"Hey dude, play something awesome!"

[Sound Fancier]

The bass line for the Peter Gunn theme song. People that have never heard of the show, probably heard it from the video game Spyhunter.

That is the limit of my awesome. My awesome is easily reached at my current stage of skill.

Check out the intro bass solo in the full Mancini version.

 

[wagstaff]

I play something comical

Bassball theme
Inspector Gadget theme
Pink Panther
Popcorn

I intend to learn the Pacman theme. It uses tapping, people will be both impressed and amused.

Mark

 

[Klopp18]

the solo in maxwell murder by rancid or i do my own thing

 

[Muaguana]

Hasn't happened too often, but one time I just said I don't do covers, and followed it up with my signature "soulless stare of utter contempt" until the person left me the hell alone. Another time I played a stream of dead notes across all 5 strings with three fingers, kind of sounding like a lawn mower engine on nitrous, then looked at them as if to say, "There. I just played the musical equivalent of projectile vomiting due to excessive asphalt consumption. Happy now?"

And one time I threw a "sorry" in there because the girl was cute.

 

[Jason P Bass]

Walk on the Wild Side - dead simple, but the contrary motion in the slide blows everyone away (i.e. C chord is 8xx9, F chord is 1xx14)

Or I play the guitar solo from Stairway to Heaven.

Or I say, "That's what I was GONNA do, GOSH!" and we play the next song.

And I can't believe nobody has mentioned Rapper's Delight

 

[CDRhom]

Play Mary Had A Little Lamb for them next time.

Tommy Shannon's version (my favorite) or Sir Paul McCartney's version?

 

[ZENBASSGUY]

I go into a deep concentration and play nothing for about a minute with my eyes closed...then look up and say in a very "Kung Fu Master" way of speaking.." now wasn't that awesome?? this usually cunfuses the hell out of them and then i just walk away and go about what ever i was doing in the first place while laughing inside.

 

[Whacked]

Best done with a glare:
Running with the Devil

for a hot chick:
Speak softly love - The Godfather theme

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

For bringing a smile to the audience's faces, this always works.

 

[Ayliffe]

La Bamba or that main riff from that Play that funky music whiteboy song.

 

[dannster]

"Hey dude, that sounded awesome!"

That's all I ever get. YMMV

 

[baron665]

I scratch down the fretboard

 

[G0rilla]

Depends on situation. On stage, i just ignore the crowd. Anywhere else - something improvised with tapping, or play some dubstep/dnb/ambient textures if i have my space ship beside my feet.

 

[DrSmaggs]

Something that's not in 4/4 like the C to B riffage for the verses in a song called "Break the Silence" by Arkaea. Once people hear the actual pattern, they usually say wow!

 

[Arpeggiator]

i just tap scales. or i might do a bit of the metropolis bass solo, or a protest the hero style run. as soon as you start tapping people are mesmorized XD i soloing when not in the contest of a song is not my thing though