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10-01-2002, 06:44 PM
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10-01-2002, 07:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Adelaide, South Australia | | Sneakers, 3 quarter shorts, basketball singlet, having the bass vertical with the strap held on by gaff tape... and being able to slap wiCkErD.  
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10-01-2002, 08:01 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: The land of chicken fried funk | | | - Patience, patience, patience.
- Perseverance, perseverance, perseverance.
- Religious devotion to your "Tone God."
- Incomprehensible love of the instrument and its function in music.
- Being clinically diagnosed as "insane"......seriously, if I could explain it, I probably wouldn't be doing it.
It's awfully hard, if not impossible,to dissect yourself. You do it because you need to.....not because you want to understand it, at least for me.
"True Love" defies comprehension.
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"Change the bass player, change the engine room." - Keith Richards
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly" - Dalai Lama
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10-01-2002, 08:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Colonia, New Jeresy | | the ideal bass will make me coffe in the morning..  |
10-02-2002, 02:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Lisse, the Netherlands in the bulb area, flowers all around and hate them | | | Well, I think a little sense of Rhythm would help a bit...
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10-02-2002, 03:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Kaiserslautern, Germany | | | The ability to put up with the singer and guitarist |
10-02-2002, 03:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Culpeper, VA | | Quote: Originally posted by guinessdrinker
The ability to put up with the singer and guitarist | Hear! Hear!
I'm starting to consider an all bass and percussion group in which even the percussion can play lead!
Btw, thereare two "N"s in Guinness.  |
10-02-2002, 07:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherla | | | - Knowledge of your instrument is what separates the amateurs from the pro's
- Assumption is the mother of all ****-ups
- Patience is thy friend.
- technique.. the way to live
- Equaliser voodoo.. ( not a \/ shape on your EQ )
- Loyalty to your gear ( if you switch string-brand every week, you will never learn to play properly ) |
10-02-2002, 07:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Milky Way, Earth, Africa, Middle East, Egypt, Giza, Dokki, 16 Medan el mesaha sq, 7th floor, 702 | | "Timing is everything"
"Perfection is your goal"
"Failure is not an option"
"Keep your friends close, but keep your enemys closer" (i always wanted to say that )
"Be one with the bass"
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10-02-2002, 08:08 AM
|  | Supporting Curmudgeon Moderator | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Suburban Chicago, IL | | | Knowing when NOT to play.
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10-02-2002, 08:14 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: 3rd stone from the sun | | | Play for the song, stop yer wankin. |
10-02-2002, 08:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Lisse, the Netherlands in the bulb area, flowers all around and hate them | | Knowing how to use the Force
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10-02-2002, 08:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Kaiserslautern, Germany | | | I know there are two 'n's in guinness. But, when I originally started using guinessdrinker for my email and other logins, the 2 'n' guinness was already taken. |
10-02-2002, 03:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | I guess this would go to BASSISTS. |
10-02-2002, 07:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Houston, Texas | | | Definitely a strong sense of rhythm. Creativity is important but that applies to all musicians. You need to be able to hear through the harmony and play notes that everyone else can land on.
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10-02-2002, 07:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Pacific Northwest USA | | 1) read last page of bass player magazine for this month.... lots of invaluable info there!!!!!!
2) a unique combination of discipline and restraint that is not associated with any other instrument.... combined with endless pursuit of tone
and feel
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10-02-2002, 07:45 PM
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I'm starting to consider an all bass and percussion group in which even the percussion can play lead!
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This was done in the eighties in Boston. They were called the Concussion Ensemble. They were Great! Quote: |
1) read last page of bass player magazine for this month.... lots of invaluable info there!!!!!!
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That was one of the most inspirational things Ive read in BP
AJ
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10-04-2002, 10:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Owensboro,KY | | | i think that a good player needs, an ibanez!!
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10-05-2002, 06:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Madrid (Spain) | | - Be a good drummer (the gift)
- Enough technique to can play whatever you imagine (the quest)
- Grown up in a good band (the luck) |
10-05-2002, 02:54 PM
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Good wrist posture
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