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

[HeadlessBassist]

55 minutes ago, Osiris said:

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?

 

I hate lazy renaming of things too.  

 

While I'm at it, string instruments have a fingerboard, because the wooden board glued onto the neck doesn't necessarily have frets. It's not a fretboard.

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by HeadlessBassist

[AndyTravis]

My mate calls them scratchguards.

 

Drives me loopy.

[fretmeister]

12 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

My mate calls them scratchguards.

 

Drives me loopy.

 

He's not your mate. Not with that sort of behaviour.

He's just someone you haven't buried under your patio.... yet. And I congratulate you for your self control.

[AndyTravis]

25 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

 

He's not your mate. Not with that sort of behaviour.

He's just someone you haven't buried under your patio.... yet. And I congratulate you for your self control.

He’s a lovely lad, known him for years - can’t fault him on anything…except…that.

 

So we don’t talk about the plastic plates on guitars

[KingPrawn]

Oh i'm in

 

Anyone that works in a music shop and insists in engaging in a conversation with me. When all i want to do is try something i will never buy

 

Basses with the headstock that matches the body. When did interior design take over the bass world

 

Jeff Berlin because he has a signature Cort bass and i fell for it. They will only ever sound good on fire!!

 

Amps with sh*t loads of buttons. Just fook off

 

Rehersal studios 

 

Any bass over £500. Ive had them all and none were keepers. Not worth a tos*

 

Hardcase gig bags. unless your on a plane. Your only driving up the road you muppet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dad3353]

Folk in denial that refuse to acknowledge that they would benefit from professional help ... 

 

 

 

[Mediocre Polymath]

I mean, I have many gripes with the world of instruments, but the one that I'd say qualifies as a strange and slightly irrational hatred is instruments where the pickups+their surrounds are significantly different widths. The Yamaha BB series is the worst offender with the narrow little J pickup and the extra-wide P pickup in a chunky surround.

[MacDaddy]

Guitar players whose playing would not be affected at all, if the little finger of their fretting hand was amputated. 

[skychaserhigh]

Any bass with more than 4 strings isn't a bass and should be banned from being advertised as such. 

Wonky frets...pointless and trendy, much like pointy headstocks (i had 2 of those)

Class D amps..(I have 2 of those)

People who expect you to play for free on an outdoors "stage" that is basically a shelf.

Darkglass...just because...

I'll stop now as I can feel my blood boiling...

[Beer of the Bass]

Tweeters on electric bass. I like the funny non linear cone breakup stuff in the higher frequencies of a paper cone that people take a great deal of effort to engineer out. And they sound horrendous with fuzz unless you're running some serious filtering, and if there's a proper crossover then the cab usually sounds plain dull with the tweeter level turned down, compared to just hearing the main driver run full-range. 

[TimR]

Drummers.

[TimR]

Guitarists. 

[Dan Dare]

Bass players. Someone had to say it.

[Jackroadkill]

Singing drummers.  Men who don't wear a belt. The word "plane" when substituted for "aircraft" or "aeroplane".  Jazz.  

[StingRayBoy42]

And to think people say we're a bunch of misanthropic old sods...

Warwicks

People who noodle really loudly at rehearsal WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO TALK ABOUT THE SONG WE'RE ABOUT TO PLAY

People who tune up by ear on stage
 

Edited 2 hours ago by StingRayBoy42

[skychaserhigh]

Other people at gigs. 

[binky_bass]

Oasis. What a pair of unspeakable twàts. 

[Burns-bass]

100% original when half the parts have been changed!

[MichaelDean]

Got another: clip on tuners on stage. Feel free to use them all round the house, but they should never be seen on stage. Even band practice is pushing it. 

[Merton]

5 hours ago, chris_b said:

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

All of mine then!

[Shaggy]

Had a think about this, and really just comes down to 2:

• Black blocks on a maple board.   Ugh. 
• Jam nights with no proper song list plan.   Inevitably just drifts into the guitarist(s) widdling endless blues solos (suffered this torture earlier this week.....)

All eye of the beholder I know, but re some earlier posts I'd have to say that IMHO baked beans, sunburst with tort, and Wal basses are 3 of mankind's greatest achievements.   Probably in that order