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Does Anyone Still Play Music Man Basses

#104
PleyswethSqwerl said:
I’m curious does anyone still play music man basses, and, or is it their No. 1 go to in 2024. Now before I get berated by lots of people. I only ask this question because, it seems like in this day and age the general consensus is: P bass, J bass, or a P/J. When I look on YouTube and I see people doing videos I only see these basses. When I look on forums I only see people talking about these basses.

From 1999-2006 I saw a plethora of musicians specifically “bass players” using Music Man’s. It was the holy grail of basses when bands such as: Korn, limp Bizkit, Breaking Benjamin, At the drive in, The Mars Volta, Chevelle, etc. were at their peak. Since the hype around these basses seems to have fallen into “dereliction” or atleast from my view or what I can see {emphasis added}.

Has anyone else noticed this or am I inherently mistaken? I love music man but in today’s world of bass they seem to be “played out.” Am I wrong?

Thoughts!!!
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I feel like it really hasn't changed that much at all... Fender has always been the most predominant market share for mainstream music IMO. Alot of those bands you are mentioning never even ... or at least weren't well known for MusicMan basses to begin with so im confused where your going with that lol. Im too lazy to look it up but:

Korn - Ibanez
Limp Bizkit - Warwick
The Mars Volta - Fender/Lakland Jazz Bazz (juan alderate and even flea im pretty sure)



Theres alot of brands i feel like lost a considerable market share in the past decade - Zon, Warwick, Lakland - I wouldn't consider EBMM one of them. I ordered a bass last year and they had a 1 year backlog at the time - so i don't think they are hurting for orders.
 
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PleyswethSqwerl said:
It must really be endearing to be apart of the go along get along gang. Do you feel vindicated yet?
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Is that what you think it comes down to?

Your definition of MusicMan basses is so narrow and your acceptance of for example “jazz” basses are so broad. I'm not going to assume your view on P and PJs.

It seems like you have your view and based on your observations that you don't see much of the Stingray on YouTube. Stingray is a trademark of MusicMan 3x1 tuners so no other companies can produce these except for Sterling, OLP and Ernie Ball MusicMan. Jazz, P and PJ however everyone makes them. so if you are seeing that yeah the ratio is going to be way off because it's not 2 models of Fender VS MusicMan but the whole counts of pickup configurations VS one, maybe 2 including HH.

In the real world more people buys and plays more Stingray/ rays than licensed P, J or PJ comparing model to model simply because the Sterling Ray4 are very competitive in pricing and have less build quality issues than the entry level Squiers, in both new and used market.

I'm also on a bass lessons forum, it seems like one out of five of the new players buy some models of Sterling Ray because it's better starting price. That's pretty big because there are a lot of companies competing in these arena, Ibanez Gio, Yamaha TRBX, Squiers, etc.

Would you change your mind if you see more YouTube videos about MusicMan basses? Is that how you measure the relevant of things?
 
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#113
PleyswethSqwerl said:
I’m curious does anyone still play music man basses, and, or is it their No. 1 go to in 2024. Now before I get berated by lots of people. I only ask this question because, it seems like in this day and age the general consensus is: P bass, J bass, or a P/J. When I look on YouTube and I see people doing videos I only see these basses. When I look on forums I only see people talking about these basses.

From 1999-2006 I saw a plethora of musicians specifically “bass players” using Music Man’s. It was the holy grail of basses when bands such as: Korn, limp Bizkit, Breaking Benjamin, At the drive in, The Mars Volta, Chevelle, etc. were at their peak. Since the hype around these basses seems to have fallen into “dereliction” or atleast from my view or what I can see {emphasis added}.

Has anyone else noticed this or am I inherently mistaken? I love music man but in today’s world of bass they seem to be “played out.” Am I wrong?

Thoughts!!!
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#114
PleyswethSqwerl said:
This was just a reference, but back then the double buck $$ was extremely popular
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Warwick basses are probably great. I owned one for two days, I couldn't get my head around a 12 lb plus bass so I returned it.
Popular is not a metric I care much about. Some people lead, some people follow.
And some of us create singular roads out of wilderness.
 
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Lance Bunyon said:
Warwick basses are probably great. I owned one for two days, I couldn't get my head around a 12 lb plus bass so I returned it.
Popular is not a metric I care much about. Some people lead, some people follow.
And some of us create singular roads out of wilderness.
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I respect that. I was basically asking in this thread why aren’t they so popular and why do people seem to be using P bases and jazz bases more. The message somehow got lost. That’s my fault, though I was ignorant to believe that by posting on a public forum everybody would interpret my post as simple.
 
#118
FunkHead said:
I kind of understand but there's no such thing as a "Music Man Corvette $$". Maybe you meant to say Warwick? Sorry for the derail but it was confusing to me.
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If I said “musicman” I apologize that was a typo. He said “warwicks were popular back then also” I replied “yes especially the $$” if I said musician in that. I truly apologize. You are correct there is no musicmann $$
 
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