What The Frontdoor?!?!? I've seen some wierd stuff but...

There was a lot of dicussions about another similar weirdness, a guitar/bass with a rotating neck/pickup piece in the middle of the body, and what negatives you'd get with that. No neck adjustment possible, strings under your fretting hand thumb, when would you actually have a use for this, etc. This seems in a way even worse because with separate strap pins and outputs you can't flip it over as easily.

I think the main benefit would be as a conversation starter.

 

"6 Knobs for absolute control" - impressive. Seller should hook up with AweSome Musical Instruments and get knobs and switches!

 

Just what's been missing from the back of my bass neck: a fretboard and six strings. Brilliant.

 

Makes it easier to play the sucka like Hendrix, you know, lefty behind your head.
Or with your tongue. Or right-hand
And if you forget which way you were playing it, it doesn't matter. There are some strings on that side too

 

I saw one in a local store... I played it... I didn't like it.

It didn't have a great feel, and the tone was even worse.

 

Finally, something which wasn't claimed to be once owned by Jaco.

Maybe 2015 is gonna be ok.

 

Looks like a giant piece of doo-doo.

 

Nah ... it says it's a guitar with a bass on the back - not for me. I would maybe consider it if it had been a bass with a guitar on the back, I'm primarily a bass player after all.

 

This is genius. You could play lead in the traditional fashion while fretting the bass notes with your thumb and strumming with your D&@$.

 

If your doo-doo looks like that, you are most definitely not getting enough fiber in your diet!

 

Thing is a abomination, should be discarded off a cliff immediately

 

Seriously, I would love to hear someone actually play that. Especially if they could play both fretboards at the same time. That would take serious talent .

 

I'm just speculating here, but don't basses have a different scale than guitars?

 

There are basses with shorter scale all the way down to guitar size, but generally a bass would have a longer neck, yes.

 

Is it just me, or does that photo in the eBay listing look like a 10" toy mock up?

If its for real it could be the answer to every megalomaniac gui****s wet dream. (In my best evil henchman voice)...Finally a guitar that allows me to wank away all I want while I crush the bass under my thumb and grind it into my groin where it belongs!

 

Ughh ... that's wrong in so many ways.

 

The guitar tone in the annoying auto-play video would seem to support your conclusion. They're not doing themselves any favors playing that soundclip at all.