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Bass Sketch on SNL last night!

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nixdad said:
Silly, but Bass Players get lots of love here!

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Except the reality is it's bassists who don't show up at jams. I've played them where there were all of two of us covering 3 hours of jam. Or I'd show up at a jam hosted by some good friends and I'm the most popular guy in the joint to their bassist. He finally gets a break.
 
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I thought it looked like that Stanley Clarke School Days video with the various bassist in stage from a few years ago. Some pretty cool tones in the skit, I wonder if James Genus did all the parts.
 
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Hawk620 said:
Except the reality is it's bassists who don't show up at jams. I've played them where there were all of two of us covering 3 hours of jam. Or I'd show up at a jam hosted by some good friends and I'm the most popular guy in the joint to their bassist. He finally gets a break.
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Agreed! When my son graduated from the L.A. Music Academy 15 years ago, I took him to several jams in the greater L.A. area. over the course of a year or so. Some were great (Monday night jams at The Baked Potato were fantastic and the norm - others were cool as well.)

There was one close to home for us which was hit or miss, as the "host" band would rotate. One night was especially "memorable," as it was an older band. My son had joined the jam with the intention of playing on 2-3 songs, but the host bassist went MIA and left him up there for an hour playing with rotating jammers who couldn't play and couldn't sing. Memorable, but not a good experience. :rollno:
 
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nixdad said:
Agreed! When my son graduated from the L.A. Music Academy 15 years ago, I took him to several jams in the greater L.A. area. over the course of a year or so. Some were great (Monday night jams at The Baked Potato were fantastic and the norm - others were cool as well.)

There was one close to home for us which was hit or miss, as the "host" band would rotate. One night was especially "memorable," as it was an older band. My son had joined the jam with the intention of playing on 2-3 songs, but the host bassist went MIA and left him up there for an hour playing with rotating jammers who couldn't play and couldn't sing. Memorable, but not a good experience. :rollno:
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What doesn't kill us, only makes us stronger :thumbsup:
 
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Hawk620 said:
Except the reality is it's bassists who don't show up at jams. I've played them where there were all of two of us covering 3 hours of jam. Or I'd show up at a jam hosted by some good friends and I'm the most popular guy in the joint to their bassist. He finally gets a break.
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Yes, which is part of why I find it so funny, anyway. Reminds me of a friend who is an astounding bassist (haven't talked to him in years, sadly). He was regularly playing at blues jams and rarely had a break. He once told me he can deal with the poor guitarists but the parade of bad harmonica players made him question his life choices.

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Does anyone else kind of want a keyboard-shaped bass case now?
 
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One person toward the end was rocking a black (with cream binding) Fender Aerodyne PJ.
I too have a black (with cream binding) Fender Aerodyne PJ. (It's my favorite bass).
I approve.
I think Spinal Tap would approve too, if they'd played Big Bottom.
davie504 would approve because you can never have too much bass, but then jokingly take a dig at the slapping and lament that he wasn't invited to the jam.

I think that sketch is/was/should be dedicated to everyone who's still salty that Jack Black didn't give the bass playing girl a solo at the end of School of Rock when he gave everyone else a bar to solo out.
 
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