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Honestly, I've always hated HC. To me it always seemed like a bloated corporate clusterf***. The only time I ever used it was if I googled something and a HC page just happened to be near the top of the results page. Any time I tried to navigate the old version of the site I would just get bogged ...

after my SX purchase about a year and a half ago now, I've been relatively GAS free in regards to basses... but then you guys have to keep posting in this thread. I URGE the mods to please consider deleting this thread. if not for me, do it for the children.

The G&L Tribute is, IMO, the best bass money can buy for under $550. (Well it was, but I think they raised the price to over $600 now). still, I bought mine from a fellow member here for $350, and I'm blown away by mine. American PUPs, bridge, and preamp. Completely different sound than a MIM Jazz ...

I'm definitely an "effects guy," but at the moment my board is pretty sparse:

pitchblack->105Q->BBM->Digidelay

I've got some other things lying around, and was getting into "noise" (merzbow, emeralds, etc) for awhile, but currently I try to just stick with what I "need" for my current project.

As ...

Cool picture.

I think the people who argue about that kind of bullshit are the people who are more interested in being a bass player than being a musician. IMO it's all just slabs of wood with metal wires stretched across them, do whatever you want to get the sound you hear in your head.

I don't really agree with the "just play righty" advice UNLESS righty and lefty both feel equally comfortable starting out. Be aware there are many drawbacks when it comes to gear, it's fairly difficult to get ahold of lefty basses. Personally though I like the fact that the availablity is limited ...

Matt R. wrote:Does it make me a weirdo if I can't tell if I like those or not? Not bashing, I just don't know w hat to make of them aesthetically

totally agree, they look like the cheesy ibanez copies that used to fill every pawn shop in the 90s to me. Of course it's all subjective though.

Wow - such venom against guitar players in this thread! We do play bass guitar you know LOL

Since we are talking about playing original music, doesn't any writer here write on guitar? That's what I do. Sometimes keyboard but 90% guitar.


I don't have any issue with guitar players, just blues ...

Ah, well if the main melodic theme is played on bass then you have a point, but then that sort of messes with the "plug and play" format of a blues jam and might understandably ruffle some feathers of the folks at the jam. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with putting the melody on the bass ...

IMHO open mics and open jam sessions are just euphemisms for "accident waiting to happen"! My advice if you want to do originals is just wait until you can put a band together. I speak from experience - I really don't like playing cover songs much. Seriously, when I want to do covers, I reach for a ...

The Gibsons are especially frustrating considering how difficult it is to get ahold of a Gibson lefty, yet there they are using them to make more righties. I have to say though that nonreverse firebirds look pretty nice (rather than most of the others that just look gimmicky).

p.s. that supersonic ...

If a band is that obsessive why doesn't it bother them that the gear has 40+ years of aging augmenting the tonal characteristics? Couldn't it be argued that new replica gear would actually be MORE authentic?

Most of the people I know have either spent time in jail or take part in activities that would land them in jail if they were caught. Of course, I live in America where the prison system is a FOR PROFIT venture, and jailtime is the answer to every problem.

careful now :P

I'm actually getting to be somewhat decent at playing a lefty bass strung lefty. How else can I know when the bass is set-up just right unless I can play it in the configuration it was built to. it was the same thing for me when I was building 6-string basses

Do you mean playing ...

This is a great site, but I do tend to lurk here more than on most other sites. I wish we had a spam/random subforum to chat about nonlefty/bassist stuff.

I wasn't proposing any membership fees, but I think some of us would LIKE to be givin the option to help support the site. I have one forum where a bunch of us periodically toss a few bucks the way of the owner just to feel all warm and tingly about contributing to one of our favorite things. You ...

Which brings up another point: why isn't there a donate link? Some other forums I'm on have a simple paypal button at the bottom of the page that a member can click to give whatever amount they would like. Probably wouldn't get much now, but might as well give the option right?

W T F?! That guitar is wrong on sooo many levels.

leftybassman392 wrote: Feel like I've just lost a week of my life! .

well, technically you did. Not to get all David Caradine from Kung Fu, but we all did.

I am glad to hear that Tamiflu is "free" in the UK. It won't happen in the US believe me.

It's being done to prevent profiteering and hoarding, both of which are potentially big problems over here.

Over here we call profiteering within the healthcare system "standard procedure/good business ...