What are your irrational prejudices? I have some bonkers ones...

[kwmlondon]

• I don't like painted necks.
• I get uncomfortable with non matching brands on amps and cabs.
• Basses with a matching headstock sound better than ones without
• Nobody likes bass solos (well... nobody likes mine. Especially not me)
• Any bass that's been refinished must be good because somone kept it and repainted it rather than sell it and buy a similar one a different colour
• Vintage basses that don't show much wear are probably not great since nobody wanted to play them a lot

 

 

[fretmeister]

My hatred of baked beans is not irrational.

 

They deserve all the hatred I can muster. The vile taste, the vile texture. The revolting sauce they are in. They alone are reason enough for humanity to end.

Anyone and everyone who had any involvement in them being not only available for sale, but actually grown and harvested at all should be propelled straight into the sun.

 

Oh, you mean bass related?

 

Tube amps on bass are completely pointless. Outdated, unreliable, too heavy, fragile, pointless.

Once good transistor amps were available they should have been banned. Anyone and everyone who had any involvement in them still existing after good transistor amps were available should be propelled straight into the sun.

[Lozz196]

Painted necks

Mismatched amps & cabs - but not if the cab brand don`t make amps

Stickers on basses - look great on other peoples basses, but not on mine

Amp/cab overhang

Blue basses - I don`t support Chelsea

Green basses - I`m not Irish

Pau Ferro - just looks like an imposter that`s failed to master either maple or rosewood properly

 

All of the above are completely irrational

 

[kwmlondon]

5 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

Amp/cab overhang

 

 

All of the above are completely irrational

 

Oh. A part of my dies every time I see amp overhang...

[snorkie635]

Pedal-boards - and I have three

 

SM58 mics - yes, I do

 

Curly leads - used to have, but incinerated the bast*rd things

 

Headless basses - Nurse! Nurse!

 

Any form of music containing the following words: punk, hop, metal, disco, funk, (I could go on)

 

Basses manufactured anywhere east of Norfolk (including Warwicks btw.)

 

Live music - any sort, ever.

 

Audiences - all, anywhere

 

Gigging - see last comment

 

 

 

 

 

Wowser, this is great fun and the surface hasn't even been scratched yet!

 

 

[Dan Dare]

Tattoos.

[Joe Nation]

Jazz/P/Strat/Tele/LP copies - Fender and Gibson are allowed to make their own copies (Squier and Epihpone), but everyone else is just ripping stuff off.

Painted headstocks (and necks) except maybe black if it's a Gibson, Parker or Warwick etc

P pick-ups - why are they in two bits like that?

Brand new relic/road worn stuff

[Si600]

Sunburst with tort scratchplates.

Edited 3 hours ago by Si600

[Reggaebass]

Neck through basses ( and I’ve got one) you can never get the action low enough and you can’t shim them 

 

Fast crazy show off slapping 

[leschirons]

WAL basses.

 

They're ugly. Don't care what they sound like, how good their build quality is or, how rare they are. Apart from their inconceivable sales value (as I'd sell it immediately) you couldn't give me one for free.

 

Stupid coloured bass cabs, ( orange, purple, red, green etc)

 

Music stands on stage should attract the death penalty (tablets are okay)

 

Drummers with more than three cymbals.

[itu]

- Gibson/Fender/Squier/Fodera, not only because they are overpriced, but they also look outdated 

- maple and light coloured fretboards - painted is another thing 

- too round necks 

- single cut bodies and "Beatle bass" 

- ridiculously overpriced "vintage" stuff 

- fashion things like Hartke, ADA, Markbass, tce amps, Warwick Corvette... 

- lousy electronics in the signal path including carbon track pots like Alpha, CTS... 

- terms "passive" and "active, when they most likely describe only the output of a bass: hi-Z, or lo-Z 

- cheapo reissues like Steinberger, Tobias... 

- (Fender) reissues branded to someone like Pastorius, Flea, Victor Bailey while they actually played something else in their well known career 

- the word "mojo" in any circumstance 

[fretmeister]

33 minutes ago, snorkie635 said:

Pedal-boards - and I have three

 

SM58 mics - yes, I do

 

Curly leads - used to have, but incinerated the bast*rd things

 

Headless basses - Nurse! Nurse!

 

Any form of music containing the following words: punk, hop, metal, disco, funk, (I could go on)

 

Basses manufactured anywhere east of Norfolk (including Warwicks btw.)

 

Live music - any sort, ever.

