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09-05-2006, 02:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland | | | Famous Bass Player Quotes
Anyone have any famous humorous bassist quotes? Here's a few to start:
“Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.”
(Adam Clayton) |
09-05-2006, 06:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: New Orleans, LA | | | "women and rhythm section first"
- jaco pastorius |
09-05-2006, 07:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Kingston, NY/Middletown, CT | | | Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.
- Les Claypool |
09-05-2006, 09:24 AM
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Gallien Krueger for the last 12 years! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta / Macon (sigh) | | | "Ha! Slapping, the ketchup of the bass world!" - Randy Jackson
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There's a reason why women love us bass players.The tone is like Barry White's voice, and the strings are thick like Ron Jeremy's...well, you get the point.
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09-05-2006, 10:08 AM
|  | Fingers, pick, and a little bit of slap | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Maryland, between Bawlmer & DC | | Best of my recollection... this comes from her cover story in Rolling Stone, 31 years ago. One reason I decided to play bass shortly afterward is because I realized Suzi was right!
"Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin" -- Suzi Quatro  |
09-05-2006, 05:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Newcastle/England | | | i dont no if this really counts but here it is anyway
i no you heard alot of lines from alot of differant guys, but have you ever heard something like this....then plays a funky bass line
-louis johnson |
09-05-2006, 05:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Newcastle/England | | | i dont no if this really counts but here it is anyway
i no you heard alot of lines from alot of differant guys, but have you ever heard something like this....then plays a funky bass line
-louis johnson
i just thought it was cool lol |
09-07-2006, 05:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Mudsock,Ohio | | | [quote=Fuzzbass]
"Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin" -- Suzi Quatro
Very cool.
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The fewer notes you play ,the more you make per note.
Give yourself a raise.
Danelectro + Ampeg = Bass
Remember, There ain't no money past the 5th fret.
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09-07-2006, 06:15 PM
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Spector Basses-New Artist | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Boston, Massachusetts | | | "Its all about the groove" -Randy ?Jackson
"Play every note like its your last"-Flea
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09-08-2006, 09:51 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: outta this world | | | dang i just had to decide to not post what i was about to out of fear of being banned, see how much i love you guys, toning it down to stick around, dang the censorship |
09-08-2006, 09:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: forest hills ny | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by labgnat dang i just had to decide to not post what i was about to out of fear of being banned, see how much i love you guys, toning it down to stick around, dang the censorship |
you can PM it to me if youd like 
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09-08-2006, 09:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: forest hills ny | | "i decided to make a profession out of what i do best but i could make much money from masterbation so i decided to fall back on my skills as a bass player" - claypool 
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09-08-2006, 10:01 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: outta this world | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by beyondhairy "i decided to make a profession out of what i do best but i could make much money from masterbation so i decided to fall back on my skills as a bass player" - claypool | that's a good claypool quote, i was waiting for someone to say that one.
claypool's playing a show someone throws something at him, he stops the song and says hey bud i dont' go down to mcdonalds and throw **** at you while ur flipping the burgers bud. so put your hands in your pockets and enjoy the show
btw i can't even remember the unacceptable TB post i was close to making 8 minutes ago |
09-09-2006, 01:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Perth Australia | | | its what i wear f__k you-Clifford Lee Burton
Im gonna get a dick tattooed on my dick but bigger-Lemmy
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09-09-2006, 03:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Minnesota | | "When I was a kid I would come to a ant hill I would find a stick and stretch a rubber band from one end to the other and pluck it making music for the ants.....the ants would start to dance." 
James Jamerson |
09-09-2006, 05:28 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Treasure Coast, Florida | | | "I don't like headless basses. It's like falling off a cliff."
John Entwistle |
09-09-2006, 05:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Bury St Eds. | | | "It just has to have that Snap-Crack-Back Funk Attack...Thumpin' n Pluckin Doggg"
LARRY GRAHAM |
09-09-2006, 05:57 AM
| | | | "it's not art, it's a science"; Billy Sheehan |
09-09-2006, 07:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: The little red dot on the map. | | | Question: What would you say to a band that's just starting out on the rock scene today?
Cliff : Quit!
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09-09-2006, 07:23 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Paul McCartney (to Elvis)
"So, you're trying to learn bass, are you...son?
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