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Favorite bass compliments

#201
I played a show with my band at a local club in Petaluma, Ca. After our set a guy came up and said he was blown away! He loved it when I did two handed tapping and asked me if I wanted to play in his band. I asked him what kind of music he played and he said "Metal, you know like: Raaaawr Rawwwrr Rahhhhwr" I had to keep my chuckles locked inside. I gave him my number so as not to come off like a jerk, but yeah, never hooked up with him...
 
#203
once i was playing with 2 other guitarists in a reunion of our metalhead friends and they wanted to play for whom the bell tolls,i have my Overdrive pedal so i was like "all right",they expected me to play exactly like the studio version but i incorporated some things from this...
after we finished the intro a good friend say "Man you deserve a medal for that."also the Guitarists were pretty surprised at what i was playing :)
 
#207
I had an engineer once ask me to lay down some tracks on 2 songs he wrote. After I was done he asked me to replace some bass tracks another guy laid down on a couple other songs. Totally winging it by ear and on the fly, I started overdubbing the other bass line which, IMO, were perfectly fine bass lines.

I started feeling it and laid down a decent groove for him. As I was playing I looked over at the guy I was recording for and he had his head down and he was getting a bit teary eyed. I asked him if he was ok and he just told me he was getting emotional. He gets that way when he hears beautiful music. I didn't know whether to take that as a compliment or realize I was in the presence of a weirdo.
 
#208
One time my friend whos a guitarist and I were getting out of this music class at school where we get to play our instruments. At the end of the class he heard me just messing around playing random stuff. He yelled holy **** your the best bassist in this class! I felt really good until i realized i was the only bassist in the clas -.- lol
 
#209
After playing at an open mic jam, I had a guy come up and compare the way I played to surfing (which he did semi-profesionally) - as if my fingers were surfing up and down the neck. I was able to grasp what he saw and make it part of my philosophy on playing improvisationaly where I now am surfing a wave of sound - both hands on the deck.
 
#210
I'm going to tell you straight out, none of you would think I was any big deal as a player. I serve the song, and don't tend to overplay.

I am wireless, and I will go out onto the dance floor, and I will act really stupid, shaking the bass around, and holding it up, and cocking one eyebrow like John Belushi's samurai character, and acting as if the simplest little run or riff is just so cool, and people will come up to me afterwords and say, "you ROCK!"

I totally love it; probably way more than I should.

It's not that I ROCK, it's that I LOOK LIKE I ROCK.

But if that gets that compliment, I will take it.

Unless they're just talking about my singing...
 
#212
I occasionally get kind remarks about my playing from folks, including fellow TBers whose opinions I really value. But it's still pretty tough for me to beat this particular quote. :D

It was posted on FB by a drummer who is one of the very best musicians I have ever worked with. And yes, I'm very proud of it, dammit!

You know, (and I don't mean to sound gushing) But There are many times when you evaluate your life thus far. This appears to be one of those times.. I've had the honour and privilege of, several times, over the last thirty years, playing in... some of the country's, if not the worlds, most prestigious concert venues. I mean through various musical genres...Symphony orchestras, brass bands, wind bands and individual artists, to play in The Royal Albert hall, Birmingham symphony hall, Royal festival hall, Queen Elizabeth hall and NEC arena etc... Some people measure 'success' in either the terms mentioned or how much money was earned or how many people viewed the performance. I, however, see things in a different way. If you're ever privileged enough to play along side a musician who plays with heart, soul, passion and an unfaltering love for the music then you are really and truly blessed and guaranteed a night to remember. Every time I have played with Bill has been one of those nights... Love you mate......
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#218
one time back in '08 i think it was, i stumbled upon this band jamming in a garage and started talking to them and they late emailed me sayin they were having a sort of "pot-luck" and inviting musicians to come over and jam. the only people that showed up was the lead guitarist, drummer, bassist, the bassists friend and me. we started jamming on some sabbath and doing some improv and after about a half hour or so the bassist grabbed all of his stuff and left his buddy there. i guess he got jealous or something. his buddy stayed for a little while longer and then left. so it was just me, the guitarist and drummer, and we ended up jamming for about 3 hours on sabbath, van halen, the beatles. i did my best to lock in with the drums but lost time a few times and jumped back in when i got myself together. after the jam they asked me how long i've been playing and they told me that i was pretty good. not a huge compliment but it feels nice to be validated every now and then.

another time i was at GC playing "changes" by buddy miles and this older black guitarist who frequents there came up to me asking how long i'd been playing and i told him "about 10, self taught" and he shakes my hand and says "good on ya man, you're really good" and saying "you like playin that old school stuff dont you?" and i told him that while i like modern music, it's good to keep in touch with your roots. he ended up grabbing a guitar off the wall and jamming with me for about a half-hour. i've heard the guy play there before and he's a really good guitarist and me being 25 and having this old-timer in his 60s-70s tell me im really good is quite awesome. i still dont think im that good, but others seem to disagree with that.
 
#220
Last Saturday, I was talking to a group of older people who come to see my band often. They always request a few songs we play that they like and no other band around here plays them; so, I dedicated some songs to them. They thanked me and said again how much they like our band and the songs we play. One of the older gentlemen told me that I make my bass "Sing" and my playing sounds great I deeply appreciated such a kind compliment.
 

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