What The Longest Amount Of Time You've Played Continusly?

Warwickluvr · #1 01-26-2006, 09:55 AM

I'm not sure if this has been done before, but I was wondering whats the longest amount of time you've played bass for continusly?

For example: For my longest, I started playing from 7:30 PM to 11:00 last night.

3 and a half hours.

What's your longest?

bassicinstinct · #2 01-26-2006, 09:59 AM

Not sure what my longest period would be but EVERY show my band plays we do about 2hours 20 minutes straight through including encore.

stedtale · #3 01-26-2006, 10:03 AM

Not sure. My guess would be 3.5-4 hours straight with no breaks at all on BG, but that wssn't a very hard driving gig, coffee house type stuff, simple easy.

I was in an orchestra that did Mahler 5, over 1.5hr straight, lots of bass, low bass, especially low F# (if I remember correct) on the E string was killer after an hour of playing. Having to hold an F# trem for many measures....tiresome.

Figjam · #4 01-26-2006, 10:05 AM

Ive had a band practice once where we played a good 6-7 hours.

MikeyFingers · #5 01-26-2006, 10:05 AM

I went about 6 hours once, just practicing and jamming by myself. I stopped only for bathroom breaks and food.

stedtale · #6 01-26-2006, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Figjam

Ive had a band practice once where we played a good 6-7 hours.

build up some nice calluses? Woah!

Figjam · #7 01-26-2006, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by stedtale

build up some nice calluses? Woah!

My fingers are weird, i used to get big ugly callouses but now they are just really tough. My skin is thick and i dont get blisters ever, i just get white scrapes on them when i play a lot, as if my finger is grating away on the string. I dont have much feeling in my fingertips due to the thick skin.

James Hart · #8 01-26-2006, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Figjam

Ive had a band practice once where we played a good 6-7 hours.

about the same here... that was years ago though. We'd hook up between 1 and 2 in the afternoon and go till the cops shut us down @ about 9pm.

These days I peak at about 4 hours in one sitting (Usually when I'm writing / recording)

bmc · #9 01-26-2006, 11:07 AM

The two guys in my band came to Europe in the early 90's touring with a band out of NYC. Their claim to fame over here was doing one set a night, starting at 9:30pm until 02:30am. Nonstop. They played 7 nights a week. The longest stretch they did non stop was 81 consecutive nights.

I wish I knew them back then. Imagine what their chops were like. Even today, these lads are exceptional players.

Coutts_is_god · #10 01-26-2006, 01:30 PM

The band and I have regular sessions of 12 afternoon. Till like 11 at night. We order pizza and have a grand old time. My drummer only has old people on his street. So either they are afraid of us or they have bad hearing