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Bassists who like their guitarists?

#21
I love all of the guitarists that I associate myself with. All have professional attitudes (except one, but he's a cool dude) and are awesome players. All of them are actually really into theory and one actually plays bass as well, so they all know what they're doing but all have their own little "guitard" moments. My only real complaints are about drummers, pianists, the occasional horn player and soundguys haha.
 
#26
The guitarists in our band are both great guys. They've both played bass in bands before and their prime interest as far as tone and volume goes is how everything blends together in the mix. So it's a pleasure working with them, they give me respect and freedom with what I do and make my job really easy. Everyone in our band is very mellow too, no big ego clashes, which is nice.
 
#29
No issues with my guitarist. He's one of my oldest friends going back to high school. plays for the song and frequently asks for input on his tone and sounds. Like to have a beer or six and likes the ladies but no real complaints from me.
 
#31
At my church gig, my guitarist is my cousin. No problems there, he doesn't overplay or play excessively loud..infact the band often tells him to turn it up.

In my band, both my guitarists are really good guys. They are older, been around the block a couple of times, so there's no crap when it comes to who gets the solo. It's like flip a coin...basically.

All 3 of these guys are good people. I tried to look at that before their musicianship, because you don't want to be playing with people you hate. That shows up in the music.
 
#32
TheFantod, thanks for starting this thread. I get tired of reading "guitard" in every other thread here.

The two guitarists in my band are not only great friends (one goes back to grade school; the other I've only known for a year), but they are talented, professional, and class acts. One of them swaps off with me on bass and he actually "looks the part" better than me (he's tall).

I might add that I feel the same way about our drummer. He's the newest musician (only playing for about three years), but he's a hard worker and has no ego (actually, he needs a little ego; he's very hard on himself).

Every time I read a "guitard" story here, I count my blessings.
 
#33
I love the guitarist in our band. Really just a cool very educated guy to hang out and talk with. He always strives for balance with instruments and vocals (including the bass) so he doesn't just wind the heck out of his amp and let it rip. One of the few guitarists I've met that have such a deep understanding of music theory. He was a concert pianist and owned a piano repair and tuning business for 20 years so he's got a solid handle on music theory, it's not all chords and overdrive to him.

He's still fairly new on guitar (a relative term I guess, he's been playing for about 10 years) but very dedicated to learning and the music background he has, I'd say he's better than most guitarists that have been playing twice as long as he has.
 
#34
Standout guitard for me was Nico, aka Agent Eloffshnikov. He introduced me to mic'ing a guitar combo at reasonable volume and blasting that out of the PA. Huge enthusiasm, a groovy rocking riff for any occasion, DYnaMICs, spare banter when required, getter of gigs, awesome. Too bad he was was an alcoholic.
 
#35
The two guitarists in my band are two of my closest friends, so yes! :D
And they're both talented too, one has a bit of an ego, but you get used to it, the other has confidence issues occasionally and doesn't show off, but is very good. And she can sing! Even if she doesn't say so herself...
 
#37
I play as part of a team at church, so the 'band' is different each week. But, without fail, I like our guitarist(s). Sometimes it's me, and I quite like me. And the other three guitarists are all equally competent on bass, so there's a lot of understanding between the different parts of the band.
 
#38
In the two bands I'm in, my fiancé is one if the guitarists in both of them. I play bass occasionally in one of them. I obviously like him, lol, but he's a great musician too and doesn't have an ego. And he's doing stand in on the bass for the regular gigging band until our bass player returns from some ill health issues (including standing in at two gigs so far.) He has a great sense of musical humour and tags popular tv theme tunes into his solos (currently he's sneaking "Eastenders" in !)
 

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