Bass of the future?

[stewblack]

[url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/2000/200026.shtml"]Maybe one day ...[/url]

[Hamster]

[url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/2000/200025.shtml"]I hope so [/url]

Hamster

[SJA]

I think that 5 string bass is being sold on ebay by tropicalmoonmusic.

I like how it's got a split p pickup for just one string

Edited January 2, 2008 by SJA

[s_u_y_*]

I love the logic! As if it is impossible to make the fretboard any other width.

Still, I wonder if people of the future will be laughing at how we think the future will be like.

[d-basser]

look around you was a f*ckin hilarious program, series one was like all the science vids you get but surreal bollocks and series two was all tomorrows world spoofy

[Hanson]

Sooo....What do WE think the Bass of the Future is going to be like??

[SJA]

the bass of the future will have so many strings and such a wide fingerboard as a result, that players will have to wear Tony Levin-style "Funk finger" extensions on both their plucking and fretting hands.

[s_u_y_*]

[quote name='Hanson' post='113453' date='Jan 4 2008, 12:00 PM']Sooo....What do WE think the Bass of the Future is going to be like??[/quote]

I predict that in the future, bass guitars, guitars and drums would have formed into a hybrid species and after humans destroy themselves, they will inherit the earth.

[BigRedX]

... a very battered Fender P or J... ;-)

[SJA]

- but artificially aged by a revolutionary new relicing technique (involving putting it in a special bin with various specially chosen "distressing rocks" and rolling it down a hill)

[Kiwi]

or they could make it out of garlic bread?

[stewblack]

Here's what they used to think the future would have looked like in the past. Um.
(note "The bass you can take on a bus" !)




Picture from [url="http://www.junkguitars.com/stories/czech.html"]here[/url]

Edited January 4, 2008 by stewblack

[LordAvon]

For me, I'd like one of these ;-
[url="http://www.stick.com/instruments/sb8/"]http://www.stick.com/instruments/sb8/[/url]

I couldn't get on with the regular version (I had a 10 string stick, 5 bass, 5 trebble) but I'd love to try a bass stick.

[Lfalex v1.1]

[quote name='stewblack' post='113785' date='Jan 4 2008, 10:00 PM']Here's what they used to think the future would have looked like in the past. Um.
(note "The bass you can take on a bus" !)




Picture from [url="http://www.junkguitars.com/stories/czech.html"]here[/url][/quote]

OMG!

So that's what it is!

I bought one of these from a Secondhand shop.
For £80

It's kind of tatty, but sounds really good.

41" Scale

That Humbucker is HUGE (no piezos here!)

Bass of the future? Er. No.

[stewblack]

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='114565' date='Jan 6 2008, 12:11 PM']OMG!

So that's what it is!

I bought one of these from a Secondhand shop.
For £80

It's kind of tatty, but sounds really good.

41" Scale

That Humbucker is HUGE (no piezos here!)

Bass of the future? Er. No.[/quote]

£80 ?? That would have set you back over 50 guineas back in the day. Do you gig with it?

[john_the_bass]

from the same page, i thought [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/programmes/computers/dd.shtml"]this[/url] was moderately amusing

[stewblack]

[quote name='john_the_bass' post='114587' date='Jan 6 2008, 01:29 PM']from the same page, i thought [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/programmes/computers/dd.shtml"]this[/url] was moderately amusing[/quote]
l, and if you will allow the colloquialism, ol.