Most inappropriate bass...

[GBassNorth]

I don't have the cash monay for that kind of bass.

That's ok, I don't have the skill for that kind of bass! Together we'd make a great team!

 

[Super Iridium]

How about this on stage with Victor Wooten...

Are you kidding? Victor would love that bass!

 

[pklima]

Actual live picture of me. This bass does not go with this cajon.

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Better view of the bass here.

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And this bass does not go with this cello. I have a DB, but wasn't about to haul it there.

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It is, however, a very appropriate bass for bathroom mirror selfies.

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I sold this one to a punk bassist.

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"We've gone plaid!!!!"

 

[Thor]

Mod note: Keep it clean (PG) or its gone...
Thank you.

 

[TolerancEJ]

...And in a preemptive move (because I know there's less appropriate pictures of this bass floating around) how about the epic, the one, the only (drum roll please)...
Mothman bass in a Lawrence Welk orchestra

Ahh, but in this rare case The Mothman demands respect and makes its presence known in any music genre. For one's ear to accept the sound, that individual has already been placed under its spell. Also consider that one does not play The Mothman. The Mothman chooses its host.

 

[Bassmunnky]

This thread needs more cowbell

 

[A. D. Fairhurst]

Any bass guitar at an upright convention.

 

[scourgeofgod]

Not a bass, but I saw one of these for sale on Kijiji recently:

I can't think of anywhere it IS appropriate. Not to mention the model name... I just can't believe anyone would have bought it in the first place.

I wanted that guitar so bad... when I was 14.

 

[Donavan12]

This, either in church or a jazz band.

Though it is fretless...

Nice ricks, axe bass, not so much. I'd go for the ricks!

 

[GreyBeard]

Headless or Rick bass in a country band or jazz combo.

 

[Jeff Scott]

...Rick bass in a country band or jazz combo.

I can think of a few who do so just fine.

 

[Lionel Albert]

Everyone knows you can't use a P bass to play jazz. I mean, come on. Imagine all the un-jazz-like sounds coming out of that thing!

You can play jazz on every kind of instrument and the P-Bass sounds very good, it emulates very well a double bass, that was and still is its goal.

 

[mojomike001]

You can play jazz on every kind of instrument and the P-Bass sounds very good, it emulates very well a double bass, that was and still is its goal.

I know. I was kidding. In fact I built this fretless P which can really nail that double bass sound when played right over the base of the neck.

 

[Lionel Albert]

I know. I was kidding. In fact I built this fretless P which can really nail that double bass sound when played right over the base of the neck.

So you were ironic... I was wondering : when a Precision Bass is fretless, should we still call it a Precision ?

 

[mojomike001]

So you were ironic... I was wondering : when a Precision Bass is fretless, should we still call it a Precision ?

Technically, it should not be called a Precision, but Fender has built them and they called them Precisions. I guess that makes it legit.

 

[SturmUndDrang]

I can't imagine Marcus Miller or Victor Wooten having an easy time using a Gibson EB-1 on their gigs.

 

[Jim C]

And yet no bass with a unicorn under a fluffy blue sky with a rainbow?

 

[bluesblaster]

I want a bass with sprinkles

 

[Stinsok]

I guess I took an inappropriate bass to church once. I used to own a matching "Blue Flower" P-bass and Strat. The guy that asked me to play that week played guitar and took the pair so he could play the Strat. He was pulled aside and instructed not to play it. I was the only bassist there with the only bass guitar, so...I rocked it. What's offensive about a flowery guitar?