BaggyMan

Hi de ho bassistes So i will be honest I have owned a large number of basses in my time and get a real buzz from getting/buying a fresh new bass and settling it in and am always impressed by the fit and finish on basses these days. Or by buying second hand getting it to play great. But never wanted to buy a deliberately road worn bass. So here the deal. Why exactly would one buy a new bass that has been deliberately road worn? Why not gig the **** out of one and remember why the divots were there?? Seen a few around and quite honestly I would want them pristine. Cant say I think any bass player is cooler for having a bass that looks like it survived hurricane katrina (posible exception 'might' be Billy Sheehans 'wife' bass, but respect that because it has seen 1000's of shows). Thoughts and opinions??

Woohoo what a ride, nice comments...some completely odd yet artistically done..nice. Its good to consider other opinions ...even bad ones..thats how better solutions are born.

Finally worked out how to give feedback..d'oh Great trade on a single cut ibanez, as described, good comms, great bass, will happily deal with again.

I chose bigot as a word to describe all types of 'ism' bias i guess. Lots of valid points about "would you want to be a 50 something yr old bass player in a band with 15yr girls.." and so on. Totally get that , sometimes its just not the right thing.. I suppose what i was suggesting is that we as musicians need not type cast/think of ourselves as this or that genre or 'type', yet invariably we all do. So, yeah my first post focussed on being older (becuase..i am and had practical examples to assit the point) , and being fed up with being pigeon holed. I suppose the overall point is stay loose in our thinking and we might get a surprise what the outcome might be eh?

Smooth transaction selling my EAST pre amp. Many thanks, would recommend.

Good discussion folks...