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

[ped]

Jad Freer, just because he sounds like someone I’d get really annoyed by. I’m not even sure he’s a person or not but if he was I bet he’d drive either a Tesla, Juke or a VW camper van

[prowla]

56 minutes ago, Cornwall Steve said:

* Headstocks that don't match the body

* Headstocks the size of match boxes

* Amps the size of a paperback

* Amps the size of a suitcase

* Knobs and switches on basses pointless because they do nothing

* Knobs and switches on amps pointless because they do nothing

* Pick- Ups that are weak and ineffective

* White pick guards 

* Scratch plates referred to as Pickguards

* Refering to plectrums as picks

* Explaining to my grandsons what a plectrum is

* Bass players spending too much time fiddling with their pedals

* Bass players affected by GAS (I mean Gear Affected Syndrome - not the baked bean issue) - I think I have over 30 basses, I must do a role call sometime 🤔 

* Guitar Techs who think they're Luthiers

* Luthiers who consider themselves Gods

* Music stores/suppliers stocked floor to ceiling with budget basses with white scratch plates 

* Basschat members who reply to Posts using asterisk bullet points

My Rics have white pickguards to protect them when I'm playing with a pick; I mostly don't use the controls and sometimes play them through a Trace Elliot Elf... oops!

 

 

However, I do agree on the techs are not luthiers thing ("My luthier changed the pickups").

[prowla]

9 minutes ago, ped said:

Jad Freer, just because he sounds like someone I’d get really annoyed by. I’m not even sure he’s a person or not but if he was I bet he’d drive either a Tesla, Juke or a VW camper van

 

Teslas and Jukes on the road: I often wish I had an RPG to blast them off the roads.

Also, over the weekend I've three times been stuck behind dullards in Volvos, who probably think they are being safe drivers when they're doing 10mph below the speed limit ("no, it's 'up to' 60mph") (actually, one of them was doing 35 in the 60 road and then sped up to 37 at the next 30 sign - go figure).

[ped]

4 minutes ago, prowla said:

 

Teslas and Jukes on the road: I often wish I had an RPG to blast them off the roads.

Also, over the weekend I've three times been stuck behind dullards in Volvos, who probably think they are being safe drivers when they're doing 10mph below the speed limit ("no, it's 'up to' 60mph") (actually, one of them was doing 35 in the 60 road and then sped up to 37 at the next 30 sign - go figure).

Yeah we get that a lot around here. Very long road with bits that are 50/60/40 and most people just do the whole thing at 47ish (including the 40)

[SteveXFR]

9 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

People who have two first names, eg Benjamin Sebastian. That gets really confusing when you read their names in a surname first list and then ring them up and call them by their surnames.

 

Thats every redneck woman in the deep south. To make it more simple,  their second first name is nearly always Lynn (Amber-Lynn, Tammy-Lynn, Christi-Lynn etc, etc). I believe there was a whole bit about this in the film Ted

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, prowla said:

My Rics have white pickguards to protect them when I'm playing with a pick; I mostly don't use the controls and sometimes play them through a Trace Elliot Elf... oops!

 

 

However, I do agree on the techs are not luthiers thing ("My luthier changed the pickups").

 

Two of my irrational prejudices right there...

[prowla]

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Two of my irrational prejudices right there...

Only two?

I'm disappointed! 🙂

[Jack]

Visually out of place basses and guitars. I was in a pop punk band for about 9 months and I played a sea foam green, maple necked G&L SB2 because that looked great. My replacement (who does an otherwise fantastic job) plays a sunburst jazz with a rosewood board. I wouldn't play my purple Spector in a blues band, I wouldn't play my sunburst scpb in a doom metal band (although that's not as egregious and you arguably could because p basses go with everything).

 

If you only have one or two basses then crack on, but if you have a collection and you bring the Musicman Bongo to an indie rock gig then more fool you. And I should know, because I did and I felt silly doing it. 

 

[Woodinblack]

16 minutes ago, Jack said:

but if you have a collection and you bring the Musicman Bongo to an indie rock gig then more fool you. And I should know, because I did and I felt silly doing it. 

 

I have, I didn't and I would be happy to do it again!

[tauzero]

3 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Thats every redneck woman in the deep south. To make it more simple,  their second first name is nearly always Lynn (Amber-Lynn, Tammy-Lynn, Christi-Lynn etc, etc). I believe there was a whole bit about this in the film Ted

 

Nonono, I mean people whose surname is a first name, not people like Sue Ellen Ewing or Lee Bob Jackson.

[Lozz196]

3 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Thats every redneck woman in the deep south. To make it more simple,  their second first name is nearly always Lynn (Amber-Lynn, Tammy-Lynn, Christi-Lynn etc, etc). I believe there was a whole bit about this in the film Ted

Tie ‘em to the back of the pickup truck and drag ‘em round town for a while!

[tauzero]

59 minutes ago, Jack said:

Visually out of place basses and guitars. I was in a pop punk band for about 9 months and I played a sea foam green, maple necked G&L SB2 because that looked great. My replacement (who does an otherwise fantastic job) plays a sunburst jazz with a rosewood board. I wouldn't play my purple Spector in a blues band, I wouldn't play my sunburst scpb in a doom metal band (although that's not as egregious and you arguably could because p basses go with everything).

 

If you only have one or two basses then crack on, but if you have a collection and you bring the Musicman Bongo to an indie rock gig then more fool you. And I should know, because I did and I felt silly doing it. 

