I need to get my plywood body on a work table next weekend.
I'm building out a POS bass with my leftover parts for nostalgia.
I'm building out a POS bass with my leftover parts for nostalgia.
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Good Punk Bass?
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It doesn't matter what bass you have.Punk don't care! The end.
Randy Rampage of DOA with his P Bass. Sadly Randy passed away a few weeks back. I have an old P with ti jazz flats, 800w rms Bassmaster head and Powerhouse 410 box that will do the job. Something about a rig like that is perfect for punk. Total balls sound.
Name a bass, a punk rock guy has probably played it. P, Jazz, Ric, Stingrays, Sterlings, T-Birds. Hell, Todd from Propagandhi plays an old Japanese Ibanez Soundgear. Play with conviction and passion, the rest will take care of itself.
But yeah probably a P bass would be good.
But yeah probably a P bass would be good.
I know a bunch of LA punk rock guys, they're my friends dad's.
They bought whatever was the nice gear of their day when they got some $. That was 40 years or so give or take.
Today that'd be an Ibanez with Nordstrands, a Schecter, something MM, a nice parts bass.
Yeah there are guys rolling around Hollywood right now that dress like it's 1978, but punk is almost a rockabilly caricature now.
Super angry kids making music today are more likely to find (temporary) success dissing Eminem.
The gear should evolve.
They bought whatever was the nice gear of their day when they got some $. That was 40 years or so give or take.
Today that'd be an Ibanez with Nordstrands, a Schecter, something MM, a nice parts bass.
Yeah there are guys rolling around Hollywood right now that dress like it's 1978, but punk is almost a rockabilly caricature now.
Super angry kids making music today are more likely to find (temporary) success dissing Eminem.
The gear should evolve.
Im sorry to burst your bubble but many great punk artists have used jazz basses. the Jazz bass can be great for punk
I just got a SBMM Stingray short scale bass with 1 passive humbucker and a 3 way rotary knob that switches from parallel, true single coil and series modes. Plus it has a push/pull volume boost. It’s an amazing bass with no Flabby E string IMO. I prefer the single coil mode with the volume boost for that punk rock clank. As a bonus it came with my favorite EB regular slinky SS strings.
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It's all been covered really, you could use whatever you like. Here's what I would do.
Your budget is overkill, buy a nice playing used P bass of some description.
Replace pickups with DiMarzio Model P.
Replace strings with Rotosound rounds.
Cover the body in as many stickers as possible.
Sand off the headstock logo, or sticker over it. Having a bass with the logo of some massive corporation (or not, depending on what you bought) on it doesn't seem very punk to me.
Your budget is overkill, buy a nice playing used P bass of some description.
Replace pickups with DiMarzio Model P.
Replace strings with Rotosound rounds.
Cover the body in as many stickers as possible.
Sand off the headstock logo, or sticker over it. Having a bass with the logo of some massive corporation (or not, depending on what you bought) on it doesn't seem very punk to me.
Both can get you into punk rock territory but with the Ray you get that punk rock clank sound. I’ve had a player p and a ray4 and now the ray4 shorty and I prefer the clank over the p bass. However I hear producers love the p over the ray.
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The beefy, clanky, punk sound is a P bass hit hard with a thick pick.
Absolutely! I was the original bass player for Eddie and the Subtitles famous for “American Society “ ‘78/‘80. We would open for X (same manager) and “Black Flag would open for us!
All the sweet Punk Bass was delivered from a 1978 Fender Precision! Check my Avatar. I plugged that into an SVT with the rare 9/10 Fridge. Stage and earth shaking! I used a fender medium pick with RotoSound Rounds.
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Since "punk is dead", and it's all about image anymore, ya can't go wrong with a P. It doesn't matter if you can't play note 1 if you look the part.
