Irrational dislike?

[Guest bassman7755]

Guitarists and bassists in pub bands with ridiculously elaborate stage setups e.g. those needing to spend half a hour wiring together a bunch of effects and taping down all the connecting leads to the stage followed by another half an hour of plonking away to dial in all the sounds. Get a pedal board / multi effects FFS.

Musicians in pub bands who stand there playing scales or excepts from their set while they wait to start the gig.

[Dingus]

[quote name='Norm' timestamp='1376522729' post='2175609']
Mark bass stuff. It's the yellow.
They sound good but they're yellowy.

Tories.
[/quote]

I am with you on the Markbass being too yellow thing . A little bit of yellow would have been O.K , but they have been silly with it and lost my future custom as a result . That's what you get for showing off . The fact that they are Italian puts me off , too . Don't get me wrong , I am an avowed Italianophile and love the effortless style and sophistication that is synonymous with that great nation , but when I was a kid we has an Italian-made Zanussi fridge that decided to stop working on Christmas Eve , ruining the whole contents and leaving the poor young Dingus with no turkey and no trifle on that most festive of days . I have never really gotten over it , to be honest with you . Why would a bass amp be more reliable than a fridge ? You hear about problems with bass amps breaking down far more frequently than you hear about fridges stopping working . You can see why I would be cautious . And bitter . Above all though , I don't blame the Italians for all of this so much as I blame the Tories . I'm not exactly sure how , but I am sure those bastards will be responsible for this sorry state of affairs somewhere along the line .

Edited August 15, 2013 by Dingus

[chriswareham]

Irrational dislike? Anything made by Yamaha. I blame it on the Yamaha DX-7 synthesiser - sounded utter pish and was completely unprogrammable by the mere mortal. It started the trend for using naff preset sounding synth sounds that has continued to this day, and every synth manufacturer followed Yamaha's lead by producing digital synths with awful interfaces. I guess that's a reasonably rational dislike, but the irrational part is that I now consider anything made by Yamaha to be crap - even their basses, which by all accounts are great.

[Lfalex v1.1]

Some members of Basschat?
Irrational? Yes. I've never even met them.
If I were to meet them, I feel sure that our mutual interest would overcome any niggling differences.
On here? "We" (the community) scrap over every conceivable aspect of our instrument of choice.

Now [i]that[/i] is irrational.

[leschirons]

Any basses by builders who were primarily exotic guitar manufacturers but thought they naturally had the ability to build an equally nice looking bass.

The culprits being Ovation, PRS, Gordon Smith, Parker and Patrick Eggle.

They ALL look like sh*t. I've no idea what they sound like and don't want to find out.

[Roland Rock]

I've thought of one! Multi FX units.

[Ben Jamin]

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1376550483' post='2175687']

Now that's a good proper, stream of consciousness, rant. Nice
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Glad to be of service
It was a long day in the office!

[swanbrook]

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' timestamp='1376595645' post='2176689']
Some members of Basschat?
Irrational? Yes. I've never even met them.
If I were to meet them, I feel sure that our mutual interest would overcome any niggling differences.
On here? "We" (the community) scrap over every conceivable aspect of our instrument of choice.

Now [i]that[/i] is irrational.
[/quote]

Class love it !!

[BassTractor]

Quite some irrational responses here, indeed, them going all rational 'n' stuff.

Me, I can't find one. Have enough dislikes, but they're about taste, and hardly interesting.
(coffee table basses, sunburst, "design" that is not design but an amateur's take on "originality" .... the list goes on forever ...)


Wait!
Hartke!
Now that [b]is[/b] irrational. The stuff [b]must[/b] be good, but I just can't approach it anymore after having heard a set with a 410 that was bloody, bloody awful, and probably just faulty.
That is an undefendable dislike, and thus irrational.


best,
bert

Edited August 15, 2013 by BassTractor

[thebassman]

Bands, where all the members wear T shirts stating what instrument they play.

Cheers

Thebassman

[BILL POSTERS]

[quote name='thebassman' timestamp='1376609752' post='2176949']
Bands, where all the members wear T shirts stating what instrument they play.

