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Bass Player Pet Peeves

#201
The 0x said:
  • Drummers who play rediculous fills, then come back into the song too early or too late.
  • Drummer who are obsessed with Led Zeppelin and trying to be John Bonham.
  • Drummers who want to cover most of the Led Zeppelin catalogue, but will never consider covering anything else from another band.
  • Drummers who always want to play Moby Dick, and then take a half hour with the drum solo.
  • Drummers who are in other bands which don't take care of our equipment at all, and even smash up our equipment just for ****s & giggles.
  • Drummers who use a cowbell in part of a song for no reason.
  • Drummers who don't dig the "telepathy" between me & the guitarist, and will shout out in between songs, "play Machine Gun next"
  • Drummers who noodle around while we're trying to tune up.
  • Drummers who noodle around while the guitarist & I are trying to speak to each other.
This is basically my drummer summed up in so many words, who we're about to kick out, as soon as we find another one. Interestingly enough, I have almost no pet peeves about my guitarist. It's like we're musically attached to the hip, or something.
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Those drummer pet peeves describe my drummer perfectly. It's quite sad really.

And I also feel the same way about my guitarist.:)
 
#204
db4usa said:
Agree with that. My keyboardist has a sub cab that I get blamed for too often when it feeds back.

. Keyboard player is soo drunk/stoned, that when he sings, it doesn't sound like English.

. Sound engineer who won't line me out to HS because keyboard is playing my sound range.

. Guitar players who want me to play the bass lines like a tuba. Oom Pah.

. Guitar players who mess up, then lash out the next day in emails on how everybody else screwed up.

. Having a 2X2 square patch of stage so the dancers that the singer hired can have more room. Stage was 80' X 55".

. Again, drummers who follow the lead guitar.

. Singers who have to have mirrors in front of them to rehearse.

. Just like the record. I have imagination/creativity. Why I play. Hire a tuba if you don't like it.

. Music stores who rip you off.

. Idiots who ask me if I play slap often. This was at a country music show I was playing. I calmly answered not in this genre.

Feelin' betta now
db
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All of the above. I've had keyboard guys scream at me..."Just play the root!!! Fills are not your job when I am here!!!"

And that whole deal about not getting lined out because the keys are in the same frequency. Sorry, but the keys are just gravy. Bass is the meat underneath. Without meat, gravy sux.

Slapping at a country show...You mean you don't? ;)

Cherie :bassist: (slappin' that honkey-tonk!)
 
#205
Beanstoot said:
Wow lets see so many pet peeves....

3. Keyboard players that play the bass notes (DAMN IT THAT'S WHY I'M THERE!)

8. Keyboard players who think they don't have to set up or transport their gear just because they are a girl! (<---what the "F", don't buy an 88 key triton then!!!)
15. Keyboard players
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They must die!!! Die, I tell you!!! ;)

I *hate* it when females won't help out with equipment. It nearly always seems to be singers and keys girls. I had to work *hard* to get males over the idea that, being female, I would never tote my own gear. I actually work out so that I *can* carry my gear. When some girlie-girl-foo-foo whines how she can't carry anything because she's just an uttle-bitty girl, I want to just go stomp a mudhole in her.

Music is for *women* who aren't afraid of work, not little girls who want to pretend like they're helpless so that they won't break their stupid nails.

Cherie...Kicks Girlie-Girl Keyboard Playing Ass :bassist: :smug:
 
#206
A couple of new ones:

Drummers who feel that the breakdown in a song is the perfect time to go into that new drum n bass/techno riff he just learned! :mad:

I came up with a cool octave walk during the vamp of a song. It was sweeeeet! It stood alone and made the song. What did the guitarist do? "Hey, that's nice! I'll just follow that!" It didn't sound so good afterwards. :scowl:

Lead singers who like to play that one "look y'all, I play guitar too!" song, but can't set up the guitar or the combo amp that gets in the way and wastes an outlet. Who also begs the lead guitarist to restring their guitar for them, and yes, even tune it, because they don't know how! (BTW, we need a butt kicking smiley!)
 
#207
Woodchuck said:
A couple of new ones:

Drummers who feel that the breakdown in a song is the perfect time to go into that new drum n bass/techno riff he just learned! :mad:

I came up with a cool octave walk during the vamp of a song. It was sweeeeet! It stood alone and made the song. What did the guitarist do? "Hey, that's nice! I'll just follow that!" It didn't sound so good afterwards. :scowl:

Lead singers who like to play that one "look y'all, I play guitar too!" song, but can't set up the guitar or the combo amp that gets in the way and wastes an outlet. Who also begs the lead guitarist to restring their guitar for them, and yes, even tune it, because they don't know how! (BTW, we need a butt kicking smiley!)
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I've guitarists do me like that, too. Like..."Hon, you get to shine allllll the time. Do you really *need* to come step on what I'm doing?"

Yes, we definitely need a butt-kicking smiley.

Cherie ;-)
 
#209
Lots of good stuff here but just got to add:

Keyboard players that feel they have to play everyones part,

Keyboard players that wont go with the rhythm section but insist on their own,

Keyboard players who think the band is there to support them (and wish everyone else would stop taking up so much of their sonic space).
 
