Gibson pickup flaw

[uwe]

It's "Barbie Sparkle Wonder Charcoal", don't be so rigidly heterofascist about it!!!  

Mark, mein Schatz, thank you for foaming up my orefice! It's something I would always want to leave to an experienced hand.

[uwe]

"Okay, here's Uwe's naked..........."

I do glow in the dark too!

[Granny Gremlin]

It's "Barbie Sparkle Wonder Charcoal", don't be so rigidly heterofascist about it!!!  

Hey, the beauty of a starry sky can and should be enjoyed by everyone, regardless of orientation; the universe cares not.

Mark, mein Schatz, thank you for foaming up my orefice!

Ok, can we draw the line at santorum references?

[uwe]

It IS lopsided. The tiny, out of proportion lower horn makes it look that way.  Your eye tries to balance it out and it can't.

Look at the bass with a towel or something covering the horn half of the body and it's easy to see the bouts are symmetrical.

An M. C. Escher bass!!!



Rob should really be ashamed of himself for falling trap to a Dutch artist's stylistic concept and creating unwarranted mass hysteria here!

[TBird1958]

Veronica, mein Schatz, thank you for foaming up my orefice! It's something I would always want to leave to an experienced hand.

    It was my pleasure Herr Gruppenfuhrer 

I shall begin to put it thru it's paces for an orderly review this afternoon.

[uwe]

[drbassman]

Those must be expensive foam squares! Henry J. would probably have to increase the price by $300-400 if he had to put two whole foam strips in. 

Sorry, that finish is way too sparkly for me.

Isn't this just ridiculous?  They can't even put enough foam in to mount the pups correctly and don't even check, or care, that the basses are leaving the factory unfit to play properly?  Kinda sad.......

[Dave W]

It's inexcusable. It's the kind of thing you might not be shocked at if it were on a $79 department store guitar. It's shocking on what's allegedly a quality instrument.

[TBird1958]

In comparing Bill bass to Uwe's, I think Uwe got the better one as the pickup problem certainly was not pronounced in the way Bill said his was. I personally don't take too much offense if my preferences in regards to a bass' set up require a bit of modification - at least 4 of my collection are quite some distance from "stock"
It was a very simple adjustment, the bass certainly sounded good without me mounting foam bits into it's jumblies 
 

[uwe]

It's ok for old hounds like us to fix something like that but for a kid getting his first real Gibson bass under the Christmas tree it's kinda disappointing and anticlimatic if a little thing like that which doesn't demand much cost, labor or attention ain't right out of the box.

[uwe]

Please wear some glitter in your hair when you do that vid, Mark! Accessorize!!!

And once I have that bass I'll audition for the Scissors Sisters. They know a tune or two.

[drbassman]

I love guys singing falsetto.    Makes my ears ring!

[uwe]

I like it too if it's done well (the Scissors Sisters guy qualifies IMHO). Barry Gibb - always had a soft spot for the Bee Gees even in their disco days - sure could do it and so could Russel Mael.



Mick Jagger's falsetto ain't bad.



And this guy here of course:



And I dig Al Green.

[TBird1958]

It's ok for old hounds like us to fix something like that but for a kid getting his first real Gibson bass under the Christmas tree it's kinda disappointing and anticlimatic if a little thing like that which doesn't demand much cost, labor or attention ain't right out of the box.

This is definately not a good bass for a kid!



Re the guys with a high voice.

I like Justin Hawkins from The Darkness, he's kinda cute too 

[uwe]

His falsetto is a touch too screechy/piercing for me, but I still like The Darkness for the mere reasons that all their harmonies and melodies sound like grunge never happened!