bassists who aren't

[the_thriller]

Random racial commentary aside...

I wanted to play bass since I was young. As long as I can remember I never wanted to have anything to do with any strings thinner than a G-string....

Man... We need to rename the g-string something else. I just can't help sounding dirty...

 

[Spector_Ray]

I have always heard that Kip Winger didn't actually play bass. But I've never been ofered any proof of that. It's jsut what I've always heard.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oXU0gAnvfzk

 

[Dbassboarder]

Wow, just..no. I started playing bass because I got decent at guitar then I stopped for a few years because I didn't like it that much. Then one day I realized that every line in any song I liked was a bass line. Plus I just love the feel of a bass, it feels like it was made for me.

 

[iScott]

That Winger video f'n rocks.

 

[phat daddy]

Holy Crap! Winger's killer!

 

[Sneckumhaw]

That's because he wasn't their bassist when NMTB was recorded.

Not the case. He was their bassist at that time, but wasn't up to the task of recording. Steve Jones said he was in the hospital with hepatitis at the time of recording so he laid down the majority of the tracks. Jones also said that he couldn't play too well even if he had been healthy.

 

[seanm]

Paul Simonon of the Clash. From wikipedia:

He was asked to join The Clash in 1976 by lead guitarist Mick Jones, who planned to teach Simonon guitar. However, the instrument proved too difficult for Simonon, so Jones decided to teach him bass instead.

 

[Luke73]

I am about the only person I've met in real life that actually wanted to play bass.

Add me to that list. Bass was easily my first preference from the get-go.

 

[EADG mx]

I know as for recordings

SOAD the guitarist does most the bass work

Only on Mezmerize/Hypnotize iirc

 

[CrazyArcher]

I wonder why... Probably because the bassist wasn't stoned enough?

Man... We need to rename the g-string something else. I just can't help sounding dirty...

I don't know what's wrong with you, I dig that.

 

[cetera]

I have always heard that Kip Winger didn't actually play bass. But I've never been ofered any proof of that. It's jsut what I've always heard.

That's bellshot.... don't believe everything you hear.

 

[cetera]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oXU0gAnvfzk

Thanks Spector_Ray! That proves the point nicely....

 

[Dr. Cheese]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oXU0gAnvfzk

That video reminds me of one of my great unrequited bass lusts: an American NS-2. I did, however, own the five string version, and it had a slap tone to die for.

BTW: Winger definitely nails his parts!

 

[Dr. Cheese]

I guess the more important than why did a person take up bass is what did they do once they started playing it?

 

[cetera]

That video reminds me of one of my great unrequited bass lusts: an American NS-2. I did, however, own the five string version, and it had a slap tone to die for.

BTW: Winger definitely nails his parts!

The NS-2 is still a classic.... and check out the Euro version as well

 

[dvh]

Wow, just..no. I started playing bass because I got decent at guitar then I stopped for a few years because I didn't like it that much. Then one day I realized that every line in any song I liked was a bass line. Plus I just love the feel of a bass, it feels like it was made for me.

me too

 

[BigSwami]

I started playing double bass in elementary school because I wanted to eventually learn to play guitar, and plus I was the tallest kid in class anyway. I quickly stopped caring about guitar and picked up a Peavy Fury at age 11 that fell apart almost immediately, but it was the coolest thing in the world to me. By the time I started joining bands, bass was the only thing I cared about.

 

[Rickett Customs]

I was reading through the bassists you can't stand watching thread and started wondering. Does anyone know of any bassists from bands that actually didn't play bass? Sort of similar to lip synching or having someone behind stage? Also curious about who actually played for the band.

The second question here: what bass players do you know of that picked up bass because that was the opening and not because they enjoyed the bass?

Answer to the OP's second question\

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Duff was originally a guitar player before G&R. If I remember correctly, he picked up the bass "to get his foot in the door".

Excerpt from interview posted on [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

“When I moved to LA I was a guitar player,” he explains. “It was all this Yngwie Malmsteen and Eddie Van Halen kind of stuff, and I was a Johnny Thunders-style player. Slash put an ad in the paper because he needed a bass player and I was like, ‘Yeah, okay’.”....Duff Mckagen

 

[Cail]

ok *** is with the racial comment? Gotta love random posts on internet forums.

 

[Woodchuck]

Add me to that list. Bass was easily my first preference from the get-go.

Same here. Never even thought of playing guitar.