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Are Your Basses a Direct Reflection of Your Personality

#81
novello said:
well, paying an extra 1500 for a "stock" additional switch or neck profile is not making yourself a favour

No luthiers where you live?
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I'd be insulted at that but you don't realize I work with electronics all day and my bass building/luthier skills have been captured here in spades. I was referring to someone buying a Geddy bas - why buy a perfectly good bass and then swap necks immediatly, just buy it already done. Or the person who buys a PAOLO GREGOLETTO - if they like the look and sound, why should they spend the time cobbling parts together? Ditto for a JEff Berlin or countless other instruments. And generally the cost upgrade is only 5-10%. 90% of the folk here don't even OWN a $1500 instrument, let alone spending $1500 for a switch.

I am the only person I personally know who has changed a neck profile...most others have thought me insane for doing that.


Not sure how buying because there is a players name on an instrument is much different than buying because there is a manufacturer's name on it. Ooooooh, you got a:
(Michael) Tobias,
(Leo) Fender,
(Dan Lakin/Hugh McFarland)Lakland.
(Stuart) Spector, yada,yada.
So you are just a lame follower - deal with it sonny:D
[Edit]How can there be a correlation between instrument choice and personalities when the range of personalities that play them are so varied? Everyone from stoners to cops play Fender.[end of edit]

I think threads and posts show more about personalities than instruments. Once a troll thread always a troll thread.
 
#83
I know you are simply asking a question, but I must ask, "Where did this idea come from?" While a bass choice can reflect the style of the player, e.g Michael Anthony's Jack Daniels bass, the connection between leadership qualities based on bass choice eludes me. I own a Fodera, a Ricky, 2 alembics and a bunch of fenders. I play my Fender Jazz in most situations, because it gives the tone I want and feels best in my hands. When I see/hear someone playing a specific bass, My only assumption is that they like the feel/tone of that bass. but this assumption is probably not always right. I wouldn't read too much into it if I were you.
 
#84
Just do a quick "threads started by OP"....it all becomes crystal clear. I'm guessing next will be the infamous "why do you play X number of strings" which ALWAYS creates joy and harmony here.

It's hard to unsubscribe from a gu-ren-teed train wreck when you're safe behind an Internet cable....
 
#86
I do find it to be an interesting subject - and I suppose truth be told - many other posters did too. The basses we buy and play say so much more than many of us realize - and ARE in many cases a direct reflection of our personalities.

If you don't find the subject matter interesting or at least entertaining I would suggest that you simply move along. The old Howard Stern analogy can certainly be applied here - if you don't like the show turn the dial. No harm no foul.

Not everyone is interested in every topic here. To me, there were a number of intelligent and insightful posts - if you are not entertained simply turn the dial. I am sure there are a lot of topics here that will welcome your venom.
 
#87
BassHappy said:
I do find it to be an interesting subject - and I suppose truth be told - many other posters did too. The basses we buy and play say so much more than many of us realize - and ARE in many cases a direct reflection of our personalities.

If you don't find the subject matter interesting or at least entertaining I would suggest that you simply move along. The old Howard Stern analogy can certainly be applied here - if you don't like the show turn the dial. No harm no foul.

Not everyone is interested in every topic here. To me, there were a number of intelligent and insightful posts - if you are not entertained simply turn the dial. I am sure there are a lot of topics here that will welcome your venom.
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Or at least we -ish established that the correlation between bass type and personality was probably very weak, if non-existent. And that, to me, is a mildly interesting result, if in fact we really even have a result.

Personality seems to me to be down in the noise of other influences on instrument choice, at least based on what folks said here.

Even guys like myself with, like, no detectable personality are guided in their choice of instruments by at least something. In my case, it's my arms. Mainly, can I hear it without having to break my upper body parts whacking on the thing. Secondarily, is it affordable and easy to work on. etc. A very distant third is how it looks, but that's very very distant.

Maybe personality figures in at the artistic level instead? Dunno... But it doesn't sound like personality and which instrument you play are related much at all.

LS
 
#88
BassHappy said:
I do find it to be an interesting subject - and I suppose truth be told - many other posters did too. The basses we buy and play say so much more than many of us realize - and ARE in many cases a direct reflection of our personalities.
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That is only YOUR conclusion. Start a poll next time.

BassHappy said:
If you don't find the subject matter interesting or at least entertaining I would suggest that you simply move along. The old Howard Stern analogy can certainly be applied here - if you don't like the show turn the dial. No harm no foul.
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I consider it beneficial to the overall offering to a place like to this to point out when someone is unnecessarily creating threads that are front-loaded with presumptions,assumption and obvious agendas to prop up their judgement on a very personal decision of someone else. I understand how a dial works - I choose not to turn it at this time.

BassHappy said:
Not everyone is interested in every topic here. To me, there were a number of intelligent and insightful posts - if you are not entertained simply turn the dial. I am sure there are a lot of topics here that will welcome your venom.
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On the subject of venom - you put the blood in the water by teasing and judging people about their purchasing decisions. I have to wonder if you judge people by their haircuts,jewelry,clothing, sexual orientation,car selection and such.

You haven't seen venom - that was just a little piss in a pool of ignorance. Watching you try to flip your thread start so that you are the victim IS entertaining. Like watching a dog run into a doorwall window, "you ok boy?"

MAny replies WERE intelligent - intelligent answers to stupid questions is common.
 
#89
edpal said:
That is only YOUR conclusion. Start a poll next time.

I consider it beneficial to the overall offering to a place like to this to point out when someone is unnecessarily creating threads that are front-loaded with presumptions,assumption and obvious agendas to prop up their judgement on a very personal decision of someone else. I understand how a dial works - I choose not to turn it at this time.

On the subject of venom - you put the blood in the water by teasing and judging people about their purchasing decisions. I have to wonder if you judge people by their haircuts,jewelry,clothing, sexual orientation,car selection and such.

You haven't seen venom - that was just a little piss in a pool of ignorance. Watching you try to flip your thread start so that you are the victim IS entertaining. Like watching a dog run into a doorwall window, "you ok boy?"

MAny replies WERE intelligent - intelligent answers to stupid questions is common.
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My, my. Aren't we acerbic today.
 
#93
BassHappy said:
OK

So the question is - are the more quiet, restrained, conservative "follower-type" personalities drawn more to the conventional bass choices, such as Fender P and J? While the more adventuresome and outgoing "leader-types" drawn more to the unconventional boutique offerings with different body shapes, active pickups and exotic woods? Is there any truth in this? Is there a correlation between the nature of your personality - way you are wired - and the bass(es) you choose to buy and play?
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Am I a leader-type? Am I a follower-type? I don't know! I play a Birdsong cBass (short scale, light, "boutique" class) and a Fender Modern Player Telecaster Bass (large, heavy, made in China). Love 'em both, obviously for different reasons. Or maybe not. Maybe I'm just schizophrenic.
 
#95
Is this a follower's bass or a leader's bass? It seems to have characteristics of both.

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