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Post subject: Re: USA Geddy Lee Jazz
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 8:56 pm
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I think the easier the neck, the better you'll be at playing on it. Why make more work for yourself when you don't have to?

That's a great way to look at it too.

I like a turtle neck myself, but I don’t care for the flat ones :lol:
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Post subject: Re: USA Geddy Lee Jazz
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 9:08 pm
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Well, they used to make plectrums with the shells, but I don't know if the necks would work out too well. :P

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Post subject: Re: USA Geddy Lee Jazz
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:56 pm
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PaulLF wrote:
Well, they used to make plectrums with the shells, but I don't know if the necks would work out too well. :P
:lol: I wouldn’t fret about it. :P
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Post subject: Re: USA Geddy Lee Jazz
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:51 am
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Well, there is the fretless option. :P

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Post subject: Re: USA Geddy Lee Jazz
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 7:05 pm
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USA Geddy Lee Jazz would make a fine Fretless Jazz.

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Post subject: Re: USA Geddy Lee Jazz
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 1:59 am
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All you need is a pair of pliers and some wood filler. :P

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Post subject: Re: USA Geddy Lee Jazz
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 1:26 pm
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Yeah,......... I don't think so.

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Post subject: Re: USA Geddy Lee Jazz
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 11:35 pm
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I know what you mean, considering the thing costs around $1600 new. :P

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Post subject: Re: USA Geddy Lee Jazz
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 3:14 pm
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I liking my USA GL just the way it is. Even with all those those speed bumps on the neck that get in the way.
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Post subject: Re: USA Geddy Lee Jazz
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:48 pm
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If the neck has a nice feel to it, and is quick with a good action, then those speed bumps don't slow you down too much.

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Post subject: Re: USA Geddy Lee Jazz
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 5:23 am
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PaulLF wrote:
If the neck has a nice feel to it, and is quick with a good action, then those speed bumps don't slow you down too much.


No, they really don't. A lot of playing any musical instrument can be in a player's head, more than the actual playing of it itself.

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Post subject: Re: USA Geddy Lee Jazz
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 6:48 am
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True. Although, there is something to a good neck feel and action. I'm fast as hell on the Ibanez, but might have to work at it with another bass, especially if it has heavier strings on it, and/or use an adjustment. The short scale helps, too.

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Post subject: Re: USA Geddy Lee Jazz
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:15 pm
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For a short scale, I liked the Fender Mustang. After playing a while, the long scale felt better, so I gave up the short scale.the last Mustang I had was part of the deal to get the 4003 Jetglo. The 4003 didn't come along cheap. Like they ever do right.

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Post subject: Re: USA Geddy Lee Jazz
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:58 am
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Well, I did manage to get a 1971 4001 bass for $350, back in 1988 or '89. It was pretty beat up, though. Then again, they pay extra money for basses to look like that now, don't they? :P Oh, to have the foresight to have held on to that one, but I was a dumb $@! 17 year old. :roll:

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Post subject: Re: USA Geddy Lee Jazz
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 12:32 pm
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Foresight in our youth. Boy! Wouldn't that have been great.

Today’s youth can look at older generations and grasp the concept of future value easier than we could since many of the modern day collectables came from specific decades of innovation and introduction. True that this exists today, but to a lesser degree as much of today’s related tools are based on obsolescence and/or mass production and a large distribution, amongst other things.

Just like vintage amps, reverbs, equalizers, speakers, instruments, and such can have a following, the same is still somewhat possible except that software can stand in for hardware and instruments may be a push of a button or click of a mouse.

Old school instruments are not always the easiest to learn or play. Successive generations are known to make things easier to do that. We’re certainly, but questionably, finding that today. We also know that software may not play nice in the future. Old synths and midi can be a novelty or a charm.

The future may dictate a different need or want. At the very worst that old axe will simply hang on the wall, at the best it will give a show on the stage or in the recording unlike any other. But, sadly, the gap is closing.

As a boy I remember both models of and actual vintage cars of the first automobiles. They were not only in garages, museums, and at premium events, but for you and I they were much more accessible and affordable. Today they have mostly disappeared from public view and are replaced by the Classics. The best of the best are gobbled up. Today’s cars have their following and, popular as they may be, they are destined to be replaced by alternative transportation. Yet, cars will remain in the hands of the privileged and fans. Whether the rest of the infrastructure supports a box on four tires is anyone’s guess.

This can be compared to support of the guitar. I think there will be a place for autos and guitars as we know them, but if ancient instruments are any indication, while they may have their place, the places are either different or becoming few and far between compared to the past. On one hand, looking at keyboards as an example, modernization has definitely taken over. Will guitars keep evolving, and will they gain collectable acceptance? Time will tell.

Then again, music is in the mind and the soul, and we will always need to satisfy that mojo with our tool of choice. For some it’s the 4 string bass or the six string guitar.

In the end a hammer without nails maybe can’t build that project, and who cares if no one takes notice. Who said build it and they will come? Perhaps, a guitar or bass player.?:wink:

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