Joe dart .. Ernie ball jazz !

[SixtyCycleHum]

Why is it different to the pics provided? (Single Soap bar VS twin thins)
I thought he played a MIM Fender Jazz?

The single H is the #1 Joe Dart signature and the single coil is the most recent #2.

 

[Hambone70]

‘Emporer’s new clothes’ comes to mind. Not a fan of celebrity worship.

 

[mindwell]

Had I more ducats I most definitely would.

 

[MasterG]

Meh.

 

[Derry Murbles]

26389869[/URL], member: 384773"]What you see as "condescension" is me just giving some a much needed reality check, but I'll stand by it. And I'll accept your point.

I respect your conviction and appreciate the measured response. Carry on!

This comment? Meh.

I can’t disagree with you on that. Well done.

 

[thunesBARROW]

Meh

 

[mindwell]

Actual sound test video.

 

[superheavyfunk]

Meh. To me, it’s just an extra expensive jazz bass with no tone controls. I’ll take a pass on it.

 

[ThudThudThud]

Edit: I thought the MM-style bass Joe previously played was a stock Carlo Robelli. Maybe I'm wrong.

With, I believe, a MusicMan pickup wired with just a volume pot, hence the Joe Dart I model MM.
This one makes sense. The Jazz-ish one is a stretch. Even the website splash page for the Joe Dart II has pictures of Joe Dart playing....a Joe Dart I.

 

[Isaac_James]

View attachment 4671614

I like the natural finish a lot. I'm not at all a fan of white pickup covers or knobs. And I'm extremely not a fan of paying $2700 for a bass.

 

[Acoop]

I already have a few Jazz basses and I'm not a fan of white pickup covers.

 

[sonojono]

Nice to see Chromeo and Cory Wong in one room

 

[DrBnz]

Thats ridiculous...... that's a $500 bass. But somebody pays for them.

 

[Harper]

Boy, a new Joe Dart bass, and a bunch of people are getting in their feelings both ways about it.

WHO SAW THAT HAPPENING?!

 

[eastcoasteddie]

I like it, but I’ll never buy one…two totally different concepts…
I’ll never buy one because I can pretty much build one of similar specs for under a grand….and I’m frugal…very frugal.

“How many tone knobs does your oven have…?”

None. But my oven doesn’t make any sound either…

It think it should be the Jack Sparrow bass (or whatever his name is) because he seems to have more input on it than Joe does.

 

[LadyLoveStingRay5]

I already have the perfect MusicMan Bass for me. It was worth every penny. I would not pay asking price for any one of the Joe Dart models.

 

[eastcoasteddie]

Thats ridiculous...... that's a $500 bass. But somebody pays for them.

Just like the $7000 Cliff Williams Stingray…?

 

[LadyLoveStingRay5]

Dart is a cool player, though not my favorite personally.
For modern/current players killing with EB/MM basses, I'd personally rather see a Paul Bender sig.

But - what really amazes me is that although they're doing TWO Dart signature models, they never did a signature model for Flea or Tony Levin (note: I know there was a short-lived OLP Levin model, but that doesn't really count).
Two of the most successful and visible players of the last couple of decades, who basically built their sounds and personas with MusicMan basses, and neither of them
got an "official" signature bass.

I have no beef with Dart as a player - he's good, and I appreciate that he's bringing the bass out front and getting people excited.
Tim Commerford makes a bit more sense as a signature artist, though (like Dart) he rather noticeably spends a lot of his time with J-basses.

But I think very few people would try to make the case that either of those guys have done more for EB/MM's visibility than Flea or T-Lev. Or even Pino, for that matter, who basically
put the fretless Stingray on the map in the '80s with Paul Young and others.

Go figure. If I had Flea or Tony playing my basses, I'd have them up on billboards in Times Square.

Ive said something similar here many times before. Specifically when they released the $7k Cliff Williams model. My question was.... where is the Louis Johnson , Bernard Edwards, Paul Denman, Tony Levin, John Deacon signature models? These players put StingRays on the map.

 

[Alexis Duntov]

That is some serious music major Funk. Funk is finding itself being maintained by music education the way Jazz has been for the last fifty or so years. It is good to see the fruits of that education.

I had exactly the same thought. There’s some weird substitutions in there. But I dig it.

 

[lermgalieu]

‘Emporer’s new clothes’ comes to mind. Not a fan of celebrity worship.

What a hot take! Because this is the first time anyone has every released a signature instrument. And it's definitely "worship." [/SARCASM]