Confessing my new love for the EADGBE machine

[Wilbyman]

Well, I'm a bassist. I was never a frustrated guitarist who gave it up for two less strings. However, it seems like I have always gravitated towards music written and performed by the great guitarists (Holdsworth, Metheny, Grant Green, Wes, Rosenwinkel, Krantz, etc). I also have seemed to wind up working with alot of guitar players for some reason. Maybe I was a frustrated guitarist and didn't know it....anyway. I love low freqs and have spent too much time figuring out this bass thing to switch teams now. However...

I went out last week and got an Ibanez S-470 to play around with. I think I am becoming massively addicted to it. Fortunately I haven't broken any strings because I would be SOL (thanks Floyd Rose!). It's just a fun challenge to try and work your way around that weird B string and learn some new fingerboard geometry. It's also pretty satisfying to hear some new sounds out of these old fingers.

At any rate, I thought I'd confess these transgressions and see if there were any other bassists out here who discovered a little love for the EADGBE.

Mods, feel free to pull this if you just find it offensive

[P. Aaron]

My daughter had to learn some songs on her plastic recorder for one of those school recitals. I sat by her and helping and encouraging her, and played them for her occasionally to demonstrate better tone & timing to her.

I taught myself; "Doe-Ra-Me" while she watched. I still mess with it.


It's all good.

[Cerb]

Traitor!



... I actually quite enjoy the cheesecutter myself. Though, it is a pain to get used to the B.

[jrthebassguy]

Guitar has been my main instrument for years, no shame with it.

I'm actually ::this:: close to scoring a JCM 900 SL-X. I'm also hardcore GASing for both a Fender Jaguar and a Mosrite right now and I don't know why

[Brad Barker]

Originally Posted by jrthebassguy

Guitar has been my main instrument for years, no shame with it.

I'm actually ::this:: close to scoring a JCM 900 SL-X. I'm also hardcore GASing for both a Fender Jaguar and a Mosrite right now and I don't know why

... been listening to nirvana or sonic youth or something?

[keb]

No worries. I love playing guitar as much as I love playing bass.

[jrthebassguy]

Originally Posted by Brad Barker

... been listening to nirvana or sonic youth or something?

nirvana

[Josh Ryan]

I mangle a guitar now and then myself.

[superbassman2000]

me too

mainly because i can't seem to find a guitar player to play with, so i just took it up myself

[srxplayer]

I like guitars. I just don't have any practical use for one right now. I do at times get cozy with my Ovation and play it every know and then.

I would like to devote more time to the guitar but I'm just to busy playing bass and drums.

I still enjoy playing bass much more though.

[Brandt Scanlan]

Guitar is great fun. I have a Schecter PT series guitar (it's gold, a hideous guitar) that plays great and sounds decent. I like kicking on the distortion and rocking out. It's not so easily done on bass.

If I had a drum set and a place to play it, I would do that quite a lot, too. Bass, however, is my favorite. I've certainly invested more time and money into bass than guitar.

[ArwinH]

I love writing on guitar and being able to rely on ym ear to work out ideas because I'm in foreign land when I play guitar. I actually write almost all of my music on guitars and then come up with all the other parts. Showing the guitar parts to some guitar players leaves them completely flabbergasted, I have very interesting technique =).....but it sounds good.

On an interesting side note, My '67 danelectro convertible run through a fulltone bassdrive to my aguilar db750 adn into a gs210 is quite a flattering sound!

[kserg]

I too have a guitar.

It feels weird because it’s a leftie. I am a leftie but I play right hand bass (it was hard to retrain myself but I did it). Now left handed instruments feel slightly weird to me. Weird huh?