So we walk into a room and he asks me to start a jam. So I start playing and he says "I think your basslines have too many notes in them, slow down and play less notes"
Maybe he was right.
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Guitarists say the dumbest things.
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Maybe he was right.
i used to tech for a guy who was like eric johnson and jeff beck rolled into 1. that was until i got fired [long story]because i got into with his bass player for making VERY innapropriate remarks to 2 friends of mine, who were minors at a gig one night. anywho, not the point:
the dumbest thing this guy ever said was :"crap dave ,i forgot my pedal board. can you go get it?" sure i say give me your keys [thinking it's in his truck]. uhhhhhhh no. he left it at home 50 miles away. we went on in less than 1/2 hour.
also : oh crap, one of my 12 ax7 tubes blew. walks up to the mic and asks if anyone has spare tubes....and seriously waits for an answer.
him: i dont understand why you wont be at the gig on suchandsuch a date.
me:i'm best man in my best friends wedding.
him:cant you come afterwards
me:it's in dallas,tx
him:you need to get your priorities straight dave. which is more important?
i got a million of 'em
the dumbest thing this guy ever said was :"crap dave ,i forgot my pedal board. can you go get it?" sure i say give me your keys [thinking it's in his truck]. uhhhhhhh no. he left it at home 50 miles away. we went on in less than 1/2 hour.
also : oh crap, one of my 12 ax7 tubes blew. walks up to the mic and asks if anyone has spare tubes....and seriously waits for an answer.
him: i dont understand why you wont be at the gig on suchandsuch a date.
me:i'm best man in my best friends wedding.
him:cant you come afterwards
me:it's in dallas,tx
him:you need to get your priorities straight dave. which is more important?
i got a million of 'em
ME: yo man im researchin on a new amp ill be there soon...
Guitarist: Dude who cares all bass amps sound the same
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Guitarist: Dude who cares all bass amps sound the same
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My rythem player "I would rather lose money to bring in an out of town band and under charge the door to gain fans than charge a worthy fee for a good show" My stint in this band will not be much longer.
On the too many notes thing, umm dude. Steve Harris, Geddy Lee, Les Claypool, ect why do we love these guys? LOTS OF NOTES AND COMPLEX BASSLINES 
But they don't play too many notes. That's another reason we love those bassists. I'm saying it's possible you were playing too many notes and didn't realize it. There is such a thing.
Hi.
Aah, strings, thanks tlwaps for the reminder. The guitarplayer I was talkin about earlier in this thread (song structure = chords) said a thing or two about the strings also.
Said guitarist had been playing the same set of strings in his Stratocaster for God knows how long. Those strings didn't sound too good and eventually one broke. That was the end of the rehearsal as he didn't have a spare.
At the next rehearsal the sound of his guitar was rather strange and I asked whether he chaged the strings or not.
Him: Nope, just the one that broke. There's no need as the others are just fine.
Me: What
Him: Yes, they're just fine and changing all the strings takes over an hour anyway.
Me: WHAT
Him: Yes. You see, in stratocaster, You have to take the tremolo string cover off, insert the string through the bridge, measure the correct lenght for the string, cut it, place it in the hollow shaft in the tuning peg and carefully wind it around the shaft. Usually it's too long so the string touches the bushing and You have to start all over again.
Me:WHAT THE F*** Bro, what the hell are You talking about?
Him: Come here and take a look, see? The end of the string in the hole.
Me : Take a look at my tuning pegs, same?, Yep. String end in the hole, nope. Wrapped differently, better perhaps? Yours are wound 3-8 times around the shaft, problems staying in tune?
Him : No, not really. (horribly out of tune)
Me: Why do You do it that way, to keep it neat? To avoid hurting Your hands on the ends? Or what?
Him: When I bought this guitar 15 years ago, the strings were done that way, I've just done it the same way ever since.
Me:
Now I know that some of You will disagree about this, but I see no advantage other than looks for the "string end in the hole".
Regards
Sam
Aah, strings, thanks tlwaps for the reminder. The guitarplayer I was talkin about earlier in this thread (song structure = chords) said a thing or two about the strings also.
Said guitarist had been playing the same set of strings in his Stratocaster for God knows how long. Those strings didn't sound too good and eventually one broke. That was the end of the rehearsal as he didn't have a spare.
At the next rehearsal the sound of his guitar was rather strange and I asked whether he chaged the strings or not.
