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which bass's look has grown on you?

#2
P basses for sure. I used to hate the huge weird-shaped pickguard, like who would want a big old sheet of plastic on top of their bass? Now I love P basses. I haven't grown to like the Bongo yet. I like unusual-looking basses, definitely not stuck in the "must look like a Fender" mentality, but I just cannot bring myself to like the Bongo. No offense to those that do like them, and I certainly don't want to open the usual can of bashing and stupid jokes about them.
 
#3
I didn't like the Bongo at first but then after owning one I fell in love with its looks.

I used to love the way a Kubicki Ex-Factor looked but have in the past few years fallen out of love with them.

Steinberger = never liked the looks but loved the playability

That is about it.
 
#5
I'm starting to come around to liking the gloss color finished basses with pickguards now, but I still have a soft spot for hand oiled natural wood finishes. I don't know that the Fender style body shape will ever grow on me though, I just can't get into it for whatever reason. :( I guess I'll keep being the loner.
 
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bongomania said:
P basses for sure. I used to hate the huge weird-shaped pickguard, like who would want a big old sheet of plastic on top of their bass? Now I love P basses. I haven't grown to like the Bongo yet. I like unusual-looking basses, definitely not stuck in the "must look like a Fender" mentality, but I just cannot bring myself to like the Bongo. No offense to those that do like them, and I certainly don't want to open the usual can of bashing and stupid jokes about them.
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+1 about Precisions, I used to think they were just overdone, now they are my favorite.

Also thanks for sharing your comments about the Bongo, based on your s/n I assumed you were all about them. I guess you are talking about digging the percussion instruments? ;)
 
#10
For me it has been the Warwick Corvette. I used think it was most unattractive and then I got in one of those moods / needs for a new bass went to GC one night (with my wife no less) and played every 5 string they had. I went home with a new Warwick Corvette $$ 5. It is by far and away my favorite bass I have ever owned and I hope I can own many more Warwick's in my life.

The Bongo is one that I thought was radical looking but not in a repulsive way. Probably more of an indifferent way if anything. I played one not to long ago and thought it felt great. I am really diggin any bass these days with great access to the upper frets, the Bongo and the Corvette both have that attribute.
 
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Kwesi said:
Anyone else having troubling telling whether or not this is a joke?
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I didn't think he was joking; it's a grammar/spelling point of much debate. I've had English teachers insist that it is one or the other way, about equally. Personally I prefer adding the second "s", it just reads better to me, but the "apostrophe no s" is one of the ways it is taught.
 
#18
DogBone said:
thanks for sharing your comments about the Bongo, based on your s/n I assumed you were all about them. I guess you are talking about digging the percussion instruments?
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Yep. :) When I first joined TB I was mostly a percussionist, and I had no idea there was a popular/notorious new bass called the Bongo.

The main reason I even brought up not digging the looks of the Bongo is because I really wanted to like it. I like non-mainstream designs, especially ergonomic ones, so I kept looking at pics of the Bongo and bassists playing the Bongo, hoping that the little lightbulb of appreciation would go on, but it hasn't yet. I actually like their new "Big Al" better, and it's gotten a lot of scorn from the public so far.
 

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