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

[Frank Blank]

19 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

Referring to basses as “she”.

 

Naming basses.

 

Seconded.

[AndyTravis]

“And this one is called misty…and my fender, the old girl…I name her Rita”

 

”ok bollocko, here’s my bass…black Gibson ripper and orange Yamaha…”

[Beer of the Bass]

3 hours ago, Shaggy said:

 

Baked beans can be sexy too......

 

 

 

Between that and the "Who Sell Out" cover, one has to wonder if that was someone in the band's thing. No judgment from me, just entertained...

[Terry M.]

20 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

 

I have a cheese grater called Pierre.

🤣🤣🤣

[Linus27]

Satin necks.

Matching headstocks on a bass with a maple neck.

Amp and Cab overhangs.

People who call a bass a guitar.

People who call me a guitarist.

Single cut basses.

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Linus27

[Steve Browning]

3 hours ago, Len_derby said:

Not really a prejudice, but I’ve never understood why anyone would wear a hat when someone else has taken the trouble to provide a perfectly good, weatherproof roof over their heads. Ungrateful, I call it 😂

Yes. I never get that. Why wear a hat indoors or under cover? This is multiplied a million times by blokes who wear hats on stage. You think it's cool and I think you look like a complete kn0b.

[Steve Browning]

4 hours ago, HeadlessBassist said:

 

WHAT..?!

 

 

[Grooverjr]

All this hat indoors talk and nobody has mentioned sunglasses indoors yet! At least a hat is just impolite or misguided. Sunglasses indoors is also actively prejudicial to your ability to do basic things like seeing properly. A live musician wearing sunglasses automatically gets filed in my mental "tryhard" drawer and any musicality dies.

[prowla]

4 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

Any thoughts on cheesy peas?

Squeezy cheesy peas!

[snorkie635]

14 minutes ago, Grooverjr said:

All this hat indoors talk and nobody has mentioned sunglasses indoors yet! At least a hat is just impolite or misguided. Sunglasses indoors is also actively prejudicial to your ability to do basic things like seeing properly. A live musician wearing sunglasses automatically gets filed in my mental "tryhard" drawer and any musicality dies.

 

[Terry M.]

30 minutes ago, Steve Browning said:

Yes. I never get that. Why wear a hat indoors or under cover? This is multiplied a million times by blokes who wear hats on stage. You think it's cool and I think you look like a complete kn0b.

Leave Jay Kay out of this 😆

[Joe Nation]

Calling a neck made of carbon fibre "graphite".

[Count Bassy]

3 hours ago, Terry M. said:

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.

IMHO the adjust-a-nut princible is so obvious that you couldn't really say anyone invented it. Lots of people must have thought of it but didn't have the equipment/couldn't be arsed to follow it through.

More a case of who decided to actually make and market it first.

Edited 3 hours ago by Count Bassy

[Shaggy]

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

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

 

The rear body point on series 1 Alembics were supposedly to make their owners use guitar stands, as the guy who started the company (I'm too lazy too Google...) was fed up of doing neck / headstock repairs on basses that had been typically just leaned against the amp and fallen over (as they do).

 

Obviously this was ineffective with my '76 S1, as it's got a headstock repair (albeit a neat one)

 

Have to say I personally like the "point" and "omega" body designs though   I can live with most body designs, other than the truly fugly Warwick Buzzard.

[zbd1960]

5 hours ago, Eric_Wombat said:

Artificially relic'd basses

It's a thing in the cello world as well "antiqued" - no, if I'm buying a new instrument I want is to look nice, not as if someone has thrashed it with branches off a holly tree

[zbd1960]

5 hours ago, Jonesy said:

Yamaha basses. A company that makes speed boat engines, calculators and motorbikes can't make good guitars.

 

Single cut basses where the top bout runs half way up the fretboard. Shudders.

Yamaha have been making musical instrument since 1887 and pianos in 1900, which is why their logo is three tuning forks. 

[Terry M.]

28 minutes ago, Count Bassy said:

IMHO the adjust-a-nut princible is so obvious that you couldn't really say anyone invented it. Lots of people must have thought of it but didn't have the equipment/couldn't be arsed to follow it through.

More a case of who decided to actually make and market it first.

Do you think it might be obvious because it exists already? It certainly makes nut adjustments an absolute breeze either way. 

[Terry M.]

6 hours ago, Jonesy said:

Yamaha basses. A company that makes speed boat engines, calculators and motorbikes can't make good guitars.

Curious which Yamaha bass models you mean or just Yamaha basses in general?

[kwmlondon]

16 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

Curious which Yamaha bass models you mean or just Yamaha basses in general?

 

26 minutes ago, zbd1960 said:

Yamaha have been making musical instrument since 1887 and pianos in 1900, which is why their logo is three tuning forks. 

You’re in danger of taking this thread seriously….

[Terry M.]

47 minutes ago, kwmlondon said:

 

You’re in danger of taking this thread seriously….

This is my entertainment highlight of the day so far. No way am I taking it seriously 

[snorkie635]

Everything in my comment (Page 1), is deadly serious - believe me.

[Terry M.]

15 minutes ago, snorkie635 said:

Everything in my comment (Page 1), is deadly serious - believe me.

As in taking other opinions with a pinch of salt as they're opinions not facts. I was serious about my post too but I'm still finding the entire thread generally entertaining 😄

[tauzero]

My dislikes aren't totally irrational.

 

Headstocks. Ugly heavy things that wreck the balance of a bass. Although that hasn't stopped me owning quite a lot of basses with headstocks.

 

Painted bodies. I just know I'm going to chip it.

 

Chipped painted basses.

 

Deliberately chipped painted basses.

 

Deliberately chipped painted basses with "Fender" on the massive ugly heavy headstock.

 

Scratchplates.

 

Calling scratchplates "pickguards".

 

Calling plectrums "picks".

 

Giving measurements in primitive. We've been a metric country for 60 years, just bloody catch up.

 

Connecting basses with wires, unless it's to connect a 13-pin hex pickup. Wireless is the way.

[tauzero]

6 hours ago, Terry M. said:

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 🤭

 

My basses all have names because the manufacturer/luthier was good enough to provide them with them. Oh, except for the 6-string headless made by the chap I bought it from, which I have called "the six-string headless".

[TimR]

On 07/08/2025 at 15:00, Lozz196 said:

Painted necks

 

I've seen reference to this several times now.

 

What is a 'painted' neck? It sounds like something from Roger Mellie's Profanisaurus.