GHS Boomers for boomers?

[Pier_]

so I put Boomers on John Illsey’s P bass, so that’s what you hear on that record (their best, IMHO).

do you remember the gauge?

Who are they trying to fool by uping the price a few dollars and slapping Flea's name on a set of the exact same plain old regular set that they still sell?

here in Italy they have the same exact price, and sometimes (like on Amazon) they are priced less than the regular 45-105 boomers...

John Moody says, in a youtube's comment section somewhere, that they put Flea's name on them just to identify the gauge he uses.
also, many shops in Europe don't stock regular 45-105 boomers, but only the Flea's pack, just because their code is the same, 3045ML...

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getting back in topic, I'm a long time Boomers aficionado, but only on some basses; FE I love them on my Stingray Classic 4, because they add the right amount of "meat" to a dry and snappy bass, and I often record it with the bass knob all the way down (the Classic doesn't have a "flat" spot).
all of this without losing the trademark Stingray sound.

I love them on the Precision bass because they give it a "in the middle" sound between the thump of flats and the bite of rounds, so that if I dig in, it barks, and if I play it softly, it's huge.

also they are heavenly punchy if played with a pick.

on other basses I prefer D'Addario nickel strings, more metallic and dry, for example on a Jazz Bass.

I've always said, here on Takbass, that the real problem with GHS is that people can't understand the Boomer's target in the market.

they are not "bright" strings, they are meaty and beefy strings with tons of low mids. if you want high mids and highs, you should go somewhere else.

to me it looks like if I'm buying an electric city car expecting to drive a gasoline pick-up...

try to park in Rome with a pick-up or a SUV, and find out why everyone here use Smart cars and 125/150cc motorbikes

 

[40Hz]

You're as young as you feel, right?

Yep. 60 is the new 40.

(And 9pm is the new midnight. )

All kidding aside, I always though GHS Boomers sounded really good on a PB if you were using rounds.

 

[micguy]

Let's not forget that boomers invented categorizing generations with a nickname. It would be like calling Tim Cook of Apple "Tim Apple". Boomers need rigid categories in order to properly judge and compare.

Sorry, but you’re wrong. Boomers (I’m a late Boomer - born at the end of the baby boom) were called that by our parents - they coined that term. We did not start the generation naming.

 

[michael_t]

many shops in Europe don't stock regular 45-105 boomers, but only the Flea's pack, just because their code is the same, 3045ML...

Flea Boomers = M3045F = 45-65-85-105 = M3045.

they are not "bright" strings, they are meaty and beefy strings with tons of low mids. if you want high mids and highs, you should go somewhere else.

This is exactly what I said as my assessment in THIS THREAD.

 

[oren]

do you remember the gauge?

I’m not sure, but back then I used 40-100 on my bass, so that would likely have been what I used.

 

[Rolling Thunder]

Sorry, but you’re wrong. Boomers (I’m a late Boomer - born at the end of the baby boom) were called that by our parents - they coined that term. We did not start the generation naming.

Boomers were originally and appropriately called the Me Generation.

 

[Jon Moody]

I've always said, here on Takbass, that the real problem with GHS is that people can't understand the Boomer's target in the market.

That’s squarely our fault, as the whole marketing push was that they were comparable to every other nps string out there. Which, they’re not. It’s even more apparent with the guitar sets, as they’re a round core string when nearly everything else is not.

 

[quickfix]

You're as young as you feel, right?

I sincerely hope not. If true, it means I'm about 150.

 

[gdp024]

Flea Boomers = M3045F = 45-65-85-105 = M3045.



This is exactly what I said as my assessment in THIS THREAD.

A lil late, but I can’t believe nobody jumped on pointing out the irony of how much of a “boomer” reply this was .

Kidding aside, I appreciate reading through all of the knowledge you’ve posted in these parts, sir .