bass nonsense

[staindbass]

has anyone ever noticed, when you are playing a gig, and you dont think your amp is loud enough, when you play a wrong note, suddenly it seems REALLY loud? i love when fans tell me we are their favorite band in the whole world for years,and they have all our posters up in their room,and belong to the fan club, and that i am their favorite drummer please add your own favorite bass lore to the thread if u have any. johnny a. staind

[LuckyCondlins]

I was playing a gig last night with the headliners being The Toasters and Pietasters.


We were pretty excited, but they weren't running me into the 810 they provided, and ran me DI, the previous band used the 810, so the monitors were turned down with bass, and we went on and BAM! I had NO FRIGGEN BASS. I was going by the speakers the crowd was listening to. It was such a quick change between bands, that I was literally screaming at the sound guys on the edge of the stage.

Damn that was annoying, But i couldn't really tell if i was playing wrong notes, because i couldn't hear them!!

but I didn't play that great last night. Besides starting the gig with almost zero bass tha I could hear, we switched up the setlist last minute and i wasn't told. my singer told me later that he yelled the 2 first songs to me before we began buy I couldn't hear him.

for the first 2 songs, I had no idea what we were going to play. It just put me in a bad mood.

oh well, sometimes it happens.

[fenderhutz]

Originally Posted by staindbass

has anyone ever noticed, when you are playing a gig, and you dont think your amp is loud enough, when you play a wrong note, suddenly it seems REALLY loud? i love when fans tell me we are their favorite band in the whole world for years,and they have all our posters up in their room,and belong to the fan club, and that i am their favorite drummer please add your own favorite bass lore to the thread if u have any. johnny a. staind

Johnny, you ARE my favorite drummer.

[anderbass]

Originally Posted by staindbass

has anyone ever noticed, when you are playing a gig, and you dont think your amp is loud enough, when you play a wrong note, suddenly it seems REALLY loud?

Definitely, they really seem to leap-out at ya compared to a Gwee-turdist's or a Dummers occasional clinker.

[WickedPissah]

you arent actually the guy from staind are you?

[fenderhutz]

Originally Posted by WickedPissah

you arent actually the guy from staind are you?

Yes.

I have talked to him via PM about recording and such. It IS Johnny April.

Geesh.

[rbonner]

The worst thing that ever happened to me dateline 1971 "Whole Lotta Love" coming back from the dummer's big solo thing.... bum bitty bum bitty bum dah dah dit dah dumb completely outta sync with the guitarist... It is impossible to get back in sync once you have screwed that pooch. Ba dumb dit duh dumb... After afew of those with both of you trying to fix the problem, the song ends and you just stand there and everybody is looking at you.

Maybe nobody noticed? No such luck, we're screwed even the little groupie girls who hung out at all our gigs didnt put out that night. I've never been the same since. Johnny I'm sure the mistakes you are talking about sound more like a guitar hero mistake than the train wreck I'm refering to when I was 16... BOB

[JimmyM]

My favorites in general are the idiots who sit right in front of the subs then complain about how the bass is too loud all night.

But I have two very funny specific stories...I did this gig where we have a bunch of regulars, and after one gig, this guy comes up to me and says, "Hey Jimmy, you were really good on that upright tonight. You're not usually that good." To this day, I can't see that guy without wanting to punch him in the sack. OK, so I'm not so great on upright...I don't need your drunk ass to tell me!

This story happened this past Tuesday...after 10 years of not using effects, I've gone a little effects crazy lately and I'm using a Tech 21 VT Bass pedal for some slight Ampeggy overdrive. I used the VT for the intro to our first song and turned it off for the verse. Sounded great to me. Anyway, there was this really horrible band that opened for us, so bad that the guitarist couldn't even play "Takin' Care Of Business" in time. He and the bassist came up to me after our first set and the bassist said, "You guys are getting a real good mix now. Started off a little shaky but they got it happening."

The guitarist says, "Yeah, you had this really horrible distortion at first but then the soundman got rid of it."

I said, "Yeah, I probably should have warned the soundman that I have a distortion box that I use on a couple things."

The guitarist says, "Well don't use it anymore. It sounds horrible."

I said, "So a guy who can't even play a three chord blues song without botching the count is going to tell me that something -I- did was horrible? How about you just march your arrogant ass on out of here and go practice for a few years before you run your mouth to me?"

Well, that's what I said in my mind. I really didn't say anything. I just looked at him like he was the biggest JO on earth and walked off. Believe it or not, I think it worked, because he avoided me like the plague the rest of the day.

[WickedPissah]

Originally Posted by fenderhutz

Yes.

I have talked to him via PM about recording and such. It IS Johnny April.

Geesh.

well you never know. people can represent themselves as anybody online. for all you know, i could be victor wooten posing as a 16 year old white boy from boston.

