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

[iamtheelvy]

On 20/08/2025 at 18:11, AndyTravis said:

The rickenbacker gang love keeping stickers on pickguards…

 

knocks me sick.

Well, I do still have this:

 

But I’ll do you one better with this on the same bass:

 

Never quite got round to removing it…

[casapete]

34 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Or Jethro Tull...

 

25 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Or Focus.

Or The Moody Blues.

[Stub Mandrel]

2 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

They really aren't.

 

 

As presumably a 4 is compared to a 3 string bass?

 

I think they are.  They demand a distinct right and left hand technique, especially with regard to muting, and a different mindset with regard to the scale patterns you use.

 

No. There's an optimal number related to the size of a typical human hand. A typical five is too wide to allow thumb muting and left hand fingers access to all strings without a lot more wrist flexion. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Stub Mandrel

[Stub Mandrel]

3 hours ago, Terry M. said:

You forgot to say this is in your opinion. Fixed it for you.

 

Isn't a prejudice an opinion by definition? 

 

 

[prowla]

3 hours ago, SimonK said:

Flutes - an instrument that is never needed in bands that include drums, bass and guitars. Orchestras, marching bands OK maybe - but not rock music! Bloody things are seldom in tune anyway.

How about flute-like sounds on synths?

[prowla]

3 hours ago, Terry M. said:

You forgot to say this is in your opinion. Fixed it for you.

In my opinion an irrational prejudice is an opinion.

[Terry M.]

12 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Isn't a prejudice an opinion by definition? 

 

 

I quoted your assertions not your prejudices. 

[Terry M.]

11 minutes ago, prowla said:

In my opinion an irrational prejudice is an opinion.

See above. 

[Stub Mandrel]

29 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

I quoted your assertions not your prejudices. 

 

For a moment there I thought you were takingvthis light-hearted topic all too seriously. 

 

I play fivers now and then. And I play with a plectrum sometimes too.

 

Sometimes we do what we have to do, not what we want to do.

[kwmlondon]

1 hour ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Or a bit more obscure, Prince Charles and the City Beat Band.

 

That looks like a very specific night club 

[Judo Chop]

Four string flutes

[Woodinblack]

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 A typical five is too wide to allow thumb muting and left hand fingers access to all strings without a lot more wrist flexion. 

 

I guess that means you need to define what a typical 5 is.

I mean my rick 5 is exactly the same width as the rick 4, wheras my typical 5s are between 60mm and 70mm at the bridge where I know a lot of people have crazy wide basses that are almost 60mm for just the 4 strings. I really don't believe that your hand manages to fail to work properly with 10mm extra width.

[Stub Mandrel]

9 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

I guess that means you need to define what a typical 5 is.

I mean my rick 5 is exactly the same width as the rick 4, wheras my typical 5s are between 60mm and 70mm at the bridge where I know a lot of people have crazy wide basses that are almost 60mm for just the 4 strings. I really don't believe that your hand manages to fail to work properly with 10mm extra width.

 

My hand works on my fivers, it just doesn't feel as comfortable, and I have long fingers.  Close spacing is an option,  but too close can inhibit fingerstyle.  Let's just say I have never found a fiver I can play like a four? Regardless of muting issues.

[RhysP]

On 22/08/2025 at 20:14, HeadlessBassist said:

 

John: 🎶"Pino, your dinner's ready!"🎶

 

Pino: "Ya what..?"

 

I didn't know that Pino was in a band with Bingo from The Banana Splits.