Stuff you hate to hear a non-bassist say

[Finger Blister]

Originally Posted by Mr.Jack

Girls: "Wow thats an amazing guitar" etc etc.
Me: (getting out my bass) "Mines bigger"
Girls all come over to me, guitarist is left alone.
Girls: Wow, how come yours is so much bigger?

Answer: Because I'm a real man.

[mickeyw3340]

ROTFLMAO !!
I'm going to use that next time someone asks me a stupid question.
Them: "Is that a regular guitar? It only has 5 strings and they are so big?"
Me: No Maam it's not, its an old australian instrument called a "dijaradoo".

Originally Posted by StrudelBass

I think it'd be hilarious if someone came up to me and said,

"Dude, thats one awesome electric dijaradoo!"

[Don't_Fret]

I rarely hear these kind of comments, like bass is easier or what's the difference. I do dislike it when my mother calls it guitar, but it's not a big deal. The only frustrating non-bassist encounter I ever had was at church, during band practice. The leader was playing a cd of some song that we were going to learn, and a guitar solo starts up. About then she looks at me and says, "Listen! This is your part!" Our guitarist had to explain to the misguided woman that I was playing bass, not guitar. However, I do appreciate that I was given a solo....

The bass definitely has a positive effect on women. Unfortunately, my bass usually gets more action than I do! (Damn that sexy Bongo..)

[Gravytrain]

I was at a music store once, and i was plyling some weird linke on a fender jazz bass., a 8yr old, (who though he knew everything about guitars, he was ranfdomly smashing strings on every guitar there) walked up to me and was like
"OMG! that thing only has 4 strings"
my reaction
"no **** kid! REALLY?!?!?"

the guy who owend the store who i am friends with with who is like, 20 yrs older than me (im 12) just got a ritter, he let me try it, and i was playing some bluesy thing, and a teen who thought he was cool walked up to me and said, woah ur good, can you play any 50cent?

god i was ready to smash the ritter over the the dudes head, but im a christian, id never ever hurt a ritter.

[inspiredbassist]

I've heard some crap in my time. I'm only 18. . .
What ticks me off is that in a guitar shop there's always:
a 45-year-old alcoholic bar-bander playing Lynyrd Skynyrd;
a 14-year-old playing Korn or Nirvana;
and a younger person or just stupid person running around asking the other two questions.

I've always hated hearing "Can you play 'Smoke on the Water?'" which I am asked whether I am playing bass, acoustic or electric guitar, mandolin. . . piano. . . glockenspiel. . . anything.
I hate Ritchie Blackmore.

[NioeZero]

Originally Posted by mickeyw3340

ROTFLMAO !!
I'm going to use that next time someone asks me a stupid question.
Them: "Is that a regular guitar? It only has 5 strings and they are so big?"
Me: No Maam it's not, its an old australian instrument called a "dijaradoo".

Heh. I can actually get my bass to sound like a didgeridoo...

[jgbass]

My best friend, knowing my passion for music, gave me a musical present last Christmas. She went to Costco and bought this huge music book and wrote a really nice note in there about using this book in the years to come for helping me with my playing.

I was so happy with this gift, but the only problem was that it is a guitar book. I thought the bass was like a guitar? was one of the things she said. I appreciated her good intentions, thanked her for the gift and was very diplomatic and tried my best to explain the difference between bass and guitar. I don't think it did any good, because I received a little guitar keychain a few weeks ago on my birthday. This great book --it just sits there. The bass is not a guitar. There's practically nothing in there that is of any interest.

[BassGod]

Originally Posted by jgbass

My best friend, knowing my passion for music, gave me a musical present last Christmas. She went to Costco and bought this huge music book and wrote a really nice note in there about using this book in the years to come for helping me with my playing.

I was so happy with this gift, but the only problem was that it is a guitar book. I thought the bass was like a guitar? was one of the things she said. I appreciated her good intentions, thanked her for the gift and was very diplomatic and tried my best to explain the difference between bass and guitar. I don't think it did any good, because I received a little guitar keychain a few weeks ago on my birthday. This great book --it just sits there. The bass is not a guitar. There's practically nothing in there that is of any interest.

The same thing happened to me... for Christmas my aunt gave me a huge book on guitar. It took me a while to explain that a bass is in fact different from a guitar.

~Graeme

[robe]

Though slap is impressive, I wouldn't recommend using it to showoff. Slap isn't one of those "you have to be really good to do" things. Once you reach a certain point, it's not what you play but your musical understanding. You will begin to ask others and yourself why something is a certain way, instead of how you do something.[/quote]


Floydbass, did i say i did it to show off?.....no!

