When know bass mattered more than guitar?

[Blue]

IMhO, Bass is about Attitude.

Decide what is your's.

[joegrant413]

You mean this kind of Attitude??

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[joegrant413]

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[ewe2]

I'd started teaching myself piano at 13 and kept up with it all the way through highschool. It wasn't until a couple of years after highschool that I started teaching myself guitar because it was a portable form of music. Got right into it, and never considered bass until a friend wanted to start a band and wanted a bassplayer. I got a terrible Jazz knockoff and tried to get my head around Talking Heads records and punk standards and old electric blues songs. The turning point was a jam after we'd exhausted our minimal setlist, a terrible garage-band mess, but it was just FUN. Something went click. That began it all.

[chef wong]

I knew I wanted to play bass "for real" when a mentor of mine told me he was putting a band together, and he wanted me to try bass. He knew I had an electric guitar that I could trade for his friend's Aria Mosrite copy 4 string.

I try to reach this guy every few years. Never works out.