What is your stupidest bass-related dream?

NickInMesa · #1 11-14-2009, 11:26 AM

Last night I dreamed I joined a new band. Guys were tight, with great originals but they just lost their bassist so I was asked to join.

When I showed up with my Jazz, I was told "Oh no, we're sponsored by ... EPIPHONE! you will have to play this:" and I was passed a bizarre tiny short scale headless bass which turned out to be a toy with plastic strings and lots of flashing buttons.

Dreams are so stoopid.

Poor Tom · #2 11-14-2009, 11:38 AM

I never really have any music/bass related dreams. This thread almost seems more like you just wanted to take a shot at Epiphone lol

nutso42 · #3 11-14-2009, 05:01 PM

I once had a dream that my dad came in my room and grabbed all my guitars (not just my basses... my guitars too!) and smashed them against the floor. Then he dumped books on me..... very strange dream.

I need to see a pyschiatrist.

uglymutt · #4 11-14-2009, 07:39 PM

I imagined i got up on stage and sang Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody while playing bass, very weird...

Steve! · #5 11-15-2009, 10:52 AM

I usually just have dreams about going somewhere and buying a bass that I've been wanting. I wake up and look for it, then I realize it was a dream

adamrobertt · #6 11-15-2009, 10:55 AM

What's wrong with Epiphone? Or short scale?

cynical-rabbit · #7 11-15-2009, 11:47 AM

Last night, I had the king of stupid bass dreams. At first it wasn't related to bass at all, but I guess I won't tell that part.

In my dream, I was coming home from school on the bus, and for some reason I had my bass with me, outside its case, neck in my hand, strap pin on the floor. A bunch of people in my grade, my best friend, that cocky guitarist who actually rides my bus were there, and my dad was driving the bus. My dad said a couple of things that kind of embarrassed me, but it wasn't a huge deal. I was strumming the open strings on my bass, and the cocky guitar kid kept making snide remarks. I got home, and my dad was there working as if he had never been driving the bus at all. I noticed that head stock of best bass was bent around the back of its neck, warping the first 2 frets to the point where they couldn't be played. In my dream this translated into not being able to my the highest 3 frets which wasn't a big deal, but still I was really freaked out about the whole thing. I was considering going to TalkBass for help, but first went to my dad. By the time I showed it to him, the whole body had bent, deeming my bass completely unplayable. Eep! Neither of us knew what to do, so we decided to take it to the shop though we didn't really know what they could do about it. Maybe melt it back into shape? I also decided that the bass must've gotten warped in English which had turned into a sewing/chemistry class (earlier in my dream), and the fire melted and bent my bass.

I woke up extremely relieved to find my bass fine.

J. Crawford · #8 11-15-2009, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by adamrobertt

What's wrong with Epiphone? Or short scale?

Or being a toy? Or fake strings? Or flashing buttons?

I mean, really..

addylewis · #9 11-15-2009, 01:00 PM

I actually had a bass dream last night for the first time ever I think, as usual it was a wierd dream! (can't remember most of it but here goes...)

We were doing a gig or something at a train station (in the corner...actually blocking the ticket window completely) with a couple other bands and for some reason I had to leave or something...I managed to get back in time to find my bass leaning against the amp whilst everyone was packing up and the guitarists guitar was also against the amp and had slipped and was now leaning on my bass, I got annoyed and someone said "ah it doesn't matter" - now, there was no damage to it or anything but I was still like "Doesnt matter?! This bass isn't like any of those crap beaten up ones they lend out at college you know, its a Fender - you have no idea what this bass means to me!" then I picked it up and woke up...

Now, I graduated from UNI about 3 years ago now...I think I actually know where this dream came from - we did a gig a few days ago and I left the said bass with our guitarist coz I had to run for a train, then we did another one the next day and my bass was in the car I wasn't traveling back in and they only got back at the same time my dad turned up to take me home, so I very nearly left it with them twice...weather or not this was on my mind afterwards I don't know for sure, but thats where it came from. Oh yeah, I wasn't playing with the current band or anyone I knew in my dream from what I remember but the people were like my old college students y'know...only they didn't appear to look after my bass as well.

