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06-02-2012, 08:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: 404 / 804 / 202 / 610 / 212 | | | On your way to wonderful you are going to go through a place called all right. When you get to all right, take a good look around, because that may be as far as you ever get.
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Ashbory (Guild/DeArmond/Fender) Club #11
Yamaha BB Club #10 Quote:
Originally Posted by robbotbass
...anybody know how to get a night of your life back?
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06-02-2012, 08:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | Picks are for pussies.
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Originally Posted by Bongolation  "Bass Guitar" is a concept I hate beyond my ability to adequately convey. | |
06-03-2012, 01:18 PM
| | | | "The first thing to do is don't stop. The second thing to do is keep going" - Frank Zappa |
06-03-2012, 01:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Baltimore, MD | | "If rock n' roll is a crime, then throw my ass in jail!"
Kurt Cobain Quote:
Originally Posted by 5StringBlues Boy,all you do is play bass and throw clothes on the floor!
Aunt Jean,1982 | Ha, sounds like my mom! |
06-04-2012, 08:19 AM
| | | | "Everybody thinks you got to wear torn clothes, scratch yourself all over, and not know your ABC's to sing the blues."
B.B. King |
06-04-2012, 08:26 AM
|  | Every exit is an entry somewhere else | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Northern CA. | | | "It's not the notes I play, it's the ones I don't play". Miles |
06-04-2012, 09:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: manchester nh | | | You've got to dig it to dig it you dig?
Don't play everything or everytime. Let some things go by. some music is just imagined. what you don't play can be more important than what you do play .
Just cause you're not the drummer doesn't mean that you don't have to keep time.
MONK.....
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06-04-2012, 09:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Toronto Canada | | | I'd be a lot more upset, if I wasn't so heavily sedated.
Spinal Tap
Fishheadjoe
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06-04-2012, 10:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ontario N.Y. | | | This is probably not a direct quote as I've seen versions related to corporate America and TV Journalism, but it fits well for the music business too.
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
Hunter S. Thompson
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Chuck
You don't stop playing music because you grow old. You grow old because you stop playing music! |
06-04-2012, 11:16 AM
| | | | Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because I listen to pop music? - John Cusack
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No Talent - Have to scratch and fight for every note.
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06-04-2012, 11:24 AM
|  | Earth-based Alternative Scientist, Sex Researcher | | Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Dallas, Texas | | | "My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." -- Vladimir Nabokov
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The best bass players have the biggest butts.
"Godzilla is my copilot."
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06-04-2012, 01:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Massachusetts | | | "If you want to play fast, practice slow. If you want to play real fast, practice real slow."
Heard this attributed to Charlie Parker, not sure if that's legit or not. |
06-05-2012, 10:20 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Orange Park, FL | | | A novice practices until he gets it right. A professional practices until he never gets it wrong.
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Gaddis Tippett Custom 5, Circle K Strings, GK 800RB, Henry the 8x8
SWR Club #185, GK Club #971, FL Bassist Club #254
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06-05-2012, 10:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Central NY | | | Music is what feelings sound like.
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Originally Posted by JakeAndAirwaves It's a thumb rest. Serves as a place to rest your thumb. | |
06-05-2012, 10:43 AM
| | | | "It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play." - Dizzy Gillespie
"Notes are expensive... spend them wisely" - BB King |
06-05-2012, 03:06 PM
| | | | "If you want to make a million dollars in music, start with two million." -JimmyM (I believe)
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My current band: palebluedotband.bandcamp.com
My YouTube channel: youtube.com/user/alcatrazescapee
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06-05-2012, 03:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Deep in the heart of Texas | | | "I basically think about my financial situation...I count every, like beat I play every note I play and I figure how many notes I get into the space, you know, out into space, uh for how much I'm getting paid and I am workin' cheap"
"Egg-a-muffin...yeah"
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Thump it!
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06-05-2012, 03:19 PM
|  | My favorite songs were never heard on the radio | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tulsa, OK | | | "A repeated fully diminished 7th chord would make an excellent noise for an alarm clock." - Evan Tonsing, my college DB teacher |
06-05-2012, 03:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: No. Virginia | | | "What's the problem, son? Notes are black, spaces are white."
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I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
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06-05-2012, 03:33 PM
|  | A figment of our exaggeration | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Way Out West | | | Before the Queen at the Royal Command Performance 1963:
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