is there a "bassist" character archetype?

[bassguitar808]

 

[sound of bass]

I feel the same way! That's true about the paramedics as well, you guys are there in the really crucial moments between life and death for many.


Music is dead to me without bass!

Thanks for your understanding. Rock on!

 

[Rockmusician]

Most of the bass players I've met, including famous ones, are pretty laid back. I usually find drummers and lead singers to be pretty arrogant.

 

[Meddle]

A near unintelligable knuckle-dragger whith terrible hair?

No doubt he could tell an empty room as to why he choses to play a 5 string T-bird and kid himself into thinking the room cares....

 

[jamisonsalamand]

I think being laid back and a bass player tend to go hand in hand. To be good at bass, you have to accept that you aren't the center of attention all the time, and that's difficult if you can't relax and accept your importance in the music. And I feel like bassists also usually know theory the most (Steve Harris writes the majority of Iron Maiden's songs, Cliff Burton taught Metallica kind of everything). I told my guitarist once how to play a harmony part, after pointing out every fret, and he got confused. So I told him to think in the G major scale shape, and it confused him more.