are you to good to play a squier?

[RonChase]

I been playing longer than a lot of people been living and have owned 20 dollar bass's and all the way up to 3000 dollar basses.I was with my step son and in the corner of the music room was a beaten very dusty blue short scale bass(maybe a Teisco)one of the other Dads played the drums and the music teacher had his guitar.We played 3 songs and the teacher commented that he did not think the bass had that in it and would show it more love.Any how point being talented people dont have to be snobs,I currently own a MIM Jazz and I keep a guitar and bass in my basement studio and that is a Squier P bass and I cant really tell the difference so tell MIM wine red jazz to stuff it

 

[Dondabass]

ccyork, along with my SX and Squires, most of the time I use a Hartke HA3500 head, and a Presonus Blue Max Compressor going into an Avatar B212 NEO. That covers almost every situation. If I need more, I use PA support. If I need considerably less (acoustic shows), I pull out my old Vox T-60.

 

[Zachthebassplyr]

I have an Indonesian Squire P Bass strung with Flatwounds.
It is dirty, rusty and has a nasty bow in the neck....but it sounds really close to the James Jameson Motown sound.
Everybody that has heard it loves the way it sounds.

I think I paid $150.00 new for it a few years back.

I usually tell the gear snobs that they can complain about my gear when they start buying it for me.

 

[Moe Monsarrat]

Am I too good to play a Squier? Yes.....but I play them anyway.

 

[Moe Monsarrat]

And Furthermore: can blind people tell when you're Squier-ing? Besides, who can resist the chance to own all the Fender models you've owned in the past or always wanted to own for less than $400 a piece? As I've said many times in these forums, I wish that the basses I started out on had been as nice as Squiers are. My first bass was a Teisco copy of a '51 P that I got as part of an endorsement deal in Tokyo in 1964. I was only the singer back then & didn't play bass or guitar on stage, so I figured I wouldn't be given an instrument. But I went along anyway & when we got to the factory they said I could have what I wanted. I got a guitar w/4 pups & more switches & knobs than you ever saw & that bass & an amp. A few years later I started to play bass & sing lead on stage because we fired the bassist for getting drunk & falling off the stage. It was a real POS & very hard to play. After a year playing it I bought a Ric & was off to the races. I could have used a nice Squier that 1st year.

 

[SteveC]

Besides, who can resist the chance to own all the Fender models you've owned in the past or always wanted to own for less than $400 a piece? As I've said many times in these forums, I wish that the basses I started out on had been as nice as Squiers are.

It is sweet that you can have a J, a P, etc. for very little money.

Beginner basses now are so far above what I started on 30 years ago.

That said, I still don't play them, but I take nothing away from those that do.

 

[Kevmove]

I remember this time when I was full of pride in all the fine basses that I owned, so I would lug them all to every session. I even bought one of those fancy multiple bass racks you see today. Anyway, one day I was listening to some old Motown and just marveled at how the bass just stood out in the mix. I wanted that sound. So I went to my local instrument store to see if I could get one of them "P-Basses". I gotta tell ya, I'm glad that the have those defribulators in the store caused the sticker shock sent into cardiac arrest! After they resuscitated me, I asked if they had anything less expensive, cause I just wanted an instrument to play, not one of them do everything and be everything basses. The youngin pointed me towards some basses in the corner with a degree of disdain and said "the cheap ones are over there". Well I was a little perturbed by what passes for a bass guitar these days, but there was one or two instruments that struck my fancy. While I was there, I overheard a bunch of kids jawjacking about which bass was used by so an so artist and which had the best sound. They looked over at me while I was playing this white bass from the cheap section. They kinda of laughed and made some snide comments. That was until I ripped through the bassline from "I Was Made To Love Her". I actually had no intention of buying the bass I was playing, but to see the looks on their faces made me turn to the sales person and say "I'll take it!" Everytime I play that bass, I remember those looks and get a little giddy.