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The one bad thing about a new bass...

#21
Actually, the fact you have a totally clean canvas on this pre-owned bass means the mojo you impart on it will mean something to you. Like every little ding to get on it from the drummer's cymbal, fall, whatever - there will be a little story behind each mark, scratch, mod, etc. and you'll know each & every one of those stories. Pretty cool IMO.
 
#29
This luthier made custom bass for me years ago and when i got it, there was a small chip on fretboard and body, an accident just minutes before i visited him to get the bass.

He was in a really bad mood coz of it - and I looked at it and said, eh, leave it, I like my basses that way anyway. It felt worn-in even thou it was new :)
 
#30
Relayer71 said:
Mojo isn't something you see, it's something you feel.
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Well, really a mojo is a charm bag used in voodoo spells. We musicians have invented our own, bizarre meaning for the word. :)

Anyway, I am convinced there is magic in most every bass. You just need to take a little time to learn how to coax it out. We've all played basses that sounded great brand new, but the reason they get better with time, I think, is that we learn how to play the bass to get the best out of it.

New basses are fun, because it's fun to "get to know" it. :)
 
#34
Mojo does not equal damage. I see a beat-up old jazz, and I just think "wow that looks bad."

But when I see someone lovingly playing his/her instrument, showing me his/her soul, that is mojo. It has nothing to do with the instrument, and everything to do with the playing of it.
 
#38
5string5fingers said:
..no mojo!

After getting my first new bass in almost 4 years,it's weird and almost wrong having a bass with no mojo on it. It bothers me a lot. It's just...so..clean..sterile looking. It's making me play the crap out of this bass hoping to work some magic on it,which isn't a bad thing.

Anybody else feel this way? I'm not one for beat up looking basses but I do like a bass that looks like it's been played,especially if it's mine.
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Go ahead and kick it up and down the driveway a few times.:ninja:
 
#39
WoodyG3 said:
Well, really a mojo is a charm bag used in voodoo spells. We musicians have invented our own, bizarre meaning for the word. :)

Anyway, I am convinced there is magic in most every bass. You just need to take a little time to learn how to coax it out. We've all played basses that sounded great brand new, but the reason they get better with time, I think, is that we learn how to play the bass to get the best out of it.

New basses are fun, because it's fun to "get to know" it. :)
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Yes. but we sort of get it right too. If you want to learn about "mojo" and your instrument go talk to some African drummers. Mojo is serious business. It relates to the energy that flows through you and into the instrument. Does it come from the ground up through you and out through the bass or does it come down from the sky and out through the bass? Important questions. Is the energy masculine or feminine? In the world of mojo one NEVER touches another's instrument without permission. The wrong person doing that can ruin the mojo of it and it will take a long time to purify it again! To some people this is very serious business.

New instruments of course have no mojo except for that imparted by the builder(s). But a used mojo-filled instrument also soon acquires your particular vibe too. I'm going to say no more, but I told you where to find out more if you need to.
 
#40
A-Step-Towards said:
Mojo is something you pick up from not showering , i think of mojo as something stinky and dirty.
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Where wuz you when I needed help defending the badness of 'bloody mucous and dried beer in the 'other post'?

Mojo is Voodoo and witchcraft - it started with people thinking there were spirits living in wood eg: trees and stumps and they worshiped them. (The old 'Knock On Wood' to appease the gods of the trees if one had somehow insulted one of them.)

It started with Celtic deities of the trees (Camalus ((Camulus, Camulos)) - and (Verostonos (or Vernostonus))) and proliferated to other cultures with pretty much the same insinuation - fear of aggravating a god of the 'woods' or 'trees'

If my bass had mojo, I'd burn it - if it would burn that is. I don't cater to evil spirits.
 

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