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10-18-2006, 10:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Washington D.C. | | | Upright players with huge egos..
Who? This is a silly question just for fun, and a bit of raw curiosity. Which of our double bass hero's have generous amounts of confidence in their abilites.  Anecdotes are encouraged..(and sought after)
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10-19-2006, 04:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: quezon city, philippines | | | mingus
mingus, i suppose, but he has all the tools to back it up...
no questions asked
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10-19-2006, 06:18 AM
| | | | Among my favourites, Miroslav Vitous. |
10-19-2006, 06:52 AM
| | Inadvertent Microtonalist | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Portland, ME | | | Everybody who plays a solo on any instruments needs to believe, "I am so amazing that you need to listen to me RIGHT NOW."
A Great Kahuna of the bass once said that the way to play the introductory phrase to the Dragonetti Concerto is to make your bass sing: "I . . . AM . . . HEEEEEEERE . . . oh good oh good oh good oh good oh good oh good oh good!"
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10-21-2006, 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Sam Sherry ...
A Great Kahuna of the bass once said that the way to play the introductory phrase to the Dragonetti Concerto is to make your bass sing: "I . . . AM . . . HEEEEEEERE . . . oh good oh good oh good oh good oh good oh good oh good!" | HA! 
This is sooo good ... 
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10-21-2006, 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Sam Sherry Everybody who plays a solo on any instrument needs to believe, "I am so amazing that you need to listen to me RIGHT NOW." | This is quite true. I have to question, though, the value of a thread that's devoted to talking about bass players who are jerks. Let's stick to bashing singers instead of maligning our own kind.
P.S. Sam, you might not want to advertise your workshops as 'Free Clinics'. You could wind up with a whole different crowd there.... |
10-21-2006, 10:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Chattanooga Tennessee | | | I have never met a Jerk bass player. Even the cocky ones are friendly people.
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Originally Posted by Snakewood Hell man, we're bass players, I wouldn't trade this for anything. | |
10-21-2006, 01:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: NYC | | | I'll have to say that my experience, as a total amateur bassist, with the heavy hitters and top-notch players I've had the chance to meet has been all positive. Many have actually offered to let me play their basses (sometimes very valuable ones)when, after a brief chat, they found out I played a little. Try that with your average guitarist and see how far you get. I'm sure there are trippers out there, of cousre, but they don't seem to be the norm. |
10-21-2006, 03:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Washington D.C. | | | Jerk is not the operative phrase here. I was looking for those with confidence in their abilties. I remember a funny anecdote about Miroslav talking about how he played faster than NHOP with two fingers. This is the kind of stuff i was trying to look for. I mean its funny, we can all laugh about that story because its funny. I was pursuing semi-humorous stories more than trying to start a witch hunt. |
10-21-2006, 03:50 PM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | Eberhard Weber is a grumpy old man.
Extremelly talented, willing to share his vast knowledge.
He knows that he's right and that you're wrong, not ready to let doubt get in his way. |
10-21-2006, 06:35 PM
|  | Official Forum Flunkee | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | Gary Peacock maybe? I recall he refused to play with Elvis Costello. |
10-21-2006, 07:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Auburn, ME | | | jerk bass players
I am a jazz violinist myself, and have found all of the bass players I have worked with to be really nice, friendly guys. Now guitar players on the other hand............. |
10-22-2006, 12:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Houston, Tx | | | It is the guys who refuse to practice and study the instrument that always strike me as arrogant.
They can be the nicest guys in the world in conversation but they really have to think they are geniuses to get on stage with no practice and study- even in the cases where it works out in their favor.
This goes double when they brag about it, in most cases it is pretty obvious anyway!
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10-22-2006, 12:52 AM
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Originally Posted by hdiddy Gary Peacock maybe? I recall he refused to play with Elvis Costello. | Awesome. |
10-22-2006, 12:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Jazz Ad Eberhard Weber is a grumpy old man.
Extremelly talented, willing to share his vast knowledge.
He knows that he's right and that you're wrong, not ready to let doubt get in his way. | Awesome. |
10-22-2006, 07:16 AM
| | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | Actually, he's one of those who say they never practice the instrument anymore. |
10-22-2006, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Alex Spradling I remember a funny anecdote about Miroslav talking about how he played faster than NHOP with two fingers. | In his dreams!
By a funny twist of fate, I happen to look physically very similar to Miroslav... to the extent that I was once mistaken for him. If this happens again, I will modestly point out that NHOP was much faster and apologise for my arrogence.
...anyway, Miroslav's arco sound was a bit scratchy when I heard him. |
10-25-2006, 06:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Decatur GA,just outside Atlant | | | Well...
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Originally Posted by Alex Spradling Who? This is a silly question just for fun, and a bit of raw curiosity. Which of our double bass hero's have generous amounts of confidence in their abilites. Anecdotes are encouraged..(and sought after) |
I just think that it takes nerve to play something so big and unruly.
Kneehimiah www.ramonpooser.com |
10-26-2006, 11:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Wellington NZ | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Kneehimiah I just think that it takes nerve to play something so big and unruly.
Kneehimiah www.ramonpooser.com | Big and unruly?
My bass fells like a woman when I put my left arm over its shoulder. Only difference is that I don't have to carry my wife to gigs... only home if she's had too many wines. |
10-26-2006, 03:14 PM
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