i think these have more personality than any fender.

i want to try out that thumb rest idea. i feel like it wouldnt be too hard to jerry rig a cheap homemade one on an sx or something to try it out :P




Yes, they do have personality, but not sensuality. I imagine, if Ikea made cash registers, they would look much like those basses. No feminine form, just function. :hmm:
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#45
Thats not a proper smiley face on them odd round individual pickups. looks rather glum faced. Packs of glum faced disks on em basses just doesnt look good. Lol. What is that rod above the E string about? Is it a fake 5th string? I think its gonna get in the way of playing. Makes me think of guardrail on roads. Maybe its there to keep the pack of glum faces from running away to try and find place to make them smile. LOl. Yes those are weird looking basses. The fiver with normal looking pups is kinda kewl in weird way. But the placement of rear strap button on the one 4 stringer with normal looking pups makes no sense at all to me. Id think itd make the bass want to flip away from you as well as just being bad placement overall. Otherwise that one looks ok to.
 
#46
darkstorm said:
Thats not a proper smiley face on them odd round individual pickups. looks rather glum faced. Packs of glum faced disks on em basses just doesnt look good. Lol. What is that rod above the E string about? Is it a fake 5th string? I think its gonna get in the way of playing. Makes me think of guardrail on roads. Maybe its there to keep the pack of glum faces from running away to try and find place to make them smile. LOl. Yes those are weird looking basses. The fiver with normal looking pups is kinda kewl in weird way. But the placement of rear strap button on the one 4 stringer with normal looking pups makes no sense at all to me. Id think itd make the bass want to flip away from you as well as just being bad placement overall. Otherwise that one looks ok to.
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The rod is a thumbrest.
 
#49
fenderfunker said:
No. Are you? Not sure what shape the women are where you live, but here, they are curvey and smooooov. :scowl:
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I dunno, I've never thought of Fender basses as looking like women. Maybe because their shapes are so standard I've become bored with them. I guess I could sorta see it with the jazz bass.

Still not entirely sure what you're talking about though. Or how that inherently makes a bass more "sensual" or less, or why that matters.

Then again, Rickenbackers are my favorite basses in sound and looks, so I dunno.
 
#50
thedude77md said:
I dig some of them but then there are models like this that baffle me

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Mark Sandman of Morphine played a 2 string Bass guitar... I was in Chicago Music Exchange last week & saw a Sandberg 2 string hanging next to a Sandberg 7 String...
 
#54
ThaLowEndTheory,
You're not weird, just tired of the same ol', same ol'.

I like the small round pickups, but I don't like the shape of the first three basses. Actually, it's just the hyper pointy strap button and the (given the designer, understandably) Alembic-like "neeple" that breaks what would otherwise be a graceful line below the bridge.

I do like the next three, although the first of that set is a bit busy looking.

The last one's bulbous body on the bass side seems over-extended, like a sagging butt. It would be a great looking bass if its flab were trimmed.

As for the two-string one-string instruments. What's wrong with that?

I've got a friend who has a two-string ngoni/hajhuj/gunbri and I got to play it. I can play a couple of crazy things on it, but he can make it sing.
http://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/africa.htm

An erhu only has two strings; I'd think a Chinese bass player might like the two stringer. In fact, I was at a blues jam this last weekend and the Erhu player laid down some killer solos (bowed, not pizzed).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhu

Gypsy doublebasses often have three strings, as did most basses back in the days of development of the instrument, when 3 was the norm. People convert old 5-string uprights to four and vice versa. String number doesn't matter.

Some bass players readily admit for the type of music they play with the band they're in that they only use the E and A string anyway.

Whamola anyone?

Whatever works for you and sounds good is all that matters. It's a matter of individual taste.

BTW, I LIKE uni, GOOD uni. The problem is I've tasted some vile uni, horrible uni that would (and did) put off a neophyte sushi taster. When it's good uni, ahhhh :hyper: Fugu? Alright, but I prefer uni.

Cheers,
FF
 

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