Because life is better with a hootenannyI'm just wondering why they put a hootenanny button on the headstock....
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Blu DeTiger seeing her bass at GC
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Not my cuppa, but happy for her. I have no idea who Troy Sanders is, but he has a Fender signature bass. I'm not outraged. Honestly, I'm tired of playing from the "Hymnal of 60's, 70's and 80's Hits". Glad to see some new stuff out there and not every new song has to be better than the top 1/10 of 1% of the songs that survived from decades past until today.
I was completely unfamiliar with her until a half-hour ago.
She seems like a talented young person who's doing the work to make it as a pop star. She's a very solid bassist. She may not be recording material that's everybody's cup of tea, but nobody is everybody's cup of tea. I'm not likely to buy her music but I'm not her target market, either.
Fender decides who gets a signature model based upon marketing possibilities, not chops. Can she play like Tal Wilkenfeld? No, but maybe she will in ten years. Maybe she won't. What difference does it make? She's certainly a good player, virtuoso or not. In the meantime she's exposing young women to the possibility of being bassists with this sig model and I'm fine with that. Also, as others mentioned, the feature set is nice.
As for the people who feel the need to pis* in everyone else's cornflakes... well... you do you. I'm not sure how you see this sort of 'contribution' as productive but it's a discussion forum and, as such, you have a right to discuss. The music industry will not always back the people you root for. Manufacturers will not always have great quality control. Singers will not always sing songs in a style you like. We all share this forum and you can complain about those things here if you want to. Just don't expect everyone to agree with you if you choose to do it in a thread like this.
Blu DeTiger has my full respect. I hope she gets 1,000 kids to try out playing bass.
She seems like a talented young person who's doing the work to make it as a pop star. She's a very solid bassist. She may not be recording material that's everybody's cup of tea, but nobody is everybody's cup of tea. I'm not likely to buy her music but I'm not her target market, either.
Fender decides who gets a signature model based upon marketing possibilities, not chops. Can she play like Tal Wilkenfeld? No, but maybe she will in ten years. Maybe she won't. What difference does it make? She's certainly a good player, virtuoso or not. In the meantime she's exposing young women to the possibility of being bassists with this sig model and I'm fine with that. Also, as others mentioned, the feature set is nice.
As for the people who feel the need to pis* in everyone else's cornflakes... well... you do you. I'm not sure how you see this sort of 'contribution' as productive but it's a discussion forum and, as such, you have a right to discuss. The music industry will not always back the people you root for. Manufacturers will not always have great quality control. Singers will not always sing songs in a style you like. We all share this forum and you can complain about those things here if you want to. Just don't expect everyone to agree with you if you choose to do it in a thread like this.
Blu DeTiger has my full respect. I hope she gets 1,000 kids to try out playing bass.
And along with Blu DeTiger, you have an amazing younger generation of young ladies killing it on bass.
Jules Whelpton
Becky Baldwin
Tanya O'Callaghan
Anna Sentina
a whole bunch more I haven't even mentioned...
I LOVE that so many young women are in-demand bassists nowadays. Several of these folks do session work playing with all kinds of artists on all manner of trending songs. The younger generation is all right. And if someone like Blu DeTiger or Jules Whelpton inspires a kid to pick up bass just like [ insert bassist you idolized in your youth ] inspired you to pick up a bass as a kid, awesome!
And a lot of this thread (especially the d-baggy "who?!" nonsense) echoes one of my biggest pet peeves with this forum:
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/tb-pet-peeves.1632121/page-5#post-28012232
Jules Whelpton
Becky Baldwin
Tanya O'Callaghan
Anna Sentina
a whole bunch more I haven't even mentioned...
I LOVE that so many young women are in-demand bassists nowadays. Several of these folks do session work playing with all kinds of artists on all manner of trending songs. The younger generation is all right. And if someone like Blu DeTiger or Jules Whelpton inspires a kid to pick up bass just like [ insert bassist you idolized in your youth ] inspired you to pick up a bass as a kid, awesome!
And a lot of this thread (especially the d-baggy "who?!" nonsense) echoes one of my biggest pet peeves with this forum:
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/tb-pet-peeves.1632121/page-5#post-28012232
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The Blu DeTiger sig is one of the first basses to really tempt me lately. My music industry buddy (who I also played with in a band in college around 1989-90 - me on bass, him on drums) introduced me to her with this video:
He directed me to the solo (which starts at about 2:06), but I fell in love with the song. She is so cool! My favorite thing about her signature bass is the neck with dots and binding. When I was living in Japan in the mid-2000s there was a Fender Japan '66 Jazz Bass reissue with that combo. I've been hitting my local GCs when I can, hoping to see one and try it out, but not getting my hopes up. (Also hoping to see a Jack Casady fretless but haven't managed that either)
She isn't withholding information either:
Who does that?!! I've been playing 40 years and I still wonder what position people play things in, what string they're on, are they sliding, etc. - we get to see that here. I'm a fan.