I simply showed them sienfeld coz they asked me to learn it and when i did, i showed it to them.
I also undestand that it isnt that difficult, but having learnt bass for only a week before i could do the sienfeld theme and my frineds thought that was pretty cool.

And also, can you play bass as well as flea?

[robe]

oops, sorry

stuffed up the quote thing.

this was all written by Floyd bass:"Though slap is impressive, I wouldn't recommend using it to showoff. Slap isn't one of those "you have to be really good to do" things. Once you reach a certain point, it's not what you play but your musical understanding. You will begin to ask others and yourself why something is a certain way, instead of how you do something."

sorry!

lol.. im a silly one!

[Not Mark Westlake]

Originally Posted by jgbass

My best friend, knowing my passion for music, gave me a musical present last Christmas. She went to Costco and bought this huge music book and wrote a really nice note in there about using this book in the years to come for helping me with my playing.

I was so happy with this gift, but the only problem was that it is a guitar book. I thought the bass was like a guitar? was one of the things she said. I appreciated her good intentions, thanked her for the gift and was very diplomatic and tried my best to explain the difference between bass and guitar. I don't think it did any good, because I received a little guitar keychain a few weeks ago on my birthday. This great book --it just sits there. The bass is not a guitar. There's practically nothing in there that is of any interest.

The theory aspect of construction of chords, scales and so on could help you though? If there's theory work you don't fully understand, just check out that book because seeing it in a different light might help it lodge itself in your mind. I wouldn't just let it sit there - just have a browse through!

[Jack]

Originally Posted by oddity_uk

dammit, I wish I'd played bass 6 years ago

So do I, I would be quite good now.

Oh but the best is when I asked why the same girls were sitting on the table where my amp is. Apparantly, its better than a spin cycle.

[hateater]

So I guess the two biggest things said to us are

1.Can you play Seinfeld (or anything of a slap nature)

-and-

2.Since you are only playing one note at a time... isn't that easier than playing guitar?

[ravelleneil]

i don't really like it when people come to me and say

"hey dude, you're a great guitarist"

"your too loud"

"my friend can play avril lavinge"

"whats the best thing you can play??"

"get a haircut"

i also really cant stand people asking me to play things for them,

this thread is really great for letting off some steam,

i'd love to know if guitarists say the same things about us,hehe

neil

[uglycicles]

So I guess the two biggest things said to us are

1.Can you play Seinfeld (or anything of a slap nature)



Wow, I'm getting old:,

I remember when first it was:

Can you play "Barney Miller?"

which was followed up a few years later by:

Can you play "Night Court?"

(The Barney Miller theme still rocks, though )

[jammadave]

Originally Posted by ravelleneil

i'd love to know if guitarists say the same things about us,hehe

neil

Pair of Guitarists answering similar question:

"I hate it when bass players say stuff with, like, too many, uhhh, syllables?"

"Yeah, and then they play all boomy and crap."

"Huhuh, yeah" *high five*

[Minimaul]

I saw this on an Ebay discription.

Like most guitar players, I figured it would be easy to learn how to play bass. Not only do I not enjoy it, but also I'm not any good. My ignorance and inability is your gain. .... Please save my ears from the horror my hands create with this instrument.

I like how he automaticly assumed that he would be good at it because he played guitar. This just proves just about everything allready said in this thread. :0

[Aaron Saunders]

Originally Posted by bimplizkit

(after I'm done connecting / setting up the entire PA and monitor system)

"Will you help set up the lights?"

Hahaha, I get that all the time at school coffee houses...but that's okay, because I'm basically the school's only lighting techie .

I played solo at the last school Coffee House (7 minutes per performer) and got a random yell where all I caught was Seinfeld (also that could've been someone making fun of me because a friend of mine thinks I look like George, only with hair and less weight ) and a yell for some Primus, but that was fine 'cause it was a friend of mine -- I obliged him with a quick run of the main riff from Too Many Puppies .

Only other bass thing like that I've heard was the standard "I'm gonna learn bass" after they failed at guitar. *sigh*

Good comments? A bunch from that solo thing, including my drama teacher (27) look at me as I was taking my bass back to the green room and said "Duuuuuuuude!" Her voice also went uncharacteristically high too .

[Matt Till]

I want to go over to the guitar forums and go to the "Don't you hate it when bassists say" threads.

"I should be louder"
"Shouldn't I slap in this song?"
"Duh, how do you play that?"
"I spilled the bong water on your Marshall stack"

[steal-o-matic]

"i can play crazy train, im better than you"