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02-09-2013, 03:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Northeast, US | | | What's with the Craigslist ads looking for a "Bassist"
Do you actually refer to yourself as a "bassist"?
Craiglist's search is so bad that you actually have to search using "bass" and "bassist" to catch all the bass-related ads.
I'm not a bassist. I'm a bass player.
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02-09-2013, 03:30 PM
|  | Tone that I have. Skill? Oh, that? Well.... | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Great White North | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SBassman 
I'm not a bassist. I'm a bass player.
| So you play a fish? 
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02-09-2013, 03:31 PM
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02-09-2013, 03:35 PM
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sales geek Portland Music co. | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: portland or | | | When you search type in "bass*" This will get you bass + anything else. Bass bassist etc.... |
02-09-2013, 03:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: 53.0000° N / 71.0000° W | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SBassman I'm not a bassist. I'm a bass player. | It really is quite simple... if you're not a bassist, then don't respond to any ads looking for a bassist.
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02-09-2013, 03:43 PM
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Rice Custom Guitars, Inc | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Palatine, IL | | | Know any decent drum players? I could use one for my new project. |
02-09-2013, 03:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Chicago | | | Me too. I'm a bass player.
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02-09-2013, 03:44 PM
|  | bass... in your fass | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: TalkBass > Band Management | | What's the difference?  |
02-09-2013, 03:46 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | | bassists get chicks
bass players don't
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02-09-2013, 03:49 PM
|  | Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion. | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Ohio | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisB2 What's the difference? | +1 Lets all stop referring to guitar players as guitarists and drum players as drummers and song stylists as singers.
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02-09-2013, 03:59 PM
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02-09-2013, 04:04 PM
|  | Steak | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Indianapolis, IN | | | From Merriam-Webster
bass·ist noun \ˈbā-sist\
Definition of BASSIST
: a person who plays an acoustic or electric bass
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02-09-2013, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by mjac28 +1 Lets all stop referring to guitar players as guitarists and drum players as drummers and song stylists as singers. | That's right. From now on everyone is a song player no matter what you use to play the song.
I am starting a new band and can't decide if I want to have 4 or 5 song players. |
02-09-2013, 04:16 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Fender Basses, Ampeg, Curt Mangan Strings | | Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: South Shore, Massachusetts | | | "Bassist" and "bass player" mean the same thing. I usually say that I play bass or that I'm a bass player but on my website and Facebook page I use the term "bassist".
However, I have always felt that a "bass player" is someone who plays bass and a "bassist" is someone who truly understands the instrument.
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02-09-2013, 04:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Nashville, TN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SBassman Do you actually refer to yourself as a "bassist"?
Craiglist's search is so bad that you actually have to search using "bass" and "bassist" to catch all the bass-related ads.
I'm not a bassist. I'm a bass player. | Then we can do without this bassist sub-forum -  http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f28/
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02-09-2013, 04:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | | I'm a pbassist. However, sometimes I can be a jbass player.
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02-09-2013, 04:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Kansas City, MO | | IMO bassist sounds more professional than bass player. But I have "bassist" in my user name so of course I'm gonna say that!
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02-09-2013, 04:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Winnipeg | | Don't forget to use "bass guitarist" when you're searching... |
02-09-2013, 05:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Killeen, TX | | The real question is how many other instruments end in "player"?
In college, I was a tubist. Now, I'm a bassist.
The term "Bass Player" just conjures the image of the caveman playing an Epiphone T'Bird slung down past his knees. Hey, if that's you, go for it! 
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02-09-2013, 05:14 PM
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Independent Contractor to Bass San Diego | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SBassman Do you actually refer to yourself as a "bassist"?
Craiglist's search is so bad that you actually have to search using "bass" and "bassist" to catch all the bass-related ads.
I'm not a bassist. I'm a bass player. | Reminds me of a quote by John(ny) Kruk. "We're not athletes, we're baseball players."
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