He directed me to the solo (which starts at about 2:06), but I fell in love with the song. She is so cool! My favorite thing about her signature bass is the neck with dots and binding. When I was living in Japan in the mid-2000s there was a Fender Japan '66 Jazz Bass reissue with that combo. I've been hitting my local GCs when I can, hoping to see one and try it out, but not getting my hopes up. (Also hoping to see a Jack Casady fretless but haven't managed that either)
She isn't withholding information either:
Who does that?!! I've been playing 40 years and I still wonder what position people play things in, what string they're on, are they sliding, etc. - we get to see that here. I'm a fan.
Yeah Vintage is a cool song. She’s a clever writer.
How about Leezy? Otherwise, you and your kid should get out more.
It reminded me of that time in the early 2000's, when the author Jon Ronson was shopping in a Borders Books / Barnes & Noble in New York, and whilst in the queue (which had the new releases table strategically placed within impulse purchase reach), noticed that his new book "Them" was featured on the table
Them: Adventures with Extremists - Wikipedia
He remembered that his agent was always berating him for not doing enough promotion, or publicity, and impressed upon him the importance of making an effort, even if it was simple things like book signings.
When he got to the front of the queue, and was paying, he said to the cashier "I wrote them".
The cashier looked confused, and inspected his purchases.
Realising she'd got the wrong end of the stick, he interjected "Oh, not those. Them", and gestured towards the table.
Now she looked really confused, seeing a table with about 30 different books on it, and an awkward Englishman, apparently claiming to have written every book on the table.
Jon, not quite realising the degree to which wires were getting crossed, then offered up "I can sign them right now. I'll sign every copy on that table".
At this apparent threat, the young women firmly stated "Please do NOT vandalise our stock, or I will have to call security. Kindly leave now."
Sometimes it's better to just remain anonymous.
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Looks like a cool bass. She’s a great player. She has over a half a million IG followers, so I would say that’s about as good as a metric for “famous” these days as any.
Junior Brauginha, Munir Hossn- there are a bunch of smashing players on there that make good money, have big fan bases and are changing the game, but a lot of people just want to eternally talk about what cable Jack Bruce used while the world of creativity passes them by. (No disrespect to Jack)
Junior Brauginha, Munir Hossn- there are a bunch of smashing players on there that make good money, have big fan bases and are changing the game, but a lot of people just want to eternally talk about what cable Jack Bruce used while the world of creativity passes them by. (No disrespect to Jack)
She plays bass better than I do.
What? Someone had to admit it.
What? Someone had to admit it.
Blu minus most of our ages = a large negative number.
Like Flora said “Open your Eyes..”
Like Flora said “Open your Eyes..”
I saw her (HER?) on a live TV thing a couple years ago, and her guitar playing skills were rudimentary at best. Definitely not deserving of a sig model as a player, but Fender wants to sell guitars, and endorsing players that are only known to musicians does not move units.
We have old sig guitars but not basses? The Eva Gardner Squier is the only one I remember
Depends on the priority order of the three qualities listed above. Take away the "smoke show," video production, and studio manipulation.... is there an accomplished bassist in the same strata as the denizens of the "Ten Best" list above, or a bunch of other bassists? A singer on par with Jane Monheit? Holly Cole? I think not. Being famous or popular is not synonymous with being a great accomplished musician. It doesn't rule it out, either, of course, but it's two different things.
As far as another comment earlier about critical comments as to the musical value of this specific example saying more about the demographic of this forum than the example....perhaps it does. It says that the demographic contains more accomplished musicians than the mass public that consumes music "product." It has nothing to do with any kind of bias against young women. The reasons for not admiring nor extolling the praises of someone's work, if they happen to be young and female, can certainly be because that work isn't praiseworthy nor admirable based upon the musical background of the listener, and have nothing to do with the artist's demographic.
I am quite sick of that tired and overused "if you don't like or support so and so, then you are a (fill in your favorite despicable and unjust accusation here)" trope permeating so many unproductive discussions these days.
That's what I think of Phil Lynott, but it's a matter of taste. Nobody is right about anything.
I’m gonna guess they knew she was coming and actually got the bass set up correctly.
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There are hundreds of great bass players since the early years of the electric bass who not a household names, yet we discuss them ad nauseam. There is no reason to think that a discussion on this bassist should be any different.
In fact I think this line of argument is so meritless, that I am inclined to think it is intended to be a troll. I certainly hope that is not the case.
There are hundreds of great bass players since the early years of the electric bass who not a household names, yet we discuss them ad nauseam. There is no reason to think that a discussion on this bassist should be any different.
In fact I think this line of argument is so meritless, that I am inclined to think it is intended to be a troll. I certainly hope that is not the case.
Admittedly, I only know who this is because of I have kids under 25. My daughter introduced me to Blu a few years ago. Really cool she has an Artist Sig bass.