 

Audiences - all, anywhere

 

Gigging - see last comment

 

 

 

 

 

Wowser, this is great fun and the surface hasn't even been scratched yet!

 

 

 

 

I don't like crowds so I play jazz.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I've come to realise that my tastes mainly include reissue basses or guitars or guitars where the originals were introduced between 1966 & 1972ish. Anything that looks more modern (or with the wrong logo on the headstock) tends not to interest me no matter how well it plays/sounds.

 

[MichaelDean]

Maple fretboards and painted headstocks should never have happened. If the headstock is painted, it should be a dark wood fretboard.

Ramps make your bass look bad. I don't care how they might help your plucking position. Work it out another way.

 

 

[gjones]

Slap bass (mainly because I'm crap at it)

 

6 string basses (when will you ever play that skinny string - never)

 

Wireless guitar/bass systems (pointless unless you're in Lynrd Skynrd, or plan to crowd surf while playing bass)

 

Hofner Violin basses 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Rosie C]

Bass guitars. Somehow I always feel I'm letting the band down if I turn up with my bass guitar and not my upright.

 

[Dad3353]

Topics about irrational prejudices. 

[HeadlessBassist]

People who drive over the middle of mini-roundabouts instead of driving around them properly. The clue is in the name - Roundabout! 

 

Oh yes, basses...

 

People who call my instrument "a guitar". It's not a guitar, it's a bloody bass!

People who think music is a hobby as opposed to [in my case] a profession.

Precision Basses. (I've tried, I really have. Many times. Honest.)

Flatwound strings. (Again, I've tried. I really have!)

Being buried in the mix.

Ampeg Amplification.

People who think a bass player is some simpleton who lurks at the back of the stage.

Dull old strings.

 

 

 

 

[chris_b]

Basses that sound better when someone else is playing them. . . .

[Terry M.]

White pickguards.

Hofner violin basses.

Classified ads that lead with Fender Squier instead of Squier by Fender.

Passive pickups being called active ones just because the bass has a preamp installed.

That massive swelling on the Fender headstock. I have a Fender.

Bartolini pickups. It bothers me that they turn up on some REALLY nice basses. 

The price of 70s Fenders compared to eye-witness reports of how awful a lot of them were when new.

Ernie Ball will NOT give Stingray 5 customers 19mm bridge string spacing.

 

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Terry M.

[AndyTravis]

Referring to basses as “she”.

 

naming basses.

 

matching headstocks on maple boarded basses.

[fretmeister]

2 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

Referring to basses as “she”.

 

naming basses.

 

matching headstocks on maple boarded basses.

 

 

I have strong feelings about naming inanimate objects that aren't boats.

 

(VERY Bad language warning). the Hound sums up my feelings:

 

 

 

[Steve Browning]

56 minutes ago, HeadlessBassist said:

People who drive over the middle of mini-roundabouts instead of driving around them properly. The clue is in the name - Roundabout! 

 

Oh yes, basses...

 

People who call my instrument "a guitar". It's not a guitar, it's a bloody bass!

 

You may have to take issue with Mr Fender about that one! 🙂

[Rosie C]

 

1 hour ago, HeadlessBassist said:

People who call my instrument "a guitar". It's not a guitar, it's a bloody bass!

 

 

Oh yes, I can add "people who call my octave mandolin a guitar"  😡

[Osiris]

3 hours ago, fretmeister said:

My hatred of baked beans is not irrational.

 

They deserve all the hatred I can muster. The vile taste, the vile texture. The revolting sauce they are in. They alone are reason enough for humanity to end.

Anyone and everyone who had any involvement in them being not only available for sale, but actually grown and harvested at all should be propelled straight into the sun.

 

Amen to that brother. The loosest of Satans' stools and about as appetising. 

 

2 hours ago, Si600 said:

Sunburst with tort scratchplates.

 

Absolutely, as if each isn't hideous enough on its own the effect is multiplied exponentially when the 2 are combined.

But hey, if someone wants to play something that looks like the inside of a nappy with a big plastic scab stuck over the top who am I to stop them? 

 

Which leads me onto... Pickguard. Since when did this become a thing? It's a bloody scratch plate, always has been and always will be so why are da yoof and kewl kidz all calling them pickguards now? See also plectrums. Why are they now called picks? Why wasn't I consulted on any of this?

 

Stingrays. Why? It's a bit like a bass but with an insufferable overbearing nasal midrange that obliterates everything that makes our beloved instrument sound so pleasant.