I'm dating "up".

[Benjamin Strange]

Yes friends, it has finally happened. After playing bass for 16 years, and playing professionally for the last 6, I finally had a girl approach me at a show simply because I was a bass player. The story:

Last week, I performed at a benefit show for lukemia and lymphoma research. It was held in this mansion south of San Francisco up in the hills, and it was to be a Halloween party with everyone in costume. About 700 people showed up, and it poured rain the entire time, so most everybody was crammed inside. I brought my fretless Ovation Magnum (which I guess is a sexier bass than my Steinberger XM), and didn't bother with a costume as I was still living out of a suitcase crashing on my friend's couch. I just came as myself. I was playing with this rock/funk band, who weren't bad, and we were doing all original music. About three songs into the set, a woman dressed up as the St. Paulie beer girl comes up to me onstage, leans into my ear and says:

"You are the sexiest thing I have ever seen. Can I give you my number?"

Hot damn! Never, in all my years of playing, has anything like this happened. "Of course", I say, and she writes her number down on the back of a card, hands it to me, and gives me a kiss right in front of god and everybody at the party. Haha! I am, at this point, a golden god.

The story gets better:

I end up hanging out with her after the party, and have been hanging out with her almost every day this week. It turns out that in addition to having great taste in men, she's extremely cool. Smart, funny, engaging, beautiful (she looks like a cross between Uma Thurman and Kate Blanchet), and... get this - she's a doctor.

That's right. Me, a mohawked, pierced up, skinny, geeky, unemployed musician is dating a doctor.

Bow before me. Bow.

[kesslari]

She's planning to sedate you and use you in her genetic modification experiments.
Run away, monkeyboy, RUUUUN!!!


Nah, slightly more seriously, that's cool.

[Deluge Of Sound]

Good to hear things are going well, man. Lucky you didn't bring out the hello kitty strat for that gig.

[Bass Viking]

Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange

Yes friends, it has finally happened. After playing bass for 16 years, and playing professionally for the last 6, I finally had a girl approach me at a show simply because I was a bass player. The story:

Last week, I performed at a benefit show for lukemia and lymphoma research. It was held in this mansion south of San Francisco up in the hills, and it was to be a Halloween party with everyone in costume. About 700 people showed up, and it poured rain the entire time, so most everybody was crammed inside. I brought my fretless Ovation Magnum (which I guess is a sexier bass than my Steinberger XM), and didn't bother with a costume as I was still living out of a suitcase crashing on my friend's couch. I just came as myself. I was playing with this rock/funk band, who weren't bad, and we were doing all original music. About three songs into the set, a woman dressed up as the St. Paulie beer girl comes up to me onstage, leans into my ear and says:

"You are the sexiest thing I have ever seen. Can I give you my number?"

Hot damn! Never, in all my years of playing, has anything like this happened. "Of course", I say, and she writes her number down on the back of a card, hands it to me, and gives me a kiss right in front of god and everybody at the party. Haha! I am, at this point, a golden god.

The story gets better:

I end up hanging out with her after the party, and have been hanging out with her almost every day this week. It turns out that in addition to having great taste in men, she's extremely cool. Smart, funny, engaging, beautiful (she looks like a cross between Uma Thurman and Kate Blanchet), and... get this - she's a doctor.

That's right. Me, a mohawked, pierced up, skinny, geeky, unemployed musician is dating a doctor.

Bow before me. Bow.

And then you woke up.

Congratulations! Hope it goes well.

[MAJOR METAL]

So where does this leave us Ben ?

[Chad Michael]

Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange

.....

Bow before me. Bow.

You have just won the ultimate lottery, spend it wisely and enjoy .

(bassist hi 5)

[Visirale]

Don't **** up.

[fenderhutz]

Let me be the first to say:

No pics, no hot doctor.

[Ívar Þórólfsson]

Originally Posted by fenderhutz

Let me be the first to say:

No pics, no hot doctor.

+1

You beat me to it!

[Muusers]

still waitin on the hot pics from the hot doctor you allegedly hooked up with

[Valerus]

Originally Posted by fenderhutz

Let me be the first to say:

No pics, no hot doctor.

agreed

[Stumbo]

IME, you're not dating up. If she likes you for who you are, then you're right where you should be. Just be yourself and be honest about yourself. Since she's a Dr., she's pretty smart and could be dating another Dr. Since she's dating you, you fulfill her fantasies.

Good luck.

[Muusers]

Originally Posted by Stumbo

IME, you're not dating up. If she likes you for who you are, then you're right where you should be. Just be yourself and be honest about yourself. Since she's a Dr., she's pretty smart and could be dating another Dr. Since she's dating you, you fulfill her fantasies.

Good luck.

dude, shut up

[BurningSkies]

Join the ranks of guys and bass players who are secure in the belief that we date girls who are waaaay too cool and beautiful to be dating louts like us!

I have one of my own too!

[fenderhutz]

Originally Posted by Stumbo

you fulfill her fantasies.

No. These guys fulfill fantasies.

[GregC]

Originally Posted by fenderhutz

Let me be the first to say:

No pics, no hot doctor.

Yes, indeed. Also, strike while the iron is hot--go out and play the lottery immediately!

[JNowiski]

I will never bow to you!!!!! FREEEEEDOM!!!!!!!

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Suga momma

[WickedPissah]

Pics plz.

[Benjamin Strange]

Originally Posted by MAJOR METAL

So where does this leave us Ben ?

Call me when you graduate from med school.