Cheers

Thebassman
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You really seen that ?

So naff I cant believe anybody has actually stood on a stage and done it.

[iconic]

Ibanez

Warwick

Active basses....unless i buy anther one...!

Mick Hucknell

Phil Collins

Man flippy mouth like purses...the sort with the zip and flap for change

[steve-bbb]

[quote name='paul h' timestamp='1376567726' post='2176120']
^^^ Ooh...that's made me think of one.

I hate cheap looking headstock logos. I am sure there are some mighty fine basses out there that I wouldn't buy because of an ugly logo.
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but what about the ones that actually are cheap but sound just as good as their expensive counterparts?

[steve-bbb]

[b][url="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305310/Man-gets-shock-toy-poodles-turn-GIANT-RODENTS-steroids.html"]id hate it if my ferret went around impersonating a poodle[/url][/b]

[Guest bassman7755]

Peoples names that use phonetic abbreviation or replacement e.g. "jon" and any girls name using "i" instead of "ey" or "y".

Both types of "RnB" i.e. black american female faux-gangsta pop and dirgy english pup-rock-without-guitar-solos.

Also all other forms of rock-with-no-lead-guitar e.g. grunge (including post-grunge such as nickleback).

Pub guitarists who don't use any reverb on their lead/solo sound.

People who tune by harmonics and think they are being clever.

[fumps]

That's just silly as Jon is actually short for Jon-athan

Dave down at the pub, I dont even know him that well but for some reason I just dont like the cut of his Jib......strange how that is

[tauzero]

[quote name='thebassman' timestamp='1376609752' post='2176949']
Bands, where all the members wear T shirts stating what instrument they play.
[/quote]

How else am I going to remember? I also leave a diagram in my bass case to remind me which end to blow it.

[thebassman]

[quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1376614053' post='2176981']


You really seen that ?

So naff I cant believe anybody has actually stood on a stage and done it.
[/quote]

Sad to say, but yes.

They had the band name on the front and what they played on the back. They were a covers band and pretty terrible too.

Cheers

Thebassman

[Dave Vader]

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1376656150' post='2177439']
Pub guitarists who don't use any reverb on their lead/solo sound.
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and quite the opposite.

[phil.i.stein]

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1376660755' post='2177558']
How else am I going to remember? I also leave a diagram in my bass case to remind me which end to blow it.
[/quote]

quite brilliant.

[lojo]

I can't post here, is there a rational dislike thread, I could on that

[BassTractor]

[quote name='phil.i.stein' timestamp='1376696231' post='2178287']
quite brilliant.
[/quote]

It is, innit.
Then, what else to expect from Tauzero.

But I wonder who has them in stock.
I can't find one, even after spellcheck said it's not "viagram".

b,
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[witterth]

[quote name='iconic' timestamp='1376625180' post='2176994']
Ibanez

Warwick

Active basses....unless i buy anther one...!

Mick Hucknell

Phil Collins

Man flippy mouth like purses...the sort with the zip and flap for change
[/quote]
I've met Hucknall (to quote Mog of simply red Mk1) "the singing Pig" and trust me that's not irrational. a bit self important. just like Aziz Ibrahim (another one) didn't like him either. ( yes I know, but I do mean it)

[matski]

[quote name='witterth' timestamp='1376741406' post='2178549']
I've met Hucknall (to quote Mog of simply red Mk1) "the singing Pig" and trust me that's not irrational. a bit self important. just like Aziz Ibrahim (another one) didn't like him either. ( yes I know, but I do mean it)
[/quote]

I had an argument with the singing pig in a Manchester pub once. He was a twat of the highest order.

Edited August 17, 2013 by matski

[seashell]

[quote name='witterth' timestamp='1376741406' post='2178549']

I've met Hucknall (to quote Mog of simply red Mk1) "the singing Pig" and trust me that's not irrational. a bit self important. just like Aziz oIbrahim (another one) didn't like him either. ( yes I know, but I do mean it)
[/quote]

My mate tried to sell a toaster to Hucknall in the Manchester branch of Comet. But Hucknall was apparantly unimpressed with their range of small appliances and left without buying anything.