The "real" punk bass....

[nocontrols]

Punk Rock=Playing Crappy Music with even crappier instruments.

End thread.

Oh... I was going to say something but I guess the thread is over. Rats.

OR are you just a troll speaking from a position of complete ignorance and relying on stereotypes to make up for the fact that you have no idea what you're really talking about? Be honest, now.

 

[iamthebassman]

Back in my Punk days, roughly '77-'81, I used a white Fender P-Bass and a white Rickenbacker 4001.

 

[TRichardsbass]

Punk Rock=Playing Crappy Music with even crappier instruments.

End thread.

...write this off as a cry for help from a jazz purist who has chops out the wazzooo but will still have to keep their day job at 7-11 to pay the bills.....

 

[jwr]

I actually wrote that in jest. I used to dig Punk when I was younger, but kind of moved away from it when the music seemed to change (IE Green Day and all the Green Day spin offs).

Also this thread made me think of SLC Punk. Not sure but that probably makes me un-punk.

YouTube - Job Interview SLC PUNK!

 

[JdoubleH]

Back in my Punk days, roughly '77-'81, I used a white Fender P-Bass and a white Rickenbacker 4001.

Oh how I miss my white rick. I let it go for a punk rock price. It was a bit knackered, though. I swapped the bridge pickup out for a random jazz pickup I had laying around (for the L if it). In the process I managed to drill through the back in all four holes. Then I hated the painted neck, so I scraped it all off with a sure-form rasp (it was tough stuff to get off). When I was done, it looked like a shaved poodle. Played much better though.

 

[oddgrowth]

My punk bass - a '95 Warwick Corvette Proline. (pic from '03)
It was my main player for about 10 years and various recordings. I now play a '76 Phil Lynott looking P.

 

[Barkless Dog]

Watt-

 

[TRichardsbass]

I actually wrote that in jest. I used to dig Punk when I was younger, but kind of moved away from it when the music seemed to change (IE Green Day and all the Green Day spin offs).

Also this thread made me think of SLC Punk. Not sure but that probably makes me un-punk.

YouTube - Job Interview SLC PUNK!

...however, Green Day is a great band but a far cry from my generation.

Hope you aren't playing any jazz though.......

 

[Meddle]

are we talking at the drive in, rites of spring, cap'n jazz emo

Moss Icon, Pond, Sunny Day Real Estate emo.

(Pond's bassist used a Thunderbird and a lot of distortion).

 

[Tommygunn]

Watt is a madman. Didn't really know about him until TB but now I really dig their stuff.

 

[mlwarriner]

i play this:

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on this:

 

[TRichardsbass]

i play this:

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on this:

I dig the vibe your axe has, but for us old schoolers, there is just one too many strings....

 

[mlwarriner]

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This is a "real" punk bass. Squier VM fretless with a Squier P neck. I play "real" punk with it.

this man. he knows punk.

 

[mlwarriner]

I dig the vibe your axe has, but for us old schoolers, there is just one too many strings....

it's got 5 because it was a hell of a deal on a solid bass carcass

(if it gives me any more punk cred, it's strung E to C )

 

[GregC]

Greg, I hate you.

Subhumans and MDC came through KC two weeks ago. They were rocking american fender basses. Not specifically cheap, but not expensive either.

Wow, I had no idea those bands were still playing. I like that you're rockin' the fretless Squier J in your band. When I played that Minor Threat show, I was using my first and only bass at the time, a Vox Cougar which looks almost exactly like this one:

I was playing fingerstyle too, because I hadn't learned to use a pick yet (that really threw my bandmates off!). But with an aggressive attack and a cheap Boss overdrive pedal (through my Peavey TKO 80 combo), I thought I got a sound that worked well with that band. I still have that bass, but the neck is now a ski jump. I'm gonna hang it on a wall at my next apartment.

 

[dminer]

The Precision was certainly the most popular bass among punk bands and maybe the white black combo among the more famous players....but, I certainly remember seeing lots of Black Precisions and plenty of Gibson EBO's and EB3's as well...with Rickenbackers coming in as a close third.

Ha, and duct-taped strap ends (pre strap locks), carved initials, stickers, lousy house paint/spray paint finishes ect...basically anything went when it came to personalising your instrument. I remember seeing a pic in some rock mag of the day, with a bass player who had painted the note letters on his fretboard...A-E-F-D ect. It was a great time and a great scene...and T Richards is right on...we were all in it for same reasons that most musicians throughout history have played on stages....the money, the fame and girls (not necessiarly in that order.)

 

[zeroncali]

Oh... I was going to say something but I guess the thread is over. Rats.

OR are you just a troll speaking from a position of complete ignorance and relying on stereotypes to make up for the fact that you have no idea what you're really talking about? Be honest, now.

He kind of has a point actually. The instant "punk" is good enough to become popular it is no longer "punk". I always thought it was funny that the main objective of a lot of punk bands is to sound as bad as humanly possible. Don't get me wrong, I love plenty of bands that consider themselves punk, but the "punk" scene doesn't really consider any of them punk anymore.

 

[atrapp]

punk was whatever pos you could afford, plugged into the same pos amp, hoping your drummer had a full kit. punk had no punk bass.

 

[SNOTROCKET56]

Watt-

Love that 1st pic that things beautiful

 

[Barkless Dog]

Love that 1st pic that things beautiful

Stolen from a truck at a Stooges concert in Canada several years ago.