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

[LowB_FTW]

31 minutes ago, 40hz said:

Oh guys. I'm full of hatred. I'm practically a Bass Palpatine.

 

Mark

[Bluewine]

I guess I can throw a couple out there.

 

1.Synth bass pedals 

2.Knock off basses

3. 4 hour gigs

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

On 07/08/2025 at 09:07, snorkie635 said:

 

 

SM58 mics - yes, I do

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why don't you like 58s. Aren't they still the industry standard?

Daryl

 

[Bluewine]

On 07/08/2025 at 11:38, Steve Browning said:

 

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

 

[snorkie635]

3 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

Why don't you like 58s. Aren't they still the industry standard?

Daryl

 

I think they are, but I never got on with them. Prefer Beta model.

[Burns-bass]

One word:

 

Flea

 

I have literally no idea how the guy who can barely play and sounds awful on almost every record is venerated as a bass god. 

 

This isn't something I would share (as there's enough negativity in the universe) but this irrational hatred of a hugely successful musician emerged when I was a music teacher for 5 years. 

[kwmlondon]

7 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

One word:

 

Flea

 

I have literally no idea how the guy who can barely play and sounds awful on almost every record is venerated as a bass god. 

 

This isn't something I would share (as there's enough negativity in the universe) but this irrational hatred of a hugely successful musician emerged when I was a music teacher for 5 years. 

I kind of know what you mean. I can't say I listen to RHCP for enjoyment, but I do use some of his basslines as warmups as they're brilliant string-skipping or slap exercises. 

[prowla]

People writing "gb" for gigabytes...

"g" is for grammes and "b" is for bits, so "gb" is gram-bits.

"G" is for giga and "B" is for bytes, so "GB" denotes gigabytes.

 

Also writing memory as "Gb", which is gigabits.

Nothing is measured in gigabits; data rates are often expressed in gigabits per second, "Gbps" or "Gb/s".

This is especially prevalent in the case of mobile phones, where there are both data rates (expressed in gigabits per second ("Gbps") and phone memory (expressed in gigabytes, "GB").

However, I did once have someone from a mobile supplier telling me that they were in fact the same thing.

 

Then we have data rates being written as "mb" or "mbps".

"m" is for milli (1/1000th).

So an "mb" is a milli-bit, which doesn't exist.

 

Whenever I see someone purporting to be knowledgeable about a topic writing "gb" or "mb", I inherently reject their post on the basis they don't even know their units.

[Leonard Smalls]

32 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

the guy who can barely play

I remember seeing them at their 2nd ever UK gig - the Mean Fiddler in Harlesden.

After 2 songs Hillel couldn't cope anymore wot with being off his face (he died not long after...) and left the stage.

So the other 3 continued as they had no real choice.

And Flea managed to fill the gap beautifully - did his own lines and threw in some of the guitar stuff too which most certainly isn't a sign that he "can barely play"! So unless he's somehow forgotten how to do the bass thing in the intervening 37-8 years, I suspect that he can still do it.

And bear in mind, Stanley Clarke invited him onto the ultimate bassathon, Night School, so it would seem that the hatred is largely irrational - the low point of his career being that terrible StarSpangledGizmo he did at the Pooper Bowl...

[Burns-bass]

1 minute ago, Leonard Smalls said:

I remember seeing them at their 2nd ever UK gig - the Mean Fiddler in Harlesden.

After 2 songs Hillel couldn't cope anymore wot with being off his face (he died not long after...) and left the stage.

So the other 3 continued as they had no real choice.

And Flea managed to fill the gap beautifully - did his own lines and threw in some of the guitar stuff too which most certainly isn't a sign that he "can barely play"! So unless he's somehow forgotten how to do the bass thing in the intervening 37-8 years, I suspect that he can still do it.

And bear in mind, Stanley Clarke invited him onto the ultimate bassathon, Night School, so it would seem that the hatred is largely irrational - the low point of his career being that terrible StarSpangledGizmo he did at the Pooper Bowl...

 

Objectively he can play, this is a place for irrational dislikes. There's no logic to it. (I also hate Queen and can't listen to it and feel embarrassed playing it. But John Deacon is as cool as.)

 

He's sold millions of records and inspired thousands of people to play. I'm sure he's a good egg, too.

 

[Leonard Smalls]

16 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

I'm sure he's a good egg, too

I once shared a "cigarette" with him while we discussed P Funk at the Chillis aftershow party in the Astoria that I'd somehow blagged my way into.

Seemed alright to me!