Gimme a pair of 4 foot bolt cutters and I'll be playing that bass before you can even say "Hey! Who is that guy?"
I don't believe the OP is serious, do you?
I don't believe the OP is serious, do you?
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Others playing your bass between sets or other
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Cambodia is a 3rd world country. You better believe people are looking to steal things of value.
I like the lock idea to prevent people playing the bass and 2, stealing it. All my shows here in the states, there is always some dude lurking near your equipment while you are at the bar talking with your friends and people. You guys know the type.
I like the lock idea to prevent people playing the bass and 2, stealing it. All my shows here in the states, there is always some dude lurking near your equipment while you are at the bar talking with your friends and people. You guys know the type.
Unfortunately, practice does not make perfect, it makes permanent and after almost forty years of practice i’m too old and so not motivated to try to relearn everything i know just so i can poke my chest out and proclaim my lefty-ness to the world. Even though my right hand largely serves as a counterweight to keep me from walking in big circles around my left hand, bass is not my only compromise. I also learned to use a right handed r/c car controller because when i was learning to drive r/c cars left handed controllers didn’t exist, but as i’ve heard from my very ambidextrous dad, who indecently started me on bass around the age of ten, “if you don’t know how to play anyway, you can learn equally as well either way. The only thing that would prevent that is you. If you tell yourself you can’t do it a certain way, you will prove yourself right, but if you approach it with an open mind you can learn it any way you want it” When i look at people who play a right handed guitar/bass upside down, including their strings, it’s proof no one, including themselves, evert told them they couldn’t do it that way.
This. Over my long and nearly extinguished career I've had people try to get behind the drums or the keyboards. Guitars and basses can't say I have (mine being lefty and only became bass on the last third of said career). But I've played the swankiest of places with no one looking shifty all day and had a piece of gear that wasn't nailed down disappear from the stage. And it doesn't get better as the classy factor goes down. I think it's totally reasonable to assume that among all the good and honest people there are at least one or two that will walk off with something if the opportunity, which will be noticed by their paying painstaking attention and not by chance or serendipity, presents itself. For that reason alone I haven't been in a situation where I would turn around and see someone playing my bass, because I'm already assuming that if someone can pick it up without my permission someone else would have stolen it first.
Yeah, this is unbelievable! "Hey, I'm gonna go over and have sex with your wife!" Okay, maybe not THAT extreme, but...
I can guarantee you that it is easier to have sex with my wife than to get your hands on my bass at a gig.
I've played gigs where I was worried about gear walking off while we set up, tearing down, or if we left the venue before the gig to grab something to eat, but that's about it. Never thought anyone would be ballsy enough to play my bass without asking.
Hi TH63 
That' s a peaceful solution! And cheaper than a gun!
Nice girlfriend but this one is better she looks like Geddy! 
greetings
Wise
I never had that problem. Sometimes folks ask if they can sing with us. I tell them that the only reason to get
on our stage, is to tell it' s their birthday and that the drinks (for everybody) are on them.
on our stage, is to tell it' s their birthday and that the drinks (for everybody) are on them.
That' s a peaceful solution! And cheaper than a gun!
Nice girlfriend
but this one is better she looks like Geddy! greetings
Wise
I've always preferred someone in the band ask the bass player. That way they take some responsibility for bringing someone (or me) on stage.
I’m also a big guy, bald and bearded, half sleeve tattoos and I’ve *mostly* kept my defensive lineman build from high school so not many people ask me about my gear at shows, let alone ask to play it. I swear I’m actually very nice and chill but I know I don’t look very approachable, which has come in handy more than a few times with drunks at the end of the night.
My ONE exception is children. I remember musicians being very gracious and kind to me as a child and I want to pass that along to the next generation of musicians, so as long as the kids in question are respectful and attentive I’m thrilled to let them check out my gear; after all, at the end of the day gear can be repaired or replaced but keeping a kid motivated and inspired is far more important to me:
(I didn’t know this kid at all, just that he and his friends of around the same age were thrilled to hang out with the band at the end of a country show we’d just finished).
My ONE exception is children. I remember musicians being very gracious and kind to me as a child and I want to pass that along to the next generation of musicians, so as long as the kids in question are respectful and attentive I’m thrilled to let them check out my gear; after all, at the end of the day gear can be repaired or replaced but keeping a kid motivated and inspired is far more important to me:
(I didn’t know this kid at all, just that he and his friends of around the same age were thrilled to hang out with the band at the end of a country show we’d just finished).
Happened to me once about 4-5 years ago? - in my old band
We were having a break between sets at a popular pub the band used to play at (and still does) and we were sitting outside when we suddenly heard boom, bash, crash (kick, snare, cymbal)
Drummer, guitarist and me run back inside to see 2 drunk women on stage - one is playing (or should that be randomly hitting) drums and the other has my bass and is trying to play it.... I unplug the lead from the input jack during breaks so there was no sound coming out of my amp.
I tried to grab my bass off the woman and she just stared at me and said "your stupid guitar thing doesn't work"!
once we got our instruments back security escorted them out and they were not allowed back in
We were having a break between sets at a popular pub the band used to play at (and still does) and we were sitting outside when we suddenly heard boom, bash, crash (kick, snare, cymbal)
Drummer, guitarist and me run back inside to see 2 drunk women on stage - one is playing (or should that be randomly hitting) drums and the other has my bass and is trying to play it.... I unplug the lead from the input jack during breaks so there was no sound coming out of my amp.
I tried to grab my bass off the woman and she just stared at me and said "your stupid guitar thing doesn't work"!
once we got our instruments back security escorted them out and they were not allowed back in
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I've been gigging for 40 years and have never had anyone ask to try my bass or to come on stage with us. I've offered a few times but nobody has ever asked.
I try to play better places.
Getting too old to be subtle and diplomatic about rude people grabbing my stuff without asking.
Depends. What if it was Victor, Pino or Ron Carter? Or any of the drunken celebs like Paris Hilton or Lohan
That's awesome and just plain adorable! I think I'd end up just giving my basses to people who ask to play them to keep and regretting it the next day
