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Things you've changed your mind about over time...

#141
10cc said:
John Cage is one.
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Okay jeez I hate to keep hijacking this thread sorry Joe
John Cage, In a Landscape composer
compare please though he is a composer




do you think he scratches the surface of this one



When I said step up I mean take me on a musical journey the swirls and moves me at my very core. whose musical genius has your jaw drop in awe.
 
#143
Flatwounds - never understood why ANYONE would play those for years. Rounds were the only string anyone should play!!!! Now I understand why they are great for certain things to the point that I have a four strung up with them to do things I just can't do with the rounds. KIDDING!! I still don't play flats. And there is nothing I can do with flats that I couldn't achieve with rounds.

OK! OK! Seriously, I hated 80's synth pop when it came out but now I actually love quite a lot of it.

I used to hate mushrooms (the non-psychedelic variety) when I was kid and now I love them raw or sauteed. BTW I have NEVER taken hallucinogenic 'shrooms.
 
#144
1) That I wasn't good enough to play a high end bass. Then I bought a Roscoe. Then a Sadowsky. It's worth it.

2) This color combo. Used to hate now I really like. (not necessarily this particular tort, I'm speaking more of the black body, tort guard, rosewood neck combination)
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#145
Joe Nerve said:
Pay to Play - used to get infuriated about it, and at times refused to do it. Today I'm realizing I got to play a lot of awesome shows paying to play, and bands that I know who never had any issues with it - are still playing the most awesome venues around.
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No never. This is price anchoring. If someone wants me to play to pay, I'd rather quite. The band don't need me, and I don't need them. I am not that hungry. This is due to very different cultures between Europe/Scandinavia and US. I've never ever heard one do around here either. If I was in a remotely succesful band here in Scandinavia, Europe with success, and trying to make it in the US by having to pay to play, I would tell them, to find another bassist for the US tour or for good. Period. I'm not irreplaceable.

Joe Nerve said:
Active and passive basses - always played active basses because I felt the tonal options and tweak-ability were absolutely necessary. Finding out only in the past couple of years that with most passive basses, those tonal options aren't necessary. My passive basses sit well in the mix no matter how I dial in the tone.
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Never were adamant or preachy about neither. Still have the same opinion about both as I did. Still uses both interchangeably today. They both have their virtues.

Joe Nerve said:
Fender - Hate, hate, hated Fender. Don't love them yet as I still think they're hit or miss, but my #2 most played bass these days is my Jazz.
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Never hated any brand or revised my opinion. Fender was a different company throughout the 65-84 years, and very different from the 80s on. Their 70s basses were a mouthful though, and has had problems with neckdives, heavyness, and chunkiness, and ... dead spots. As fast as I play any Fender without these idiosyncrasies, I am all game.

Joe Nerve said:
There. I fessed up. It's a bit freeing, and humbling at the same time :).
Your turn.
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Glad that you confessed. Like it should be some weird form abolition. Are you catholic?
 
#147
Yes, former years I was pretty adamant about fretless basses having slanted pickups the way the frets are, in order to pick up harmonics evenly and on the spot. Today, I have revised my opinion, and especially on humbuckers and with humbucker casing they shouldn't be slanted, they can very well be mounted straight, so there's more room for the thumb to rest on, and the possibility to change out to third party pickups. Especially Dingwalls. Found out that low B strings were always kind of weak. So the pickup needs to pluck up the strings vibration further into the strings speaking length. Revised opinion.

revised my opinion on nuts. Today, I - frankly - more and more wants only basses with zero frets. SLOWLY DAWNED on me, that their beneficial at all times, at all reasons. The other day found out that I had to raise the nut on one of my stashed away basses, which been laying in its case. Haven't played it. The strings push the nut down to too low levels so string buzzes at first few frets, and had to shim it and raise it.

But that's it.
 
#152
Also, a long time ago, I'd vow for the difference between set necks and bolt on necks guitar and basses. While I have not really changed or revised my opinion, I have moreso got a couldn't care less stance. Since most basses and guitars, especially some of the Rickenbackers, and Gibson SG guitars, they are sort of too "shaky" and dodgy in necks leaving much more prone to intonation and tuning incosistencies and warping. Today I favor bolt on necks exclusively, no matter what. Mainly because set necks, or necks through or whatever are more expensive and more often than not doesn't justify their price upcharge in the long run.
 
#153
I've been playing bass for about five years. Most of the time when I jam with people these days I leave the pedal board at home and go straight through the amp. I've also learned to get in the groove with the drummer rather than always playing melodically. (Can't give up the melodic playing though)
 
#158
TwoColorsKiller said:
After reading some of these you guys reminded me of one:

I used to think "Full-Stacks" ran the world of music. If you were on stage, you had to have a "Full-Stack" (two Marshall cabs and a head stacked on top of each other for guitar for example) or else you looked amateurish. I thought small speakers with built-in amps were only for beginners. I have a 4x10 now which is more than enough for me, but I know that I can't haul that sumbitch everywhere. Playing a small show means that that air pushing behemoth is not the right option lol. I guess when I was starting out I thought I would be selling out arenas and I would need 3 8x10s just to sound right. Now I'm looking around for a smaller amp (1x15 with a built in amp) so that I can play those smaller shows, and I don't ever see a situation where I will ever need an 8x10
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Welcome to reality lol!
 
#159
-You need to spend over $500 to get a great bass-

Ha. my favorite basses mostly cost <$250
I'll take an early 80s Westone or Ibanez Roadstar over a $700+ bass every day of the week.
Japan in the early 80s had it figured out.
 
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