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10-22-2007, 03:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | | Do bassists spend too much time worrying about image?
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10-22-2007, 03:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Limerick, Ireland. | | | I know I do.
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10-22-2007, 03:13 PM
| | | LOL! You obviously have never seen me! 
I think that's the guitarist's domain. Maybe the screamer, too.  |
10-22-2007, 03:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Scotland | | Depends on what way you mean. If you're talking about things like boutique basses, I don't think so. A lot of bassists hang around the back of the stage holdin' down the bottom end, so I reckon most of them think "if I'm gonna be stuck back here, I'm gonna be doing it playing something nice!".
And why shouldn't we! 
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10-22-2007, 03:28 PM
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10-22-2007, 03:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | Quote:
Originally Posted by EddieG  Depends on what way you mean. If you're talking about things like boutique basses, I don't think so. A lot of bassists hang around the back of the stage holdin' down the bottom end, so I reckon most of them think "if I'm gonna be stuck back here, I'm gonna be doing it playing something nice!".
And why shouldn't we! | I wasn't really pointing at boutiques....mainly because the luthier spent so much time making the bass nice, why make it look plain. More/less if if you drop in a high performance engine in a car, you might as well look like a sports car as opposed to a rusted out junker. Besides, if most boutique people were overly concerned about image, then they'd probably grab something traditional and less offensive. 
Then again, I have lost an audition or two without playing a note because I didn't have a Fender and later because my Fender was too modern looking. I might have been upset if the guys weren't total tools. |
10-22-2007, 03:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Dallas, TX | | | I think most of us are the weirdos of the band. Sorry, if that's not you. |
10-22-2007, 03:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyM They don't think enough about image. | Explains a lot. |
10-22-2007, 03:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ribwich, ZF | | | Any band that has any requirements in terms of image is not a group I wish to be a part of.
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10-22-2007, 03:34 PM
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Well, atleast not me, i dont care. i put on a pair of red converse shoes and a pair of black pants for a gig, and thats it.
That make me fit in in about every style of band, its like a universal cloathing  (Maby not for country or Manowar metal, but other than that.) |
10-22-2007, 03:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | Quote:
Originally Posted by nad Any band that has any requirements in terms of image is not a group I wish to be a part of. | Heh, I once had a band that requested I stick to playing blue basses. Yes, I had a blue bass....and NO I didn't even audition for them. The kicker was that the guitarist's wife was their "manager" . That project never left the basement from what I heard. |
10-22-2007, 03:42 PM
| | | | Some do, some don't ,and some should, where as some others shouldnt quite as much as they do, perhaps. |
10-22-2007, 03:44 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | Given the amount of grief I get for wearing my bass high, I'd say yes! Though I know it's all light hearted, as we know, all the best players wear it high! |
10-22-2007, 03:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: SoCal | | | My last band did show me the value of the band looking cohesive on stage (we had a female singer, haha)... Or purposely different if that's the vibe you're going for.
Not that we would all match clothes but we would discuss themes - like, for this gig let's be classy... Long sleeves and dress pants for the guys, etc. and for this one let's just be casual. I think that actually helps because it lets the people focus on your music rather than having one guy with the wild outfit who gets all of the audience's focus. IMHO. |
10-22-2007, 03:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cornwall, UK. | | | not, not enough time.
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10-22-2007, 04:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Delafield, WI | | | Image can play an important role. no matter what people say, It makes a statement about your band but it can sometimes be very subtle.
IMO the minute you step on stage you are being judged by someone.
Also just the sheer fact that you know you look good or your bass looks good can reflect on your playing.
Music comes first though. |
10-22-2007, 04:16 PM
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Artist:TC Electronic RH450 bass system | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Fort Madison, IA | | | If some of these guys would spend as much time actually practicing instead of primping in the mirror................ |
10-22-2007, 04:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Francisco | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RickenBoogie I think most of us are the weirdos of the band. Sorry, if that's not you. | I think it's more like all the others are weird. |
10-22-2007, 04:18 PM
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10-22-2007, 05:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Auckland, NZ | | | I was reading a Stu Hamm interview a good few years back, and he told a story about how he auditioned for Chers band, and had been turned him down for being chubby with ginger hair.
I guess image rather than ability were more important to those guys. Stu can play. A little. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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