Warwick Bass

Congrats badboy. I've played exactly that model (down to the color) and enjoyed it. It's definitely a one of the best bargains in all of bass-dom. I love the Streamer body shape, to my mind it's the best looking shape that Warwick ever came up with.

 

Sorry to p**s on your parade but Warwick didn't come up with the design. Spector did.

 

You are indeed right, but I have one question. Wasn't Ned Steinberger involved in some way?

 

Well he designs and builds for Spector alongside Stuart so I'd guess he was involved

 

In any event, I really like that shape, wherever it came from. I wish that there was a bubinga Streamer in the price range of a Corvette Std because I'd buy on in a hearbeat.

 

That's awesome. I just bought the Warwick Rockbass Namm Demo (hoping to God the demo part doesn't actually mean "You got jipped out of 400 dollars"). It is fretless and has five strings and I am really excited because this is my first midrange bass.

 

wait untill you can afford a thumb bass then you'll be through the roof in happyness

 

The only reason I don't like the streamer is because it's a total ripoff of the Spector NS design. However, the Buzzard, Thumb and Vampyre are some of the coolest basses out there, and if I had the money I'd buy one of each (thumb fretless).

 

That won't be for a while my friend. Most highschool Juniors don't have toss-about income. I will look into that though. I heard a huge amount of good things about the thumb in other threads. That said, I'm on a 150 dollar Arbor p-bass (not bad for it's price, good beginner bass) and am looking for something that will give me more options. Warwick Rockbass looks like the deal.

 

BIG +1

 

Congrats on the Rockbass Pete, it'll take you a long ways. Playing a fretless is a great way to develop your ear.

 

Congrats on the bass. The Rockbass is to Warwick what Squire is to Fender though...just a different price scale. Wait till you try the REAL thing! And just go straight for a Thumb bass or a Streamer. You don't get a Warwick so you can get a precision or a jazz bass tone. You buy a Warwick so you can get that Warwick growl!

PS - who cares who built or designed it? That was over 25 years ago! All that matters now is that it's a sweet bass! Fender came up with the jazz bass but you don't see people ripping on Sadowsky's for it now do you?