EssentialTension

I've never actually had a go on a Wal. Are they any good?

[quote name='DavidMcKay' timestamp='1444758211' post='2885711'] ... I 'get' the unique look ... [/quote] Not totally unique because it's a bit like a Hayman or a Shergold.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1444758509' post='2885715'] I'm looking forward to threads entitled "Fender Schmender", "Gibson Schmibson", and of course "Rickenbacker no don't go there". [/quote] But what about ACG Recurves?

[quote name='DavidMcKay' timestamp='1444757394' post='2885700'] ... and I will never feel about the Wal bass the way some of you do. But I am OK with that. [/quote] You don't [i]sound[/i] OK with that.

Why exactly are you upset by Wal basses?

[quote name='Naetharu' timestamp='1444720145' post='2885229'] I'd have to disagree - I'd be perfectly fine asking them to demonstrate that it works. I'm sure they would want to do it themselves rather than let me get my paws on it but if they outright refused I'd walk. Same with a private sale - if I was selling a bass and someone asked to check the truss-rod I'd offer to demonstrate it working for them. I'd not let them do it themselves since I'd be worried they could be a 'prize special' and try and doing a 1080 spin on it and bust the neck. But I'd have no issue demoing the rod being moved in order to confirm the bass was in good working order. [/quote] I'd be perfectly fine with all that too so it seems we agree not disagree.

Imagine, in a shop, 'Excuse me do you have some tools so I can adjust this truss rod? Just a little tweak.'' I don't think so.

If I was the seller then I wouldn't expect the prospective buyer to be messing with my truss rod until he or she had parted with some cash. I'd be able to say whether the truss rod was working. If it did turn out that the truss rod was faulty - which is highly unlikely - then I would return the cash and get my bass back. In over forty years of bass playing I have never come across a broken truss rod. I've heard of them but I have never seen one.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1444578382' post='2884244'] Ah, I see. Sorry I misread that. [/quote] Me too.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1444576850' post='2884224'] That's why I said "will sound the same... except they won't..." [/quote] Yes, I was meaning to support your point.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1444559100' post='2884015'] You'll get chased with pitchforks for saying stuff like that. Of course when the "P bass is the only bass you need" brigade have their way and eradicate all other basses from the world then all basses will sound the same Except they won't and we'll be subjected to endless maple vs. rosewood and alder vs. ash debates and how everything was better before 1965. [/quote] Not even all Precisions sound the same.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1444475613' post='2883511'] Different basses for different bands but also with some overlap between some of them. [/quote] Apologies for quoting myself but I wanted to add that usually I would only buy a particular bass because I see it being used with a particular band.

Looks like an Epiphone Viola to me. Wrong knobs for an Eko.

The Fender Jazz bass was designed when all bass strings were flat so not too surprising that it might sound OK with them.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1444482838' post='2883584'] If we're allowed to peek just a little bit above the parapet of this 'gigging bassist' microcosm, we could become aware of moult examples of people creating great, worthy works, in many fields, without necessarily having public acclamation as a major driving force, or even force at all.... [/quote] During his lifetime Bach was much revered for his regular organ gigs - so I expect he was only too happy to get out of his bedroom. Yet his compositions caused little stir for most of a century - thus proving his bedroom activities were of of secondary, indeed little, importance. Does that sound correct?

[quote name='Painy' timestamp='1444476584' post='2883523'] Keep them in identical cases/gig bags then grab one at random without checking the contents as you go out of the door and let fate decide? [/quote] I have on more than one occasion opened the gig-bag to find what I was not expecting.

Different basses for different bands but also with some overlap between some of them.

Squier Classic Vibe Precision and a TC BG250-208 combo - both used not new so leaving enough for leads and tuner and new set of La Bella flats.