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Double Bass Double bass Train Wrecks

#62
Will Yager said:
I've managed to do ok so far. The worst thing that's happened to me is my endpin slipping on a hard surface. I had about 3 near misses at a gig last night. Gotta fix that..
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I cut out a piece of scrap carpet big enough for both the end pin and me to stand on. The bass stays put. On breaks, I can lay the bass on the carpet instead of a hard surface.
 
#63
I was playing in the youth orchestra a while back, and we had a big concert. The last piece of the show: the Dance Macabre, with a quiet bit right at the end where just the basses do this two bar melody. Our conductor had rehearsed the last chords a million times and we were carefully trained to watch him for a cue. Then, the big night, we get up to the end alright, but *three* bars to go and the lights go out!! The last chord is total chaos, everyone making it up themselves. Turns out the lights were on a timed curcuit ;):rolleyes:

Funny story afterwards though...
 
#64
in 5th grade i walked into the music room with my bass and put it down (it was on my back) and it had a domino effect on about 15 instruments lined up next to me.

in 5th grade another girl who played the bass tried to take it on the bus and got kicked off.

in 7th grade i was playing the school's bass and almost fell over with it and almost knocked the girl next to me over too. i also tripped up the ramp and one of my friends tried to help me by grabbing the bottem of the bass. i almost fell backwards and hurt someone.

i have hit so many people in the head with my bass its sad
 
#66
bumbleBur2slow said:
i have hit so many people in the head with my bass its sad
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I hit myself in the head on stage once... Halfway through a particularly mellow version of Blue Moon I happened to be standing facing the side of the scroll on the E side of my bass (I used to have the endpin very low in those days), when an unexpected sneeze made me head-butt the tuning gears, leaving me with a red mark on my forehead for the rest of the night.

Time to keep a low profile after that... :(

Cheers,

Tony
 
#68
Will Yager said:
I've managed to do ok so far. The worst thing that's happened to me is my endpin slipping on a hard surface. I had about 3 near misses at a gig last night. Gotta fix that..
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You should get a cheap little rockstop Link Removed

As for bass trainwrecks, I've been fairly lucky. I had an incident where I almost dropped it off a stage in front of a crowd of over 5,000. That would have been embarrasing...to say the least.
 
#70
One time walking around in a wing by the stage before showtime a violinist turns and smacks me in the head with her violin; five-ten minutes later, in the middle of a song onstage, I notice that my face is bleeding :o And as if that wasn't enough, I was the principle bassist for the show and it was the left side of my face. Nice.

I also had a blood blister on one of my right hand's fingers pop over a school basses' fingerboard while playing some jazz once, since I was new to it and didn't quite have the calluses (sp?) for it yet :o
 

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