The Last Bass Outpost
Gear Discussion Forums => Rickenbacker Basses => Topic started by: ilan on May 30, 2013, 11:25:58 PM
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The horror. From TB (http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f126/fs-ft-rickenballer-9000-its-evil-twin-make-wish-pre-cbs-987018/).
As usual with Steve, no truss rod.
As crude and unrefined as it is, it still looks like Wishnevsky's best work ;)
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As crude and unrefined as it is, it still looks like Wishnevsky's best work ;)
Maybe one day, he'll discover how to use a router... and grain filler...and a finish that doesn't look like it was applied by a middle-schooler who was high from the fumes of applying it in an enclosed space with no ventilation...maybe try sanding or learning to solder and apply lead dress...but until then, pubescent subterranean noephytes can marvel at his 'work.'
Shine on Wish, you hero of Talkbass, for your incompetence has bought you more fame than all of the spiff, sponsorship and advertising dollars spent there by commerical entities. Wishnevsky, in his own way, has beaten the big boys quite solidly, building a massive reputation founded soley upon his ability to make terrible half-assed "bass guitars." That makes me smile.
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^ We need a LIKE button.
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The most damning aspect probably is that even the RicSTAPO would not go after this. :mrgreen:
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The most damning aspect probably is that even the RicSTAPO would not go after this. :mrgreen:
true dat.
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The most damning aspect probably is that even the RicSTAPO would not go after this. :mrgreen:
HA HA HA!!! No kidding! Wow, what a mess. I can't believe anybody would send this guy money for these instruments.
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In Holland there's a builder to who make some sort of Birds which are missing all beauty of real birds.
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Disgracefully bad workmanship. Most of you have probably heard of the infinite monkey theorem. It would only take a handful of monkeys with tools to do better work than this.
Time to drag out my pre-CBS Wishbass pic. ;)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/davepix/humor/pre_cbs_wishbass.jpg)
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there is a megathread over at tb where guys take an average (raw) wishbass and really turn them into things of beauty. i swear...
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I used to have one of his early ones. Serial in the 120's I think. Not a bad bass for the $$. I just am not a fretless player. :-[
(http://i42.tinypic.com/33xhiso.jpg)
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it is what it is. a 250 fretless bass with a bad finish, and minimal luthier skills. folks buy them and learn how to work on basses and not destroy a nice instrument. If you get a wish for anything else you will be greatly disappointed. and his cult following is all about the changes they make and joking about his sloppy work.. the thread on TB is one of the most active but its all about sharing repair stories and techniques. i have picked up a few repair ideas , most of which are above my talent level, from the thread...
But truely almost a cult following which i don't understand.
i have owned a few, sold most , tried of ebay and custom ordered - results pretty much the same sold, cancelled, argued....
steve Wishneski?? if you try to deal with directly is rather impossible and does whatever he feels like even after you think he got it he just "forgets" and does it his way....like truss rods etc.
there is video out there of him playing really smashed and sounding like a dying cow bass so out of tune that is actually funny and explains why he produces such instruments.. he clearly is tone deaf
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Minimal luthier skills? A beaver could do a better job on that control cavity!
I had bookmarked that YT video of him playing, it was in my humor playlist. Sounded like a wounded moose. He took it private.
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Minimal luthier skills? A beaver could do a better job on that control cavity!
:D :toast: :D
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:popcorn:
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He has a new laptop model. It sounds like he is playing bass in this video too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuMki8R_pVQ
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son house is spinning in his grave. i have a 'proto type' wishbass made before he started using serial numbers. this according to mr. wish. impressive, i know. ;D look, the wishbass is what it is. it has a comedic as well as folk art vibe. i love it when someone says 'what the f*** it that'? :mrgreen:
oh, i got it for free. ;) that helps...
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Whoa, the sound of his "new musical instrument" (probably a bass-tuned lap steel) is just as bad as his old bass video. I got through about 30 seconds of it.
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I hope he copywrighted that tune before one of us steals it...
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Sounded like a wounded moose.
+1!
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Whoa, the sound of his "new musical instrument" (probably a bass-tuned lap steel) is just as bad as his old bass video. I got through about 30 seconds of it.
Dave, if you had listened further, (especially after 2 min.)you would hear that there are higher more guitarish strings, maybe only one bass string, , In the video I posted above there are more instruments than pictured, and I'd bet Wish laid down the bass and guitar tracks previously. His style seems to favor sliding up the E string, unfortunately you'll have to suffer through a minute and a half of this to see it on what appears to be a Wish fretted guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMVyNclRYBg
Completely different, you should be able to take more than 30 seconds of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMJnfSxffl8
And I apologize for the multiple off topic posts, but this thread should never been in the Rickenbacker forum.
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just an unpretentious guy playing his music for the pure joy of it.
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He can sing like an old black bluesman. That's something positive, I guess.
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Yep, the second video is quite nice. I'm glad old Steve can play something... wasn't sure until now. He certainly can't play bass, or even understand what a bass does in a song.
Not a Ric topic, but I don't mind some traffic in this barren outskirt of the LBO...
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Minimal luthier skills? A beaver could do a better job on that control cavity!
LMFAO! Dave.
I recall the comment on one of his YT vids........ "Wilfred Brimley got into acid and is playing the bass"
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LMFAO! Dave.
I recall the comment on one of his YT vids........ "Wilfred Brimley got into acid and is playing the bass"
I remember that remark! That comment was from that awful video he took private.
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He can't play bass, but that's not necessarily a handicap. Think Leo Fender, Jim Marshall, Ned Steinberger.
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He can't play bass, but that's not necessarily a handicap. Think Leo Fender, Jim Marshall, Ned Steinberger.
True, but they didn't make embarrassing promo videos. And they could put out quality products.
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Jim Marshall
Jim Marshall was just the financeer. Ken Bran designed and built the amps.
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A luthier friend who worked on my 64 TBird had a stripped Wishbass in his pile of spare parts.
He pulled it out to show it to me and said "I think it's called a "Wish Bass" because most everyone who owned one wished they never bought it."
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Honestly if he put in truss rods and went to like 150 grit for final sanding he might have unique folksy fretless bass. As is? "Shudder".
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my wish has no truss rod and is rock steady. it also has a baseball bat neck which helps i'm sure. the finish is great but was done by the previous owner, not wish. the bass came to me with no ground wire which i fixed. the main blunder is a narrow neck with very tight string spacing, it's not fun to play. mike has fixed this on later models, however. you should try one if you get the chance. ;D
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Yep, the second video is quite nice. I'm glad old Steve can play something... wasn't sure until now. He certainly can't play bass, or even understand what a bass does in a song.
Not a Ric topic, but I don't mind some traffic in this barren outskirt of the LBO...
It's certainly an amusing thread; that's for sure.