The Last Bass Outpost

You Scots are sounding too English.

FIT?

Awa' an bile yer heid, min!

So ah'm playing ma bass at a gig an' 'is loon saunters up tae me and sais "fit wye de ye play a Gibson bass?  Ah heard they wir gash."  Weel, ah'm nae een tae back awa' fae a debate but kennin' ah'm spikkin' tae a payin' customer, ah tak's it easy on the boy.  "Weel, ye heard wrang.  Ye'll ken foo wrang ye are fan ye hear me play".  So ah plays ma set and efter the boy comes bak' up tae me, lookin' a' sheepish.  "Aht wis brilliant, min!  Fit bass!  Fit soun'!  Ah'm awa' hame tae brak' up ma' Fenders and chuck 'em on the fire", he sais.  "Weel", sais I, "ye dinna hae tae dae that min, fit wye nae try baith an' see fit ye like the best?  Let's hae a beer an' nae mind that we ivver hid this conversation."

I can switch it on and off.  You should hear me and my dad when I go home to the 'shire.  To be fair, I rarely write in it, so it's probably horrible and phonetic, and my sincere apologies to those who know much better than me.

But the reissue was long scale, right? I have a distinct long scale playing memory from playing one when they came out.

Affirmative.

I played my Ripper at a gig last Saturday.  Admittedly it has SD Ripper replacement pickups in it but I really don't understand where you guys get this "non-assertive" thing.  Also admittedly I was playing through an Ampeg 8x10 rig (sweet house gear!).  But to cut a long story short it was sounding absolutely beasting, most certainly assertive!  The singer/keyboardista was in front of me in the firing line and turned around every so often to give me a half approving, half disapproving look

Someone's going to jump on the fact that the pickups are "modern" replacements but I thought the point of them was that they were wound/constructed as per the originals - "The Seymour Duncan Ripper bass pickup is an exact recreation of the originals inside and out" - taken from the SD Custom Shop website.

What gives?  Have I got a magic Ripper, or is it just a case of me hearing something different to you guys?

I realise they haven't thought of us bassists as particularly important (profitable) at the best of times, but is that it?  Game over?  It bothers me.

I know this has been brought up in a previous thread, I just felt like having a gripe about it

I hate input jacks on the face of a bass body - catastrophies waiting to happen.

I'm not as averse to them as that (right angle jack, cable tucked into the strap, no worries), but why this one so damn close to the knobs?  Looks weird and if you're not using a right angle jack plug, probably gets in the way too.

Looks like bidding has ended again, this time it only went up to $611.00. We'll see if the owner lists a reasonable minimum bid this time.

Is it wrong of me to have a chuckle to myself about that?  Greedy bugger got his comeuppance.

Well sod that, I'm not that interested!  And still didn't trigger the reserve

I see it's back up already, I wonder if the seller lowered the reserve.