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Do you suffer from B.P.F?

Watching the today show this morning I realized I suffer from Bitchy Playing Face. No control over the face I make when I'm playing and it usually looks like I'm going to belt someone with my bass at any second. Now I need a picture. Who else suffers from B.P.F.? Lets see some pictures. Maybe we can band together and overcome this affliction and get people to speak to us. It's hard to get into a band when the people at your auditions run in terror.
 
My wife is the one who pointed it out too. I told her she looks really angry when she's reading and she came back with that. We had a guest from out of town last week and she came back from visiting other friends and later asked me if everything was okay lol At the time I had no idea what she was talking about. When B.P.F. came up this morning my wife pointed out, I was playing bass while she was reading a book when our friend walked in lol
 
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I suffer from Gorilla Playing Face, and a tendency to power stance. Double trouble.
 
Everyone that knows me always comments that every pic of me, I look psychotic. Not sure why.
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I've always felt there is a certain violence to playing bass. Maybe because my first experience with bass was a friend's dad's amp rattling my teeth at an early jam.