You monster!!!!Last gig of the year, just last night, I went: passive bass>tuner>amp. That's it. And....I liked it.....
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Bass Player Confessions
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I hate flats.
I dislike tort on most basses.
Same - never picked up a girl at a gig.So Anyway, I've never, ever, ever met a new girl at a band gig and 'got lucky'. Zero.
Even had house gigs where everyone in the band eventually had a waitress girlfriend. Except me.
Played 100's of gigs and had other girlfriends before I met Mrs. Hurricane.
But then, I play the bass.
Confession? I run TWO compressors on my pedalboard now, after playing without pedals for almost forty years. Lol. I believe I can hear a difference albeit it’s more what you miss when the compressors are off than when they are on, which is the way they should work.
There...fixed it for me...
2) Every time I practice with my unplugged bass, I make sure the volume and tone are at maximum, as if that would help...
I even tried putting in a fresh battery to no avail.
I have to simplifry my bass lines when I "sing".
carsonchilders
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Funny, I just put on Rotosounds for the first time and everything you don't like about them is what I do like about them (on a thunderbird at least). To each their own obviously
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I was 12 or 13 and decided to modify the electronics in my first bass, a cheap Jazz copy - except I didn’t know anything about electronics.
Took everything apart and came to the (bizarre) conclusion that I should swap the pickups, so I put it back together like that, connecting what was left of the wires with masking tape.
Of course, it didn’t work at all, so I took it to my dad and said “It just stopped working, I don’t know why.” He took it to the music store, where they told him what his idiot son had done. Fixing it would have cost more than it was worth, so they offered him a measly trade-in (out of pity, I suspect) on a different bass. It’s a testament to his restraint that I lived to tell the tale.
The funny thing is, my grandfather was an electrician/tinkerer who definitely could have gotten it working again, but neither one of us thought about that at the time.
Took everything apart and came to the (bizarre) conclusion that I should swap the pickups, so I put it back together like that, connecting what was left of the wires with masking tape.
Of course, it didn’t work at all, so I took it to my dad and said “It just stopped working, I don’t know why.” He took it to the music store, where they told him what his idiot son had done. Fixing it would have cost more than it was worth, so they offered him a measly trade-in (out of pity, I suspect) on a different bass. It’s a testament to his restraint that I lived to tell the tale.
The funny thing is, my grandfather was an electrician/tinkerer who definitely could have gotten it working again, but neither one of us thought about that at the time.
Somewhere I saw that Clapton admitted he couldn't sing and play Layla at the same time. Don't know if its true.
Funny, I just put on Rotosounds for the first time and everything you don't like about them is what I do like about them (on a thunderbird at least). To each their own obviously
Yeah, I do the same thing on my B-G tuned 5 strings (don't know why but I've always done it that way) . . . however, I have one 5 string bass tuned E-C and I always tune it starting with E and then continue each string in order ending with C
The very first time I brought the E-C tuned instrument to a gig I somehow got distracted just as the guitar player kicked off "Gimme One Reason" and when I came in on the 2nd verse I inadvertently began playing as if it was tuned B-G (playing the WRONG strings) . . . . I knew something wasn't right but it took me a moment to figure it out
Not bass related, but musician relevant: When I was 17 I was a tenor sax player in the school bands (concert, marching and jazz). Naturally, we played everything from charts. One Saturday evening I had been invited to sit in with a local four piece band (weekend warriors in their 30's) at a Knights Of Columbus dance. When I stepped onto the stage and asked "Where's the music?" the other musicians all looked at me like I was speaking gibberish. Somehow I struggled through the gig despite my obvious lack of improve skills or chord structure knowledge (hell I didn't even know most of the songs). As I was packing up my horn at the end I was convinced that my musical contributions had been poor, and was totally 'gobsmacked' when the bass player asked me to come back next week . . . . I ended up playing with that band pretty much every weekend for seven years.
What a strange and delightful journey this music performance experience has been / continues to be.
Cheers and Happy New Year to everyone !
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Not bad, I have to stop playing bass if I sing………..
I play open strings by preference, and I do it every time I can do so. Tab notation that avoids open strings frustrates me because I find that avoidance stupid and unnecessary.
I learned on upright, and I do move up on the neck when the note sequence or finger placement requires it, but ONLY when that is the case.
This has worked for me since 1964 and I'm not changing.
I learned on upright, and I do move up on the neck when the note sequence or finger placement requires it, but ONLY when that is the case.
This has worked for me since 1964 and I'm not changing.
Time to step into the TB confessional booth....
1) I have only broken a string on a bass once. When I got confused and tried to tune it an octave higher than standard. To add insult to injury, I was sober at the time.
2) I love Stingray basses, SVT amps, class D heads and Neo speakers. But only when someone else is playing them.
2b) I once bought a pair of Mesa Subway cabinets, tried them on a gig and promptly returned them for a refund because I hated the sound. I'd start a club on TB but I doubt I could find a second member.
3) Every 5 years I put flats on a bass to remind myself that I really don't like flats.
4) I taught myself how to play bass by watching live footage from Rush's Moving Pictures tour. Then I spent 10 years unlearning bad habits.
5) My practice regimen mostly involves me saying to myself - "ah hell, I already know that".
1) I have only broken a string on a bass once. When I got confused and tried to tune it an octave higher than standard. To add insult to injury, I was sober at the time.
2) I love Stingray basses, SVT amps, class D heads and Neo speakers. But only when someone else is playing them.
2b) I once bought a pair of Mesa Subway cabinets, tried them on a gig and promptly returned them for a refund because I hated the sound. I'd start a club on TB but I doubt I could find a second member.
3) Every 5 years I put flats on a bass to remind myself that I really don't like flats.
4) I taught myself how to play bass by watching live footage from Rush's Moving Pictures tour. Then I spent 10 years unlearning bad habits.
5) My practice regimen mostly involves me saying to myself - "ah hell, I already know that".
