Bass Player Pet Peeves

[Gubna]

bandmates being late.

 

[CapnSev]

I haven't read through all the pages but for me it's loud drummers (especially lately). Shut up so I can at least communicate with everyone else and hear their instruments.

 

[Lonnybass]

bandmates being late.

Big +1. I got fired from a band because I was so zoned out by the time everybody else would show up (typically 45 mins past the call time) that my playing went into "sleep" mode. Good riddance I say.

Lonnybass

 

[Steve_64068]

I'm new to the bass world, is this wrong? A bassist does "play" a bass no?
There is a magazine called Bass Player as well as Guitar Player, If I said something wrong, I aplogize.

No worries! Just a personal opinion... as one describes a title and the other an action. For example:

Pilot = Airplane Flyer
Pitcher = Ball Thrower
Gardener = Plant Grower
Drummer = Drum Player

Enjoy your Bass playing!

 

[Knifedge]

My pet peeve is drummers taking two FU$#@ng hours or more to set up their kit. Our drummer has a 12 or 13 piece kit, with about 20 cymbals, all on a rack, to play in smaller bars, so not only is there not enough room for him in the first place, it takes him over 2 hours to setup and mic his drums. He also uses almost all the channels on the main board, and he has many of his drums piped to a 12 channel board slaved into the mainboard in the first place... we have asked him to reduce his drum kit size, he won't. Excuse? He bought all the drums, he has to use all of them..

So, I am on the hunt for another drummer.. as soon as we find one, he is gone....

 

[bassmanjla]

Thats it! Once you put you have put technique and method in a box you have instantly limited the instrument and player.
Slapping a bass would be a dirty word instead af a cool way to play (that I can't do anyway).
Bassists are meant to be the opposite of narrowminded.

Amy Humphreys of "Clatter" has the strangest method of playing (and probably impossible to mimic)
but she does so much with it..
Geddy and his waggle finger thing too, is unique.
Stanley Clarke's harpsichord picking method is one of a kind.
Squire's harmonic pinch, The Ox's typewriter and Les Claypool's kami kazi aproach to the instrument is mind numbing.
Even Joe Osbourne's clean click dererves its own chapter.

And thats just talking about the plucking hand...

Please guys and gals, never put technique in a box. If it sounds good, it's good!

Rant over..

emac.

+200.

ALSO, i'm gonna look up this amy humphreys person.

 

[caeman]

My pet peeve is drummers taking two FU$#@ng hours or more to set up their kit. Our drummer has a 12 or 13 piece kit, with about 20 cymbals, all on a rack, to play in smaller bars, so not only is there not enough room for him in the first place, it takes him over 2 hours to setup and mic his drums. He also uses almost all the channels on the main board, and he has many of his drums piped to a 12 channel board slaved into the mainboard in the first place... we have asked him to reduce his drum kit size, he won't. Excuse? He bought all the drums, he has to use all of them..

So, I am on the hunt for another drummer.. as soon as we find one, he is gone....

Pet Peeve #13: Guitar players that think it is okay to limit what a drummer can own, while owning more pedals and guitars than they use at once.





Okay, j/k. Taking 2 hours to setup is a tad bit absurd. My kit takes all of 5 minutes to go from pile to set.

 

[McHack]

My Pet Peeves...

1) Guitards who run over the on stage mix.

2) Other band members who dont know how to share the space on stage, & are constantly running into... your smacking the neck of your axe w/ a mic stand, or something like.

3) Drunks who are suddenly sound technicians.

 

[denhou1974]

1. People in the band who can't sing backups but do it anyway. Caveat: I can't sing great either but I know when to quit trying!

2. Dudes that get onstage and try to sing while the band is playing. (hawt chics is okay though)

3. Drunks who are suddenly sound technicians.

 

[Riverrunsred]

No worries! Just a personal opinion... as one describes a title and the other an action. For example:

Pilot = Airplane Flyer
Pitcher = Ball Thrower
Gardener = Plant Grower
Drummer = Drum Player

Enjoy your Bass playing!

LOL...point taken

 

[xdefineperfectx]

Joke burn, but we all know that hurts more anyway,

in between songs at our first live show

gtr player#1 Hey__how many bass players does it take to screw in
a light bulb?

gtr player#2 I have no idea. how many?

gtr player#1 I guess it doesnt matter when the keyboard player
can do it with his left hand.

 

[Bassman18]

1. People in the band who can't sing backups but do it anyway. Caveat: I can't sing great either but I know when to quit trying!

2. Dudes that get onstage and try to sing while the band is playing. (hawt chics is okay though)

3. Drunks who are suddenly sound technicians.

Points 2 and 3 are the bane of my existance.

 

[xdefineperfectx]

I also dislike when the guitar part of the stage takes Tom Petty's Breakdown to a record 18 minutes long with ad lib solo hahahaha

everyone knows how fun that song is on bass, lol.

 

[Drunk Heffalump]

I agree wholeheartedly with the band members being late issue.

Singers who can't.

Anyone who doesn't proofread their posts.

 

[caeman]

- musicians that assume everyone can tranpose a song to another key as easily as slipping on a capo.

 

[kcole4001]

How 'bout this:

...eediots who somehow forget that it's a rock band playing and constantly shout "play some country" all night!

You wanna hear some country, go see a f^@#!n country band, this ain't it!

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

How 'bout this:

...eediots who somehow forget that it's a rock band playing and constantly shout "play some country" all night!

You wanna hear some country, go see a f^@#!n country band, this ain't it!

Well, this is the best response to that request IMO:

 

[ProfGumby]

I have one I have to share....Fender, Squier bass. You see this all the time. That is calling a Squier a Fender. Ever see anyone say GIBSON Epiphone? Or Epiphone by GIBSON? No.

But with the Squier it is usually called a Fender mopdel, it is no. It is -

SQUIER by Fender....

And while I am at it, why not just call a Squier a Squier?

 

[caeman]

Fender builds the Squier. Ergo, it is a Fender. Ford builds the Focus small sedan. Do you refer to it as Ford Focus, or FOCUS by Ford?

This seems like a really petty thing to pick on.

 

[azfryguy]

Im not sure if anyone has said this but when you play slap bass . . .THAT SOUNDS LIKE SIENFELD, I just laugh at there musical iggnorance

and drummers that never know when to shut the funk up . . . playing or talking