Yea, It's not like im gonna loose money on it or something. It just suprised me how much I disliked the guitar from the first time I touched it. I hadn't really experinced that before. Theres been alot of them I didnt care much for, but I guess on the same hand, I didnt buy them. LOL! It was good to help out the friend, I was just curious if anyone else had experienced the same.
I traded in an SG bass and was really excited to get a Precision Bass and after playing it for a week or two, I couldn't figure out why I would ever want one. I actually named it "POS".
I feel exactly the same, but reversed. I don’t know how they even sold short scale Gibsons “back in the day” when the main competition was Fenders and Rickies.
I’ll have say that I have heard players make them sound
good, but I sure ain’t one of them!
When I play them they are snarky, farty sounding little mud buckets; I suspect they are easier to play than long scales if you have small hands though.
Dare you to tell this guy that...
Several years ago I took a job in a Motown/R&B revue band. I always
kind of liked Motown, certainly respected the talent from the genre, but never was a really huge fan. Not my
first choice of music to play, but it was a very lucrative gig; cool venues, top shelf accommodations, excellent players, weekends only, and a sh*t pot full of money. I freely admit I'm a whore; you pay, I'll play.
I traded in the "I'm so cool, I play in a (insert genre) band" for nice houses, fast cars, and fiscal comfort at a fairly young age.
Anyway, when Motown songs came up in the past with other bands I would fake my way through; stay on one, don't let the drummer get away, etc., but never paid attention to the actual bass lines until I had to for this band.
The "sh*t pot full of money" was dependent on my
nailing the bass lines, not just jamming along and smiling.
Now, I've been playing a loooong time. I can read, sight transpose, sing and play, etc., but hitting those bass lines "on the money" with a drummer I'd only rehearsed with a couple of times in a live setting had me sweating bullets the first couple of gigs.
If you are a bassist and
haven't done this yet, and want to enhance your skill set, let me suggest that you listen closely to some of the stuff Mr. Jamerson did with Marvin Gaye, Jackson 5, etc. There is a reason he's considered "The Man";
all of those funkmeisters were bad asses, but James was the king IMO.
Here's one, an
actual James Jamerson bass isolation track from a song you probably know; what is it?*
*EDIT; Never mind "guessing", I think the song title is coded in the track.
