This brings up a great subject - not sure if it fits here or not… but: naming the bass? Anyone out there a bass namer? I never have been. I usually call them “The Modulus” or “The P-Bass” - feels like a name, but it’s not an extra naming process. I’ve always been curious how people go about giving their instruments names.
New bass day! I go back to Iowa frequently to see Mom and do stuff for her around the house. I thought it would be nice to have a bass around, so I went to GC and picked up a Bronco and a Fender Rumble 25, and the ancillary gear that goes along with it.
I asked Mom for a corner to store it. She said the bass was so pretty I could leave it in the living room as art. Lol! I played the Billie Jean groove I painstakingly learned. She was impressed. I can also do a passable intro to Smoke on the Water.
The tinkerer in me won’t be satisifed, so when I come back next month, I’ll have new strings and a better bridge. I’ll bring my setup tools too.
That’s right. Mom still has shag carpet in the breezeway!
The bass is rad… the shag carpet though - steals the show!
love that bass, the color and the whole mod thing going on in that house, those tiles are cool.
Looks great!
My grandma had a carpet rake just for shag carpet!
Yeah, the carpet is clearly the main subject in this photo. Let us know how you like the Bronco! I haven’t played one for years, I remember being kinda meh about it.
I don’t know if it will be meh, or not. But it will serve it’s purpose and give me something to do while I’m visiting Mom.
For sure. Didn’t mean to diss your new bass, hope you love it.
I know you didn’t. It’s all good. I’m such a noob still, that any bass is cool as heck. It will probably stay that way, too.
Loving all these basses, y’all.
Oh, here is my bass. It’s an Epiphone SG-style, but it’s shorter scale than the EB-3 that they sell now (30.5"). I hope to some day be worthy of it.
Love the short scales!
Oooooooh pretty.
- from your posts, I can see and hear that you love the funk and the jammy jams… but with a bass like that, do you think you have it in you to try out something like… this? I love these guys…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ehMs9i_Ik
Wow that beard is off the chain. And I love the tone of that bass, so huge and boomy! Those big fat neck humbuckers are neat.
I will definitely try out stuff like that. I grew up loving bands like Cream , which is partly why I was attracted to my SG-type bass, but also because it was the best sounding short-scale in the store when I was ready to buy. Love hardish rock like Led Zep (one of my first concerts was Black Sabbath–ha!), and psychedelic rock, and I love punk, all of it. I am only halfway through Josh’s B2B course, but I look forward to all the rock bass lines coming up. I do gravitate these days toward R&B and funk and jazz, but at this point I can’t quite see me playing all those slaps (but we will see). Really the 12-bar blues is the first thing I have been able to master.
This bass I have seems versatile. I have been playing with those four knobs, and I found it can sound smooth, it can sound twangy, and switch that switch to #2 and turn up all the knobs… nasty! Thanks for the link to Kadavar! They are a throwback yet have their own style. I kind of love it when the bass player is just standing still, contrasting the front man/woman. Glad to know great hard rockers are still blooming.
I love those violin basses, both the way they look and sound.
Yes it has that “Early Beatles” sound but I can’t play it like Paul McCartney, not at this point anyway. But when I get better I’m going to look for a Vox amp to complete the “sound”. The short scale makes stretching the fingers easier but I have to say I’m partial to the Fender.
New Bass Day! I’m fretless curious, so I picked up a Squier Fretless P bass. The fretboard is smooth. Being a newbie, I like that the lines are still there. I like how it plays. You get a little more leeway with getting a good note, because you didn’t land in the wrong spot. I’m going to do the mods I like. Babicz bridge and La Bella Flats, and set it up. I have two sets of flats coming. One is the normal tension and the other is the La Bella 1954 Flatwounds. I’m a little scared to put them on. Everything I’ve read, says they are very high tension and harder to play. But I think the sound would be cool.
I’m hoping the experienced cats will chime in and put my fear to rest, or tell me to run away, like in Monty Python!
I’ve got super heavy LaBella flats on my P bass (fretted), I think the same ones you’re talking about. Never had any problems with them messing up the bass or anything. I loooove them. Can’t wait for them to be a few years old and get super dead and thumpy.
FWIW, there’s nothing “newbie” about having fret line markers on a fretless, you can see plenty of pros with necks like that. Big difference from putting big pink stickers on your fretted bass.