Fender Jazz = Nerdy

[Hellzero]

2 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Those are basses for stock brokers, dentists and lawyers. Nerds rarely have lots of money, they spent it all on dungeons and dragons.

I'm none of them nor a gamer, but I'm definitely a nerd or an old geek as my wife likes to say. 🤪

[SteveXFR]

4 minutes ago, Grooverjr said:

I'd say possibly for a little bit in early 90s with Metallica and the tail end of GnR, but largely true. In Latin America rock and the whole long hair and leather thing was very cool for a very long time, mind. 

 

I'd say even then, over here at least metal was uncool. 

Metal heads are the nicest, best people though.

[Grooverjr]

12 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

I'd say even then, over here at least metal was uncool. 

Metal heads are the nicest, best people though.

Nice people, maybe, but I have never been anywhere near a fight since I stopped hanging around with them. Must be all that testosterone 🤣

[Mrbigstuff]

29 minutes ago, StickyDBRmf said:

My Chapman Stick is 36" scale.

I rest my case 😂

25 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

When was metal ever cool? Metal has always been for misfits and outcasts.

I love metal but I'll be the first to admit it's not cool.

Oh sorry I got the impression you were arguing if favour of it being cool!

[SteveXFR]

16 minutes ago, Grooverjr said:

Nice people, maybe, but I have never been anywhere near a fight since I stopped hanging around with them. Must be all that testosterone 🤣

 

Really? Most of my friends have been metal heads since I left school nearly 30 years ago and I've never got in a fight. The one time it got close, some idiot wouldn't stop bothering my girlfriend (now wife). In the end, me and my mates dragged him behind the pub and stole his clothes instead of beating him up. 

Edited 7 hours ago by SteveXFR

[Grooverjr]

42 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Really? Most of my friends have been metal heads since I left school nearly 30 years ago and I've never got in a fight. The one time it got close, some idiot wouldn't stop bothering my girlfriend (now wife). In the end, me and my mates dragged him behind the pub and stole his clothes instead of beating him up. 

Maybe it was the times. End of Thatcher. Or maybe they were just an unrepresentative bunch, but most weekends someone would end up in a ruck of some description, and it was a range of ages and backgrounds and often not with outsiders but within the group. I was never involved but it just seemed like there were quite a few hair triggers. Lots of amphetamine may not have helped matters. Then I became a raver for a few years so it was a very different scene and then moved abroad so lost touch with them all. I have known plenty of lovely metallers so certainly not going to make any assumptions about there being a connection. Just personal experience....

[Count Bassy]

3 hours ago, Mrbigstuff said:

 Who are you trying to impress with your tight B string!

Better than a tight G-String.

[Linus27]

3 hours ago, Beer of the Bass said:

There was a thread in the Double Bass subforum where people made a strong point for tripod-mounted EUBs as an innately dorky looking instrument. Not wanting to tread on toes, I couldn't possibly comment!

 

Well, that's me screwed then as I play a Jazz, fretless at that and also an Ibanez EUB which is tripod mounted. Looks like I know my place 😁

Edited 5 hours ago by Linus27

[Linus27]

I also where glasses and drive a Honda for extra nerdyness 😅

Edited 5 hours ago by Linus27

[SumOne]

3 hours ago, StickyDBRmf said:

My Chapman Stick is 36" scale.

You know what, I take it back. The Jazz is cool compared to a Chapman stick.