Pointy basses that aren't horrible

[Demanic]

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Violence for violence sake is an effect. Not going to ascribe the cause. At least not in an open thread.
But then, you say that like it's a bad thing (in best Dead Pool inflection).

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[Demanic]

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uh you can always drip some epoxy there, mix some epoxy paint on the holes left by the frets, then just put an epoxy clear coat over the whole thing, it might as well take you what? half an hour on just mixing and applying epoxy plus a couple hours while it dries, and is a nice experiment

Well, it turns out that I need a reamer for the tuning machine holes. So be it. That's the route I'm going. Not fretless on the neck I have. Get it?

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[DrNewcenstein]

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Fretless are indeed their own beast. I had a Pedulla PentaBuzz some years ago that was great, except the previous owner used roundwounds on it and ate through the fretboard coating.

On one hand, I wish I would've kept it, but on the other hand, the guy in Japan I sold it to helped me track down my current "I'll be buried with it" guitar (and no, it isn't pointy ) which was only available in Japan.

[AdamR]

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I've owned a ton of pointy basses. Mostly Charvel/Jacksons.
The Charvel 3B was great, neck through, active electronics. Stock pickups arent terrible. They are basically the same bass the Ellefson recorded Rustin Piece with.
I currently own a Jackson JS2, A Jackson CMG, a Jackson Kelly, A Jackson Kellybird V and s early 90s Jackson Concert V.
Ive also had an early BC Rick NJ series Mockingbird

[Sirion]

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While most of the top-ranked Jazz musicians have a College degree in music on their wall, a larger percentage of Metal musicians have the albums they learned from on theirs. While the typical Metalhead can't read sheet music, many can create a Classically-themed guitar solo on the fly that is equal in technicality and compositional form to the works of Beethoven, Chopin, or Mozart, and again, they learned it from listening, not by being told.

Who? As much as I love the metal repertoire I cannot say that I've heard anybody approach this level of sophistication. If there is indeed anything in the metal guitar repertoire that could go back-to-back with, say, the Tempest Sonata in terms of musical multivalence (I have two volumes of analyses of the first movement alone sitting next to me), I would definitely be interested. I hope you will not find it condescending for me to doubt the statement, though, as I've yet to hear such a thing.

[jtougas]

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You could probably make a case for the more intricate progressive metal bands, like Tool and Queensryche, having a lot of classical structures to their music.

[Falloffthebonetone]

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Entwistle loved him some pointy.

[Kosh Naranek]

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My pointy bass. It looks all 80s hair metal, but it sounds great for classic rock and blues too.
The stock Jackson pickups sounded blah, so I have a Dimarzio Split P and Ultr Jazz pair in it now.

[Sirion]

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You could probably make a case for the more intricate progressive metal bands, like Tool and Queensryche, having a lot of classical structures to their music.

Well, the claim was about 'improvised solos', and the subject 'typical metalheads', but as a Queensrÿche fan of more than a decade I think I can safely say that I have yet to hear anything from them approach the complexity of, say, the aforementioned Tempest sonata.

[Sirion]

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On another matter: Are there any Warmoth-style brands that sell pointy necks? Neither them, nor Musikraft or USACG (not a big surprise there!) seem to offer them except as a custom option.

[Demanic]

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If you want to hear bands that use technical complexity, try Dimmu Borgir or Cradle of Filth.

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[EDX]

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lol technical complexity of classical music from a self taught guitarist, just look at power metal, Kai Hansen, Michael Weikath, Henjo Richter and Roland Grapow just to name a few, by the way kai and weiki are pretty much the godfathers of power metal and they're self taught

around minute 2:42 they play the main motif of in the hall of the mountain king, according to kai he learnt it by ear as he was unable to read music back then, weiki used a music sheet and ear as he knew how to read music at least enough to being able to use the sheet, although it's pretty much ripping a classical piece they have also come with original pieces that compete with classical music, a good example is the solo battle kai and weiki do on Halloween, roland grapow has many solo stuff and sideprojects on which he shows off similar complexity, that's the reason weiki took him as the replacement for kai when he lef helloween

[Demanic]

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My Christmas/birthday present

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[Demanic]

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Sorry, didn't manage to get the top of the headstock into the shot.

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[beaubrummels]

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The pointiest bass I ever had was an Ibanez Axstar in the late 80's early 90's. I'll agree it wasn't horrible. Easy to play for a guitar player. Wasn't stellar either, however.