The Bassist and Guitarist thread

[Cycleops]

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@Drago might be interested in this. Sorry but I can only see these as a giant con a way to squeeze more money out of the consumer.

 

[Drago]

I think most signature basses are just that.

I bought a Geddly Lee because of the way it plays as a dimensional replica or the great mans clank plank (Lee bought it used and it has a shaved and modded neck), and the Mike Dirnt for the sound (the pickups are a vintage spec, now only produced for that model), but most do seem to exist only to prise money from the eager mitts of fans. The Steve Harris and various Flea sig models are a case in point.

The Phil Lynott replica looks stunning, but not £10,000 stunning.

 

[rogerzilla]

It's NBD.
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The colours make it look like a Ricky.

 

[Cycleops]

The Phil Lynott replica looks stunning, but not £10,000 stunning.

But you do get a pair of sunglasses included

 

[raleighnut]

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@Drago might be interested in this. Sorry but I can only see these as a giant con a way to squeeze more money out of the consumer.

I didn't think any of them were particularly expensive compared to vintage guitars/basses and as for the prices of vintage amplifiers.

 

[Badger_Boom]

I think most signature basses are just that.

I bought a Geddly Lee because of the way it plays as a dimensional replica or the great mans clank plank (Lee bought it used and it has a shaved and modded neck), and the Mike Dirnt for the sound (the pickups are a vintage spec, now only produced for that model), but most do seem to exist only to prise money from the eager mitts of fans. The Steve Harris and various Flea sig models are a case in point.

The Phil Lynott replica looks stunning, but not £10,000 stunning.

Agreed. Mind you although I'm not a bassist I quite fancy one of the Bass Centre replicas of Guy Pratt's Betsy.

 

[Seevio]

 

[rogerzilla]

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Google the Burns Steer (made vaguely famous by Billy Bragg). That would remove any internal organs you didn't want any more.

 

[Cycleops]

Wasn't aware that guitarists have a thing about bottoms.

Burns also had a 'Bison' didn't they @rogerzilla ? Must of had a thing about cattle.

 

[Seevio]

Google the Burns Steer (made vaguely famous by Billy Bragg). That would remove any internal organs you didn't want any more.

I'd put it as a B on the chart. It would be an A but it's curved and the pointy bits go inwards.

I feel I should point out that I didn't create the chart. Also, and let me make this very clear, worst headstock to insert does not imply that there is a good one to insert.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The Phil Lynott replica looks stunning, but not £10,000 stunning.

Approximately £19,200

I have seen somewhere, a Gretsch that was owned by him, for a similar price, or less

 

[Drago]

He was a much better bassist than people give him credit for.

 

[Cycleops]

While Fender's Phil Lynott replica may be expensive it pales into insignificant next to a Framus 12-string Hootenanny which was played by John Lennon has just sold for £2.3m in New York.
Lennon played Hide your love away on it in the film Help!



BBC News - Lost John Lennon guitar sets record at auction
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy00eppxk80o

 

[Badger_Boom]

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According to some less than serious synthesizer groups, it's Korg Volcas all day long if you're a keys player.

 

[rogerzilla]

Second guitar lesson today. The teacher likes all his students to have songs they'd like to play. Rather ambitiously for someone at the cowboy chord stage, I go for Weezer's "Say It Ain't So", since I've been working on the intro riff. "Ah, good choice", he says, and plays it perfectly from memory. Any of it!