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03-13-2008, 12:49 PM
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I recently read a thread in a guitar forum, and one poster said, "Bass players are just failed guitarists."
Kind of bothered me a little bit.
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03-13-2008, 12:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Mississippi | | | Get used to it. Guitarist can be jerks.
Some are cool. Most are not ha. |
03-13-2008, 12:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Georgetown, IN (Louisville KY) | | Dude whats really funny is when you piss off a guitard by outsmarting him in music. They get so mad. I say we go on guitar forums and talk about how good bass is.  |
03-13-2008, 12:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: england | | | ha ha they just say that because we can do stuff on a 4 string that they can only dream about on a 6 string
seriously though as much as they winge and whine just offer to leave a band and watch the guitards jump up n persuade you not too this comes from the fact that good guitarists are 10 a penny but good bassists are like hens teeth
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03-13-2008, 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Thundersteel  I recently read a thread in a guitar forum, and one poster said, "Bass players are just failed guitarists."
Kind of bothered me a little bit.
Opinions? | well, you could tell him that lead guitarists all have little pr*cks! 
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03-13-2008, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by dreadheadbass seriously though as much as they winge and whine just offer to leave a band and watch the guitards jump up n persuade you not too this comes from the fact that good guitarists are 10 a penny but good bassists are like hens teeth | +1 that's so true. |
03-13-2008, 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by dreadheadbass
seriously though as much as they winge and whine just offer to leave a band and watch the guitards jump up n persuade you not too this comes from the fact that good guitarists are 10 a penny but good bassists are like hens teeth
| +2 Oh so true |
03-13-2008, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Thundersteel "Bass players are just failed guitarists." | You can't expect a someone with an attitude like this to understand that someone might actually choose to play bass as opposed to resorting to it because guitar didn't work out.
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03-13-2008, 01:09 PM
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furthermore... i PLAY guitar... and i have ALOT more fun on bass, so I have taken it as my main instrument for awhile now. |
03-13-2008, 01:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Denmark | | | That's not just 'cause they're guitarists, that's because their personalities sucks! |
03-13-2008, 02:01 PM
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"Oh, you play in a band?"
Yea
"what do you play?"
Bass
"...oh..." (changes subject)
This is why I know I *must* love bass  Quote:
Originally Posted by Qvist That's not just 'cause they're guitarists, that's because their personalities sucks! | +1
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03-13-2008, 02:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada | | | Natural for a guitar message board. Bassists (not myself) sometimes look down on guitarists for some reason. |
03-13-2008, 02:09 PM
| | | My own step daughter says nobody notices the bass player. LOL
How about noticing how thin and lifeless many songs would sound without some good bottom?
Bah. I play the guitar too. Bass is more fun, whether it gets you notice or not.
There was one metal band repeatedly advertising for a bassist that they could not find. They started calling for "disgruntled guitarists" to step forward and take up the bass.  No kidding, really.
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03-13-2008, 02:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Miami, FL | | | That's like that popular assumption that all drummers are dumb. Well, we all know that's not true: not "all," but "most" is more accurate.
Kidding. |
03-13-2008, 02:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Somewhere in the maritimes. | | | IME this type of thing only occurs online. when a guitarist actually hears a good bassist, they usually shut up pretty quick.
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03-13-2008, 02:17 PM
| | | | I've always noticed the bass players of bands are usually the nicest, and guitar plays in general are rude.
It could also be that some bassists today make the instrument look like a joke, like Pete Wentz |
03-13-2008, 02:19 PM
| | | | Yes it's true
I just beat em to the punch and always refer to myself as "just the bass player"
Fan "what do you play?"
Me "oh, I'm just the bass player."
Mainly because if the bass player has an ego the band would not fit on stage with the singer and lead guitar. |
03-13-2008, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Thundersteel I recently read a thread in a guitar forum, and one poster said, "Bass players are just failed guitarists."
Kind of bothered me a little bit.
Opinions? | Didn't know fiction writers play guitar.  |
03-13-2008, 02:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN | | | Depends on how tall you are. I'm the shortest one in my band, so yes, I get looked down upon.
All joking aside, I was technically a guitarist before switching to bass. I wasn't a very good guitarist. I'm an alright bass player. Bass was definitely easier for me to get "decent" at. I'm not saying bass is an easier instrument. I just think more like a bassist, that's why guitar was difficult for me.
I read an interview on the Deleo brothers (sp?) from Stone Temple Pilots (this was about 10 years ago), and the brother who played bass (can't remember first names, and I don't know which is which anyway) was also a decent guitar player, and actually wrote a few of STP's hits on guitar. He was asked which was easier, guitar or bass. His response, which I completely agree with, was guitar is like playing badminton, while bass is like playing tennis.
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03-13-2008, 02:27 PM
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Yeah, bass is dumb(I'm considering taking up guitar & thought I'd work on my attitude first ).
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