bass for garage

[CatSquare]

"Garage" as a genre brings The Hives to mind. Love The Hives (terrible lack of bass on their earlier recordings though)

 

[Grumry]

What's the best metal for garage boxes?

 

[mpdd]

danelectro Rumor

 

[deathness]

Garage rock? Cheapest cool lookin bass you can find. Cheap-o hollowbody is a good one. Maybe some rundown vintage hagstrom or vox like the phantom. What about a hofner like a verythin or club bass? Take that money youd waste on a squier an hit up every music shop in town and look for something weird and well loved.

 

[Matthew Fisher]

Either one of those Squiers would be fine. If you can, try them before buying. The Mustang has a shorter scale length (distance from the bridge to the nut), so they would feel pretty different to play. Both would sound fine for garage.

 

[Matthew Fisher]

I always thought a Garage band was a bunch of teens starting their first band, usually forced into the garage for practice. Is it a Genre of music now?

Yes, since the mid-60s, although the term garage rock wasn't invented until early 70s. Try to keep up.

 

[bassfella06]

Hi, I'm planing to play garage but I can't find the perfect one yet my thoughts are on a squier mustang bass and on a squier vintage modified pbass(pj pickups)

Heck yeah. Both of those would be great for garage rock. The p bass pup can give some serious punch. Thats fun music to play ! I've been playing with a 60s garage rock/punk thing lately. keyboardists has a real Farfisa organ too. so yeah. both of those are great for what yer thinking of. Have a blast Man !

 

[consectaneus]

I always thought a Garage band was a bunch of teens starting their first band, usually forced into the garage for practice. Is it a Genre of music now?

This compilation released in 1972 (co-assembled with liner notes by Lenny Kaye) and similar comps to follow were influential in defining the genre which brought such bands under the broad umbrella known as "garage" today.


For a bass, some sort of hollow body or Vox would really capture the trad look and sound. I think an Epi Jack Casady would work well.

 

[packhowitzer]

 

[jaybones]

The best bass for garage is the same as the best bass for metal, but with rounded corners, a couple years of wear, worn a little higher, and tuned up to standard pitch.

Don't forget the stickers. Motor oil, low quality American beer or American motorcycles or automobiles usually work out fine.

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

I did not know that!

Me neither... and here I been trying to get waived into Gen-X on musical merits.

 

[Eminor3rd]

Literally anything

 

[7dollarbologna]

Teisco

 

[7dollarbologna]

The Drags!

 

[wintremute]

Garage band? You HAVE to get your bass from a pawn shop. Those are the rules.

 

[PsyDocHill]

My 1st band, in my early teens, well--we called our style "garage rock." Other people agreed. Among other acts, Blue Cheer inspired us kids. Folks like to call that act "proto-metal" but we knew better! This here is pure garage. Fender Jazz worked real well for them. I bought a P-Bass. Bliss! :

 

[1954bassman]

If its only a garage band, then Mustang, of course. Now a garbage band...

 

[Yango]

Best bass for garage? Why, one made from parts of a Ford Focus!

 

[draygriff]

I just read a review on the Fender Mustang in Premier Guitar. This would be my choice for a garage band.

 

[MojoPenguin]

Ok here's a good "Garage" tune with an awesome video clip