I think it's funny how I'm not allowed to disagree with how someone expresses themself, but you guys are allowed to disagree how I do. I'm not really going to hit him with my bass. Jeeze, such touchy people.
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Why do people mess up good basses?
- Thread starter Broadstbully22
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That Steampunk CT Bass is pretty much the only Carl Thompson bass I've ever liked. Mind you, I wouldn't play it ...but I'd sure as hell hang it on my wall !
gnjpowell
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They do that to increase the value of all of our un-molested and 100% original basses......
THANK YOU!
THANK YOU!
Yes, we get it, your a "artist". But why did you have to mess up that MM with a black sharpie drawing your cartoons on it. Really, You should be shot.
Sorry about the rant. Just saw a guy in my local store with this and I wanted to beat him with my bass just to prove a point.
I have never understood why people do this and I never will.
Hmm...I'm seeing a bit of irony in your last post.
I was going for don't worship golden calves but that stuff is always being reinterpreted to suit needs
I'm going to save this for the next time I'm asked to define douchebag.
Or if any one says you can tell the difference between a top of the line guitar or a cheap one deserving to be smashed by the way it plays or sounds.
When "I just don't understand" is offered as a rationalization I find you can usually infer there is no interest in understanding either.
I'm going to save this for the next time I'm asked to define douchebag.
Or if any one says you can tell the difference between a top of the line guitar or a cheap one deserving to be smashed by the way it plays or sounds.
Excerpt from May 1982 Guitar Player interview with John Entwistle
"Pete always seems to smash the guitars he loves, somehow. He did-in a really nice Gretsch that Joe Walsh had given him. He really liked it, but he lost his temper on Top of the Pops and broke the neck off. Hes since had it repaired. But for the most part, the stuff that Pete trashed was readily available ordinary gear that was plentiful and replaceable."
That's one of the great advantages of ownership. If you do it to a rental they get mightily pissed.
I saw something a while back where someone had taken a Carl Thompson bass and modified it into some sort of H. R. Gieger-esque horror. That was heart-breaking.
Edit:
Here's the picture
Gah! That spookedme pretty good.
Hmm...I'm seeing a bit of irony in your last post.
Me too. Hey if you are gonna get uptight over what young people do, you'll burst an aneurism or something.
Going by my own example before I was say 20 years old:
1. you think you have taste and know whats "cool" but don't.
2. Learn what's cool by doing what all your friends are doing thinking they know what's cool. They don't have a clue either.
3. Don't understand that there are things that have great utility and hence value and other things that are crap. One needs to know that it's OK only to trash the crap. Trashing the good stuff only makes you VERY sorry years later.
4. Don't understand that just because something is cheap or free, does not mean it's crap.
5. Even if something even IS cheap trash, if it is unique in some way, it may still be of value later. It's all about developing your knowledge and taste. (refer back to #1. )
I hate to tell you guys but if you saw a list of the MUSEUM PIECES that I trashed before I was 20 years old, you'd die. You may check my butt for my own footprints.
Yes, we get it, your a "artist". But why did you have to mess up that MM with a black sharpie drawing your cartoons on it. Really, You should be shot.
Sorry about the rant. Just saw a guy in my local store with this and I wanted to beat him with my bass just to prove a point.
I have never understood why people do this and I never will.
You're allowed to disagree but threatening violence over it is way over the top.
Hmmm, has anyone actually talked to the basses and got their feeling on the matter?
Do they resent not having a say in the design they are stuck with for the rest of their lives? Or does being unique make them feel special? Do basses like to feel different, is there peer pressure from other basses? We need to get to the bottom of this before deciding what is the right and wrong way to treat things on behalf of the objects themselves.
It really strikes me as human arrogance to just decide what is best for basses and other objects without asking them first.
Am I in the minority here?
Do they resent not having a say in the design they are stuck with for the rest of their lives? Or does being unique make them feel special? Do basses like to feel different, is there peer pressure from other basses? We need to get to the bottom of this before deciding what is the right and wrong way to treat things on behalf of the objects themselves.
It really strikes me as human arrogance to just decide what is best for basses and other objects without asking them first.
Am I in the minority here?
Good point, they might want to be furniture instead.
Conversely, there are some that just weren't cut out for a life of music and furniture would have been a better career choice.
