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Uh Oh..I'm a Snob. Rogue Conent

#21
Eh, I used to be a snob too. I used to play a Squier P/J and wound up selling it to buy a Musicman Sterling HH. I love my Sterling and whenever I come across people that understand how much money I spent on it, I get respect.

That being said, I recently bought a Squier Affinity Jazz 5 in brown burst. I love that thing. I'm sanding the decal off of the headstock to replace it with a custom symbol that my friend is making for me, but either way, it cost me $220 and it rocks.

Play the gear, don't let the gear play you. Just like someone above said, it's just a tool; you're the musician behind it!
 
#23
Hippos Melas said:
Eh, I used to be a snob too. I used to play a Squier P/J and wound up selling it to buy a Musicman Sterling HH. I love my Sterling and whenever I come across people that understand how much money I spent on it, I get respect.

That being said, I recently bought a Squier Affinity Jazz 5 in brown burst. I love that thing. I'm sanding the decal off of the headstock to replace it with a custom symbol that my friend is making for me, but either way, it cost me $220 and it rocks.
Play the gear, don't let the gear play you. Just like someone above said, it's just a tool; you're the musician behind it!
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? If you "love that thing" as you claim, why remove the decal? That makes no sense to me.
 
#24
I picked up one of the $119 rogue fretless basses and puts a set of chromes on it and did a setup, it plays great! The electronics suck and I'm going to swap them out. I took it to my last band practice and when no one was looking I put it on and dug into a couple songs with the band and they loved it. I'll be taking it to our next gig and using it on about half our set list. The way I see it if you can rock out on something inexpensive and sound good doing it, why not?
 
#25
Thanks for all the input. I think its more my attitude than the attitude I may get from other people...I know it'll sound good no matter what the headstock says.

Here's an example...I had a P Bass clone that I got off Craigslist, someone had build a pretty nice bass out of parts and pieces, then slapped a Fender Precision logo on it. No one but me knew it was a clone, and still something about it annoyed me. I think I would have rather had no logo at all than the fake Fender logo. I'm too lazy and ill-equipped to sand and refinish. I sold it for what I had into it and that was that.

Bottom line is the Rogue LX405 Pro is a very nice bass. I'm gonna hold on to it because I got it for virtually nothing. The Coffin case it came in is probably worth as much as the bass itself. But I'm also going to keep my eye on other opportunities. I'd love a Tbird Studio 5er. I've also got my eye on a Gibson V Bass thats been floating around TB for a while...yes that sounds nice...a Gibson V Bass...hmm...
 
#26
C.Linton said:
? If you "love that thing" as you claim, why remove the decal? That makes no sense to me.
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It's not about the fact that I don't like what it says on the headstock. I just want to personalize it. I'm looking at it in the same way as changing a pick guard. My friend's a really good artist that randomly came to me with a really cool design that she thought would look neat on the headstock. I'm either going to sand off the old decal and replace it with the one she drew, or just buy a replacement neck and try and put the design on the replacement neck. It's not about hating the way it is, just me personalizing/customizing it more. In my opinion, I suppose. :bassist:
 
#31
I have a Rogue 5er I got when I desperately needed a bass and was unemployed. With the exception of how heavy the darned thing is, it sounds pretty nice. I never gig so I have never been concerned about being seen with it. But when i tried to hock it off to help finance my VMJ People turned there noses up at it without even hearing it.

I wont go out on a limb and say it is a top of the line instrument but it is very decent and well worth what I spent on it and what I was trying to unload it for. Some people are a little to concerned with brand names IMHO.
 
#32
Jugzwei said:
I have a Rogue 5er I got when I desperately needed a bass and was unemployed. With the exception of how heavy the darned thing is, it sounds pretty nice. I never gig so I have never been concerned about being seen with it. But when i tried to hock it off to help finance my VMJ People turned there noses up at it without even hearing it.

I wont go out on a limb and say it is a top of the line instrument but it is very decent and well worth what I spent on it and what I was trying to unload it for. Some people are a little to concerned with brand names IMHO.
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I'm going through the same thing with a Peavey basic 60 bass amp I have on CL. I put it out there for $50 and it is an older one in mint shape, sounds great. this is the reply I got:

Hello,

I'm interested in the Peavey Basic 60 should it only not sell.

I know exactly what it is and have played a friend's. For me it's a good small light weight practice amp only. Peavey should have put a 15 inch speaker in it to give it more punch, but they didn't not that it matters for practice, etc. anyways.

Most respectfully, I'll offer $30 max for it if it doesn't sell as Peavey bass amps, although decent for what they are don't sell well used. For example, I bought a very nice (very heavy) Black Widow equipped Peavey TNT 150 on ebay for $50. I was the only bidder locally in Cleveland as nobody wanted to pay the shipping costs as the thing weighs a ton and you can buy bass amp brains these days that weigh under 10 pounds that are 300 watts RMS.

Well, good luck with selling the amp if I don't hear from you.

Thanks
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#35
I don't think being concerned with being judged by the bass you bought makes you a snob...judging someone else for not having a bass you think is better makes you a snob. As a Peavey and BC Rich guy I know about being a target of snobbery.
 
#38
I play in a cover band with two guitarists: one owns a few different Gibsons, with a nice amp, while the lead player rocks out with a Squire, and some no name guitar he paid $20 for, with a small Digitech multi FX...he is 10x the player and I don't think anybody cares about his cheap gear since he's a really good player.

On the other hand, I've been the opposite as you...I felt weird at first playing out with my Warwick Corvette $$ because I felt like I wasn't a good enough of a player to be rocking that bass haha.
 
#40
One of the best blues guitarists I've ever heard plays an ugly-as-sin POS (among other VERY oddball guitars), butchered with a odd pickup installed (badly) and still sounds like Clapton (or pick your favorite blues player).

It's the player that makes the difference, not the name on the headstock.
If it sounds good, that's all that matters to the audience. They don't care even a little bit what name is on it, or if it plays like a 2X4 with a bottle for a bridge.
Only the other musicians in the crowd will care at all.

If you need to gig a 5er, use it. I bought a cheap Peavey for the same reason and am very happy with it.
I love my main basses, but it's great for a backup, crappy outdoor gigs, or anything you wouldn't take your 'better' basses to for any reason.
 

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