[DaveF]

Originally Posted by staindbass

has anyone ever noticed, when you are playing a gig, and you dont think your amp is loud enough, when you play a wrong note, suddenly it seems REALLY loud?

*Ahem*

ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?! I mean, take a look at your rig! How can you not think you are loud enough??

[JimmyM]

Dave, if there's one thing I've learned from TB, it's that no matter how many thousands of watts you have, your rig can NEVER go loud enough. But at least Johnny has a good reason. I know guys on here that would take a rig like that to do a 200 seat club

Pissah, it's Johnny April from Staind. No question. Someone on here posted pics from a Staind soundcheck playing his rig months ago. So stop with the skepticism and act like the fanboy you are

[Beefbass]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

My favorites in general are the idiots who sit right in front of the subs then complain about how the bass is too loud all night.

But I have two very funny specific stories...I did this gig where we have a bunch of regulars, and after one gig, this guy comes up to me and says, "Hey Jimmy, you were really good on that upright tonight. You're not usually that good." To this day, I can't see that guy without wanting to punch him in the sack. OK, so I'm not so great on upright...I don't need your drunk ass to tell me!

This story happened this past Tuesday...after 10 years of not using effects, I've gone a little effects crazy lately and I'm using a Tech 21 VT Bass pedal for some slight Ampeggy overdrive. I used the VT for the intro to our first song and turned it off for the verse. Sounded great to me. Anyway, there was this really horrible band that opened for us, so bad that the guitarist couldn't even play "Takin' Care Of Business" in time. He and the bassist came up to me after our first set and the bassist said, "You guys are getting a real good mix now. Started off a little shaky but they got it happening."

The guitarist says, "Yeah, you had this really horrible distortion at first but then the soundman got rid of it."

I said, "Yeah, I probably should have warned the soundman that I have a distortion box that I use on a couple things."

The guitarist says, "Well don't use it anymore. It sounds horrible."

I said, "So a guy who can't even play a three chord blues song without botching the count is going to tell me that something -I- did was horrible? How about you just march your arrogant ass on out of here and go practice for a few years before you run your mouth to me?"

Well, that's what I said in my mind. I really didn't say anything. I just looked at him like he was the biggest JO on earth and walked off. Believe it or not, I think it worked, because he avoided me like the plague the rest of the day.

Well Jimmy, you know the deal-those who know the least always have the most to say. You probably should have smacked him across the back of the head.

Actually, sounds like you did the right thing, since he never came up to you again.

[JimmyM]

Originally Posted by Beefbass

Well Jimmy, you know the deal-those who know the least always have the most to say. You probably should have smacked him across the back of the head.

Actually, sounds like you did the right thing, since he never came up to you again.

Well Beef, I didn't get us fired, but doggone it, now that I got paid for it, I wish I could find him and say that to him. I'm still mad about that.

Good to hear from you, bro!

[awakefie]

We were playin an outdoor gig once and no one told me the singer switched the key for the Joker by Steve Miller. I was wireless and FOH walking around playing the line, the drummer comes in, sounding good. Both guitarists and the singers come in and all of sudden, I'm in a different key.

My Nemmy 400 sounded like it was pumpin 300,000 watts @ 2 ohms till I figured out I needed to raise a full step.

It was funny. The sound man walks up to me screamin "you're in the wrong key".

After the song I politely explained to him that I had figured that out when the guitarists started, but figuring out we were in two different keys and figuring out what key they are in are 2 different things. One's painfully apparent, the other a little harder to discover on the fly.

Then I told him the stage monitors sounded like garbage (J/K).

Jimmy, you crack me up btw.

[Beefbass]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

Well Beef, I didn't get us fired, but doggone it, now that I got paid for it, I wish I could find him and say that to him. I'm still mad about that.

Good to hear from you, bro!

Ah, no need to be mad about some jerk kid. A year from now, you'll still be playing professionally, and he'll probably be pumping gas somewhere

[JimmyM]

Originally Posted by Beefbass

Ah, no need to be mad about some jerk kid. A year from now, you'll still be playing professionally, and he'll probably be pumping gas somewhere

Actually, this jerk kid was in his 50's and a muckety muck of the local Rotary club

[rbonner]

Yeah he prolly owns a chain of gas stations. BOB

[Beefbass]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

Actually, this jerk kid was in his 50's and a muckety muck of the local Rotary club

That explains it-The Rotary club part of it

[fenderhutz]

Originally Posted by Beefbass

That explains it-The Rotary club part of it

[Beefbass]

Originally Posted by fenderhutz

I used to play with an older guy who was a rotary club member. once a year, we would do their booze cruise, and clam bake weekend. Interesting bunch of characters, when they were all highly intoxicated.

But hey, I'm sure they were pretty cool when they were sober.