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

[Steve Browning]

17 minutes ago, Sean said:

My main bass-related irrational fear/prejudice is technique-related. It obviously stems from a fear of RSI (repetitive strain injury). It's bassists (or should I say "people who play bass"?) that just seem to use their index and ring finger to play and their little finger flies around all over the place.  

 

There's a few variations of this that I just can't even watch. It makes my joints ache just looking at it. I can't watch a Jonny Dibble video for example (there's just something about the way he plays, it goes through me like fingernails down a chalk board) and there's a band I'm going to see later this month where bass duties change between two members of the band during the set, one has what I call "correct form" and looks like he was born playing bass, the other one looks like he'll be in need of a hand physiotherapist and a prescription of anti-inflamatories before too long. 

You'd hate me.  My 'redundant' fingers have worn substantial grooves in my basses just above the scratchplate.

[Jack]

24 minutes ago, Sean said:

My main bass-related irrational fear/prejudice is technique-related. It obviously stems from a fear of RSI (repetitive strain injury). It's bassists (or should I say "people who play bass"?) that just seem to use their index and ring finger to play and their little finger flies around all over the place.  

 

There's a few variations of this that I just can't even watch. It makes my joints ache just looking at it. I can't watch a Jonny Dibble video for example (there's just something about the way he plays, it goes through me like fingernails down a chalk board) and there's a band I'm going to see later this month where bass duties change between two members of the band during the set, one has what I call "correct form" and looks like he was born playing bass, the other one looks like he'll be in need of a hand physiotherapist and a prescription of anti-inflamatories before too long. 

I get that it's awkward and slow but is it actually unhealthy? 

[Sean]

5 minutes ago, Jack said:

I get that it's awkward and slow but is it actually unhealthy? 

I guess that's one of the questions that is answered by "It depends."

 

People earn a living and play some great lines with techniques that make me pull a face, good luck and all power to 'em, but I'll be listening to them, not watching their hands. 

[Sean]

16 minutes ago, Steve Browning said:

You'd hate me.  My 'redundant' fingers have worn substantial grooves in my basses just above the scratchplate.

 

I probably should have said "fretting hand".

 

I'll edit that now.

[Grooverjr]

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

My prejudices are all completely rational.

I have an irrational prejudice against people whose prejudices are all completely rational 🤣

[RhysP]

12 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

People who say the latest bass they have bought is life changing then sell it a few weeks later (I have done this, I am this person, and yes, I dislike myself for it).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ah, you mean "pretty much every bass player ever"...

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

Drummers / personal chauffeur who are deaf, angry and way too fast jolting all the time with a satnav with the woman’s screeching voice telling me about places of interest.

 

Hofner violin basses that look older than the people that invented them .

 

So many ‘made in Indonesia’ basses these days. I do wonder if the necks are as fragile as they look 🤔. The Ibanez headless seemed to have quality control issues now and again . 

 

Active circuitry! I prefer plug’n’’ play .

 

over complicated multi effects ! 

[Count Bassy]

Bass players who have way too many effects pedals (i.e. more than zero). It's a bass guitar, no-one except other bass players will even notice.

 

Also goes for guitarists to some extent. Pedal boards that they spend ages fiddling with between songs. Just play the bloody thing.

 

[MichaelDean]

Bass players who think just going straight into an amp is always the best 😜 EVERYONE notices when you're swelling three octaves of the same note, with an additional octave up & down into delay, reverb and shimmer reverb and you sound reminiscent of a church organ.

[Steve Browning]

Two others. 

 

Light coloured basses. They look huge on me. I'd love a white precision, a la Pete Farndon etc, but I know it'd look daft on me. 

 

Buyers (not sellers) who give no indication of their approach to the seller. It raises a level of expectation if there's no recorded interest, and you find the item sold.