 

I take whatever I fancy taking. If that means an Esh Poseidon at a folk club or a headless Sei anywhere (but most notably at an R&B gig), then that's fine by me. If anyone has a problem with it, it's their problem, not mine.

[Mrbigstuff]

4 hours ago, ped said:

Yeah we get that a lot around here. Very long road with bits that are 50/60/40 and most people just do the whole thing at 47ish (including the 40)

There’s a road I take regularly that’s a 60/30/60. Nobody seems to go above or below 40 mph along any of it and then you can’t overtake because there’s a train of them! The irony is they complain 60 is dangerous yet speed through the village!

[Jack]

33 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

I take whatever I fancy taking. If that means an Esh Poseidon at a folk club or a headless Sei anywhere (but most notably at an R&B gig), then that's fine by me. If anyone has a problem with it, it's their problem, not mine.

Of course it's my problem, this isn't the rational prejudices thread.

[kwmlondon]

1 hour ago, Jack said:

Visually out of place basses and guitars. I was in a pop punk band for about 9 months and I played a sea foam green, maple necked G&L SB2 because that looked great. My replacement (who does an otherwise fantastic job) plays a sunburst jazz with a rosewood board. I wouldn't play my purple Spector in a blues band, I wouldn't play my sunburst scpb in a doom metal band (although that's not as egregious and you arguably could because p basses go with everything).

 

If you only have one or two basses then crack on, but if you have a collection and you bring the Musicman Bongo to an indie rock gig then more fool you. And I should know, because I did and I felt silly doing it. 

 

 

3 minutes ago, Jack said:

Of course it's my problem, this isn't the rational prejudices thread.

I know there are a lot of people who share your point of view. I play a Dingwall and I would imagine I'd not be allowed into a lot of bands because I've got such a space-age looking bass but I think I'd rather not be in those anyway.

[TimR]

1 hour ago, Jack said:

If you only have one or two basses then crack on, but if you have a collection and you bring the Musicman Bongo to an indie rock gig then more fool you. And I should know, because I did and I felt silly doing it. 

 

I have a Jackson Charvel complete with pointy headstock that I played in a function band for years, until I decided it didn't really look right.

 

I ended up buying a Mahogany Ibanez. 

 

I then played the Ibanez in a thrash metal band for a few gigs, completely oblivious that maybe the Charvel would have looked a lot better. 

[Stub Mandrel]

2 hours ago, kwmlondon said:

 

I know there are a lot of people who share your point of view. I play a Dingwall and I would imagine I'd not be allowed into a lot of bands because I've got such a space-age looking bass but I think I'd rather not be in those anyway.

 

Band have to live with what I decide to bring along on the day! Turned up for a dep with my Hohner B2 once, and they loved it.

[Jack]

44 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Band have to live with what I decide to bring along on the day! Turned up for a dep with my Hohner B2 once, and they loved it.

Depends I suppose. I think I could play whatever in my hard rock band, but in my life I've been in two bands with an 'image', pop punk and indie. I guess the extreme example would be a tribute band.

[Terry M.]

11 hours ago, Cornwall Steve said:

* White pick guards 

This was on my list but somehow I tried this in Bass Direct over the weekend and it followed me home. I'm really not a fan of white pickguards but this bass was all sorts of shades of amazing in both feel and sound palette. I even liked the price. I had to do it. There are options to configure a darker colour on the Public Peace website but not sure I can be bothered 🙂 Shout out to Adam their newest staff member. Really cool guy.

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Terry M.

[petecarlton]

12 hours ago, Cornwall Steve said:

* Headstocks that don't match the body

* Headstocks the size of match boxes

* Amps the size of a paperback

* Amps the size of a suitcase

* Knobs and switches on basses pointless because they do nothing

* Knobs and switches on amps pointless because they do nothing

* Pick- Ups that are weak and ineffective

* White pick guards 

* Scratch plates referred to as Pickguards

* Refering to plectrums as picks

* Explaining to my grandsons what a plectrum is

* Bass players spending too much time fiddling with their pedals

* Bass players affected by GAS (I mean Gear Affected Syndrome - not the baked bean issue) - I think I have over 30 basses, I must do a role call sometime 🤔 

* Guitar Techs who think they're Luthiers

* Luthiers who consider themselves Gods

* Music stores/suppliers stocked floor to ceiling with budget basses with white scratch plates 

* Basschat members who reply to Posts using asterisk bullet points

Might be quicker to list your irrational likes.

[kwmlondon]

3 hours ago, Terry M. said:

This was on my list but somehow I tried this in Bass Direct over the weekend and it followed me home. I'm really not a fan of white pickguards but this bass was all sorts of shades of amazing in both feel and sound palette. I even liked the price. I had to do it. There are options to configure a darker colour on the Public Peace website but not sure I can be bothered 🙂 Shout out to Adam their newest staff member. Really cool guy.

 

I am totally in love with this pickup configuration 

[tauzero]

9 hours ago, Jack said:

Of course it's my problem, this isn't the rational prejudices thread.

 

It's other people's irrational prejudices. Although I've never had a problem taking a headless fretless 5 string to auditions, so maybe there aren't that many irrationally prejudiced people around, we just assume there are.

[Geek99]

14 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Thats every redneck woman in the deep south. To make it more simple,  their second first name is nearly always Lynn (Amber-Lynn, Tammy-Lynn, Christi-Lynn etc, etc). I believe there was a whole bit about this in the film Ted

Aren’t those all actresses? You know, of that certain kind …