Daisy Rocks rock.......

[The Burpster]

Well what an odd place for me to be in..... Lifelong 'no child zone' to stepfather in 12months.... eek.

However, 9 yr old girl was fascinated by my bass noodling, started to become curious and then was asking 'to have a go' (she does already play woodwind).....

Well to be fair a PRS strung with flats probably isnt the best place to start, and she does have small hands for her size, so for her birthday we have just got her a Daisy rock debutante.

I've heard others on here rave about these and I have even had a noodle in s shop once (and was pretty impressed), but I wasn't prepared for how good a 'made in China' bass was going to be.

TBF it has now had a 'proper' set up, and plays well out of the box, although there is always room for improvement with a sub £200 bass. I have a Schaller 4D bridge on order as the BBOT is a 2 saddle affair which is pretty rubbish but functional, and when I do this I will level the frets and put lighter gauge strings on for her little fingers.

I am however impressed by the wood, the finish and the output. It has a fascinating growl for a passive one pick up bass which we all like.

If anyone is interested, once I have done the bits I'll put some pics on, however if anyone is umming and erring over 'if this is a good idea' for a youngster for xmas...... definate YES from me.

[Ou7shined]

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1322820351' post='1456134']
Is It the same as the one Panzee uses in ZingZillas??
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Dude you need to get out more.

[mart]

I thought Stuart Zender was the bassist in ZingZillas?

[Ou7shined]

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1322823925' post='1456215']
4 kids mate can't get away from it
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I know the feeling. I remember when the Tweenies theme tune had me reaching for the razor blades every day.

[EdwardHimself]

One of my friends has to work in the disney store for 16 hours a week, imagine how he must feel lol.

[mart]

I turned that one around. For a while at any kind of practice I'd do a bit of the theme from "In the Night Garden". It was great - half the folks' faces would just turn white, and the other folk would just look puzzled and go "what's that?"

[Ou7shined]

[quote name='EdwardHimself' timestamp='1322835129' post='1456448']
One of my friends has to work in the disney store for 16 hours a week, imagine how he must feel lol.
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He not overly H, A, PP, Y about it then?

[Ou7shined]

[quote name='mart' timestamp='1322835134' post='1456449']
I turned that one around. For a while at any kind of practice I'd do a bit of the theme from "In the Night Garden". It was great - half the folks' faces would just turn white, and the other folk would just look puzzled and go "what's that?"
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That was one of my daughters much "loved" requests for me to play anytime she felt like bugging me while I was house-noodling... that and bah bah black fecking sheep... which quite frankly I felt was below my talents as a serious musician.

[mart]

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1322836355' post='1456469']
That was one of my daughters much "loved" requests for me to play anytime she felt like bugging me while I was house-noodling... that and bah bah black fecking sheep... which quite frankly I felt was below my talents as a serious musician.
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I'm still working on bah bah black sheep - anybody got the tab for the middle bit?
Oh wait, this isn't talkbass, is it?

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Daisy Rocks are great, although my stardust elite bass is [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Daisy-Rock-Elite-Bass-/270861119091?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3f1094ae73"]on ebay[/url] at the moment as I have too many basses and not enough room or money. I'm kind of hoping it won't sell though. My daughters also have three daisy rocks between them - another bass the same as mine a pink daisy electric and a lilac wildwood acoustic guitar.

[LukeFRC]

a friend has a giant purple heart bass. It's a short scale P bass with a heart shaped body and sounds pretty good! It was funny when church ran out of bass players and found a guy and the only bass he could borrow was it!