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

[Terry M.]

16 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

Referring to basses as “she”.

 

naming basses.

 

 

All my basses get female names but I generally keep quiet about it. Would never mention that in a sales ad for example. My guitarist friend also give his axes female names 🤭

Edited 5 hours ago by Terry M.

[Wolverinebass]

Most of my prejudices are perfectly rational to me, but maybe people think otherwise.

 

Hans Peter Wilfer - A man who would claim he invented anything and everything regardless how obvious it was he didn't. However, nu-metal is over and nobody really plays Warwicks anymore. Unlucky.

 

People who do the Darkglass/Dingwall combination just so they "can have everything just like Nolly!!" It sounds awful.

 

Mark King fan boys. Moving from every era of bass he plays as he does, just so they can play Mr Pink with whatever bass and amp he's chosen to endorse for 3 months. 

 

People who do that weird slight bendy note thing whilst looking like they're having a hernia. Janek Gwizdala and Phil Mann are hilarious for this.

 

Ashdown thinking they're amazing. All their main endorsees are either dead, retired or not far from either. Don't pretend you're forward looking when everyone who has an endorsed product is over 60.

 

Manufacturers making sub 42mm nuts the norm. Just pack it in.

 

Hofner basses. You know they're crap, we know they're crap.

 

People who use tablets on stage for the music. Either practice more or prepare to be bottled.

 

People who say the word "pocket" as regards playing. Seriously, just no.

 

Influencer/Youtubers. Get in the bin. All of you.

 

Scott Devine - Happy, plastic, Americanised optimism at it's finest. He should be a sales assistant at an Apple store.

 

Obviously, my therapist says I'm "doing much better" with my misanthropy these days.

[KingBollock]

16 hours ago, fretmeister said:

 

 

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

 

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

 

I have a PC and it’s drives all named after fantasy swords.

 

I have another PC and it’s drives named after ships from the Alien franchise.

 

Three of my basses also have names (one of which is named after a fantasy sword…).

[Rosie C]

18 minutes ago, Wolverinebass said:

People who use tablets on stage for the music. Either practice more or prepare to be bottled.

 

 

 

^^^ This is my tablet's contents this morning. I share the prejudice but learning tunes takes me so long! The worst offender is our church band with 135 tunes. Our community big band has 68 tunes, and our band's regular Christmas show has 54 carols.

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Rosie C

[Terry M.]

12 minutes ago, Wolverinebass said:

Hans Peter Wilfer - A man who would claim he invented anything and everything regardless how obvious it was he didn't. However, nu-metal is over and nobody really plays Warwicks anymore. Unlucky.

Sitting here reading this whilst playing my Thumb 5 string. I wouldn't be without it or my Streamer and I don't play metal 😄 Who invented the adjust-a-nut of curiosity as I don't know? I assumed Warwick did.

[knirirr]

1 hour ago, AinsleyWalker said:

 if someone turned up with a metallic red trumpet you'd think they were a right clown...

 

My other half (brass bands) informs me that bandsmen consider anyone whose brass instrument (inc. saxophones) isn't silver or brass lacquer to be a coxcomb. 

 

17 minutes ago, Wolverinebass said:

 

People who use tablets on stage for the music. Either practice more or prepare to be bottled.

 

 

 

The pro jazz players I know use them and they play very well, though I realise that this issue isn't going away. Eventually, there will be complaints about those performers who have iReal project chord charts into their peripheral vision via smart glasses or ocular implants. 

 

 

An irrational prejudice of mine is against acoustic guitarists who confuse their preference for performances where the audience sit in silence listening to Dylan covers for a universal truth that the acoustic guitar has a pure, clean and true sound, unlike nasty electric guitars which sound bad and are always too loud (so if your genre uses them you should switch genre). Though I generally avoid them they end up living rent free in my head. 

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[KingBollock]

The weirdly stretched body shape of Spectors and Warwicks. Warwicks aren’t helped by that headstock, either.

 

The dumpy, drawn by a child, shape of Wals.

[fleabag]

Basses, any type

[Wolverinebass]

13 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

Who invented the adjust-a-nut of curiosity as I don't know? I assumed Warwick did.

Alembic invented it.

