Bassist or Bass Player?

[Schlyder]

I prefer if people refer to the bass player as "Lord of Low Frequency, and Regent of Subsonic Realm"

 

[ghiadub]

I am a musician. But in most of my musical ventures, I play d' bass

 

[stratovani]

I'm a bassist, a Flatwounder of the P Persuasion, and Handler of the Hofner Hound.

 

[harry182]

I don't consider myself an "-ist" at anything. To me, it just sounds pretentious. Maybe if I were a better player...

I quite like the thinking in this!

I tell people I play an oversized guitar that's missing two strings.

^^^ :lol: to true!

Bassist, this should be a poll

Will try and add one now

Musician (bassist). Bass Player is a magazine, and a popular description.

never thought of it this way

Back in the day, we didn't have "bassists". All we had were bass players and we were just fine with that. Then I started hearing about these "bassists" and figured it must be some new fad that had something to do with all that poppin and slappin or something.

Oh yeah, ya'll get offa my lawn too!

LOL :bow:

Bass-tard...

...goes along with gui-tard...key-tard...and so on...

^^^^ i like this too

some quite interesting replys as a whole!

i was after more formal introductions but enjoyed reading them all

 

[harry182]

poll added

 

[jtb]

Purveyor of Low Frequencies

 

[lipan]

Hey, I'm a contribution musician in (insert band name here)
this is my instrument,that just happens to be a bass.
I'm not really the bass player or a bassist.

 

[Dave Vader]

serial string abuser

 

[xgator4u]

John Entwistle referred to himself as a "Bass Guitarist."

Correct^

 

[Charles Shores]

I'm a musician.

 

[Tim C.]

The Führer of 41Hzs

I like it!

 

[lbanks]

"Hi! I'm Larry! I'm the big guy trying to hide with his cigarette behind that big amp."

 

[carbonfold]

IMO, bassist sounds more like a profession vs something you know how to do

 

[Nick B.]

Basser.

 

[tjmdetroit]

According to the "Urban Dictionary" ...

a bass player is: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bass player

and a bassist is: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bassist&defid=1624138

ummm... maybe there is some truth to the bassist defination:
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peace

tjm

 

[pasta4lnch]

According to the "Urban Dictionary" ...
a bass player is: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bass player

I'll take #4 for the win!!

You gotta love UD's example sentences . . . they're frickin' hysterical!!

 

[bassplayer8953]

I'll take #4 for the win!!

^^^YUP!!!^^^

 

[kuys]

I'm a groove engineer thank you very much.