How many Of you are ONLY Bassplayers?

munkeyfish · #1 04-12-2008, 06:32 PM

How many of you are bass ONLY players? I mean, thats it, no guitars owned or played, just you and your basses?

Or are you like me, just a Tele and a Blues Jr. and a Tacoma for along w/ my Basses for writing?

JBass1 · #2 04-12-2008, 06:34 PM

just bass...been thinking about getting a guitar but my bank account is urging me to consider otherwise

mellowgerman · #3 04-12-2008, 06:45 PM

Along with my 4 basses I have 2 electric guitars, an acoustic, and a classical. however, I also have a keyboard, 2 cellos, a violin, and a trombone. My collection of instruments isn't because I'm not a bassist though, it's because of my passion for and interest in all kinds of music. bass will always be my true love

**DeanT** · #4 04-12-2008, 06:47 PM

I have a hard enough time with 4 strings on a bass. So no guitars or anything else for me.

munkeyfish · #5 04-12-2008, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Marcury

You might want to rethink your subject line. After all this is Talkbass so we are all Bassplayers, but some (maybe many) are not only Bassplayers.

Opps, good point, fixed the title!

capnsandwich · #6 04-12-2008, 06:54 PM

Sorry man. I've been a guitarist for 20+ years. I started bass 10 years ago out of meeting a need my church had. I have, however, played strictly bass for the last 3 years.

JJBass30 · #7 04-12-2008, 06:55 PM

My hands are to big for those little guitar frets

nubs · #8 04-12-2008, 06:57 PM

i am only a bass player i think i own 2 or three guitars maybe even four, i dunno.....but i don't play em...ever

BillMason · #9 04-12-2008, 06:58 PM

I've dabbled in piano (university required courses) and guitar (to be able to play at campfires and beach parties - lol!), and have managed to play an elementary beat on the occasional drum kit. I just cannot seem to make myself *want* to play anything else enough to spend the time practicing it! Also, my brain has thoroughly adapted to bass unfortunately, so I find it very challenging to wrap my head around anything else now. Like learning a new language, multi-instrumentalism should be attempted at early ages.

EDIT: I still own a guitar, as do both of my kids, and my wife owns a piano. None of them seem to get used all that much!

fenderthrupeave · #10 04-12-2008, 07:00 PM

have one that I bought for 20 bucks and 250 in parts later I still cant play for the life of me on guitar so it got taken off the stand and put in the closet. And bass is just more fun for me.

Lucas G · #11 04-12-2008, 07:02 PM

i own a few guitars- an acoustic and an electric. i dabble with them every so often but that's as far as it goes, dabbling. i also picked up a nice keyboard recently, and would like to learn to play that enough to be able to sit in with some folks, but that is a LONG way off. and i can't play drums at all.

so, i am pretty much ONLY a bass player, and i am completely okay with that.

Croox · #12 04-12-2008, 07:03 PM

i was from 04-08 just recenlty picked up a new little twanger (squire tele

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Coop Soup · #13 04-12-2008, 07:17 PM

I'm sort of a jack of all trades... at least by rock band standards. I'm first and foremost a bass player, but I own and play a tele quite often as well as the drums.

easyvision · #14 04-12-2008, 07:25 PM

I started off as a guitarist. After 2 and a half years, I realised it just wasn't my calling...got a bass from a friend and the rest is history. I still have a guitar but that's just due to laziness...haven't got round to selling it yet.

I do, however, want to learn how to play sax. Love the sound of a sax. I'd like to be able to drum too, however I don't see me buying a kit any time soon...

Honk'n_down-low · #15 04-12-2008, 07:31 PM

Bass only - but I am starting to want to learn some Piano and Guitar - I know basic Chords but don't play anything other than Bass. I think their is value on playing other instruments - it will surely expand you vocabulary on Bass.

mikeypbass · #16 04-12-2008, 07:40 PM

Me, although rarely you can catch me playing Over the Hills and Far away on my classical

El-Bob · #17 04-12-2008, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by JBass1

just bass...been thinking about getting a guitar but my bank account is urging me to consider otherwise

+1. i've also been considering keyboard. i want to learn guitar and keyboard well enough to record some songs without a whole band

GriffinREX · #18 04-12-2008, 07:42 PM

I've been a drummer longer than a bass player, but I love both equally.

gweimer · #19 04-12-2008, 07:45 PM

I'm strictly a bass player, but I do know how to do basic guitar chords, and know a little piano (incuding a number of inverted chords). It's bailed me out of more train wrecks and jams than I would ever have imagined.

tomvelsor · #20 04-12-2008, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Honk'n_down-low

Bass only - but I am starting to want to learn some Piano and Guitar - I know basic Chords but don't play anything other than Bass. I think their is value on playing other instruments - it will surely expand you vocabulary on Bass.

absolutely true. i feel its critical for a bass player to have some knowledge of any other instrument, but more specifically drums/precussion. bass and drums are always a team, and what better way to see your own playing from a drummers point of view..than to also be a drummer.

that being said..bass is my main, but ive got my drums, piano/keys, a couple guitars, and maybe a harmonica or two?