A few nites ago I was doing finger warm up exercises when my wife walks in a turns on the T.V. to MTV classics to watch Rock Block. Well a crappy pop song from a band/ person I've never heard of had their crap video on. After aboot 10 seconds I figured out the entire song and started playing a old school R&B, funk groove to it. My wife was " That does not sound like the METAL stuff you usually play. I replied " Baby, remember you asked me why I was listening to modern blues and old school R&B? And I said there is only so much you learn from the bassist of Overkill?" This happens aboot once a month( with me replacing a crappy metal band bassist ). I sure there's at least 7 other bass players out in TB land that has similar situations.
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My wife doesn't listen to me...
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buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Actually, it sounds like she is listening to you, and paying attention.
i just like hearing that a bass player can have a marriage, too. 
Yes. It does read like she's listening to me. It really does.
Ask her what bass I should get for metal.
I don't even know what song or band it was, but I know the chords were I V vi IV.
My wife thinks I listen to Metallica all day and that I suck on bass (and many other things) because she thinks I listen to Metallica all day....and absolutely hates that I have basses at all...
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threads with wife, married, or marriage, in the title usually remind me how great it is to be single
When i was still young enough to know everything, an old graybeard biker told me if you want to have a wife and a scooter, get the bike first.
I think that applies to a lot more than just motorcycles.
I've had guitars since I was in 6th it or 7th grade, basses since freshman in college. All before the woman.
I believe she believes there's no sense of me having them if "I suck at it", and that I should just read more books...
So you chose her in spite of her attitude toward bass? Must be some serious love there.
Definition of professional bass player? Wife has permanent primary income!i just like hearing that a bass player can have a marriage, too.
