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Roadworn Jazz by Trujillo last night. Refin?
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Us TX players know shorts are almost a necessity at times.
It's his bass, his money, and he can do what he wants with it.
Amen.. Tonight at the Badlands is gonna be super freakin hot.. I will be pimpin dickies..#nopantsnoproblem
I would be pretty cheesed off if I made a bass for someone and he tipped it on the floor. There's more to making instruments than just getting paid.
Says who? The builder who creates 2-3 basses a year? Probably. Everyone else? It's about the money..
To some, but that is a massive generalisation.
I've spent time with a couple of Britain's best Luthier/teachers, and they would definitely be at least a little upset to hear that someone wasn't taking care of the instruments they made.
I'm sure he loses a lot of sleep thinking about it.
Hell yeah Dickies shorts, this guy knows!
Oh forget it. I'm not going to argue with the folks of TB.
Treat your instruments like crap if you will. But don't claim that Luthiers are only interested in making money. If that were true, they'd be doing something that actually paid a decent wage.
Treat your instruments like crap if you will. But don't claim that Luthiers are only interested in making money. If that were true, they'd be doing something that actually paid a decent wage.
Nobody said luthiers were only interested in making money. But that was a Warwick, and Warwick IS interested in making money mostly.
that was my point. Warwick doesn't care, fender CS doesn't care.. Carl Thompson? Maybe, you'd have to ask him.
That's probably true about Warwick, but my original point was that it's good practice to look after one's musical instruments, and that there's nothing 'cool' about knocking your bass off it's stand (of course, if it was an accident, then I would simply say that perhaps he should take more care over his basses).
Dude I respect your opinion and definitely agree with your overall point, but seriously, it was an accident, and the bass could be totally fine too. Plus it's a Warwick, not some small scale builder's handcrafted custom boutique bass, might not even be a custom Warwick either for all we know. Are you saying you never knocked a head stock or chipped a finish in your entire life? Kudos to you if that's true, but you would be in the minority.
I once leaned my bass up against something backstage to go take a leak, and came back to a big gash in the finish where I rest my arm. Honestly, I think it looks much better now.
Never on a handcrafted bass, but I did on my first. Even then, that was only a finish scrape because someone swung a cymbal stand into my gigbag.
I've worked with a classical guitar maker in East Sussex, England. I'd never dream of being careless with one of his guitars, because I know he'd be very, very upset if I did damage one (even though guitars are almost always repairable).
I would accept that a gigging bass might get knocked about a bit, but even then I'd try to avoid it if possible.
In the end, if someone was playing one of my basses and enjoying it, that would be the most important thing to me. But that still doesn't mean we shouldn't look after our basses
Ask Pete. Sometimes you get a chip here and there when you play live music. It happens.
