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My Guitar Vs. Bass inner struggle

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I would eat a village of orphans for one of these

I'd eat a village of orphans for free!!!
 
I play both bass and guitar, nuff said there. I'll always prefer to be a bass player first and foremost, as far as being in a band goes.
Call me weird, but I love being a bass player. It's even stranger given that I do practice and play a lot of guitar as well, and I own
more guitars than I do basses.
 
Since you play both the big question is...can you write songs? If by chance you don't I would get moving on that and use it to your advantage. You know....." Wow! He plays guitar, bass.....and he writes!"
 
I bought my first guitar at the age of 15, in Tijuana Mexico, for $21. By the time I was 16 my friends wanted to start a band and no one wanted to to play bass. I figured since no one else wanted to I will since, as others pointed out, it would be easier to get into a band. Every kid seems to want to be a guitar rock star, not a bassist star.

I got into a lot of bands after that as no one was really a true bassist, just a guitarist who would play bass if they had to. Then after I had my own band, it was hard to find a guitarist that was into the same stuff I was so I switched over to guitar. I would up playing guitar ever since.

Recently I came back to bass and fell in love it it all over again. I can say that my 22 total years of playing has helped in being a better bassist even though I haven't played bass on a regular basis for 15 years or so. Now I find myself playing guitar one day and bass the next, and actually bass more often. My guitar experience helps in the Bass experience

There is no reason why you can't play both. It was Victor Wooton or Marcus Miller who once said you are never the Master of anything, you are always evolving and always learning. Even pros will learn from an amateur as they might remind them of something they haven't done in years or maybe a technique they never tried.

The most important thing is to keep playing. :bassist:
 
Bass and Guitar are verrrry different animals from the same family...I started on bass and consider it my first instrument...It's the one I'm better at and have more ego about, I love playing guitar though (and play better guitar than a lot of my guitar playing friends, even if I do say so) but maybe that's because I don't have any ego about it, it's more fun, less responsibility and I don't have any expectations from it. I could never love it like my first love though...so I guess it's down to what you learnt first, are more aquainted with, feel more connected with...
 
I think it's because standards change over time. When I started on guitar, the level I play at now would have been pretty far up there. But back thenm you were considered darned gifted if you could play Johnny B. Goode convincingly. About the time Van Halen's Eruption came out, the required level of chops necessary to be taken seriously as a guitarist got a BUNCH higher all at once.

On bass, I'd say it has really gone the other way. When I was a kid, you could hear Jamerson on the radio ALL the time. Nowadays there are of course thousands of serious bass players available to every recording studio out there...and mostly I hear samples from those same Jamerson lines I heard as a kid. A few modern guys get to do a lot of recording, but it's a different world.