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  1. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]

    True I guess. I mean if I was living on my own and I had a mortgage to pay off and all that jazz, I wouldn't be spending that much on a guitar, but I don't know this guys financial state. Right now, I'm only 18 (soon 19) and still living with my parents, using my part time job money to do what I want with. Right now I'm saving up for a John Mayer strat, so I geuss it's the same idea. Even probably dumber actually, seeing as how I already have an american strat, but there are reasons why both would be handy, and why I'm buying the John Mayer strat.

    Alex


    BEFORE buying the JOHN MAYER Stratocaster... Check out the ERIC JOHNSON Stratocaster. They Mayer may be fine. But you might find the Eric Johnson that much better.


  2. And i was talking about the Starbass II not the Stryker.The Stryker is ugly,wait till you see the custom Starbass.
  3. Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:[..]

    BEFORE buying the JOHN MAYER Stratocaster... Check out the ERIC JOHNSON Stratocaster. They Mayer may be fine. But you might find the Eric Johnson that much better.


    Random acts of CAPITALIZATION!!!


  4. +1
  5. Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:[..]

    BEFORE buying the JOHN MAYER Stratocaster... Check out the ERIC JOHNSON Stratocaster. They Mayer may be fine. But you might find the Eric Johnson that much better.


    I haven't actually tried either of them, i've never actually seen them in any local music store so it's difficult to try, but I've actually seen comparisons online and apparently the Mayer "schools" (directly quoted) the EJ strat. Apparently everything from the silky african rosewood (apparetly bends above the 12th fret are dead, but that comes with the vintage wood neck) and the big dipper pickups make it amazing. It'd be great to do a comparison myself, but like I said, kind of impossible.
  6. Originally posted by thechicken:[..]

    I am 100% sure that if he had only heard the performance he wouldn't bother even to find out know what bass that was. If the guy has the money and likes it, ok, go buy it, but don't tell me that it is because of the sound, because it is not.


    The Chicken said: "but don't tell me that it is because of the sound, because it is not".

    I know Scott. It is the look and the sound. If it sounded shit, he wouldn't spend the money. You on the other hand DONT know Scott and are making judgement base on what? Jealousy? Or to just pass judgement?

    I agree that most of what Adam plays can be done with a Precision and/or Jazz bass. But he's choosen to add other colors to his sound, particularly during this tour. There are a number of new (newly seen on tour) bass guitars on the U2:360 tour.

    That said, there is nothing wrong for one that plays in a tribute to get similar or the same tools to get similar to the same sounds. Just seems you want to talk down the purchase or berate him for making it.

    That is just odd.
  7. Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:[..]

    The Chicken said: "but don't tell me that it is because of the sound, because it is not".

    I know Scott. It is the look and the sound. If it sounded shit, he wouldn't spend the money. You on the other hand DONT know Scott and are making judgement base on what? Jealousy? Or to just pass judgement?

    I agree that most of what Adam plays can be done with a Precision and/or Jazz bass. But he's choosen to add other colors to his sound, particularly during this tour. There are a number of new (newly seen on tour) bass guitars on the U2:360 tour.

    That said, there is nothing wrong for one that plays in a tribute to get similar or the same tools to get similar to the same sounds. Just seems you want to talk down the purchase or berate him for making it.

    That is just odd.


    I always said I think it is ok to buy it. What I am saying is that people, not just this guy, play these weird instruments because of their looks and not because of their sound. It certainly doesn't sound bad, but it certainly doesn't sound any "better" or very different from a good old precision.
    Enough said.
  8. Originally posted by thechicken:[..]

    I always said I think it is ok to buy it. What I am saying is that people, not just this guy, play these weird instruments because of their looks and not because of their sound. It certainly doesn't sound bad, but it certainly doesn't sound any "better" or very different from a good old precision.
    Enough said.


    Lol I think some of the reason Edge got the explorer was because it looked weird. It wouldn't have "spoken" to him in the shop if it didn't look like that.
  9. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]

    Lol I think some of the reason Edge got the explorer was because it looked weird. It wouldn't have "spoken" to him in the shop if it didn't look like that.


    He's been quoted numerous times as saying that it just sat there in the window, calling his name. He was almost magnetically drawn to it because nobody else was playing that in their scene at the time.

    And I agree about Adam's bass. I mean...we're all sitting here talking about how different it looks right now. It worked.
  10. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]

    Lol I think some of the reason Edge got the explorer was because it looked weird. It wouldn't have "spoken" to him in the shop if it didn't look like that.


    The man just knows good design when he sees it, is all.
    It's still looking fresh 50+ years on
  11. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]

    Lol I think some of the reason Edge got the explorer was because it looked weird. It wouldn't have "spoken" to him in the shop if it didn't look like that.


    Look might have attracted him to pick it up but he's gone on record stating that he like the feel of it and that played well... well enough that it detracted him from what he went there looking for, which was a 6-string Rickenbacker.
  12. Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:[..]

    Look might have attracted him to pick it up but he's gone on record stating that he like the feel of it and that played well... well enough that it detracted him from what he went there looking for, which was a 6-string Rickenbacker.


    true, but i'm just saying he wouldn't have picked it up had it not been for it's peculiar design. If it was a black and white strat he wouldn't have looked at it probably. I heard he was looking for a les paul too, probably browsing for whatever.
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