I Just Think a Les Paul BASS Is Goofy

[stevieb]

Just saw one on atlanta Craig's List. Seems like the goofiest ideas for a bass I have ever seen. Looks all out of proportion. Can't imagine anybody wanting one.

Am I a minority of one, here?

[Toker41]

Never really sat right with me, either. To each his own, but I don't like them. I just watch Sheryl Crow play one live. I love Crow, but man did that look goofy.

[noisedude]

Stuart Zender plays one, and that makes them OK.

[ggunn]

Originally Posted by stevieb

Just saw one on atlanta Craig's List. Seems like the goofiest ideas for a bass I have ever seen. Looks all out of proportion. Can't imagine anybody wanting one.

Am I a minority of one, here?

Steinberg headless basses look goofy to me. To each his own.

[Norris Shepherd]

hmm.. interesting thought. I'm not going to disagree with it, but what I'm wondering is if it because we are conditioned to see a bass guitar as the standard Fender Precision and/or Jazz bass form. (They were after all, the first bass to have frets and not be 'upright')

Maybe we've been programmed to see a 'bass' as that.....

[Zaphod B]

Shoot, I've always thought that Fender basses looked goofy, with their enormous headstocks and giant wind-up-the-clock tuner keys.

[owwmyfoot]

I used to dislike thunderbird basses, but now I think they are pretty cool. Agreed on the lp basses though. My first ever bass was an old squire p-bass that had the hugest tuners ever, and the input jack was on the FRONT of it .

[ggunn]

Originally Posted by owwmyfoot

I used to dislike thunderbird basses, but now I think they are pretty cool. Agreed on the lp basses though. My first ever bass was an old squire p-bass that had the hugest tuners ever, and the input jack was on the FRONT of it .

Your bass had an input jack? Mine only have outputs. ;^)

My Alembic even has the jack on the front, and it's not a cheap bass.

[owwmyfoot]

Yes, how else do you think my awesomeness is injected into it?

[Dogbreath]

that was good man...

[lpdeluxe]

Personally, I think Precision basses are ugly...so of course I've got three of them.

A good friend has an LP bass, and it's a honey. It's a proper boat anchor, of course, but he gets a great sound out of it. I sat in with his band on his bass (he had decided, in the absence of their regular guitarist, to take over on 6-string for the night) and played it. Apart from the weight (and the lack of body contouring) it was a killer.

Just one more reason to judge an instrument by how it sounds, and not by how it looks.

But we're pretty eclectic: he has my Classic '50s P with flatwounds right now, and loves the "fast neck" (his words) even though his usual axe over the years has been a Jazz.

[true-eurt]

I think they're darn good lookin basses!



http://img.musiciansfriend.com/dbase.../51/517520.jpg

http://www.woodbrass.com/images/woodbrass/BLD4BCCH1.JPG

http://pmblues.com/images/gibsonlpb.2.jpg

And this one is the hottest lookin' bass I've ever seen!! Les Paul 76 Ripper Bass.

[stevieb]

Originally Posted by owwmyfoot

Yes, how else do you think my awesomeness is injected into it?

WITH YOUR FINGERS, OF COURSE!!

[lbanks]

Originally Posted by true-eurt

I think they're darn good lookin basses!



http://img.musiciansfriend.com/dbase.../51/517520.jpg

http://www.woodbrass.com/images/woodbrass/BLD4BCCH1.JPG

http://pmblues.com/images/gibsonlpb.2.jpg

And this one is the hottest lookin' bass I've ever seen!! Les Paul 76 Ripper Bass.

Eh, I got one o' dem! Mine's a 75.