Him: Nope, just the one that broke. There's no need as the others are just fine.
Me: What
Him: Yes, they're just fine and changing all the strings takes over an hour anyway.
Me: WHAT
Him: Yes. You see, in stratocaster, You have to take the tremolo string cover off, insert the string through the bridge, measure the correct lenght for the string, cut it, place it in the hollow shaft in the tuning peg and carefully wind it around the shaft. Usually it's too long so the string touches the bushing and You have to start all over again.
Me:WHAT THE F*** Bro, what the hell are You talking about?
Him: Come here and take a look, see? The end of the string in the hole.
Me : Take a look at my tuning pegs, same?, Yep. String end in the hole, nope. Wrapped differently, better perhaps? Yours are wound 3-8 times around the shaft, problems staying in tune?
Him : No, not really. (horribly out of tune)
Me: Why do You do it that way, to keep it neat? To avoid hurting Your hands on the ends? Or what?
Him: When I bought this guitar 15 years ago, the strings were done that way, I've just done it the same way ever since.
Me:
Now I know that some of You will disagree about this, but I see no advantage other than looks for the "string end in the hole".
Regards
Sam
Hi.
Aah, strings, thanks tlwaps for the reminder. The guitarplayer I was talkin about earlier in this thread (song structure = chords) said a thing or two about the strings also.
Said guitarist had been playing the same set of strings in his Stratocaster for God knows how long. Those strings didn't sound too good and eventually one broke. That was the end of the rehearsal as he didn't have a spare.
At the next rehearsal the sound of his guitar was rather strange and I asked whether he chaged the strings or not.
Him: Nope, just the one that broke. There's no need as the others are just fine.
Me: What
Him: Yes, they're just fine and changing all the strings takes over an hour anyway.
Me: WHAT
Him: Yes. You see, in stratocaster, You have to take the tremolo string cover off, insert the string through the bridge, measure the correct lenght for the string, cut it, place it in the hollow shaft in the tuning peg and carefully wind it around the shaft. Usually it's too long so the string touches the bushing and You have to start all over again.
Me:WHAT THE F*** Bro, what the hell are You talking about?
Him: Come here and take a look, see? The end of the string in the hole.
Me : Take a look at my tuning pegs, same?, Yep. String end in the hole, nope. Wrapped differently, better perhaps? Yours are wound 3-8 times around the shaft, problems staying in tune?
Him : No, not really. (horribly out of tune)
Me: Why do You do it that way, to keep it neat? To avoid hurting Your hands on the ends? Or what?
Him: When I bought this guitar 15 years ago, the strings were done that way, I've just done it the same way ever since.
Me:
Now I know that some of You will disagree about this, but I see no advantage other than looks for the "string end in the hole".
Regards
Sam
The easiest way i have found to string my bass using the "holes", if you have a 4x1 headstock run the string through the bridge and stretch it as tight as you can. If you are doing the E string, cut the string off at the A string tuner, stick the end of the string in the hole and bend it over and tune it up. Do the same for all the strings. Now when you get to the G string, depending on how long you headstock is on the end, cut the string off at the end of the headstock and finish stringing like the other strings.
I'm just speechless at that. I'd tell them where they could go stick it. In a blender at full speed probably
Friends, especially good friends, will always come before the band for me. Even though all the members are all good friends of mine
Hi.
Yet another one, now from the other (actually the only one at the moment, since Einstein quit) guitarist.
We were discussing about the possibility to find a female lead vocalist as our recent singer has some reliability issues. And while me and the drummer agreed that she should be able to sing well, she should also be nice enough looking to improve our overall appearance. (Fullbearded biker, bald biker, average joe at the moment)
Now the guitarist was pretty silent, a remark every now and then, but came up with the killer:
"Shouldn't she be at least strong enough to help loading and unloading the gear?"
Well said.
Sam
Yet another one, now from the other (actually the only one at the moment, since Einstein quit) guitarist.
We were discussing about the possibility to find a female lead vocalist as our recent singer has some reliability issues. And while me and the drummer agreed that she should be able to sing well, she should also be nice enough looking to improve our overall appearance.
(Fullbearded biker, bald biker, average joe at the moment)Now the guitarist was pretty silent, a remark every now and then, but came up with the killer:
"Shouldn't she be at least strong enough to help loading and unloading the gear?"
Well said.
