Best compliment you got after a gig......

[StraffordMike]

After playing a show with Denny Laine (Moody Blues, Wings)

He says "nice bass playing mate."

This coming from a man that played recorded with Sir Paul McCartney.

I don't think I will ever top that one.

After watching Rockshow I thought about giving it up.

 

[Marc61]

Actually, even though I told my little story in a previous post, the best compliment is when they say they enjoyed the band. I've never heard a good band with a rhythm section that wasn't holding it down

 

[RenoDave]

I was told "Your grandfather would be proud of you", My grand father played in country and standard bands for close to 60 years, and he was quite good on either rhythm guitar or bass. I will never forget those words.

 

[JGbassman]

After watching Rockshow I thought about giving it up.

Denny is a little older than when that movie was made, but he still had his chops and his voice. And he is a nice and humble man considering where he has been. I was able to sit down with both him and Terry Sylvester from the Hollies and the history the two of them shared was just wonderful to listen to. I probably looked like a geek, but I was loving hearing the history from these old British rock stars.

 

[JGbassman]

Sure you weren't playing guitar at the time?

He must have been moving a guitar on stage when he was seen by her. That is the only logical answer.

 

[1st Bass]

Actually, I had forgotten: I accompanied a cellist once for a recital in Tucson (same 12-string). While we rehearsed, he suddenly looked around at me, and said "I take it you have done this before!" He definitely meant it as a compliment, but it was somewhat undeserved: the chords were written right on the sheet music he was using. So that's what I told him: "I've got the easy part! The chords are written right there on the music! You've gotta read the dots!"
It still felt nice to hear it from a musician.

 

[Bluto]

I play in a cover band and in between sets we broke out to an outside patio to cool off. While there, conversations between our singer, drummer, etc. and some bar patrons commenced. All of a sudden the patio door swung opened and this guy setting right beside me, jumped to his feet and greeted that gentleman with a firm hand shake while saying something like "You’re the bassist for band. I must tell that you are freaking awesome. How long have you been playing etc etc etc". Once the gentleman could get a word in, he replied "Aaah nope that's not me"

I still crack up when I think about it and feel some how that I have now punched my ticket to be part of the "bassists never get any respect" club.

 

[mwbonsall]

"Of all the bass players I have heard, you are one of them"

Mark

 

[Moe Monsarrat]

I was introduced to a blind guy during the break as the bass player. He said "You really stay out of that singer's way up there!" I am also the lead singer....

 

[Old Blastard]

At our last gig at a Mexican restaurant this guy and his wife were leaving in the middle of our last set, having listened to us for an hour or so.

She walks on past and he stops for a second, catches my eye, looks straight at me and raises his thumb up for about 3 seconds, keeping eye contact. Then he nods his head and walks out.

 

[corinpills]

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Denny is a little older than when that movie was made, but he still had his chops and his voice. And he is a nice and humble man considering where he has been. I was able to sit down with both him and Terry Sylvester from the Hollies and the history the two of them shared was just wonderful to listen to. I probably looked like a geek, but I was loving hearing the history from these old British rock stars.

Just saw him last week with Eric from the band Bambi Kino on bass (they play all the Beatles Hamburg repertoire). Denny sounded great guitar playing and voice) and they played almost nothing but Wings tunes so I was in hog heaven. They did his big hit "Go Now", of course.

 

[bass_lord_mutha]

"Your playing kind of has a Stanley Clarke vibe to it."

 

[Fxpmusic]

Last week! I was told I was a "nasty ass bassist" by this lady after a show. Made my week.

 

[bassliner50]

Best "compliment" after a gig? A pretty girl in a short skirt. ...........Of course that sort of thing no longer happens at this point.

 

[rodak]

1981, I was on stage, adjusting a few things before a gig, and an attractive young lady comes up and says "I just want you to know I think you're very fine". I said "well, you're not so bad yourself, have a seat". I married her a year later, celebrated our 34th anniversary recently. She's the love of my life and my best friend.

It wasn't my bass playing that attracted her, but if I hadn't been playing in that band that night.....

 

[Maxfenderbass]

2 comments made my day.
When I was studying at mohawk college. My bass professor and established jazz player said to me "You really got own kind of sound on upright"
and
After being in my current band for 3 years and just playing covers, we decided to play to our big in town following our first original. Someone came up to me when we were packing up and said "your bass line in that original reminded me of Flea"

 

[Pbassmanca]

A memory popped into my head today. One I wished to share. While this tale has nothing to do with playing bass it is music related and you my bass playing brothers will likely understand and maybe identify with. Best compliment I ever got after a gig: Many years ago Labor Day weekend of 1975 I went to Crescent Beach. My Gainesville Brothers and Sisters will know the place. My then girlfriend and I spent a weekend at a small motel in Crescent Beach Florida. A friend owned the place. Eight or ten small cottages on the beach. We shared our cottage with a group. Such a blast it was lots of tasty adult beverages and other organic intoxicants. I played "at" guitar in those days and had found a religion behind many hours of Exile on Main Street. Learned every song. My girlfriend, Dodie, and I went to a liquor store for a bottle. We scored a bottle of Old Grandad 100 proof bottled in bond. Pretty much everybody at the motel was hanging on the patio enhancing an intense communal buzz. I dragged out my guitar, harp, and one of those neck brace apparatisi one employs to play harp and guitar. I began to recite the poetry that is "Exile on Main Street" fueled by the bourbon and the state of my love life. I poured my heart and soul into those tunes. I left all I had on that patio that night. I didn't see Miss Dodie again for more than thirty years after that night on the patio and only briefly. Oh, I nearly forgot, the best compliment. When I finished a friend said to me: " I never knew you were a blues man".

My buddy who I used to play in a country band with, came to see the 9 piece soul/funk band in play in now. At the end of the first set he comes up and goes, " Dude! Your tone sounded like a mastered record!" That felt pretty good indeed. (That particular night I was playing a Fender Highway 1 jazz with fender 7105 pure nickel rounds)

 

[madbass6]

Ha Ha Ha !!! I love it...

Sorry to bust your bubble dude,
but that's Not exakly a compliment ! even if its from the cutest elderly alzeimers lady fan in the world..
regardless it is a funny story thou!

 

[stario]

The band I play for now (which was new to me when I auditioned last year) had been locally established years prior. Then under went many lineup changes with the guitarist being the permanent member and an off and on again drummer; resulting in a slowing of their roll. As for best, I'm not sure, but my favorite compliment came from my first gig with the band. Their fans and friends all congratulated on my performance and sound and how well I meshed and asked for me to not ever quit. Since then we've solidified a permanent lineup, recorded a short EP and hit the studio in two week to record our album.

 

[1st Bass]

Sorry to bust your bubble dude,
but that's Not exakly a compliment ! even if its from the cutest elderly alzeimers lady fan in the world..
regardless it is a funny story thou!

Well, yeah... but it was my favorite. Even though I have played for almost 45 years, I'm not all that good...no formal training, etc. and I know my limitations. (Yep, I use a capo a lot.) On the other hand, for the type of music I play, I can pretty much accompany anything I can hear, first time, without too many bad moves. So, to non-musicians, it looks good, and, once in a while, even to a musician. I play virtually only church-type music (though I love a lot of other things), and most hymns (especially the older ones) have fairly similar structures, so I manage to keep up. I can play melodies to get people started, then chords to accompany. That's pretty much it. I'm not a real musician...I just build 'em.

But that lady was special. Every single week, she thought she was there for the first time, and was waiting for her (long dead) husband to come and drive her home. So, for her to enjoy the music at any level, and give a back-handed compliment on top of it, made my day.