You know your guitarist is awesome when..

[makanudo]

He actually tells you to turn up the bass when you thought you were actually a bit loud

True story, i love this guy

[gjbassist]

Same here. My guitarist frequently tells me to turn up the bass. Gotta love it!

[Ski3223]

So does mine, but he is originally (and foremost) a drummer

[GregDunn]

Mine as well; he was, and is, a bassist, so he knows.

[Blind Rat]

I'm also in this club.

[Peter H. Boer]

When he asks you "can you play a bit busier?" and "I'm going to solo here, can you play the bassline and at the same time lay down some chords?"


That was the first time we played together, still doing this 15+ years on

Peter

[capnsandwich]

When he tells you, "You need to take some solos too. You're faster on the big strings than I am on the little ones." Still haven't taken one yet, at least not in that band.

[totallyfrozen]

Originally Posted by makanudo

You know your guitarist is awesome when...

When he shows up knowing all his parts, plays HIS parts, and doesn't try to tell you how to play yours.

[makanudo]

glad to hear that! I knew i wasn't the only one =)

[shadowtippy]

We do one song where I start us off, the drummer joins in whenever he feels like it, and then the guitar starts about half way through the first verse. Sometimes the guitarist is so caught up by what the bass and drums are doing he forgets to play. We keep it going and he finally decides to join us in the second verse. He does say he's sorry after the song, but I take it to mean that I'm doing a decent job with my part.

[Rangerboy068]

...When (s)he drools over your bass. True story, with both of the guitarists in my band

[jbl71004]

I've only had one guitar player tell me to turn up (and he did so every gig!), and he's by far the most talented guitar player I've ever played with. Awesome dude. I was totally intimidated to be playing in a band with him... he got me past that in a hurry! Is it a coincidence that the sh*tty players want to take over the room? I think not .

[LowDown Hal]

when they stop playing between songs

[tfernandez]

when your playing in 9/4 and you tell him to play everything as a 9th of the previous note as a joke.... and then he does it. <--- true story (plus he is only 16)

[Nic.]

When you keep having to convince him that lead guitar is meant to cut through the mix. Mine likes to take a background supporting role in the band, which is a good thing (and we lock in together very well), but it gets annoying when you actually want him to be heard.

Also, I think he's probably going to get me some expensive pedal later for my birthday so I'm looking forward to today's rehearsal.

[5string5fingers]

When he loves hearing just you and the drummer groove in a song.

[Mr_Sore_Fingerz]

when he says "My guitar teacher says you are a great bassist" ....I still don't think I deserved that compliment, to be honest

[Yools]

I played in metal/hardcore bands with one guitar player for years. He was a tone junky - always buying and selling amps, trying different cabinets, etc. He was never too concerned about my tone or what I was doing - he wasn't a d**k or anything, but he never really noticed anything that I did other than hold down the roots. The last time we recorded (we did a 4-song demo), as we sat in the control room listening to the tracks while the engineer mixed, he asked the engineer on 3 out of the 4 songs to turn me up because he liked what I was doing and wanted it to stand out in the songs. In fact, he insisted that he turn me up. That was pretty cool.

-Y

[trunkshope6]

well my guitarist who plays drums in another band were in praises my bass playing and feel and says this band were in really shows off what i can do

[zachoff]

He helps load in your 810. He's also told me to turn up once or twice too, but now we're to the point we both need to turn down because we're louder than the drummer.