Hahhah ahahah hahahha hahaha ahhaha ahhahah aa ahaha ahah aa hahaa hahahahaha ahaha aha aha ha!!!!,... uh...ha, ha, ... heh, heh....
oh my... (wiping tears from my eyes)...
Seriously guys (I use this term for gals too, btw), f***ing sweet board set ups here, the big and the little! Clearly we all want to create something new and interesting, not reproduce what others 'expect' a bass to sound like. To quote my avatar, "We are the dream makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream". (yeah, I'm sure he was quoting someone else, still rings true!)
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Music is more about creative audio expression than wrote regurgitation. I wish others would vomit their negative opinions during their 'we clean bassists are so under appreciated' group therapy sessions and leave the rest of us out of it.
The 'I don't use effects because I want my bass to sound the way a bass is supposed to' is tantamount to stuffed shirt 'pro' players telling me I should ditch my Thumb and get a P-Bass to be considered a real bass player. Yeah fella, tell that to Ryan Martinie and I hope he punches you in nose with a copy of his interview in Bass Player Magazine...
Wankers... Makes me wonder what their sex life is like... "no honey, I must always be on top because that is how a man is supposed to make love". Sad really...
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Anyhoo....
Here is my board again for the new thread.... TAFM is off to Brian H for a gate footswitch.... Yay for me!!!
I guess i have to specify that i am not trolling, but conversating in this case...
what does playing bass as a pro have to do anything with your sex life (i know you were just trying to bust on me or comments of the such) but if anything it only gives you more opportunity...most of my gigs are backing hot female artists.....that attract other hot female audiences,mostly their own friends, but i will take it.
I personally haven't found a band that i want to be a bass player for, so i just work as a fill in bassist. If i ever found a singer/artist that was worth putting my entire music career into, than i would happily buy and utilize more effects if it called for it in the music, but utlimately, i get to play my bass every weekend, even though its not my ideal gig...which i have yet to find...and i get paid to do it...so i offset my lack of interest in the music, by getting paid to at least play the instrument that i love and bring joy to other peoples life as well as my own by performing music...
if you sit at home and play to yourself and get so excited about the tone you have in your bedroom, it doesn't really mean anything if you don't get to share it...
kind of like masterbating...
i guess what i am saying is at least i get to have sex!!! haha
again this is just in fun...i am not trying to piss any of you off.
