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08-28-2010, 08:12 AM
|  | Knob Nooner in Recovery... | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Rochester, NY, USA | | | I got busted practicing my "bass dance"...
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So, many years ago, I was practicing to be in a band. The thing was this group wanted to move around on stage like Morris Day and The Time. You know, where the whole band moves around in coordinated dance steps. So, being really white, I was worried about pulling off the  plus the  .........
From that point forward, I'd practice my songs, plus my moves, while holding my instrument. It was tough but fun, and I never tangled up in cords more then when twirling around, back then.
Fast forward to yesterday. I was practicing (no longer with the dancing), then with bass in lap, I started surfing YouTube, and ended up on Cee Lo Green's "F*** You" song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAV0XrbEwNc. And well, I felt the stirring form, and before I knew it I was bouncing around the computer/music room like the good ol' days again.
Then it happened, my wife walked in, coming home from work, and I got the  ...
Now my kids get it. When they see daddy bouncing around, they will often join in, or just giggle and walk away. But with the Mrs, well all I did was score 11 doofus points. She had a crappy day at work, then comes home to her goofy hubby, and wasn't cheered up in the least. Oh well, busted again....
I was just wondering if anyone else has a "bass dance", and was ever caught using it?
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08-28-2010, 09:24 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Ashdown Amps and Sandberg Basses. | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Africa | | | Well, not caught practising it but I did a show a while where we played some Shadows tunes and some bright spark thought it would be cool to do their signature moves. Myself and the two guitarists aren't exactly gifted in the stage presence department and I'm not to sure if we were in sync or not because I had to watch my feet all the time. My girlfriend came to one performance which resulted in a fair amount of ragging afterwards.
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08-28-2010, 09:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: London ON | | | Thanks for the Youtube link. Had never heard that before. Made my morning.
EDIT is Cee Lo Green AKA Gnarls Barkley?
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08-28-2010, 09:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brookfield, CT | | | I think your wife needs to lighten up a little.
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08-28-2010, 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Steve Clark Thanks for the Youtube link. Had never heard that before. Made my morning.
EDIT is Cee Lo Green AKA Gnarls Barkley? | he's still cee-lo but he is the singer for gnarls barkley.
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08-28-2010, 10:39 AM
| | | | I was playing some metal in my living room and getting waaaaaay into it. Power stance, screaming, headbanging, the whole thing. I jumped and did a scissor kick. As I turned around I saw that my dad was home. And he invited the new neighbor's daughter over to meet me. At least she thought it was cute instead of crazy. Still a pretty awkward moment...
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08-28-2010, 10:41 AM
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08-28-2010, 11:47 AM
| | | My dad's a better wingman than most of my friends are 
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08-28-2010, 11:51 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: West Warwick, RI | | | No.. but I did catch my wife lip syncing and dancing arround to a Debbie Gibson song that had come on the radio... she was using a brush as a microphone. priceless
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08-28-2010, 12:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Noblesville Indiana | | | not so much practicing my "bass dance" but I did have my fiance' walk in on me while I was acting like i was playing along with the radio. Bass not plugged in. Hitting random notes, rocking out like I'm on stage with papa roach (song was last resort)
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08-28-2010, 02:57 PM
| | Knob Nooner in Recovery... | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Rochester, NY, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Clark Thanks for the Youtube link. Had never heard that before. Made my morning.
EDIT is Cee Lo Green AKA Gnarls Barkley? | Yup, sorry. Cee Lo is the singing half of Gnarls Barkley... http://www.fromthebasement.tv/artist...ormances/crazy p.s. - good performance, even without a bass player
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08-28-2010, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by ButtUglyJeff ...all I did was score 11 doofus points... | Is there an established metric for this? I'm almost afraid to ask -- I might be way higher up the normal curve than I'd like to admit. 
Maybe we need to compile a new thread: "Things that score doofus points with the wife" -- with point values to be assigned by the group. |
08-29-2010, 08:42 AM
| | | | I don't know about "doofus" points, but it seems pretty universal that "oops" will wipe out "attaboys" at about a 10:1 ratio.
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08-31-2010, 09:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Reading, Ma | | no one else in my band moves so i was told to make us look not boring on stage...all i had was the goofy dance i do when i practice alone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6sco3KGIJ0
that was a year ago when i was still self conscious of it. now im not and now its bigger,crazier, and goofier. when i play open notes i do weird motions with my right hand (im lefty thats my fretting hand)
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08-31-2010, 11:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: melbourne victoria australia | | | i have a dance i do all the time if i'm in a live show. it's a sort of leg swivel thing, fashioned sorta off jeph howards moves live. lol.
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09-01-2010, 12:01 AM
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Originally Posted by SMILEYSIXX I was playing some metal in my living room and getting waaaaaay into it. Power stance, screaming, headbanging, the whole thing. I jumped and did a scissor kick. As I turned around I saw that my dad was home. And he invited the new neighbor's daughter over to meet me. At least she thought it was cute instead of crazy. Still a pretty awkward moment... | hah! thats awesome.
One time at work me and one of the other guys thought there was no one in the store and started dancing behind the counter to a really upbeat song that came on, about 3 seconds later a customer walked out from around a corner and it was a couple of seconds before the other guy realised she was there. Good times.
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09-01-2010, 12:35 AM
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Originally Posted by N.F.A. Cool dad for introducing you to a young lady! | Typical dad move. He's just trying to make sure SmileySixx ain't gay. 
(kidding, dude)
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09-01-2010, 12:49 AM
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Originally Posted by ButtUglyJeff | HA! HAAAAAAAAA!
My wife and I just laughed SO HARD at this! We'd never heard that song before. ROFLMAO!! How awesome was that! 
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09-01-2010, 12:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Los Angeles | | | The only bass dance I've done is when we dropped a big fish in a little boat. |
09-01-2010, 12:57 AM
|  | Bartle doo? | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Missing Mountains | | I get busted all the time. Mostly, when I'm in the groove and break out the power stance and singing the supporting vocals....
Check this out... Post Your POWERSTANCE!!
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