#211
txbasschik said:
They must die!!! Die, I tell you!!! ;)

I *hate* it when females won't help out with equipment. It nearly always seems to be singers and keys girls. I had to work *hard* to get males over the idea that, being female, I would never tote my own gear. I actually work out so that I *can* carry my gear. When some girlie-girl-foo-foo whines how she can't carry anything because she's just an uttle-bitty girl, I want to just go stomp a mudhole in her.

Music is for *women* who aren't afraid of work, not little girls who want to pretend like they're helpless so that they won't break their stupid nails.

Cherie...Kicks Girlie-Girl Keyboard Playing Ass :bassist: :smug:
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Hee hee!! Yeah, it's girls like that who have programmed males to flock to assistance over the most minor of things...I run a music club for my students now, and haul my Workingman's 15 down a flight from my room to the lounge--'bout 70 pounds of fun. The second I get out the door, all the guys are like, "Can I help you with that?" I say, "Yes. Get out of my way. That's how you can help me." :p And they just step back and stare in awe...

Another vote for the butt-kicking smiley, and a reminder about the devil one...;)

Bit off topic--but got chatting with our building director today, and he showed me his acoustic/electric guitar...the thing felt like a kid's toy!!!! Way too light, I felt like I needed to put it down before I "hurt" it. Came up here and strapped on my bass for a lil' practice, it felt soooooo much better...:D
 
#212
1. Singers who don't know the lyrics to the song they wrote the lyrics to after performing that song at multiple gigs.

2. Singers who decide to perform a song that we haven't practiced in weeks during the middle of a set. (If our playing as a whole was tighter this wouldn't be a concern)

3. Keyboard players that tell me that they don't like what I'm playing behind a guitar solo in a condescending, non-descript way.

4. Band members who hold back their opinions about something I've been playing for months. (see #3)

5. Band members who can't talk to me in musical terms. (see #3)

6. Band members who don't practice and make the same mistakes over and over during shows and then say the reason they keep messing up is that we didn't rehearse enough.
 
#213
sasred said:
Hee hee!! Yeah, it's girls like that who have programmed males to flock to assistance over the most minor of things...I run a music club for my students now, and haul my Workingman's 15 down a flight from my room to the lounge--'bout 70 pounds of fun. The second I get out the door, all the guys are like, "Can I help you with that?" I say, "Yes. Get out of my way. That's how you can help me." :p And they just step back and stare in awe...

Another vote for the butt-kicking smiley, and a reminder about the devil one...;)

Bit off topic--but got chatting with our building director today, and he showed me his acoustic/electric guitar...the thing felt like a kid's toy!!!! Way too light, I felt like I needed to put it down before I "hurt" it. Came up here and strapped on my bass for a lil' practice, it felt soooooo much better...:D
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You go, girl! I'm the same way...Whist carrying my Fender 60 or my head and cab, or a monitor, when they want to help..."Sure! There's some mic stands still in there."

{{{grin!}}}

Unless they're in my band, and then they'd better be carrying some of the PA. I do. :-)

Or unless I'm having trouble with my shoulder, and then I get some help. I'm old. I get stove up every once in a while.

My guitarist's husband just can't get over it. He gets sooo worried about us when we carry cabs or such! He's old-school Texas cowboy, and it *bugs* him. I keep his hands full of PA speakers so he won't feel so bad, 'cause there's nothing else for it, really. :rolleyes:

Guitars do feel like toys to me, too. They're so little, and I play them wayyy too hard. I can't help it! Our singer won't let me touch his. Strings break. :o

Edited to say: Singer in my old, all-female band, wouldn't carry *anything* but her mic case and some cords. She once made me go back to her car for a *guitar stand*!!! I mean, she just insisted; no boys around to do it for her. That was our last gig, coincidentally.

Cherie :bassist:grrl!
 
#215
-People who don't show up for rehearsal when they promise they will be there.
-People thinking that THEY carry the band
-People who refuse to change the key a song is in becuase its "too hard" to play in the other key.
-People who say "No, that idea is crap" but don't give a reason and don't have an idea to replace it with.

Thats all for now. I'm getting angry just thinking about these, lol.
 
#216
- Being told "Someone's too loud.......let's start with the bass" when I'm running freekin' DIRECT.
- Jammers who spit on the mic.
- Being forced to host jams.
- Anyone who's too loud on stage.
- Everyone who's too loud on stage, but can control it.
- Singers who don't play, carry, or setup/tear down something, but try to insist on equal pay. SORRY CHARLIE, nope. (NIMBYA)
- Club owners who think we're their personal announcement system between every song.
- Crappy crew/playing and not being heard/playing in the damn dark.
- People who try to make requests/ask questions/offer drunken advice in the middle of a song.
- Drunken idiots who have opinions on how to be a musician.
- Karaoke. Period.
 
#220
meat-heads who start a fight in the middle of the dance floor and insist on fighting security all the way out.Then they stand around outside wondering why they cant get back in or just look for more trouble outside.Or worse still ,they are still around as you load out and harass you to give them a lift into to city centre on you way home.I've gotten very skilled at making a large car look completely full!!!
 

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