Request - ease up on the Sire advocacy

[Jamarvic]

This is a website filled with gear hungry individuals obsessed with playing, collecting, discussing, and arguing about anything bass related. A company pops up from out of the blue and offers an instrument which by many accounts, offers unprecedented quality at its price point. People are bound to get excited.

Finally an adult shows up!

 

[Plutonium244]

Where can I find these superior instruments,I'd like to compare it to my Sire?

Oh, well-played. I can see the way this one comes out.

So... I can't play his basses and guitars... because I can't get one off the rack at a retailer.... so... how am I supposed to judge them when I might have to lay out "half a grand" or more without playing one... so... due to unavailability to me....... I can still judge them. The logical symmetry is painful.

"Half a grand" sound pretty impressively expensive though. Those damned high-priced Sires, out of the reach of most common folk. When will they make a budget Sire?

 

[higain617]

All this Sire hype is why I bought a Nottingham Sheriff 5.

 

[leesbrushes]

Sweet bass. I think I'll wait for the Sire knockoff. Srsly

Me too I would love to buy the same bass for 400 instead of 4000

 

[Herbie Chesnutt]

It'll calm down soon enough, and there will be another to take its place.

Right. Go through every post that mentions Sire today and replace Sire with SX or Rondo and you will be in TalkBass circa 2009.

 

[leesbrushes]

Me too I would love to buy the same bass for 400 instead of 4000

And then resell it for 300 instead of 3000

 

[Jamarvic]

Right. Go through every post that mentions Sire today and replace Sire with SX or Rondo and you will be in TalkBass circa 2009.

Well if Sire decided to change their headstock to the SX monstrosity I'm out.

 

[jim nolte]

"It's probably this or that" and " it looks like from pictures" is what I am talking about. You might be right, but without having held one in your hands, don't you think it might be tough to say?

You're welcome not to like them. And, my daughter is welcome not to like spinach. But, until she tries spinach, I have a hard time accepting that she really knows whether she does or not.

I always liked spinach, I guess it was all the propaganda from the Popeye cartoons Jim

 

[DigitalMan]

I always liked spinach, I guess it was all the propaganda from the Popeye cartoons Jim

Fresh warm spinach salad can be awesome. Frozen spinach should be fed to prisoners who have committed particularly despicable offenses.

 

[Plutonium244]

I always liked spinach, I guess it was all the propaganda from the Popeye cartoons Jim

I have heard rumors that Popeye was secretly taking payola from Big Spinach to hype their product.

 

[superdick2112]

Please refrain from wearing sire pledge pins on your TB uniform also.

That reminds me - I still need to change my username to Flounder.

 

[petrus61]

Can anyone comment on whether the Sire basses use faux digi-tort, pearl disguised as tort, or just plain old tort? It's hard to make out from even the websites non-close up images.

 

[leesbrushes]

Fresh warm spinach salad can be awesome. Frozen spinach should be fed to prisoners who have committed particularly despicable offenses.

The frozen bits should teach them a lesson

 

[Jamarvic]

Fresh warm spinach salad can be awesome. Frozen spinach should be fed to prisoners who have committed particularly despicable offenses.

That reminds me - I still need to change my username to Flounder.

ill be D-Day

 

[superdick2112]

ill be D-Day

Road trip!!

 

[Plutonium244]

Can anyone comment on whether the Sire basses use faux digi-tort, pearl disguised as tort, or just plain old tort? It's hard to make out from even the websites non-close up images.

Faux digi-tort. It seems to have a pattern that is consistent across basses, but they have changed the digi-print at some point, as the earliest ones have a different pattern that what's going now.

 

[Jamarvic]

Road trip!!

Get your brothers Lincoln...

 

[Plutonium244]

Can't wait to see Otis Day and the Knights. Their bass player rocks a Sire, you know.

 

[superdick2112]

Get your brothers Lincoln...

I will, and you get that newspaper obit for Fawn Leibowitz.

 

[Jamarvic]

Can't wait to see Otis Day and the Knights. Their bass player rocks a Sire, you know.

Rama lama ding dong