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Remark that has pissed you off the most!?

#26
These are tied for "Piss Off the Most" category for me;

- "I seen yer innernet nayme. Well sir, ah likes bass fishin too. Let's talk bass bait!"

- "So you quit playing guitar because bass is easier. I mean, you know, less strings."

- "That looks like a guitar. Does it sound different?"

- "Play, `With Arms Wide Open' "

- "Oh, you're not union? Well, then I can't pay you."
 
#27
I've heard many of those already posted before, and they piss me off, but this one was really annoying
This drummer and his guitarist friend get my name from someone, and they hear I'm between gigs/bands, and they ask me if I'd like to jam sometime, so we start talking about music a little bit, and the drummer goes, "can you play fast bass?" What the hell? Play "fast"? What kind of crap is that? Any moron can play fast! They turned out to be punkers, so I guess that explains it, but still... "fast bass"? Gah. Fast is easy. Good is hard. Some people never figure it out...
 
#28
Something which recently annoyed me was in an interview with the bass player from Travis (A feeble Scottish band who are inexplicably popular in the UK) talking about when he was asked to join the band, even though he couldn't actually play an instrument at the time:

"I wasn't bothered about not being able to play, I mean, it's only the f***ing bass!"

AARRGGHH!!!!! B(

The bass player from one of the biggest bands in Britian (really!) saying something like THAT! What sort of example is that to set to young bassists, I ask you?
 
#29
Isn't the point that there aren't any young people aspiring to be bass players in the UK any more, but rather they are aspiring to be :

DJs
Programmers/Sample players/Producers
In boy/girl bands where it's only their looks that matter
Famous for something..anything!!

 
#30
True, Bruce. Sadly...

But the point is that anyone who is interested in playing an instrument but is too lazy to put anything into it will read this, think that the bass is easy, and pick it thinking all you have to do is play the root notes on the top string. This will lead to more of the type of people that you mentioned in the infamous Rosin thread - people who only play bass because it's supposedly easy, who don't have the desire to work at their music, and who are genuinely frustrated guitarists.

It's only the f***ing bass, I ask you. What we need is for JT to pay a visit to our friend in Travis, whip out one of his behemouths, and ask him if that's so bloody simple. Sorry about this, but I really get worked up about this fella...
 
#32
I was doing a gig with my band about two years ago, and we were sharing the bill with a band from Athens, GA., which is something of a musical hotbed (R.E.M., B-52s., etc.) I was wearing this T-shirt I got from "The Onion." The T-shirt says "I am in a promising local band." Very tongue-in-cheek. Well, this girl from the Athens band walks over, reads my t-shirt and says "A little pretentious, don't you think? If you wore that t-shirt in Athens, you'd be run out of town."
She was a girl, so I didn't smack her.
 
#33
I'm going to record some bass tracks for two of my guitarplaying friends and a drummer.
And they're great friends, but make the worst suggestions:

"Could you play against the rhytm at that point, just like on that "Karma to Burn" album?"
- ungh -

"I'd rather have you play a "C" there, it's a C-chord"
I replied: "Hey, I play the bass, and when I play a G, then it's automatically a G-chord."
Then he's been annoying me for two weeks with theory after theory and I ended up playing a C.
 
#34
Originally posted by Bruce Lindfield
Isn't the point that there aren't any young people aspiring to be bass players in the UK any more, but rather they are aspiring to be :

DJs
Programmers/Sample players/Producers
In boy/girl bands where it's only their looks that matter
Famous for something..anything!!

Bruce and yawnsie - That's really sad, considering that, from my yank point of view, the UK has given us a disproportionately large number of gifted bassists, relative to the population.
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#35
Originally posted by Dave Siff
I was doing a gig with my band about two years ago, and we were sharing the bill with a band from Athens, GA., which is something of a musical hotbed (R.E.M., B-52s., etc.) I was wearing this T-shirt I got from "The Onion." The T-shirt says "I am in a promising local band." Very tongue-in-cheek. Well, this girl from the Athens band walks over, reads my t-shirt and says "A little pretentious, don't you think? If you wore that t-shirt in Athens, you'd be run out of town."
She was a girl, so I didn't smack her.
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This is one of those typical incidents where you wish you had a suitable "put-down" reply and can think of dozens after the event but not at the time!

Like - pretentious, moi!

or

Well if you ever find me in that godawful place, then feel free to run me out of town your self.

or

Yeah but in my town we understand irony!
 
#36
I guess I must be getting old, because I just don't give a rip about the inane comments made by boneheads who don't
"get" bass. I've been playing for more than 20 years now, and my MOM still doesn't know the difference between a guitar and a bass -- if SHE can't get it straight, I hold out little hope for the general population.

I actually turned the tables on a knucklehead about a year ago though. I was subbing for a buddy of mine with his R&B band at a showcase with a bunch of other bands. There was this one woman (don't know who she was or why she was anywhere near me) pontificating at length about bass -- and displaying her total ignorance of the subject in the process.

When she got to the part about five-strings being "better" than four-strings (and believe, that was about as "deep" as any of her insights went), I looked at her deadpan and said "Five-string basses are for morons."

I then strapped on my Carvin 5, walked over to to the bandstand, and we proceeded to tear the house down with our set.

When I walked past her afterward, she just kind of looked at me, mouth hanging open, with that "Wut thuh...?" look on her face.

Hee hee, still laugh about that one.
 
#37
The comment that pissed me off the most was "are you a Bass player or a lazy guitarist?" The next time this dude came to my class I had my Bass and amp. I played him a Suart Hamm like rendition of the star spangled banner...He now plays the Bass!
 
#39
Originally posted by yawnsie
Something which recently annoyed me was in an interview with the bass player from Travis (A feeble Scottish band who are inexplicably popular in the UK) talking about when he was asked to join the band, even though he couldn't actually play an instrument at the time:

"I wasn't bothered about not being able to play, I mean, it's only the f***ing bass!"

AARRGGHH!!!!! B(

The bass player from one of the biggest bands in Britian (really!) saying something like THAT! What sort of example is that to set to young bassists, I ask you?
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And speaking of lame Britpop (or whatever the hell the press
calls it now) bands, I recall the guy from Blur making a
comment like that in BP Magazine a couple of years ago.
A lot of bassists were p.o.'d. What an idiot!

 

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