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Yeah they are, the thing is, it's what you learned on, you got so used to how it felt, sounded, and played that anything else you try, you're always going to compare it to what you know, you analyze it so much, most of the time it's going to seem inferior, just because it's different. I have an Ibanez GSR100 that I wouldn't trade anyone, in my opinion it's a great playing, great sounding bass, but not everyone thinks so, and it is most definitely a starter bass.

They are beginner basses, yeah. I noticed a lot of other basses either play or sound way better then my silvertone, but I checked out the standard materials used, over all not bad. The wood is prity nice, and they use decent pickups. But there are better basses, they are prity good for starting out though. Samic makes some prity nice stuff though.

I has a Silvertone!
I dun like it too much, I'd much rather have a Rickenbacker.

True, true.

There won't ever be any other bass I would dream of, it's Rickenbacker all the way for me. cool

yeh its all preference on Favorite Basses

but

Who In Thier Right Mind!

would turn down a Ric

If it was free no body. There are soo many things you could do with a ric its mad. I'm all for fretless now though, I can bearly stand to play a freted bass any more, I must have fretless!

Hmmm, off the top of my head (widely available only though, no boutique stuff, that would take me another page), an MTD Z4, Lakland Decade or Duck Dunn signature, Benavente Vortex, G&L L-2000, Ibanez BTB 3000 Prestige, Yamaha John Myung signature, Ernie Ball 6-string Bongo, Zon Sonus, Conklin GT, Status Graphite, Spector NS/4, Pedulla Rapture, Peavey Cirrus, Tobias Growler, Hofner Beatle, etc... I'd rather have all these than a Ric. And Ernie Ball isn't essentially Fender, Fender cut all ties with Music Man in 1979, and then Music Man was bought out by Ernie Ball in 1984 after they went bankrupt. And either way, I don't see any similarities between Fender and EBMM instruments, at all.