EccentricRichard

[quote name='lowdown' post='287545' date='Sep 19 2008, 06:14 PM']Funny that..
Wonder why so many top of the game producers over the years
have taken a different approach to you..
And sound engineers come to think of it.....

Not that i am a P bass lover myself.
But awful is not a word that exists in the world of Rock & Roll and pop...


Garry[/quote]

Gimme a Rickenbacker or a Thunderbird any day over most Ps. Though, having recently got the Kyuss album Blues for the Red Sun, Nick Oliveri's P sounds awesome on that - but most Ps sound really rubbish to me. And the J is plain gutless.

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='287444' date='Sep 19 2008, 04:43 PM']Are you this rude in real life or only on the internet?[/quote]

Not being rude, merely making objective criticism...

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='286782' date='Sep 18 2008, 06:43 PM']I'd be happy if I had one just like this lucky bloke's bass:

1966 mustang with original daphne blue finish with pearl guard and lollypop tuners.

or maybe a modern CIJ one in california blue an aged pearl guard instead of the bright stock one. Also in my dreams hipshot will make a set of mustang tuners with lollypop paddles and a D-tuner.[/quote]

Eurgh. That sounds HORRIBLE. Can't understand why anyone would want to make a bass out of any Fender guitar - except maybe the Jazzmaster.

[quote name='johnnylager' post='286407' date='Sep 18 2008, 08:07 AM'][url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=25843&hl=gabbie"]Wow.[/url] Nuff said.[/quote]

Wow to what?

[quote name='jonthebass' post='286482' date='Sep 18 2008, 10:25 AM']Mine would be a high end replica of the Sid Vicious P bass.
Nice lightweight body wood, dark rosewood fingerboard, nitro finish, TV logo & a cracking P p'up! :wub:[/quote]

Cracking P p'up? That's an oxymoron, like 'military intelligence', or 'Microsoft Works' - the pickup is what makes the P so awful.

I really don't like any kind of P-bass. Their tone isn't right for most of the music I like. Maybe messing about with different pickups, such as those on the Thunderbird, might help, but if I've got to have Fender, I'd take a Jazz any day. But I just don't like Fender generally: though I liked John-Paul Jones with his Jazz - the Alembic he replaced it with was horrible. Maybe bolt-in neck construction just doesn't work.

My other dream would be a semi-hollow bass, like a Gibson ES-335 but as a bass, but without F-holes, a la B. B. King's guitar Lucille. There's a guy in Devon makes a 335 bass, but it's got F-holes and the pickup arrangement makes it look really ugly.

Anyone got any comments on my 'EB-335 S'?

Mine doesn't even exist. Back in the 80s, Gibson made a guitar called the 335 S - it had an ES-335 shape body, but smaller and solid, not semi-hollow. I've long thought it would make a nice bass, so here's a crudely photoshopped version...

I think it would offer something for those who'd like a Gibson or Epiphone long-scale bass, but don't want a Thunderbird or a Les Paul, and don't want an Epi EB-3 - Gibson no longer makes an EB-3L, I believe. It'd be like a slightly bigger double cutaway Les Paul bass, but I think LPDCs are only made as guitars.

Any comments?