Bass Player "No-No's" With Fines

[williamk]

how about 1000$ for asking on TB if it's ok to gig with shorts and sandals?

 

[TexBass]

Playing Hysteria by Muse before the set officially stars: $150


I'd like to see this one imposed... usually it's a way to tell a crappy to mediocre bassist. They think hysteria is a difficult song so they believe they are impressing people.

Double the fine if the band is not genre relevant!!

Or maybe they play it because its a good song and most people like it?

 

[Mr L]

$300 fine for getting lost and watching the rhythm guitar players hand for chord changes.

Done this too many times... I deserve the fine.

 

[ggvicviper]

This is a stupid idea. Tune one string and then tune the rest for the whole venue to hear? I don't think so.

Don't buy a $2 tuner and this shouldn't be a problem anyway.

How is this a stupid idea? Who says that after you tune to one string, you have to let the whole venue hear the rest?

Besides, people have to tune their instruments on stage between songs sometimes. I've seen it happen - its just life (and instruments).

 

[WayneS]

How is this a stupid idea? Who says that after you tune to one string, you have to let the whole venue hear the rest?

Besides, people have to tune their instruments on stage between songs sometimes. I've seen it happen - its just life (and instruments).

Apparently I've misunderstood your post. I took it to mean that you should tune one string with a tuner and then tune the rest of the strings by ear.

 

[slagbass]

Back up bass? Always! Back up Amp? Never!

Number of times a bass has let me down in 30 years: 0.
Number of times an amp has let me down in 30 years: 3.
Wanna guess what I carry as a backup?

Also, I'm not sure about the hate for tuners on every string. I would call a fine for letting the audience hear you tune. They don't want to hear it and accurate bypass tuners aren't that expensive.

 

[datsaxguy]

"$50 fine for audible tune" ....... this is at least a $100 fine and at least $500 when your late and doing it while the set is going on.

The bass player shows up late last night and starts playing way out of tune then starts tuning, AT STAGE VOLUME, while the set was going on. #SMH

This is a fun thread, keep it going

 

[kcole4001]

$300 fine for getting lost and watching the rhythm guitar players hand for chord changes.

Done this too many times... I deserve the fine.

Hey now!
I've played almost entire pick up gigs doing just that (and only made $90).

 

[HockeyDawg]

and of course,
-250$ if you wear shorts on stage.
-1k if you also wear flip flops.

This one tapped me out and went into my 401k. Dive bars in Phoenix in the middle of summer, you have no choice.

 

[Mike11121]

Buying a fretless and never bringing it to a gig, $5000
Bringing a fretless to gig and never playing it, $10,000

C'mon DUW! I have a fretless J that I bought on a whim to play with at home (and do some recording with). It's sort of my Jaco tribute (although its not a signature/replica or anything) and allows me to play around with what is still an unfamiliar instrument to me. I would never take it to a show, since it really wouldn't suit 90% of what I generally play (and the other 10% I probably couldn't do justice to yet anyway). I don't go around telling people I a fretless player - it's purely for me.

So why would I cop a fine for that? I would have thought that gigging with a fretless that I obviously haven't mastered (yet) would be a much more heinous crime.

 

[deepestend]

-$50 if you don't use a tuner at all
+$50 if you just plug straight into your amp and use a little clip on tuner on the headstock.

 

[mozilla314]

$50 fine if the bassist never, ever, looks at the drummer on stage.

 

[Freight Train]

Don't see a problem taking two basses if one is strung flats and one rounds, which is what I do. Two with the same type of strings, that I can see as a finable offense. The only hard-and-fast rule I can come up with is:
Takes one bass solo during gig: -$100
Takes more than one bass solo during gig: -$1000

 

[Dave W]

Apparently I've misunderstood your post. I took it to mean that you should tune one string with a tuner and then tune the rest of the strings by ear.

I still don't understand the post. I always rely on a tuner, and would never tune by ear at a gig.

Don't see a problem taking two basses

I usually take two basses, just in case. Every time my guitarist breaks a string and has to stand there and install a new string I feel like a complete tool. If that ever happens to me, I can just grab my other bass. Time I have broken a string? 0

I also bring two because I like to have different sounds.

 

[Frank Tuesday]

I think the only no-no is assuming (and opining) that what is right for you is necessarily right for anyone else.

 

[Wesley R]

Getting lost watching the TV from the bar = 10% of my take
Getting lost watching a womens body dance = no fine, just dirty looks from females in, or with the band

 

[jdepriest]

$50 fine if the bassist never, ever, looks at the drummer on stage.

Does that count if your looking at them in disgust after they drop a beat on a fill!

 

[diegobxr]

$1,000,000 for engaging in a volume-battle with the guitarist, instead of talking like grown-ups.

Another million dollars for cranking your amp sneaking and acting like "what?? I didn't turn up my volume!"

 

[pgolliher]

Wow, this thread is both super funny and embarrasing at times for me. Good thing my kids already have me pretty broke or I would be paying out the nose!!!!!

 

[Piggy8692]

$100 noodling between songs
$500 noodling a well-known bass part to a cover song that you are about to play next.