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04-20-2009, 06:33 AM
| | | | The "Dave" factor
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Greetings fellow rhythm section people!
Speaking as a drummer (bass players best friend - gotta stick together, huh?), I just wanted to know if all bass players are called "Dave", either actually or secretly... Over two thirds of all the bands I've been in over the last 30 years have featured bassists bearing that name - one band had three consecutive Daves!!!
Also, why is the bass guy always chief van-packer?
Your thoughts...? |
04-20-2009, 07:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Hebron, KY | | My name is Dave.
Actually played in a band once called Dave on Bass.  |
04-20-2009, 07:55 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: AZ mountains | | | Dave's not here.
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04-20-2009, 08:08 AM
| | | | A lot of drummers I work with are named Dave. |
04-20-2009, 08:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: London | | | I wanna know why all Nu-Metal (or whatever it's called) bands have bass players with those mid-calf "shorts", a tat on the leg, and are bald/shaven with a silly little beard. And a 5-string. |
04-20-2009, 08:11 AM
|  | ... you talkin' to me ?? | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: DEEP in the Heart of Texas | | you can call me Dave ... 
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04-20-2009, 08:12 AM
| | | | My name is Dave.
And I play bass.
It just sounds great! |
04-20-2009, 08:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Portsmouth, England | | | yep.
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04-20-2009, 08:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Greenville, NC USA | | | Another Dave on bass here. (Just don't call me Dave in front of my mom. Drives her crazy. It's David in front of her.) |
04-20-2009, 08:16 AM
| | | | Only ever played with a Dave on sax and another on guitar. But if I remember correctly the Planet Smashers have a Dave on bass.. |
04-20-2009, 08:16 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Pittsburgh, PA | | | My friends call me Nick, but you can call me Dave
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04-20-2009, 08:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Florida | | Bass players usually have the best math skills in the band. So we understand how to maximize the cubic footage during the load up. Thus, we become chief van-packer. 
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04-20-2009, 08:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: St. Louis, MO | | | I played in a church band a few years back in which it seemed no one could get my name right and I'd get called Dave instead of James. Even the band leader there labeled my folder of music as "Dave". I eventually stopped fighting it.
...Then again, there's too many James Millers playing bass it seems, so rather than Dave, I decided to go by Jay Arthur. I guess I could have done Dave Arthur...but I can only imagine where those initials would have gotten me.
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04-20-2009, 08:20 AM
|  | On the TB leaderboard for low talent/gear ratios! | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: NJ | | | (*raises hand*)
My name is Dave, and I'm a bass player.
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04-20-2009, 08:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brookfield, CT | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dave64o (*raises hand*)
My name is Dave, and I'm a bass player. | Me too.
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04-20-2009, 08:33 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: St Augustine, FL | | | Got a dave here too! I don't pack vans though...only my own gear! |
04-20-2009, 08:35 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: melbourne victoria australia | | | why is every guitarist called nick? |
04-20-2009, 08:37 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: East Nashville | | | My name is Dave and I play bass. I am also obsessive about the packing of the gear, but mainly to make sure the idiots don't smash my DB. |
04-20-2009, 10:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Crossville, Tennessee | | | "Hello Dave" (in unison)
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04-20-2009, 10:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Sun City, Ca, United States | | | While I'm not Dave, (Names Andrew but the only people that call me that are my parents) I am the guy in charge of loading the truck. It's less to do with math skills, and more to do with me being anal retentive about getting all the gear in their safely and making sure it all fits and I don't trust anyone else to do it. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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