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12 Adam Nitti 7 Alain Caron 24 Alex Webster 10 Andrew Sudlow 10 Bill Laswell 10 Bootsy Collins 11 Bruce Thomas 11 Brian Bromberg 4 Carol Kaye 11 Cheesemonkey 14 Charles Mingus 12 Christian McBride 11 Chuck Rainey 9 David Ellefson 15 Donald (Duck) Dunn 10 Eric Judy 20 Geddy Lee 20 Geezer Butler...

The players that influenced me most in my playing style are Matt Freeman (Rancid) Fat Mike (NOFX) Jean Jacques Burnel (The Stranglers) Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) Kim Nekroman (Nekromantix (double bass)) William Mysterious (The Rezillos) Horace Gentleman (The Specials) These players are the...

to be honest, if someone plays bass because they're a "failed guitarist" then they have no right to pick up the instrument. What makes them think that because they couldn't handle a guitar, with a smaller scale length, less distance between the strings and less weight, that they can just pick up...

You been spying on me? and that chord thing: spot on. It's because bass players use scales and therefore think "if these notes are al in the same key, and the basics chord is the third and fifth, I wonder what would happen if I added a 7th in there. How about a flattened 7th?" But then...

YES! Reminds me of this band I formed Everyone was rubbish in the band, but the drummer was the only one I got rid of! "he messed up, it affects my groove" Also this band at college with a rubbish drummer I was placed in... I was going to quit the course because of the drummer. The...

you know you're a bass player when you figure out the vocal bass part to "Mr. Bassman" by "The Boppers"

no, you hold your bass at the headstock, pointing the body at the other player and then tighten the E-string until it snaps, pressing the F fret and it snaps in their eye first to snap and cause injury wins. If the E-String does no damage, move to the next. Of course, buying a new bass...

[Invalid or Expired Link Removed] I split my hand open and got blood on the strings... in the first song. I kept playing though :D [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] I'm one of these multi-talented people who can sing and play at the same time I liked doing halloween gigs [Invalid...

I had a mild experience of being spoken down to by a guy because I am currently without a band while I study to be a session musician. He was talking to me as if he was the best bass player in the world. I was judging a "Battle of the Bands" I watched him specifically for much of the...

12 Adam Nitti 08 Alain Caron 23 Alex Webster 10 Andrew Sudlow 10 Bill Laswell 09 Bootsy Collins 11 Bruce Thomas 11 Brian Bromberg 04 Carol Kaye 14 Charles Mingus 12 Christian McBride 11 Chuck Rainey 09 David Ellefson 15 Donald (Duck) Dunn 10 Eric Judy 20 Geddy Lee 20 Geezer...

Afew years ago I had a Ashdown combo that sounded rubbish, so I tried it with a Harte aluminium 4x10 (forget the model) and the tone out of the cab was incredible. Ended up cutting the "head" out of the cab and building a box around it, the tone was that great. I also tried the cab with a...