Plays like butter...

[EBS_freak]

1 minute ago, PaulWarning said:

reckon so, quick run round with the vacuum cleaner on a solid state amp and that's about it :-)

Great minds.

[JellyKnees]

36 minutes ago, Rich said:

Or there's always I Can't Believe It's Not Playing Like Butter..?

I'll raise you lard...

[Bridgehouse]

4 minutes ago, JellyKnees said:

I'll raise you lard...

I've bought some gear that's turned out to be very lardy...!

[Twigman]

20 hours ago, thepurpleblob said:

Just a "WTF?" for "plays like butter".

I have never had the slightest clue what that means!!

I imagine that Americans are to blame though 

I tried playing some butter the other day - it just made a mess and really doesn't play very well at all.

 

[uk_lefty]

My favourite is using the word "custom" on what is obviously the most bog standard encore/ Westfield... Etc.

Edited November 13, 2017 by uk_lefty

[tonyquipment]

Hot butter popcorn 1972

 

that was school assemblies. 

[Skybone]

Plays like a slab of greasy animal fat, with a yellow tinge and a salty aftertaste?

[EBS_freak]

Slight damage to the underneath.

Fitted with Straplocks.

 

I think we can guess the order in which these events happened.

[EliasMooseblaster]

21 hours ago, Grangur said:

The other one I don't get is "plays itself". 

 

21 hours ago, EBS_freak said:

Especially when the word "literally" is inserted before the word play.

Err.. it literally doesn't.

Unless it's followed by

"Reason for selling: I can't stop it playing itself. I've barely slept in the last fortnight, and the neighbours are complaining about the noise."

[EBS_freak]

29 minutes ago, EliasMooseblaster said:

 

"Reason for selling: I can't stop it playing itself. I've barely slept in the last fortnight, and the neighbours are complaining about the noise."

For sale. One possessed bass.

 

Also...

It's dinged to f**k but it does have a hard case to keep it safe.

 

 

[EBS_freak]

39 minutes ago, EliasMooseblaster said:

 

"Reason for selling: I can't stop it playing itself. I've barely slept in the last fortnight, and the neighbours are complaining about the noise."

For sale. One possessed bass.

 

Also...

It's dinged to f**k but it does have a hard case to keep it safe. Or is it a self harming bass?

 

 

Edited November 14, 2017 by EBS_freak

[bubinga5]

I do wonder if the term _it plays like butter" refers to Jaco who used to put butter or chicken grease on his fingers before playing.?

[Grangur]

Ohh... deep thinking there @bubinga5.   

Nahhhh... doubt it's that clever. Maybe Jaco got the greasy fingers idea from stoopid dudes saying "wow, it plays like butter".

[bubinga5]

Ok. just a thought.

[SICbass]

On 11/12/2017 at 21:05, julesb said:

 

1. Plays like butter (often spelt buttah)

 

What, rancid?

[Bridgehouse]

7 hours ago, EBS_freak said:

For sale. One possessed bass.

 

Also...

It's dinged to f**k but it does have a hard case to keep it safe. Or is it a self harming bass?

 

 

Presumably a coffin case, no?

[CameronJ]

I’ve definitely been guilty of a couple of these ?

[Shaggy]

"Oozing with mojo.......". (Gone out of fashion a bit, this one)

"Tastefully reliced......."

"would trade for [bass worth twice as much] with cash my way......"

"Can't prove it, but previous owner told me it was made out of wood from the true cross and owned by John Entwhistle......."

 

[fleabag]

On 13/11/2017 at 10:02, Jus Lukin said:

 

The weird spelling thing on the internet seems to have abated a little bit, but spelling it 'buttah' just makes it even more annoying. 'Plays liek buttah, wid teh extrah switches fo moar toanz'.

 

 

Thats even funnier considering your user name

Edited November 14, 2017 by fleabag

[leschirons]

Undoubtedly the best sounding and playing bass I've ever owned.

Shortly followed by.....

I've decided it's just not for me. !!!!

[bubinga5]

Its got Mojo

The necks been played in.

If this were a 5 string I would buy it.

Its got a bone nut.

It was owned by blah blah

Its a custom build.... Built by parts off the internet at home. 

 

 

[Jus Lukin]

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Edited February 25, 2022 by Jus Lukin

[tonyquipment]

12 hours ago, fleabag said:

Thats even funnier considering your user name

MOAR TOANZ LOL 

[Marc S]

One that always makes me chuckle is;
"There's a slight problem with the tone pot / jack socket / earth wire (delete as appropriate) - but this is an easy fix"

....  so why haven't you fixed it???

[discreet]

Or a bass that's so embarrassingly bad the seller resorts to '...don't really know much about it, selling for a friend...'