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05-20-2008, 05:09 PM
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Question: Do you think bassists get a bad rap?
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05-20-2008, 05:11 PM
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05-20-2008, 05:25 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Long Island,New York | | | Hmmmmmmmmmm
Not really, but Mets fans feel they do... 
this from an old die hard Yankee fan, who watched your team take us to school over the weekend. 
As far as Bass Players....for me its how do I feel about myself as a musician, am I trying to be the best I can possibly be? Practicing, studying theory, and really contributing to the music with whoever I'm playing with. I have this very cool old jazz cat for a teacher and he tells me its about making the rest of the band sounding good, if I do that, 99% of the time I get the call back for the gig. Used to be I wanted to be the main force in the performance, trying to play better than others instead of musically with others.
Respect and being comfortable with myself and others seems to take care of everything else.
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05-20-2008, 05:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Houston, TX | | | sometimes.
but this bassist doesnt... lol |
05-20-2008, 05:31 PM
| | | | Don't really understand the question. Bad rap how?
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05-20-2008, 05:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Cypress, TX (NW Houston) | | | Yes because most people do not understand that they are tapping there toe and shaking there booty to the bass, not the singer, not guitar, not the drums or any thing else. With out bass a song has no soul.
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05-20-2008, 05:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Miami | | | I think it depends on the genre. For me, in jazz, the bassist is never one to be ignored nor stepped upon.
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05-20-2008, 05:39 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | Bassists, bad rap?
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05-20-2008, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by HashbrownCOBM  Don't really understand the question. Bad rap how? | Like people think we aren't worth it and stupid?
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05-20-2008, 07:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: DFW | | From the fans, its impossible for us to get a bad rap because all too often they don't know what we play... 
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05-20-2008, 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by iplaybasstexas From the fans, its impossible for us to get a bad rap because all too often they don't know what we play... | HAHAAHAHAHA +1 Only true music fans seek us out to critique us! So far I am in good standing.  |
05-21-2008, 12:30 PM
| | | | The way I see it (and this is just for me, others are different) I really don't care if I'm not front of the stage mr. look at me. Sure I do love being on stage playing for people and I get a rush off the crowd givin energy to me to give back to them. But as far as needin attention like guitards and singers (or emcee's) need I'm just not that kind of person. Hell if I wasn't gonna play bass I'd have played drums. They're even further in the back. Guess I'm comfortable with playin z bass and don't care what people think. Besides with bass you get the best of all worlds, rhythm, melody and harmony.
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05-21-2008, 12:46 PM
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05-21-2008, 02:54 PM
| | | | I dunno, I was at a gig at a pub my friend works at, standard indie rock crowd, and my friend's jazz/ soul/ hip hop collective were playing. Lots of great saxophone, keyboard and guitar solos, really funky, good response from the floor - but the one that made everyone go really nuts with cheers and applause was the slap solo. People seem to really dig funky bass. The guitar was doing all kinds of great lead, but one little fingerstyle twiddle from a bass seems to impress people more than it probably should! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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