That ain't fretless you dummy!

Fretless basses don't have lines, you big dummy! (quoting Fred Sanford).

 

My favorite buyer issue was when I sold an old Jazz and the guy called me later that night demanding a "partial refund" because I sold him a "bass guitar, not a guitar as advertised". Apparently his girlfriend had expected him to buy an acoustic. It was advertised as a MIM Fender Jazz Bass and the word guitar was nowhere in the ad.

 

Stooopid people are everywhere. I'm often amused when I encounter them, but never surprised!

 

One day I was on the train and I overheard two youngsters talk about my gig bag. One of them correctly states: 'That guy plays the bass, look at the size of that bag!'

And the other says, 'That's gotta be a guitar, you [email protected]$$. I know one when I see one'.

To his defense, neither could look inside (and there was a time I carried a small keyboard inside my bags too, so you never could have guessed), but I found that funny.

 

More like ignorant. It amazes me that people aren't willing to learn, though.

 

I was carrying my upright bass on a very crowded Macdougal St. in the Village. At a street corner a little kid says, "mommy, he's got a bass!". Mom says "no, that's a cello". Yeah a six and a half foot tall cello.

 

Schrodinger's bass! Epic.

 

I carry my short scales in gig bags that are just big enough to hold them. Everyone probably thinks they are guitars.

I love messing with people without saying a word.

 

Curious about the switch to 250k pots.
Do you like how it came out?
Is the tone significantly warmer? Any muddyness?
Did you switch all 3 pots, or just the 2 volume pots?
I have a fretless SX as well and considering that change as well.

 

I'm just trying to figure out why you're selling a fretted bass as fretless. I see the frets. We all see the frets!

 

Why bother interacting with these clowns? Just add them to your ignore/ban lists and move on with your life.
Never argue with stupid, they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience

 

I'll bet Dave van Ronk spun in his grave.

 

Security guard at my place of employment made me open the rectangular case to prove I wasn't carrying a rifle in. This was before all of the workplace shooting nonsense. I was annoyed at the time but now wish it would happen more often.

 

They are.

 

That ain't a Jazz bass. I only see one pickup and two knobs in the pic. Must be a Precision.



Oh, nearly forgot. Erm... buffoon.

 

Yeah. I was walking downtown one time with my upright in a case and one half-drunk hoser said to the other "Hey, have you ever stolen a cello?"

 

Bryan's posts are the best!
I do pose a philisophic question though -
If a Fretless bass falls on a stage and noone is there to see it. Is it possible it becomes fretted (with frets)?
#fretgate2019
#Wholetthefretsout

 

I have a friend who insists that what I play is not a bass, but rather just a guitar. He maintains that an upright bass is the only instrument that can be called a bass.

He's not even a musician.