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Snobbery in equipment.
I read so much on this site about what is the best for this and that etc. It seems, and i may be wrong and very often are, that unless you have some super dooper and no expense spaired, bass, you are looked upon as a bit of a looser. Know, as i said, i may be wrong. I have changed to the bass after years of playing guitar because i love the bass. I have been and checked out basses in local shops and read reviews on what is and isnt a good bass.
I have bought myself some bodies and necks, plus and old Vantage P bass, and have found i get what i want from these options. I have tried just about every bass on the market, except Sadowsky, and honestly the old Vantage i bought plus the Stellah and Squire kits i put together, make the others feel, well not right. Some of the MIA Fenders, and i loved Fenders, felt not right, nor did the Gibsons, Warwick etc. The only one i did like, but the cost was way too much, was the Allembic, think thats how you spell it.
The question i have been building up to is this, does it really matter if you think a Bass is gig ready or not or the fact it doesnt have some fancy name on it, the guys in my band just love the sound of the things i have built and they are all well established musicians. One brought along his sons, Vintage P bass and i tell you the sound i got from that old Vantage was identical. So i ask again does it matter what you use, as long you can play.
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7/2/2012 6:33 PM
Dave Magaro (21054) wrote:
Tone and how you play are what matters. It's ALL that matters.
I went through this with a bass player from WASP (so he said anyway). He was quite the A-hole. He came up to talk to me at a gig. What an arrogant idiot! He went through this long speal of all this equipment that took he about 5 minutes to name. When he finally shut up I looked at him and pointed to the stage and said "I have those two basses you see on stage. That Sunn amp you see (then I held my fingers up and moved them back and forth in front of his face and said) and these, and that's all I need."
We were opening for Slaughter and they were a bunch of jackasses too. Their guitarist was asking me about my rig. But, he wouldn't talk to me he was asking the guitar tech and then the guitar tech would ask me the question even though I was standing right in front of the guy.
Some guys are just like that I guess.
Dave
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7/2/2012 8:35 PM
Ed LeFave (30169) wrote:
LOL
I remember that Slaughter story.....the WASP one I never heard before...but love it
*grins*
Yeah.....2 musicians playing thru the exact equipment will not sound the same
Just the way it is....
...and Dave Magaro will sound like Dave Magaro thru any rig
I'm never gonna sound like Geddy or Flea...even if I kick them offstage and grab their bass
:)
Peace Ed
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7/4/2012 1:54 AM
Gar Whitenton (5737) wrote:
Amazing...good thing all famous people are not like that. I met, briely, Stanley Clark...great guy. The most personal and interesting person I ever met was William F. Buckley Jr., shortly before he died. He was truly an amazing man, even though I have absolutely no idea what he was saying lol
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7/4/2012 8:23 PM
Dave Magaro (21054) wrote:
Yeah there not all bad. I've met some good ones too. But, just so many bad ones. Blue Oyster Cult was no picinic. Ygnwie was pretty bad, but it was kind of funny too. All the guys in Great White where pretty cool but that was after the fire so they were pretty humbled. But, that guitarist from Slaughter just needed his ass kicked. That night I was having a fit. It was FRIGID cold outside. The wind was blowing and it was extremely cold out. People were waiting in line to get in. So, you had all these women out there in tiny little mini skirts freezing to death while this idiot guitarist kept playing while the sound man recorded it. Then he would go back and listen to it and repeat the whole process. They wouldn't open the doors until we were set up and sound checked but this jackass wouldn't let us on stage. I got no respect for someone who doesn't think of their fans in that situation. I have no respect for their band period and it was a pleasure playing circles around their sorry no talented asses that night. Sorry, I normally don't talk down about too many bands, but I just don't like those guys.
Dave
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7/4/2012 7:29 PM
Garry Cantrell (4187) wrote:
I've related this story before - but I love it - so here goes: i was a Tucker's Blues here in Dallas several months ago and the opening act was excellent - including the bass player. He had 3 basses - nice 5 string, a nice 4 string, and a bottom of the line 4 string Yamaha (I know, because I used to have one - retail was probably about $149.00). It was clear the Yamaha was a back up. He never touched it during the show. The featured act was a band fronted by a bassplayer from a famous funk band from the 90's (maybe 80's - can't remember the name now, so, maybe not that famouse - they had a couple of top ten hits). The featured bassist's bass developed a jack problem and he asked the opening bassplayer if he could borrow a bass. The opening BP asked which one. The featured guy said, and I quote, "it don't even matter." and grabbed the Yamaha. He then funked the bejezez out of the Yamaha all night long. NICE!
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