King Mab

I know a great player who plays a squire and has a piece of gaffer tape over the Squire on the headstock. But it's got a Geddy style neck on it and it is an excellent piece.

 

Classic. I spent about two hours last night between guitar center and our local music shop and I think I'm gonna go for the Mexican made Jazz bass. Thanks for the input guys, I really appreciate it.

Going off the Squire J Bass, I played a really nice vintage modified fret-less one recently. However when I talked to some of my fellow musicians about it, they gave me a laugh at the name "Squire". Now I get it-- I'm a pretty new bassist, I've only been playing for around 3ish years; nevertheless, it would be nice to have a bass to "grow into" so to speak. I play regularly in a Church band, and I get hired pretty frequently for conventions and whatnot, would a Squire be a nice fit for this? Now obviously I won't be going Jaco in the middle of a service... nevertheless my friends and I like to Zappa things up on a Friday night.

Fair enough. I was kind of getting that vibe as well, thanks for your input.

Hey guys,

I'm looking to buy an electric bass- now this is my first electric bass and I don't want to be completely broke-- so no matter how awesome a Rickenback 4003 would be, it's not going to happen. I've been looking around and I have been playing on some basses in pawn shops and music shops and I found that the Epiphone Viola bass really had a nice feel with the neck size and my ability to strum some high bass chords. I tried out the fender jazz bass upon geddy's celebrity endorsement, but I found it to be a little to clunky at times (might just be my playing). Anyway I'm looking to play a lot of older rush music and some experimental jazz. What are your thoughts on this bass?