Most pitiful thing youve ever seen a bassist do live

[klejst]

Most pitiful thing you've ever seen a bassist do live??

Try to talk to/pick up on women at the gig.

 

[Rugmaster]

This isn't all that bad but it's annoying because it's happened at least twice already.. I have one of those ZZYZX snap jack magnetic cables, and I've tried to move up close near the crowd and my bass came unplugged, pretty embarrassing

 

[Jason Wilson]

Way back when, I saw a band do the song "Why Do You Think They Call it Dope?"...it actually has a pretty cool slap bass part, and the bass does it solo for 4 or 5 bars. This guy choked the very first note, stopped playing and did a facepalm, so the bass break ended up being 4 or 5 bars of total silence.

Love Hate?
That was a cool part, I remember it well.

 

[Jason Wilson]

Bass players who stand with legs wide apart, bass slung at knee level, and banging their stupid heads seems pretty pitiful to me.

Yeah! They would look way cooler if they had their bass just under their chin!! Idiots!!!

 

[Helaskold]

He also made several disparaging remarks to me about my gear (Lakland and Markbass stuff)

The fact that he talked crap about Lakland OR Markbass tells me that he is incredibly ignorant. Probably sucked at bass anyway.

 

[Dan Knowlton]

Most pitiful thing you've ever seen a bassist do live?

In my case, play!

Dan K.

 

[atomicdog]

I saw a bass player in the Edgar Winter Band whip around real fast on a small stage and clip Edgar in the forehead with a Fender P Bass headstock. Edgar, who is a bit of a bleeder (and a baby to boot) had to coaxed back on stage by me and Leon Russell (I was the stage manager; it was all quite surreal). I think the bassist should have known that you gotta chill on a small, crowded stage when you're working for an albino bleeder.

 

[Vince Klortho]

When I didn't have band gigs I used to do sound work and there was one bass player who wasn't the brightest bulb on the tree. He plugged a Y-cord into his bass and told me he needed two DIs so that I could run him in stereo. It was very difficult to keep a straight face.

 

[Flabass]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzXgL9V8Qm0

Good thing it didn't hit the drummer, it might have killed him!

 

[Flabass]

For those of you who have never seen it, here is just one example. You have to watch the entire clip to get the whole effect (or defect).

I saw this with two bandmates and my young son. Our opinion was that it was a lot of running around and not much else.

 

[Zacsthefuzziest]

If your head moves more than your left hand, re-think the bass line.

+1

 

[Tituscrow]

Anyone ever see Johnny Rod do his bass solo when he was in WASP?

Words fail me.

 

[Eric Perry]

The most pitiful thing I've seen a bassist do was while doing a cover of Crazy Bitch by Buck Cherry, he hyperextended his right knee and literally face planted on the stage.... In front of about 800 people. He ended up tearing his meniscus and MCL. He was carted off the the ER after his knee swelled up like a soccer ball within five minutes. Luckily there was a friend in the crowd that was able to sit in so the band could finish.

I had a great view of all of this too, because said bassist was ME!

 

[Jim Nazium]

I've probably done more pitiful things than this, but it's the first one that comes to mind. back in the mid-90s I was in a church band. We were going to play a new song one Sunday and didn't have time to rehearse it. The leader hands me a chart, which is just a lyric sheet with the chords written by hand above the lyrics. At one point he meant to write C(#11) but actually wrote C#(11). The piano player gets to that chord and plays D/C (D major triad with a C in the bass). I get there, look at the chart, and play a big fat C#. Lovely sound - C, C#, and D all at once.

 

[Stinsok]

Walked into a country bar. The band was playing "Is anybody going to San Antone?" Well, the band was but the bass player wasn't. Instead of playing the walking bass line he was playing a fast 1/5 line. The most bizarre thing ever.

 

[spkbri]

Amateur bass tossing failure is still understandable, but if you do that while on MTV, well........

 

[skychief]

Most pitiful thing I ever witnessed a bass player do was playing an entire song in the wrong key. Apparently, the guy (BL) who wrote the setlist wrote the wrong key on one of the songs. He notified his players of the mistake before the show. Except for the bass player. Who happened to be me.

 

[MrMeacham]

Seeing Poison may have been the most pitiful concert thing I've ever done but the Adams Family bass solo with anticipated crowd response was ..........

 

[One Drop]

Everyone talking about seeing a bass player having someone else tune their bass, it happens about a minute into this video. I love this band, and they didn't seem to care much, but it was funny that both the guitar player and drummer had to help.

Foul language warning btw.
http://vimeo.com/m/51142219

More Oy than Oi.

 

[cica]

Oh man, in one local gig the bass player forgot to loop his cord and yanked it out 3 times in 1 song. The whole band had to stop every time.

I figured out why everyone else loops their cord Saturday night when I stepped on it during a gig and pulled it out..