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A LP BFBG would be cool. Except I wouldn't be able to afford one.

By that time you'll have stopped caring what you look like...

Bass solos generally tend to not be quite as well received. Unless you're playing jazz.

Do that, and you may as well play guitar or baritone...

Many musicians see performance (especially solos) as way to put the spotlight on themself (guitar/keys/drum solo anyone?) and thus believe that music is all about themself. When they execute something like what you mentioned above, they think it went well, when, as in the example, the...

Bass players have a hard enough time dealing with letters A through G, you don't think they can actually read or write do you?

Depending on the profs I guess, but if you let them know ahead, find out what you'll be missing, and get your assignments ahead and/or do makeup work it could work out. Just make sure everything works beforehand.

If you like the music and can afford to take the time off, I would say go for it. I find it hard to imagine regretting that sort of experience. A passport is a good idea to have anyway.

I think that's about as cheap as bass MIDI will get right now. I didn't think the GI-20 had that many features anyway.

That reasoning doesn't really work, as getting a tattoo is a conscious decision, whereas race and gender are unarguably not, and religion is usually based on upbringing, which still isn't quite the same. I think tattoos can be great works of art, but they can also be silly looking mistakes...

It's true. Some bass players would break the puny things in half by accident. And though it's been mentioned before, bass guitar is a guitar. Just saying "bass" is abbreviating it, and so it's not actually wrong to call it a guitar. It is in the guitar family, therefore it is a guitar...

Electro-Harmonix.

Alternating index and middle on the right hand, speed really isn't that much of an issue for this sort of song. Mainly (at least for me) being able to play the song on bass was a matter of building the finger endurance, as the the riff itself isn't really that speedy. I'm also quite sure it...