Basses you love to hate?

[OOZMAN]

Fenders. Everyone has them, they're practical and they suit everyone. But they're expensive, not that fancy, and immensely boring looking. It's like paying $40,000 for a Corolla... no thanks.

A $2000 P, to an untrained eye, looks like it would've costed $200. Meanwhile, a $500 Traben or something would look a million bucks to most of the audience.

Also, I can't stand the looks of those headless, futuristic looking Kubicki basses (however you spell it). But I bet they play and sound great, and I'd love to try one.


My $0.02

 

[nukes_da_bass]

Rickenbacker. I love the look, and I love the sound when OTHER people play them. My '72 4003 factory fretless almost always sounded too thin and trebly in my hands, and that poly coat on the fingerboard needed about 15 hours of shop work over a 10 year period.

 

[vin*tone]

Anything black and pointy.

 

[amroach]

Musicman, I hate them so much I'm considering getting a stingray classic 5 so I can hate it on a daily basis.

 

[cnltb]

Fenders. Everyone has them,

A $2000 P, to an untrained eye, looks like it would've costed $200.

I don't have a fender .
I think a $2000 P was does probably cost less than 200 to make i recon.

 

[carlos840]

Signature basses, until i can get one with my name on it!

 

[PWRL]

I don't think there is a particular brand I don't like. However, I remember those Dean fretless Rhapsody basses that came out a number of years ago. I made the mistake of buying one, and it had a neck that must have been made out of rubber. Try putting Fender flats on those things and it'd bow out like a recurve. Make a nice lamp, though.

 

[plangentmusic]

Signature basses, until i can get one with my name on it!

+1. It's like buying an expensive car that's been monogramed with someone else's initials.

 

[lug]

My thoughts on the Gibson EBO
"If you love indistinct vague low notes of questionable origin, a sound as aggressive as a mouse at a cat convention, string taughtness that rivals jello, sustain that rivals a teenage boy's first sexual encounter with a swimsuit supermodel, and the fine intonation adjustment of a lump of molten slag, THIS IS THE BASS FOR YOU!"
-Lug

...and I own one.

 

[DiabolicLow B]

Rickenbackers, love the tone but can't stand the look or feel of wrapping by hands around a baseball bat for a neck, also anything Gibson or Epiphone...

 

[scott123]

I am not crazy about the Jazz shape and hate block inlays, but I played a Geddy Lee for the first time about a month ago and loved it.

 

[Gord_oh]

i hate fleabass with a passion.

 

[Jjango]

I don't hate any basses.

 

[iriegnome]

Fender Precision basses. HATE THE NECK.. Fender Jazz basses - The body style, IMHO, is straight up UGLY!

 

[Pilgrim]

I gotta say, I know Warwicks are good basses but the body shapes leave me cold. I've never wanted one.

 

[nostatic]

Anything without a head.

ahh, you've met one of my ex-wives...

 

[jpTron]

Gibson Thunderbird, BC Rich, And the headless basses. 3 ugliest basses ever created

 

[JimiLL]

Anything Fender.

Get with the times

 

[JimiLL]

I don't have a fender .
I think a $2000 P was does probably cost less than 200 to make i recon.

This is one of my major beefs

 

[bassist343]

I hate on Rickenbackers, they are overpriced and play like ****.
Also the same with Gibson. Headless basses sound like crap and look like dog poop.