Also, as an aside, I have no idea how Warwick keeps poaching other artists - pretty much every Warwick sounds like every other Warwick.
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signature bass fail...
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Yeah, not saying it's a bad bass, just that he's not what most people would consider a transcendent bass player... Although, for a time, he probably influenced a lot of kids to play bass. I am a Blink 182 fan BTW, but I had already been playing for years before they broke out.
not discussing how great the songs are or the musical quality of the band, just saying that I'd expect a bass endorsement to be for a bassist we all aspire to play like.
A lot of bands have members who just happened to get lucky and find that genius member to form with and ride on their musical genius "coat tail"..
I can smell something......something like.....sour grapes? Yep, that's it. : D
Like AC/DC or Van Halen, I love the bands but am bored with their bassist... the two are mutually exclusive to one another.
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Not as bad as Leeland Sklar endorsing pretty much everything in a Bass Player Mag ...
yeah, starting out as an adolescent boy in a snotty suburban pop-punk band, he and Mike Dirnt were huge influences on me.
They get a percent of each bass sold....do it behooves them to play and "push" their basses... On stage...
Signature basses are not a huge thing for me... I play basses because I like the feel and sound etc...
I will say that I played a bass Lakland was making for Adam and it was absolutely magic!
Even the guys at lakland could not describe "why"..... They did nothing " different " but the bad just felt and played different from any other lakland i have ever played...
Here's a Fender Custom Shop Masterbuilt Limited Edition Adam Clayton Precison Bass for $5,299.99 on Reverb.com
Fender Custom Shop Masterbuilt LIMITED EDITION Adam Clayton Precision Bass by Paul Waller | Reverb
Fender Custom Shop Masterbuilt LIMITED EDITION Adam Clayton Precision Bass by Paul Waller | Reverb
I confess that I was trying to remember who is this guy...I would buy two bilions basses before it.
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For me, a "signature" bass is something that is easily identifiable as a bass that the player plays/played... A lot.
I get the Geddy, Pino, Jaco, Victor Wooten Yin Yang and not much else.
Maybe Pattitucci, Michael Anthony and Nathan East's Yamaha's, Dirnt from Green Day's Gibson Ripper, Will Lee's Sadowsky, Tina's Mustang, Eddie from Queensryche's white Spector, Stanley's Alembic, weird Bootsy star basses (God help us as Warwick did one of these too!) would be other exceptions.... and I might be missing a few.
Sitting down with Fender, Warwick or company B and putting together your weird (mostly not so weird) specs and weird finish on a bass you get paid to play and may play for a song or two a night just to get paid isn't my idea of a "signature bass".
I get the Geddy, Pino, Jaco, Victor Wooten Yin Yang and not much else.
Maybe Pattitucci, Michael Anthony and Nathan East's Yamaha's, Dirnt from Green Day's Gibson Ripper, Will Lee's Sadowsky, Tina's Mustang, Eddie from Queensryche's white Spector, Stanley's Alembic, weird Bootsy star basses (God help us as Warwick did one of these too!) would be other exceptions.... and I might be missing a few.
Sitting down with Fender, Warwick or company B and putting together your weird (mostly not so weird) specs and weird finish on a bass you get paid to play and may play for a song or two a night just to get paid isn't my idea of a "signature bass".
If you like the music, then you like the bass parts regardless of who plays them. Judge music with your ears not your eyes.
You can slag on the guy all you want, but his parts made these songs- "New Year's Day", "Seconds", "Bullet the Blue Sky", "With or Without You", "Mysterious Ways", "Invalid Link Removed", and "Magnificent". You have to ask yourself, "Would I have come up with those parts? Could I have?" They seem stupid simple and obvious now that we've all heard them a hundred billion times but honestly ask yourself. He doesn't have mad chops but he is creative, and knows how to write for the song.
The first question that comes to mind whenever I see the term 'signature bass' is, "Are we so enamored with other players that we want an instrument with their name written on it? Are we so star struck that we want an instrument just like they play?"
And if we are the kind of individual that buys into sig models, what do we do when our 'bass hero' changes brands? Which many seem to do on a regular basis. Are we going to change brands every time our hero does?
Sorry. Just thinking out loud.
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I would play a Billy Sheehan signature model because of the layout of the pickups. And the unique neck attachment.
I'd buy an Adam Clayton Jazz bass if Squier made one and I could easily remove that scribble from the top of the headstock.
I think Clayton is one of the least skilled super famous bassists in history but you are absolutely right. If he had terrible timing and note selection, he wouldn't be the U2 bassist for over 30 years and they wouldnt be arguably he biggest band in the world.
BTW, Beautiful Day is one of my all time favourite songs to play live. Actually a really cool bassline and I never get sick of playing it.
Just try to count the amount of Chet Atkins models of guitar.
I don't think anyone comes close to this kind of endorsement deal
I don't think anyone comes close to this kind of endorsement deal
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