The Last Bass Outpost

Try THAT with spandex pants and assless chaps!   

Chris enters the room
Loes: is that a bass in your pants or are you just happy to see me?

Men, we're talking legendary guitars here!

I don't give a hoot if they're "legendary". The guitars are still the same guitars except with an extra layer of paint (a clumsily applied layer that is)
The ony one that is really legendary is of course the person that played the damn thing.

I wouldn't dare make the comparison to real art, real architecture, Beatles songs
and these badly executed paintings by a few inebriated hippie artists...

And yes I am a grumpy old man. I turned 40 this summer so I am officially entitled to grumpiness.

Certainly not exactly todays Airbrushed, digital art is it. More like LSD inspired finger painting.

Ed Roman makes bass versions I believe-

http://www.edroman.com/guitars/gibson/fool.htm

not a very convincing Photoshop job...

It was the psychedelic sixties Rob!

That is still no reason to make ugly things

With my friends it is customary to buy silly things for each other's birthday. You go to one of them shops where they have all sorts of nick nackeries. You buy an ugly reproduction of "the boy with the tear" or the "gypsy girl". Or you buy old vinyl records of "Henk Wijngaard" or "Racey".

When you really want to get "even with your friends you give these things back at their own birthday and you act surprised.
That is our kind of fun. This year I got Heino, Demis Roussos and Nana Mouskouri...

About ten years ago I got a very silly LP with a very silly cover with four people wearing colourful clothes that seemed to be inspired by fairytales.
It was a record by the band called The Fool. I had never heard of that bunch of hippies and the music was really awful. Lots of fun at the party!

I kept the record for a few years and at a certain point I needed and old vinyl record for another birthday. So I took that ugly record by the silly band The Fool and sprayed the vinyl gold and made a personalised cover and glued it on top of the cover.


A few years later I found out this record is a collectors item. People pay top dollar for that record...
 

I am not aware of any bad reputation for Warwick...
I've always thought they're ugly. But still well built and good sounding basses.

Neither are I really aware of any real bad reputation for Squier or Epiphone.
Of course some people will always think you couldn't afford a "real" Fender if you use a Squier bass. But are Squiers really that bad? Don't think so.

Same with Epiphone. Epiphone makes some fine basses. And not just cheap kock off Gibsons. The JCS and the Allen Woody Rumblekat are great. You will not be looked down upon with these basses as if you couldn't afford a "real" Gibson.

The Epi Thunderbirds are great too. A bit different from their Gibson originals, but absolutely not a bad instrument.


I think guitars is a different story maybe. I've played some Epiphone Les Paul guitars that weren't too good.
Nothing you couldn't fix with putting some good pickups and decent pots in, though.

Indeed: Makes no sense having the logo on the head stock twice .
I was going to ask them to leave the headstock blanco.
And have their logo only on the truss rod cover.
Maybe it's an idea to have the BaCH logo on the pickguard. After all, they do have a bird in the logo ;-)

Don't watch this if you want to keep the "dream" alive...