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Name/show me some clunky basses.
- Thread starter St Drogo
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If you actually read the original post, you would see this:
"See, I love the looks and attitude of a Rick 4001/4003, (Oh! The shape! Oooh! that binding! Mon Dieu! Those inlays!Aiaiai! All that big chrome, like machinery!). Somehow however, those basses and me never really got along, playabilitywise. So I'm looking for alternatives to a Ricky, but with the same(-ish) attitude."
"See, I love the looks and attitude of a Rick 4001/4003, (Oh! The shape! Oooh! that binding! Mon Dieu! Those inlays!Aiaiai! All that big chrome, like machinery!). Somehow however, those basses and me never really got along, playabilitywise. So I'm looking for alternatives to a Ricky, but with the same(-ish) attitude."
Ha, I love these pics most of them look like they are going to hurt when you play them and only Lemmy from motorhead would by man enough to attempt it. Keep em coming.
I present you the king of klong!
Heavy as hell, neck like a baseball bat and long scale, awkward playing position, awkward shape!
Its as smooth as a kick in the nuts but i love it!
Ooh Carlos, I love that one! Someone else here on TB has a similar one, but a bit more worn, IIRC. Not sure who.
What exactly is it? Like a non-non-non-reverse thunderbird or something?
Also:
...is exactly how I should've described clunkyness. You sir, are a poet. And you don't even knowet.
Like Matt-77 said, keep 'em coming!
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- John K Custom Basses
Looked it up, I kinda like it. It's round and smooth, but the clunky PG makes up for that to an extent.
Reminds me of those reverend rumblefish things (if that's what they were called)
that's a Gibson RD artist bass.
and here's another somewhat 'clunky' (IMO) bass:
Thanks John, i'll look into gibson artists. Anyone have any idea what they go for, give or take?
That mosrite is clunky indeed, as most mosrites are, but personally I'm not a fan of them. I've never played one, so they may be really nice, but the looks just don't speak to me.
I present you the king of klong!
Heavy as hell, neck like a baseball bat and long scale, awkward playing position, awkward shape!
Its as smooth as a kick in the nuts but i love it!
I wish I had been a fly on the wall at the meeting where they green-lighted production of this one.
Nice!
Wish I would've thought about Ricky's.
/sarcasm
Still, they are beautiful, so a picture won't hurt.
Not a fan, I take it?
Not necessarily a non-fan. However, the ergonomic problems with this one are obvious, even without a fat neck. It might sound terrific, but the market seems to prefer practicality. An instrument must balance well. Someone in a board meeting sold the hell out of this one.
Exactly. That is perhaps why there's loads of jazz and p basses out there, and why designers that break away from that go in a direction of more ergonomics, balance, light weight and other such traits. Not a bad thing at all, but it tends to make basses more of the same. Let's face it, we as humans all have by and large the same body. Not exactly, but in general terms. Most of us are born with two arms, ten fingers, joints that bend the same way and so on. If your goal as an instrumentbuilder is to make a bass as comfortable as possible, it's gonna look a lot like the instruments of all the other companies/ luthers that have the same goal. Sure, you can distinguish yourself in some ways, like using exotic woods or different electronics but in the end that does not do a whole lot for the attitude an character of a bass, IMO.
When I see a boutique built bass with, i don't know, a walnut top, koa body and purpleheart neck, a lot of the time it's a very uninspired instrument done countless times before, trying to set itself apart by those woods. And it's not about that, IMO. Take Fender at the beginning. They didn't care about the woods, they used what was available, cheap and reasonably okay.
But I digress. What it comes down to is that I (or we) am (are) looking for clunky, basses with personality, and that Gibson RD has it. In oodles. IMO.
Rock 'n' Roll has never been about practicality.
I love both that gretsch and that guild! I wasn't aware there was a bass version of that Gretsch, isn't that Bo Diddley's or something? Man, it's clunk city. Love the bodybinding too.
That guild looks almost like a BC Rich design, but without the signature BC rich tackiness. I like it.
That guild looks almost like a BC Rich design, but without the signature BC rich tackiness. I like it.
