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Do You Play USA Models?

Do You Play USA Models?

  • I'm American, and I play USA models.

    Votes: 349 51.2%

  • I'm American, and I DON'T play USA models.

    Votes: 129 18.9%

  • I'm NOT American, and I play USA models.

    Votes: 126 18.5%

  • I'm NOT American, and I DON'T play USA models.

    Votes: 77 11.3%
  • Total voters
    681
#61
I am American, and I play U.S.-made stuff like -

Music Man StringRay
Fender Precision
Ampeg SVT-CL & two 4x10 cabs

My Japanese-made stuff includes -

Tobias Standard fretless
1983 SQ Stratocaster
Ibanez RD707
Ibanez 9-series pedals

My Taiwanese-made stuff includes -

all my Boss pedals and BCB-60 board
 
#62
I'm American and cannot afford instruments made in my country lol...honestly, aside from some materials and upgradeable parts (pickups, bridges, etc) there isn't enough difference in the models to justify a price difference that big. I've recently learned how to set up my own basses, and while im not phenomenal it's saving me a lot of headache and the bass comes out like I want it, according to my playing style...not some shadetree luthier who thinks I don't know how to play lol.

Gonna get handy with a soldering iron and start doing pickup changes myself as well. Debating on getting an SD antiquity precision pickup or a nordstrand.
 
#64
EtoG said:
American is really the only adjective we have to describe ourselves that is commonly used. :hmm:

I know you're not trying to argue or anything, but that's my rationale for putting "American". Even saying "North American" also encompasses Canadians. It's really the only shorthand term that I can think of to describe those of USA descent.
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I hear you and I'm not trying to make your thread about anything other than what you stated you wanted it to be.

I travel a lot. And one of the things I've learned to be careful of (especially in South America) is to refer to myself as "from the USA". If you travel to Brazil or Argentina... even somewhere as close to the USA as the Bahamas, the people there call themselves "American" too.

And I haven't seen any USA-made basses that I can remember that said, "Made in America"... they say "Made in the USA".

The Mexican-Made basses are in fact, "Made in America" too... they are just made in another part of North America.

I totally get what you were asking and why.

I apologize if my comments took things off topic.

Just trying to be respectful of the hundreds of great bassists and musicians I've met in my travels who are as "American" as I am... but simply from a country other than the USA.

Peace.
 
#66
low2groove said:
I'm american and to me it doesn't matter who made it or where it came from, I play what I'm comfortable with.

So I can't answer your poll there weren't enough choices. Sorry.
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Sorry for that. :hmm:
I really wasn't going after a poll of preference, but rather if you play USA models, and if you live in the USA. More of a yes/no thing. It might seems silly, but it was to gauge international interest of USA models more than anything. I was just curious. :)
 
#67
JPSBassist said:
I hear you and I'm not trying to make your thread about anything other than what you stated you wanted it to be.

I travel a lot. And one of the things I've learned to be careful of (especially in South America) is to refer to myself as "from the USA". If you travel to Brazil or Argentina... even somewhere as close to the USA as the Bahamas, the people there call themselves "American" too.

And I haven't seen any USA-made basses that I can remember that said, "Made in America"... they say "Made in the USA".

The Mexican-Made basses are in fact, "Made in America" too... they are just made in another part of North America.

I totally get what you were asking and why.

I apologize if my comments took things off topic.

Just trying to be respectful of the hundreds of great bassists and musicians I've met in my travels who are as "American" as I am... but simply from a country other than the USA.

Peace.
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Thanks for sharing your insight. I really appreciate it! :bassist:
 
#68
JPSBassist said:
I am a natural-born citizen of the United States of America...

... I have many friends from all over this hemisphere and it can sometimes be insulting to assume that "American" means a USA Citizen. ...
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In a weird way that is interesting to me, since I have been in other hemispheres where I say "United States" and the pople look at me like I'm a stump; then, I say "America" and they reply, "Oh, America!" They DO equate 'America' with 'United States,' which I still find baffling.

Back on topic, I still think there are two categories neglected in this poll:
I am an American and I play both (me); and,
I am not an American and I play both (some other posters to this forum).
 
#74
lindseyp said:
In a weird way that is interesting to me, since I have been in other hemispheres where I say "United States" and the pople look at me like I'm a stump; then, I say "America" and they reply, "Oh, America!" They DO equate 'America' with 'United States,' which I still find baffling.

Back on topic, I still think there are two categories neglected in this poll:
I am an American and I play both (me); and,
I am not an American and I play both (some other posters to this forum).
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Typically, TalkBassers do like an option for both in their polls, it seems! :D

I guess I'm strange in a way, I wanted the responses to be black and white, with no gray area.
 
#76
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
 

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#77
Born American and I played two Laklands, one Indonesian and one Korean. But only because I can't afford the U.S. models..though the way I see it, the electronics and hardware are the same as the USA models, and the basses still get QC and setup in Chicago, so I still feel good about it as opposed to basses that are 100% built and shipped overseas.
 
#79
JPSBassist said:
I am a natural-born citizen of the United States of America...

Not trying to be smart or anything, but Canadians, Mexicans, Panamanians... anyone living in North, Central or South America are "Americans". I have many friends from all over this hemisphere and it can sometimes be insulting to assume that "American" means a USA Citizen. Again, not trying to be provocative but just being respectful of my friends from all over the Americas.

So in short, yes I am the USA flavor of American.

And yes, I play USA-Made SPECTOR basses. Built in Saugerties, NY (Woodstock) by Stuart Spector.
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If someone is offended by me equating "American" with "US citizen", they just need to grow up and stop being offended so easily. :)
 

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