[Leonard Smalls]

1. Catchy little melodies; this is just a fop to those who think that music is just a ditty to whistle while doing their milk round. Real music isn't for enjoyment or fun, it's meant to be difficult and exclude those who lack understanding. I don't include bone-crunching riffs, or earworms such as Joe Dolce's "Shaddapa ya face", obvs.

2. Vocalists - see above 

3. Boring arrangements - straightforward 1234 should be illegal. Syncopate or be exterminated!

4. Musicians who do the bare minimum - see 3.

5. Sound engineers who think that the only thing that the audience wants to hear is a kidney-jarringly-loud kick drum and a general mush in the rest of the bass. Learn your craft yer eejits!

[Grooverjr]

PJs and painted necks and skinny nut widths. And then I picked up a Jack bass with all three of those horrors and I am loving it. But I still feel the same about PJ, painted necks and skinny nuts. I think that must be the dictionary definition of  irrational prejudice.

I would put my dislike of OTT slap, showing off in general, the fact that Scott Devine has buried what was a really good teacher deep underneath his desperate desire to be 'down with the kids' and many of the other things already mentioned in the 'rational response to unpleasant stimuli' camp. Can't say I hate them, they're just facts I accept and move on from.

People who dislike baked beans, however.....

[fretmeister]

44 minutes ago, Wolverinebass said:

Most of my prejudices are perfectly rational to me, but maybe people think otherwise.

 

Manufacturers making sub 42mm nuts the norm. Just pack it in.

 

People who use tablets on stage for the music. Either practice more or prepare to be bottled.

 

 

 

Nut widths on a 4 string that are over 40mm are just unfinished 5 strings.

5 strings should be limited to 44.5mm and not a micron wider!

 

Can't argue with the tablets though. I'd have an exception for a sitting down classical / jazz gig but never ever for any singer in any genre. Totally kills the mood.

 

 

 

 

[Crusoe]

People from... oh, you mean bass related prejudices! 😆

 

Headless basses/guitars

Lacquered necks

[pst62]

18 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

Referring to basses as “she”.

 

 

 

Yes, it's very nauseating.

[pst62]

18 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

Referring to basses as “she”.

 

 

 

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Edited 4 hours ago by pst62
Inexplicable repost.

[pst62]

18 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

Referring to basses as “she”.

 

 

 

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Edited 4 hours ago by pst62
Inexplicable repost again.

[Dad3353]

Duplicate posts. 

 

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[HeadlessBassist]

5 minutes ago, pst62 said:

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Can you say that again? I didn't hear you the first three times...

[Mokl]

19 hours ago, chris_b said:

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

All of mine, then 

[Stub Mandrel]

Basses with decorative 'ornate' points like Alembics and G&L.

[JoeEvans]

I don't like painted necks at all but looking through this thread I don't think that can be an irrational hatred because so many of us don't like the horrible sweaty, sticky things.

[HeadlessBassist]

2 minutes ago, JoeEvans said:

I don't like painted necks at all but looking through this thread I don't think that can be an irrational hatred because so many of us don't like the horrible sweaty, sticky things.

 

Agreed, and some of us don't even get sweaty hands. I have a variety of satin necks, glossy graphite necks, oil finished necks, and even a couple of nitro finished gloss necks, and I don't have a 'sticky' problem with any of them, thankfully.

[Frank Blank]

21 hours ago, fretmeister said:

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.

 

21 hours ago, fretmeister said:

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

 

U OK hun?

[kwmlondon]

9 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

 

 

U OK hun?

He's bean better...

[Frank Blank]

21 hours ago, leschirons said:

Music stands on stage should attract the death penalty

 

U OK hun?

 

19 hours ago, fretmeister said:

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

 

I have a cheese grater called Pierre.

 

18 hours ago, Osiris said:

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

 

Baked beans are delicious and doubly so due to the rampant post bean consumption guffage, what's not to like? Apart from our very own resident Egyptian deity, obvs.

 

18 hours ago, Osiris said:

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?

 

*raises hand*

 

18 hours ago, Osiris said:

Why are they now called picks? Why wasn't I consulted on any of this?

 

Because the hours it would take to simply summon you on the oijua board make communication on points such as this counter productive.

 

18 hours ago, Osiris said:

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. 

 

Fair.