Thats a crazy one...I've been freaking out about it recently actually coz the sound is more unbalanced than I remember, but then again I've not played it for a year and a half now so I'm just not as used to it as I was...

TheHegemon · #10 11-15-2009, 01:18 PM

I have a friend thats in a different band and I dreamed me and my guitarist just went over and basically took over his band. Brought our guitars over, plugged in kicked out the bassist and guitarist and annexed the rest of the band lol. Weird dream.

~ignited~wings~ · #11 11-15-2009, 01:28 PM

I had a strange one a few weeks ago. I was in my apartment making french toast, when my phone rings, and it's mother wishing me a happy birthday. I was a little perplexed that I had forgotten my own birthday, but she told me to take train back to my parent's place because she had a surprise for me.

So I arrived at my parent's house, and she presents me with a very strange looking mandolin... Beautifully carved flamed maple...but it was a mandolin. I thought to myself "this is kind of random, but whatever, now I have a mandolin to fiddle with".

So then I look at the headstock and my jaw drops as I see the abalone butterfly inlay, and my mother says "yep' it's a Fodera!". I asked her how much it cost her and she told me it was about $4100. at this point I think, this is really cool, but what use do I have for a mandolin built by a boutique bass builder? So I try to sell it to fund a new bass instead, but the mandolin crowd was looking down on it because Fodera has never made mandolins, and the bass crowd thought it was cool, but wouldn't buy it.

Odd.

nutso42 · #12 11-15-2009, 03:25 PM

Had another one just last night!

In the 'Luthiers Corner' thread, bassgod76 is trying to build a replica of Jaco's Bass of Doom.
Now in my dream, he finishes it but decides he doesn't like it, so he gives it to me.

(hint hint)

Gubna · #13 11-16-2009, 12:27 AM

a dream... waking up in the dream, late for a gig. pretty stupid.

then waking up for real thinking that I had completely missed the gig, but it was the day before the gig, in the middle of the afternoon.

The EH Man · #14 11-16-2009, 08:21 AM

Weird dream a couple of weeks ago. It included a friend who is a "gitard turned bassist" who has a Warwick and is playing for a very popular local band, which makes me a bit envious as I would love to have a vintage Thumb bass and a gig like that. Anyway, in the dream I had finally gotten a Warwick but it had all these extra guitar strings mounted all over it, like drones or something.
That's all I remember about it. I need to get out and play....

Taxt · #15 11-16-2009, 02:48 PM

I dreamt that I had a 9 string Conklin and I was tapping out the craziest song, but the wierd part was no sound came out of the amp at all. i kept tapping and people loved it but there was no sound

tekkentool · #16 11-16-2009, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Taxt

I dreamt that I had a 9 string Conklin and I was tapping out the craziest song, but the wierd part was no sound came out of the amp at all. i kept tapping and people loved it but there was no sound

they we're happy not to have to hear it.

machine gewehr · #17 11-17-2009, 05:49 AM

I'm in studio recording the bass for the new Metallica album while Jason's not around.Man am I on a groove,I sound awesome!
James comes in and sees me,goes berserk on me.Kicks me out eventually.
Late that night Jason and I are on the beach drinking a few beers.We got attacked by some people,we hid and ran away...

Russell foulkes · #18 11-17-2009, 06:00 AM

mine was horrible...
one of my friends was running away from me,and for some reason he wouldnt stop,he was laughing and i couldnt catch him,in a rage i throw my aria sb at him,which smacks him in the back of the head.dead silence.he lay there and stopped moving.
it was just horrible,even thinking about it now.

but on the bright side,ive had lotse dreams where positive things happen,from people showing me basslines,to the classic stage f**k ups

ericw · #19 11-17-2009, 09:23 AM

One time I had a dream I was at my alma mater for a Bela Fleck & The Flecktones concert with my buddy's ex-gf. Then I met some other chick during an encore performance by Future Man. Anway for some reason I had my bass with me and left it in the middle of the parking lot to talk to someone (????) and when I went back for it it wasn't in the case. Then me and the buddy's ex-gf went back to her place and I opened up the case and there it was! But some vandal had completely trashed it...

I started crying and woke up.

geebee_r1 · #20 11-17-2009, 08:56 PM

I just dream of not screwing up during the next gig...