Happy Jack Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 [quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1332247029' post='1585427'] Have a look at this freak show.... [url="http://www.alembic.com/info/fcvault.html"]http://www.alembic.c...fo/fcvault.html[/url] [/quote] I just LOVE the way every single bass on that page has its very own name. And some of those names are just SO cute ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 [quote name='Fat Rich' timestamp='1332250011' post='1585518'] Take a look at this lot: [url="http://www.loewenherzbass.com/english/gallery.html"]http://www.loewenher...sh/gallery.html[/url] In the design meeting "It needs something...... just a little something extra..... A LION!....... yes!.......that's what it needs" [/quote] OK, so "loewe" is German for "lion", let's add a stylised lion to our basses. Hmmmm. So we can make an Alembic by adding two glass jars to our basses then? [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alembic"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alembic[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacker Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 The reason that I bought the Alembic was that I was after a Chapman Stick at the time and the seller offered me such a good deal on the pair that I went for it. The bass did not go down well - looks or sound - with my then band and the fact that I was pretty much rooted to the spot with the 27volt(?) phantom power box pissed me off no end. It lasted 3 months and I traded it for...........a Status Series II !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quest_bikerider Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 I played or rather tried to a Rickenbacker bass in the guitar shop Denmark st London. It was a beast horrible sounded great though, each to there own Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderbird13 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 [quote name='Fat Rich' timestamp='1332250011' post='1585518'] 'Orrible! Take a look at this lot: [url="http://www.loewenherzbass.com/english/gallery.html"]http://www.loewenher...sh/gallery.html[/url] In the design meeting "It needs something...... just a little something extra..... A LION!....... yes!.......that's what it needs" [/quote] Mind you I quite like the bass in the third photo - or perhaps its just that anything beside Jeff Berlin looks good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 [quote name='Fat Rich' timestamp='1332250011' post='1585518'] Take a look at this lot: [url="http://www.loewenherzbass.com/english/gallery.html"]http://www.loewenher...sh/gallery.html[/url] [/quote] THIRTEEN knobs and switches! THAT'S UNLUCKY!! Ohh! *goes tits-up* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low End Bee Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 [quote name='Fat Rich' timestamp='1332250011' post='1585518'] 'Orrible! Take a look at this lot: [url="http://www.loewenherzbass.com/english/gallery.html"]http://www.loewenher...sh/gallery.html[/url] In the design meeting "It needs something...... just a little something extra..... A LION!....... yes!.......that's what it needs" [/quote] I thought it was an advert for George at Asda. Then I noticed they all had basses with mock Tudor door knockers on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Ahh, those Tudor knockers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Rich Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 [quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1332252257' post='1585574'] OK, so "loewe" is German for "lion", let's add a stylised lion to our basses. Hmmmm. .......... [/quote] Exactly, far too literal. Imagine if Leo Fender had put big chrome fenders on his basses over the pickups....... oh.....hang on a minute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ras52 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 [quote name='thunderbird13' timestamp='1332253963' post='1585606'] Mind you I quite like the bass in the third photo - or perhaps its just that anything beside Jeff Berlin looks good [/quote] Jeff Berlin? Vincent Price, surely...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icastle Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 [quote name='Fuzzbass2000' timestamp='1332250754' post='1585536'] One knob is all you should ever need. [/quote] ...and thus bringing into doubt the need for parliament... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 [quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1332247029' post='1585427'] I am glad I am not the only one who thinks Alembics are designed by blind guys. Their custome jobs are almost universally gross. I think there are a couple of old Series 1 and 2 basses that I would play and the Stan Clarke model is not too bad but some of them.... Have a look at this freak show.... [url="http://www.alembic.com/info/fcvault.html"]http://www.alembic.c...fo/fcvault.html[/url] [/quote] There aren't many instruments on that page I wouldn't want except maybe the ones with more than 6 strings. Having had a fender precision for longer than I care to remember I can state quite happily that I'd never want to buy another one. Way too boring to look at. In fact I'm unlikely to ever buy a bass with fewer than 5 strings and even then it would have to be neck-through with some pretty special figuring in the wood for me to show any interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 [quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1332252257' post='1585574'] So we can make an Alembic by adding two glass jars to our basses then? [/quote] They already have an Alembic in their logo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telebass Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 I don't like: well, anything bar Fender Precisions, really! Not even Jazz Basses to any great degree. I do have a (small) soft spot for original shape Yamaha BBs, and fortunately that shape still exists in the current series (because I have one!), but there were one or two 'BB's that looked entirely different... