I Just Think a Les Paul BASS Is Goofy

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Just another guy, really.
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?
 
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.
 
stevieb said:
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?
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Steinberg headless basses look goofy to me. To each his own.
 
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.....
 
Shoot, I've always thought that Fender basses looked goofy, with their enormous headstocks and giant wind-up-the-clock tuner keys.
 
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 :eek:.
 
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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 :eek:.
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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.
 
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.
 
I think they're darn good lookin basses!



http://img.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/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.

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