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07-12-2005, 07:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: PR of Greenbelt, MD | | | Bass Player Quotes needed..can you help?
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So I've got the following web site now: http://www.unidentifiedbassplayer.com/
and on it is a little Java utility called the Quoter, which feeds text across the screen. I've decided to load it up with as many quotes from bass players (well known-or otherwise) as I can compile.
Got any good ones out there? It can be anything you want that's fit to print as long as it has a source/attribution of some kind.
Many thanks,
unbasslichkeit
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07-12-2005, 09:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: ottawa, ontario, canada | | | take two notes and rub them together 'til one catches fire |
07-12-2005, 09:53 PM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | | This topic has been covered before, but I can't avoid to recall one of my favorite quotes:
"In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities."
Les Claypool. |
07-13-2005, 01:52 AM
|  | Chronic Pain Endorsed By Fentanyl/Oxycodone/Valium | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Evansville, IN | | | "I'm a bass player, I like doing the same thing over and over again!" - Tony Levin
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07-13-2005, 04:28 AM
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07-13-2005, 12:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Newark, Delaware | | | If it sounds good and the groove is the phat, the notes dont matter.-Fieldy
How can you explain the color purple to somebody that is blind? I don't explain what we do.-Les Claypool |
07-13-2005, 12:11 PM
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07-13-2005, 12:27 PM
| | | | Unfortunate I didn't catch this thread earlier. I was just going through some old papers from one of my classes and I had 2 sheets of bass quotes, I looked 'em over, there were some nice little nuggets of quote fun there, but I said to myself "I'm pretty sure I have this backed up somewhere" so I trashed it. Now that I think about it, it may or may not be backed up. Oh well. If I do happen upon it, I'll contribute what I can.
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07-13-2005, 03:09 PM
| | | | "No quotes at the moment but I wanted to plug into this thread cuz I like it". -Joe Nerve
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07-13-2005, 03:11 PM
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07-13-2005, 03:15 PM
| | | | "The only thing Don Ellis plays in 4/4 is 'Take Five'". -Charlie Haden
(Ellis' Big Band was renown for Odd-Time charts).
"My name is John Francis Pastorius III & I'm the greatest bass player in the world" -Jaco Pastorius
"Don't call me Charlie; that's not a man's name, that's a name for a horse" -Charles Mingus
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07-13-2005, 03:49 PM
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Pete Townshend on John Entwistle:
"In The Who I play rythym and lead, and John plays bass, rythym, and lead". |
07-13-2005, 08:14 PM
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07-14-2005, 03:14 AM
| | Chronic Pain Endorsed By Fentanyl/Oxycodone/Valium | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Evansville, IN | | Here's a few from Bryan Beller:
In response to Mike Keneally's "I'm going to count this in three because it's in three, okay?" to a song that is indeed in three as he says that's his 'default mode' is four and a laughing crowd response - "We're really good musicians, so we talk about stuff like that before we go in." Taste the pungent mixture of irony and sarcasm. 
In response to a audience participation "conducting" experiment gone horribly wrong - "Are you baked or something?!?" Context is everything on this one. 
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07-14-2005, 06:01 PM
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Cite: Ska bassists
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07-15-2005, 03:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: new orleans | | | John Paul Jones
"I see they've finally found my phone number" R&RHoF to his ex band mates
"funny it took an entire orchestra to replace me" on the un-ledded special |
07-15-2005, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by audiotom "funny it took an entire orchestra to replace me" on the un-ledded special | Haha, i've read that before. I take it JPJ and the rest of LedZep didn't part on such good terms...?
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07-15-2005, 04:03 PM
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Sales Rep: Benavente Guitars - Endorser: SIT strings, & Epifani Moderator | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Atlanta/Lexington | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by audiotom John Paul Jones
"I see they've finally found my phone number" R&RHoF to his ex band mates
"funny it took an entire orchestra to replace me" on the un-ledded special | I remember that... funny stuff. |
07-16-2005, 01:10 PM
| | | | "If you're a bass player in a rock band, you are by definition a moron.."
-Scott Thunes |
07-17-2005, 08:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: St.Louis , Mo | | | here's a couple
I play bass...therefore i'm a bass player! Al Caldwell
No matter how many strings i have...for me it all starts with one note!
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