Dat bassface...

[totalnoob]

My bass face. I just look like a dork.
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A dork, yep, my standard too. But like Bunk, I love our band and appreciate my bandmates. It's all about having fun.

Dork? I have no idea how you see that as dorky. All I see is dudes having a blast. I WISH I looked like that when I'm in the groove. I produce a distorted, somewhat relaxed face like I'm high, but at worst it's a demonic grimace of which I am 100% aware of and yet I don't care to do anything about it - because the rhythm is a million times more important. More important than almost anything in life, almost. Feels like that in the moment.

 

[Michedelic]

It could be worse…you could have bass tongue.

 

[Freight Train]

My 1989 bass face. Hey shut up! It was 1989, and all that that implies.

 

[totalnoob]

My 1989 bass face. Hey shut up! It was 1989, and all that that implies.

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Sometimes I look like that.
Do you ever bite your lips?

 

[Grizelda100]

Credit to Maurice Argiro.

Maurice Argiro (@mauriceargiro) • Instagram photos and videos

 

[Bass Momma]

While a good bass face at the right time can be very expressive, in this particular case it can also indicate that there is tension!

The bass face itself is not a problem, but the tension possibly is!

THIS!!

 

[Freight Train]

Sometimes I look like that.
Do you ever bite your lips?

No, I stick my tongue out the side of my mouth. Always have. Can’t help it.

 

[Gianni "Orlandez" Orlati]

Let me preface this by saying that I'm an absolutely untalented musician, as well as bass player.

I often notice that when I play and concentrate on the rhythm, especially if there are 1/16ths making my life hard, I have a bassface. I notice it because I feel the tension of my facial muscles, and imagine that I must look pretty damn ugly. But I can't drop it, I just keep that bassface until I finish rehearsing/playing.

I also noticed that I have various "versions" of bassface, some more relaxed/enlightened, others more demonic and grotesque. And the latter seems to be the case more often as the years and months go by.

Should I be worried?

Without passion and a little pain nothing really significant may be generated .. playing this instrument is a physically demanding task, don’t worry too much and show off your bass-face.

 

[HolmeBass]

I have bass-face. It ruins so many pictures. But on more than one occasion people have told me, and thinking back it’s always been women, that I look like I am enjoying myself a lot.

You just have to own it. Worrying about it is crazy. Maybe wear a mask or a fried chicken bucket if it’s really getting to you. But that won’t decrease interest or chatter about it.

 

[MYLOWFREQ]

I had a guitar player (sadly passed away) who made faces while he was playing, and people liked it. He told me that the face was because he had hemorrhoids.

 

[Bass-ball]

Should I be worried?

No, in fact legendary bassist Brian Bromberg even wrote a song called "Bass Face"

 

[Spectre Gunner]

Making it look easy...

John Entwistile’s Normal Face.

John Entwistle’s Bass Face

See the difference? Me neither.

 

[totalnoob]

You just have to own it. Worrying about it is crazy.

I don't worry, I am confused.

Maybe wear a mask or a fried chicken bucket if it’s really getting to you.

Hahahh I'll have to check if we have those giant KFC buckets in my country. I kind of like the idea. As a gag, obviously.

 

[totalnoob]

Credit to Maurice Argiro.View attachment 4997987Maurice Argiro (@mauriceargiro) • Instagram photos and videos

Okay, so it's common Thank you, that's fantastic

 

[6-3-2]

Does my bass face look cool? Not necessarily. Is it an authentic expression of how the music moves me? Absolutely. Recording myself honestly made me stress a lot less. My best playing is when my head is swaying and I'm making a face. When I'm plain-faced and "cool" my playing is TRASH, because I'm overthinking. So I say worry less and groove more.

 

[dbsfgyd1]

Let me preface this by saying that I'm an absolutely untalented musician, as well as bass player.

I often notice that when I play and concentrate on the rhythm, especially if there are 1/16ths making my life hard, I have a bassface. I notice it because I feel the tension of my facial muscles, and imagine that I must look pretty damn ugly. But I can't drop it, I just keep that bassface until I finish rehearsing/playing.

I also noticed that I have various "versions" of bassface, some more relaxed/enlightened, others more demonic and grotesque. And the latter seems to be the case more often as the years and months go by.

Should I be worried?

No. When I play I'm as expressionless as a potted plant. At least more than your fingers look alive.. LOL!!

 

[2112]

Yeah, somebody told me once that my face, when I play the bass, it looks like some sortuva uh eh like a big uh jellyfish or something like that, it just keeps moving you can never identify what the face is, a real ugly sometimes and real weird looks like a foot or something or just like it be flashing at me like it's rubber, rubber or something.

 

[gln1955]

I like to believe my bass face is no more disturbing than my regular face.

It's a pretty low bar.

 

[Jeff K]

What is the "bass face" you speak of?? Apparently, I must've attended "The Bill Wyman School of Bass Face"...

 

[Ric5]