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08-26-2007, 03:17 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Auburn Nebraska | | | Things you hate to here OTHER BASS PLAYERS say.
the number one on my list is: Yeah I started playing bass because I tried guitar and it was too hard. I am still not sure how to respond to that comment, but it pisses me off. |
08-26-2007, 03:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: N. Ca. Martinez | | | "wow, you're really good...why do you play a squier?" |
08-26-2007, 03:26 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Los Angeles | | | "I never made any money playing that high on the neck."
Funny, never heard that from a really successfull bassist though.
"Want to hear me play portrait of Tracy?"
"I don't play anything fancy, i just hold down the bottom".
Translation: I cant play what you do, but still need to make up for my insecurity by finding a way to claim superiority. |
08-26-2007, 03:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DistortedBass 
"I don't play anything fancy, i just hold down the bottom".
Translation: I cant play what you do, but still need to make up for my insecurity by finding a way to claim superiority.
| no not really at all, there are different playing styles, you can still be a good bassist but not do anything fancy, lots of good bassists dont take solos or have wild bass parts.
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08-26-2007, 05:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Los Angeles | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jumpno no not really at all, there are different playing styles, you can still be a good bassist but not do anything fancy, lots of good bassists dont take solos or have wild bass parts. | Of course, and I love what they do. But they don't sit around telling bassists that play more complex that what they do isn't real bass or unnecessary. Only the ones who do what they do because it's all they can do feel the need to use that line of thinking. |
08-26-2007, 05:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Wichita Falls, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jumpno no not really at all, there are different playing styles, you can still be a good bassist but not do anything fancy, lots of good bassists dont take solos or have wild bass parts. | Donald "Duck" Dunn.
enough said. 
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08-26-2007, 05:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: BARRACKVILLE WV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by colorblindbass Donald "Duck" Dunn.
enough said. | +1
I was thinking the exact same thing. I was watching the Blues Brothers just yesterday and thinking to myself of how he could say more with 5 notes than most players can say with 100. |
08-26-2007, 05:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Wichita Falls, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by GreyBeard +1
I was thinking the exact same thing. I was watching the Blues Brothers just yesterday and thinking to myself of how he could say more with 5 notes than most players can say with 100. | like duck says, you just play what you feel should go there,
the key to real bass playing
it just so happens that he puts the perfect things there  
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08-26-2007, 06:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Barcelona, Spain | | | Hey, that's my sig!!!! |
08-26-2007, 06:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Wichita Falls, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Anscari Hey, that's my sig!!!! | And a Very good sig it is if you know what i mean
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Originally Posted by bongomania Playing music with faulty cables is like having sex with a pumpkin--it's possible, but very disappointing, and kinda sad. | |
08-26-2007, 06:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Columbus, Ohio | | "Active basses? I hate the sound of those. I ONLY play passive basses. I like my tone to be natural".  or "Why would you play a 5 string? I mean how much do you play those lower 5 notes anyway? I think it's mainly for show."
Actual words spoken in actual conversations with actual bassists.  |
08-26-2007, 06:56 PM
| | Thor's Hammer 2.1.3beta | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Houston, TX | | | "You should play it more like a guitar."
"What's the sixth string for?"
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08-26-2007, 07:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Reading, PA, USA | | | "Jaco only needed 4 strings". |
08-26-2007, 08:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Charlottesville, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DistortedBass "I don't play anything fancy, i just hold down the bottom". | Any more, I just ignore stuff like this unless I've heard the player working.
IME, some folks who say this couldn't hold down the bottom it were weighted and had handles attached. Others could anchor a Macy's Parade balloon in a gale without breaking a sweat. Still others can and do rip it up *and* hold it down, but just affect an "awe shucks" modesty about their playing.
I guess I try not to be bothered about anything another bassist says, 'cause saying ain't playing. |
08-26-2007, 09:00 PM
|  | Knowledge is Good - Emile Faber | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Pleasant Hill, CA | | | "Sorry, Man but it turns out that I could make the gig afterall! Thanks for coming and maybe stick around to hear a few tunes!"
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08-26-2007, 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Folmeister "Sorry, Man but it turns out that I could make the gig afterall! Thanks for coming and maybe stick around to hear a few tunes!" | HAhaha dick move.. |
08-26-2007, 10:12 PM
|  | Ultravisitor | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | | Honestly, the thing I hate to hear most from other bass players is:
"Let me play your bass"
To clarify, I'm talking about hearing this from a stranger at gigs, usually during a break between sets. People I don't know asking to play with my gear is just such a rude thing to me. It's like asking to borrow a stranger's car.
The other thing I hate to hear from other bass players is criticism of my bandmates, which hasn't happened that many times, but always rubs me the wrong way when it does. Unless I'm just acting as a hired gun, a criticism of any band member always feels like a personal insult. |
08-26-2007, 10:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Stayton OR | | "Play bass more like that guy from blink 182"
or worse "I like that trebly punk sound, that is why I like my bass" (his bass being a johnson 4 string with deader than 5 year pair of flatwounds)
Sadly, all of this coming from my drummer.  |
08-26-2007, 10:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: netherlands | | | : I play that tune so and so. |
08-26-2007, 10:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | "shredding on bass is dumb. There's no groove. It's not music"
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