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06-23-2009, 06:33 PM
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Mine comes from none other than Sgt. Floyd Pepper .... Bassist for Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
When asked what he was doing with Animal during an episode of The Muppet Show, he replied ....
"Just walkin' the drummer, man!
That just covers all the bases.
Matt 
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06-23-2009, 09:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio | | I don't have a good Bassist quote but i'll see your Muppet reference and raise you this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yvHWyvexZA
Animal on drums, Sgt. Pepper on bass, and Rita Moreno...I love this clip!
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06-23-2009, 11:23 PM
| | | | Jimmy Earl said in a BP interview something like "I take responsibility for the groove to be settled from the first note". It's been stuck with me since then. |
06-24-2009, 12:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Riverside, Ca. | | | Stephen Colbert isn't a bass player but here's the full and actual quote: "It's like you made a poorly worded deal with the devil to be a rock star. Instead of fame, fortune and groupies, you stand in the shadows plucking one note for ninety minutes while the lead singer picks out a trio of co-eds from the front row for a post-show pansexual trapeze act. Even worse, you're expected to room with the drummer."
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06-24-2009, 12:47 AM
| | | | "I've always liked older basses, they're more used to being a bass, not a tree"
~Flea
(not sure if that's exactly what he said, but i think it's close enough)
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06-24-2009, 08:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA | | | "You don't choose the bass, the bass chooses you."
-John Entwistle, IIRC.
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06-24-2009, 08:32 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Gravity Picks | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ohio/West Virginia | | | "Funk is on the 1."
-Bootsy
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06-24-2009, 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Jordasch  "Funk is on the 1."
-Bootsy | lol. +1
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06-24-2009, 11:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Louisiana | | | "I'd be there with a triple-neck guitar, bass pedals, and keyboards, and Robert would ask, 'Can you sing, as well?'" --John Paul Jones
From his Bass Player magazine interview of February 2008, I believe. (Could have been March, but definitely 2008)
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06-24-2009, 12:19 PM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | | From Les Claypool:
"In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities." |
06-24-2009, 12:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bloomingdale,IL | | | "Never play angry." - my good friend Perry Miller.
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06-24-2009, 12:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: East Nashville | | | I think it was Slam Stewart who said "Play any old go-to-hell note, as long as it swings" |
06-24-2009, 12:34 PM
| | | | I can't say i know the quote but i once approached an upright player after a jazz gig ( i was in the audience ), and during our conversation he said that he's 'still learning'.
He was very good, but told me that he'll never stop learning / being a student to the bass.
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06-24-2009, 12:39 PM
| | Thor's Hammer 2.1.3beta | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Houston, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A. From Les Claypool:
"In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities." | Oh so very true...
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06-24-2009, 12:43 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | "I don't like to get up until the sun is warm...."
Bill Murray as the bass player on Nat Lamp's "Lemmings".
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Originally Posted by hover He's got the Moo OO OO OO OO OO OO OObs like Jagger.... | |
06-24-2009, 02:52 PM
|  | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | "Women and rhythm section first."
--Jaco
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06-24-2009, 04:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tyneside, UK | | | My favourite is a Geddy Lee one:
"When I play fretless, I play so fast no-one notices the mistakes."
From a BassPlayer Magazine interview....
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06-24-2009, 04:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Turkey | | | Sean Malone:
"In general, the bass part should support the rest of the band but also have an identity independent of the other players. A good bass line has the perfect combination of those two elements. Don't think you have to overplay to get attention, by letting others shine, you shine yourself."
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06-24-2009, 04:25 PM
| | | | "Stand real close and pay attention to my middle finger"
John Entwhistle to a pain in the a** fan who was bugging him about how he played bass. By the way, the pain in the a** fan was me before a Who show in San Diego in 1976. |
06-24-2009, 06:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Amarillo, TX | | | Some gems from Lemmy
“My earliest memory is shouting. At what and for what reason, I don't know. Probably a tantrum; or I may have been rehearsing. I was always an early starter.”
“If you think that you are too old to rock 'n roll then you are.”
From the guy that got me started, Cliff Burton
"You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored."
Probably my favorites from bassists
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