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05-03-2007, 01:59 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Auburn Nebraska | | | Does this bug anyone else?
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Is it just me or do you people also get a little irritated when people refer to you as a guitarist? I do and I never call my bass a guitar. I correct people on it too. |
05-03-2007, 02:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Saint John NB Canada | | | haha ya.. its annoying.. its right up there on my top 10 most annoying things.. |
05-03-2007, 02:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Tulsa, Ok | | | Better than being called a cello... Well, maybe not but still irritating. |
05-03-2007, 02:19 AM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | actually our instrument is an "Electric Bass Guitar"... so guitarist isn't as off the mark as you are making it be.
"Bass" is a descriptive...
Bass Clarinet
Bass Drum
Bass Guitar - the lowest part of the musical range
- the lowest part in polyphonic music
- an adult male singer with the lowest voice
- the lowest adult male singing voice
- the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments
- having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range; "a deep voice"; "a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice"; "a bass clarinet"
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05-03-2007, 02:20 AM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | Welcome, both of you, to the TalkBass bass guitar forums!! 
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05-03-2007, 02:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Saint John NB Canada | | | BUT if you are referring to a Bassist.. thats a different story.. to say "that bassist plays the bass guitar pretty damn good" thats just being stupid of course he plays bass guitar you dolt.. he wouldnt be a bassist then... |
05-03-2007, 02:34 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Auburn Nebraska | | | well if they say BASS guitarist Im OK with that. |
05-03-2007, 02:36 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New York | | | i play bass guitar, but i am a bassist.
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05-03-2007, 02:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Saint John NB Canada | | | im hating all these stereotypes about bass players not being able to play guitar so they play bass |
05-03-2007, 02:38 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Play one of these - see avatar! 
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05-03-2007, 02:44 AM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield Play one of these - see avatar! | looks like that Popsicles stick you use to play grew up nicely Bruce
Do you still have/play the NS?
I just got my first URB a couple weeks back... finally! |
05-03-2007, 03:33 AM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Quote:
Originally Posted by James Hart looks like that Popsicles stick you use to play grew up nicely Bruce
Do you still have/play the NS?
I just got my first URB a couple weeks back... finally! | I use both - I quite often play gigs where there is little room and I have to give our pianist a lift as well and then I play the NS CR5.
Also - one band I'm in use a rehearsal room in the centre of town where it is impossible to park. It's easy to put the NSCR5 in its special carry case over my shoulder and walk there - but I wouldn't fancy negotiating that same route with a DB!
It's also a very hardy (indestructible - survived being hit by a car) spare/replacement - last summer I fell down a couple of steps, dropped the DB and the fingerboard popped off!
Easy for somebody who knows how,to repair, but I had to wait a week or two and the NS bass was a good stand-in!
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05-03-2007, 03:44 AM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | | Cool, I've played a couple NS and really enjoyed them. Sorry to hear about that fall.. sounds like my kind of luck. |
05-03-2007, 11:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: brisbane, australia | | | ive never been refered to as a guitarist, as far as ive known... most people say either im a bassist. or that guy from that pirate band. |
05-03-2007, 03:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tyneside, UK | | I've always called a bassist a bassist and a guitarist a guitarist. They're two seperate disciplines and two seperate instruments.
But one of my pet peeves is being called a guitarist. Problem is when i correct people I usually get called pretentious....  
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05-03-2007, 06:04 PM
| | | | If this is the most stressfull thing in your life right now, then you really need to start appreciating how good things are for you...
People have turned up to your gig, and listened to you playing. Personally I don't care any more than they tell me they had a good night.
Seriously - get some perspective. If this bugs you, then you're going to be having heart problems by the time you're 40... learn to chill a bit.
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05-03-2007, 08:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Virginia | | | I dont mind being called a guitarist I think a lot of times they know the difference and still call it a guitar, who cares |
05-03-2007, 09:12 PM
|  | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | Quote: |
im hating all these stereotypes about bass players not being able to play guitar so they play bass
| lol I suck balls at guitar. I can play just as fast as any guitarist though, just on bass.
P.S. I started on bass.
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05-03-2007, 09:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Sarnia, Ontario, Canada | | i just roll with it 
I just know better 
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05-03-2007, 09:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Saint John NB Canada | | | i think its more of an ignorance thing.. people are too lazy to figure it out.. and to some ignorance is bliss to others it can be annoying | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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