Sam
heres one
we were playing a song we had made (well i composed everything for it) i gave the rhythm guitarist the chance to make his own line for it. and what does he do? plays pinch harmonics the whole bloody time! this is how the conversation went:
Me: Justin(rhythm), what the hell are you doing?
justin: playing the rhythm part..
Me: yah, but it sucks
Justin: yah, so its rhythm , it won't be heard above you and the lead
Me...wow
Justin: just let me do my own thing
Josh(lead): justin you fail at guitar!
Justin: Josh, its rhythm!
me+josh: rhythm doesnt sound like ass!
Justin, ITS RHYTHM! ITS NOT SUPPOSE TO BE HEARD OVER BASS+LEAD!!
Me: you have to be kidding
justin: NO, its RHYTHM!
Me:. Justin, go home please. you fail.
needless to say...he sucked
*Edit* Nearly forgot! we were playing smoke on the water one day cause we were bored. same rhythm guitarist couldn't play that. I offer to show him what how to play it, and guess what he shouts? you guest it, "CORBIN, ITS RHYTHM! WHY DON'T YOU GET IT!'' .....that was the final straw. we kicked him out.
we were playing a song we had made (well i composed everything for it) i gave the rhythm guitarist the chance to make his own line for it. and what does he do? plays pinch harmonics the whole bloody time! this is how the conversation went:
Me: Justin(rhythm), what the hell are you doing?
justin: playing the rhythm part..
Me: yah, but it sucks
Justin: yah, so its rhythm , it won't be heard above you and the lead
Me
...wowJustin: just let me do my own thing
Josh(lead): justin you fail at guitar!
Justin: Josh, its rhythm!
me+josh: rhythm doesnt sound like ass!
Justin, ITS RHYTHM! ITS NOT SUPPOSE TO BE HEARD OVER BASS+LEAD!!
Me: you have to be kidding
justin: NO, its RHYTHM!
Me:. Justin, go home please. you fail.
needless to say...he sucked
*Edit* Nearly forgot! we were playing smoke on the water one day cause we were bored. same rhythm guitarist couldn't play that. I offer to show him what how to play it, and guess what he shouts? you guest it, "CORBIN, ITS RHYTHM! WHY DON'T YOU GET IT!'' .....that was the final straw. we kicked him out.
its only funny cause justin actually does fail at guitar. smoke on the water is too much for him 
butchblack
Life is short. Do good. Find and do what you love.
On the too many notes thing, umm dude. Steve Harris, Geddy Lee, Les Claypool, etc why do we love these guys? LOTS OF NOTES AND COMPLEX BASS LINES
It depends on what you're playing. I play blues and if I had a dollar for every time I went to a blues jam and heard a bass player play too many notes but not hold the bottom down I could take a really nice vacation.
I was at a small private jam and was one of two bassist there. Talking to a keyboardist friend who was also there, The take on the other bassist was that he was too loud and played too many notes and wasn't saying anything with those extra notes.
The bottom line in playing in a band is that the most important thing is that the song and the band sound good. Individual virtuosity should always be secondary.
So my band got threatened with a lawsuit from another band of the same name. We sat around and were brainstorming new names. Me, the singer and the drummer were all throwing out tons of random names thought up off the top of are heads, some good, some decent. Our guitarist is just sitting on the couch staring off into space. After about 5 minutes we're all just watching TV and the guitarist snaps out of his daze, jumps up and shouts out...
SEPTIC TANK!!!
Me: 'what the f*** are you talking about?
Guitarist: 'That's our new band name. SEPTIC TANK!!!
Drummer: 'Leave the creative stuff to us man, you just concentrate on guitar.'
SEPTIC TANK!!!
Me: 'what the f*** are you talking about?
Guitarist: 'That's our new band name. SEPTIC TANK!!!
Drummer: 'Leave the creative stuff to us man, you just concentrate on guitar.'
That's similar to an idea our guitarist had. He wanted to start a second band with me to do acoustic covers, and he wanted to call it "Drunk Tank."
Needless to say that project never got off the ground.
Needless to say that project never got off the ground.
One day, the guitarist from my old band said:
"Bass is so much easier than guitar, you only play one string at a time"
To this I responed:
"Try making one string at a time sound as effective as three"
To this he responed:
"Good point"
...and it was on this most historical of days that a guitarist saw reason
"Bass is so much easier than guitar, you only play one string at a time"
To this I responed:
"Try making one string at a time sound as effective as three"
To this he responed:
"Good point"
...and it was on this most historical of days that a guitarist saw reason
