Strange, has this happened to you?

Yeah, most people can't handle my low-action setup.

 

Do you unplug it when other people go to play?

 

Most people are thrown off by the fretless, and I suspect that it's a combination of mostly poor fretting hand technique (different feel as there are no frets) coupled with a different plucking style that causes their tone to by muddy with your bass. Most people don't even dare try my bass when they see it.

 

the guitarist on our band is a git... he can drum, play bass and guitar (all badly )

...but everyone in my band can get a sound out of my bass - worst of all is our vocalist

 

See, I never let gits, tossers, wankers or pratts touch my bass. That way lies trouble.

 

AH yes, but it's give n' take see... our guitarist has a beautiful PRS!

 

eeewww... scrawny little scrunched-together frets, baseball bat neck... never touch the stuff, myself.

 

Ahh the other guys in my band get great sounds out of my basses! But its more of a blammeeee! It must be the fact that i just smacked them in the head with it! The drummer especially he is always dropping sticks! I told him i was going to sew velcro to his hands!

 

Not a bad idea.... My drummer has that problem also, and at the most inappropiate times. (for example: Dropped them TWICE in the same song on a gig in LIVE TV! )

 

My drummer once told a story about this AMAZING bassist (or was it the gui*tarist? nah, couldn't be) he knew (no, not me) and dropping sticks. The bassist was playing a solo when one of the drummer's sticks went flying right out of his hand! Somehow, the bassist managed to catch the stick, AND THEN PLAY A SOLO WITH IT. =X I don't know how he managed that, but he was probably using the thing as a slide. There's no reason for him to be lying, so I just wish I coulda been there to see that!

 

On the subject of stick-dropping drummers:

A few years ago I was watching the Conan O'Brien show. The musical guest was this drummer and his band. (no, not Max Weinberg). The song ending was this ludicrously long (for TV) drum solo. In the middle of the solo, disaster; With the all eyes on him, the camera showing all his moving limbs, he dropped a stick. He reached for another stick from his pouch thingy and pulled out a brush. He reached a second time and pulled out a mallet. He reached in a third time and pulled out the other mallet. The fourth time, you guessed it, the other brush. Finally, after the fifth attempt he pulled out something that wasn't a brush or a mallet, finished the solo and ended the damn song. It was the longest drum solo I've ever seen on TV, although It probably felt even longer for the drummer.

 

i dont give my little baby to anyone so i dont now if athers can lay with it but i can and thats the only thing i need

 

I'm a lefty so practically no one can play any of my basses, HAHAHAHA

Oh the little perks of playing lefty

"oooh can I play your bass?"
- "You can try"
"***? It's backwards!!!"
- "::chuckle::"

 

hahaha! I wish I was a lefty.

 

I am a lefty, but I play bass like a rightie. I'm guessing thats cuz my right hand is my dominant hand.... oh well...

 

I have the same problem when people try to start my car.