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09-18-2010, 12:31 AM
|  | Holding the Line, Low, Loud & Proud | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Leander, TX (outside Austin) | | | Bassists don't solo, ever!
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That's the rule right?
Last edited by bassbrad : 09-18-2010 at 12:34 AM.
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09-18-2010, 12:33 AM
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09-18-2010, 12:34 AM
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Endorsing Artist : Genz Benz | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago - LA | | | Well, you sperated bass player from bassist.
But always remember, to be a musician who uses the bass as a tool. Not the other way around. You limit yourself by only seeing things in terms of bass...not music as a whole.
I thought this was going to be a rant of NON-Bassists telling you, that bass should never solo. Boy I woulda had amean ol responce for those types of folks.
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09-18-2010, 12:35 AM
| | Holding the Line, Low, Loud & Proud | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Leander, TX (outside Austin) | | I have been convinced of the error of my ways, I am so talentless that I can only play bass because it's easy, but still so hard that I need help from the guitar player, yeah that's it. Soloing is the exclusive right of real musicians like guitar players, keyboardists and horn players, occasionally a really talented drummer, but no bassist is really a musician so is never deserving, ever, since I am just a bass player I have forever given up any chance to ever solo or be creative. Oh and yes I should forget about being a singer, bass players can't sing. Real bassists don't use effects, play anything not a Fender or SVT. Oh yeah and jazz can only be played on upright bass with out an amp.
Okay I said it but do I really believe any of it?
NOT ONE WORD and you should not either.
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09-18-2010, 12:43 AM
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Mojo FunkBasses | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Somewhere in Arizona | | | Does somebody need a hug?
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09-18-2010, 12:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Baron Von Vik Does somebody need a hug? | His poor, un-soloing bass. 
Plenty of bassists solo, myself included. They're more tapping shredding distorted stuff, but still a solo. |
09-18-2010, 01:14 AM
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09-18-2010, 09:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Minneapolis | | | You just gotta know the right time, lads and ladies. You just gotta know the right time...
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09-18-2010, 09:13 AM
| | Holding the Line, Low, Loud & Proud | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Leander, TX (outside Austin) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Baron Von Vik Does somebody need a hug? | Nah, I was feeling kinda like ranting last nite. |
09-18-2010, 09:14 AM
|  | Endorsing Curmudgeon: Mal's Kitchen Cruelties ... | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Columbia River Gorge | | | Damn man, my guitarist call's for bass solos 4 or 5 times a night ... hopefully I'm ready to go when he does...
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09-18-2010, 09:19 AM
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Midtown Guitars | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 810, Michigan | | | my avatar makes perfect sense for this thread. |
09-18-2010, 09:22 AM
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Webmaster - Photographer - Graphic Designer - SPECTORŽ | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Los Angeles | | Although he plays in several bands... Doug all about the solo.
Here's a killer solo by Doug. This man is truly an innovator IMHO... Doug Wimbish Bass Groove Solo
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09-18-2010, 09:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Hamburg, Germany | | My band actually wants me to solo...
But thing is, I just can't! 
Oh, woe is me.
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09-18-2010, 09:25 AM
| | | | Perfect bass solo = 3 seconds. You or I can appreciate Jaco's ramblings but generally speaking your mom is the only one wants to hear you solo. Oh and a perfect drum solo is = 3 seconds. If your band doesn't have enough to say then errr...............uhm................yeah solo away. |
09-18-2010, 09:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Minneapolis | | | I say quote another tune that the crowd will recognize.
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09-18-2010, 10:40 AM
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Webmaster - Photographer - Graphic Designer - SPECTORŽ | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Los Angeles | | A couple of other personal favorite bass solos... Beautiful Tapping Solo Insane thought process
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09-18-2010, 10:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: WI, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by James Judson You or I can appreciate Jaco's ramblings but generally speaking your mom is the only one wants to hear you solo. | 
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09-18-2010, 10:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Lexington, KY | | | There's a time and place for everything. It's usually not bass solos, but sometimes it is. When it is, go at it. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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