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icastle Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 [quote name='Telebass' timestamp='1332276064' post='1586047'] I do have a (small) soft spot for original shape Yamaha BBs, [/quote] Romney Marsh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telebass Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 (edited) Ooh, get you! Really, I needed a 5er with a fairly slim front-to-back neck profile and these fit the bill. And they do take after the good ole P-bass! Edited March 20, 2012 by Telebass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 (edited) [quote name='Lorne' timestamp='1332106582' post='1583460'] [/quote] The green Spector that is a beautiful guitar I haven't really tried enough basses to dislike properly sorry !!! or even spent too much on a bass that wasn't worth it , but , I have a feeling that Fender has a snob value with some that I don't get . Sunburst doesn't do it for me either it just seems soooo dated . the 'violin' style might get knocked but its a lightweight shortscale that my 11 yo daughter loves to pick up and play . Edited March 21, 2012 by lurksalot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norris Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Anything active - if it has a battery compartment, take it away I prefer thin necks like Jazzes or Rickenbackers, so have never fancied MM - the one I tried 20 years ago was too chunky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueslemac Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Why lump all Warwicks in the same boat? I love the shape of the Corvette (see my sig), but the rest look horrid, silly or just slightly out of proportion to me, so I'm not interested. Apart from that, I'm in the traditional camp - the Fender shapes are just "right" (or we've just become used to them), but why spend loads more on a copy from another manufacturer? Anything "roadworn". I want to stamp my own mark on my bass. Basses with a silly shape bought (I may be wholly wrong here...) by bassists who want people to say "look at him, he must be interesting because his bass isn't like all the others." Good job we're not all the same, or the "for sale" threads would be really dull! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 [quote name='Jacqueslemac' timestamp='1332338945' post='1586881']Basses with a silly shape bought (I may be wholly wrong here...) by bassists who want people to say "look at him, he must be interesting because his bass isn't like all the others." [/quote] That'll be me, that will. Fundamentally shallow. Mind you, they've also got to be nice to play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 [quote name='Jacqueslemac' timestamp='1332338945' post='1586881'] Basses with a silly shape bought (I may be wholly wrong here...) by bassists who want people to say "look at him, he must be interesting because his bass isn't like all the others." [/quote] That'll be me as well. Who wants to be like everyone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueslemac Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Judging by your video, you don't need a bass for that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aboyandhisbass Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 I've never really been a fan of the Epiphone Thunderbird or the Hofner Violin Bass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorne Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 (edited) [quote name='Jacqueslemac' timestamp='1332338945' post='1586881']Basses with a silly shape bought (I may be wholly wrong here...) by bassists who want people to say "look at him, he must be interesting because his bass isn't like all the others." [/quote] That'd nearly be me, although I do have justification My first bass was a Rickenbacker, friggin horrible Then I had a choice between a Import B.C.Rich Ironbird or a 1979 USA B.C.Rich Bich, I hated the rear cut of the Bich, and never tried it, but loved the look of the Ironbird, bought it, then actually tried the Bich, and bought that too....... But I only ever buy the 8 string versions of the Bich so as to have an excuse for the horrid rear cut, I have also told the designer, that I thought he was drunk when he designed it The Mockingbirds aren't really that extreme The Widow basses, I love the symetricalness of them I still have an Ironbird, it's away for repair, awesome shape Warlocks, hate the shape, I have one, it was CHEAP Other shapes BCR make or have made Seagulls, Zombies, Wraths, Virgins, Virgos, hate them all, won't be owning one at all BTW, I did play a Bich bass in a Jazz band! Here's my Ironbird [IMG]http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u230/share6_album/SV202337.jpg[/IMG] and here's my Warlock [IMG]http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u230/share6_album/SNW5.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u230/share6_album/SNW1.jpg[/IMG] Edited March 21, 2012 by Lorne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bengreen49 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 I do like the mockingbird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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