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Things bassist hate, Part 2

#61
Not being able to play behind the beat because the drummer keeps shifting in order to "match" me.

Guitarist presents chord chart for new original song to the band. When I ask him if he has any particular style of bassline in mind, he says: "Just play whatever. It's not like people are paying attention to the bass anyway."
 
#64
Nazis. I hate those guys.

On a serious note:

How a friend of mine (female) thinks that Green Day is an incredible, talented, awesome band and that Rush sucks and can't play. (***!!???)

Guitar players who listen to nothing but whatever the current scene "Core" music is and then think they're such better musicians than anyone else because they can play 32nd notes. (Musicianship is about passion and creativity, NOT speed and how low you can tune your bottom guitar string).


When Keyboards take the bass part (Need I say more?)

Arrogant Hipsters

Critics who can't appreciate anything in its own time...(Suddenly Genesis is a celebrated artist in Rolling Stone...40 years later...)

Hip Hop where the bass is a synth that just plays one note to emphasize the bass drum. (You know that "dum dum dum" pulse?)
 
#67
Here's my list! I admit some may or may not be repeats.

1. 'that guy' I think we all know one. That guitar play that picks up your bass plays a guitar lick then hands it to you and says 'look I don't even play bass and I'm better than you' then don't get it when you say 'you aren't playing bass, you're playing guitar on the bass.'

2. When the guitar is so loud you can't even hear yourself. Loud is not better!

3. When the guitarist tells you 'how to play' or tells you you're playing it wrong.

4. A drummer with no sense of rhythm.

5. Keyboardists left hand.

6. When the guitarist insists on 'bass is easier than guitar.' (usually comes from 'that guy')
 
#68
OPBASSMAN1994 said:
How a friend of mine (female) thinks that Green Day is an incredible, talented, awesome band and that Rush sucks and can't play. (***!!???
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Green Day and Rush are both incredible bands, albeit from a bass standpoint, Green Day's bassist Mike Dirnt has become a dreaded root digger.
Speaking of which, my top pet peeves are

1) Narrow hallways/stairways/doorways
2) Bass cables w/o angled heads and basses w/ input jacks on the side, instead of the front
3) Root diggers
 
#70
000laius said:
Here's my list! I admit some may or may not be repeats.

1. 'that guy' I think we all know one. That guitar play that picks up your bass plays a guitar lick then hands it to you and says 'look I don't even play bass and I'm better than you' then don't get it when you say 'you aren't playing bass, you're playing guitar on the bass.'
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I hate that. You know whenever I run into that, usually I noodle around with some self indulgent slapping. I almost never slap when I'm in the mix, but there's something about it that shuts those narrow minded guitarists up. Probably because its something that they know they can't do.
 
#73
+ 1 to "narrow hallways/stairways/doorways"

+ 1 to "...when guitarists ask 'how come you picked bass instead of guitar?'.. it's cos I'm interested in bass" I started on the guitar when I was kid and still have enough chops to convince them that I'm on bass because that's what I love.

+ 1 to "Nazis. I hate those guys." Me too. Thanks Indy. ;)

+ 1 to "Non-bass playing musicians telling bass playing musicians what "the bass" is "supposed" to do." I'm going to expand that a little and say any band member who doesn't really get the collaborative nature of a band, ie. someone trying impose ALL of his/her creative ideas on everyone else, someone who is overly insecure and is constantly on the defensive or trying too hard, someone who is constantly getting in everyone else's space (that one's for you keyboardists. If you want it to be all about you, follow in Yanni's footsteps).
 
#74
1) Guitar Satan
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2) Ditto on arrogant hipsters, such trendy shallowness posing as depth. For those who claim to be so unique and individual, they're some of the biggest conformists I've ever seen.

3) Gear snobs in general and Fender Snobs specifically.

4) Drunk morons who think its their God-given right to jump onstage and sing with the band.

5) Dive bars

6) Drunk a$$hats that yell "Free Bird".
 
#76
The Owl said:
2) Ditto on arrogant hipsters, such trendy shallowness posing as depth. For those who claim to be so unique and individual, they're some of the biggest conformists I've ever seen.
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By making their choices based upon avoiding the mainstream, they are guided by it. It's a hilarious hypocrisy.

In a trendy part of town I recently saw a textbook hipster (skinny jeans, whimsical graphic t-shirt and distressed corduroy blazer, and a wool cap covering a hairdo that looked like a small, black, longhair rodent) sitting at a sidewalk table listening to a portable record player through vintage Radio Shack headphones. You could almost smell the smugness. Never in my life have I so desperately wished I owned a tazer...
 
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LothrtheTerribl said:
By making their choices based upon avoiding the mainstream, they are guided by it. It's a hilarious hypocrisy.

In a trendy part of town I recently saw a textbook hipster (skinny jeans, whimsical graphic t-shirt and distressed corduroy blazer, and a wool cap covering a hairdo that looked like a small, black, longhair rodent) sitting at a sidewalk table listening to a portable record player through vintage Radio Shack headphones. You could almost smell the smugness. Never in my life have I so desperately wished I owned a tazer...
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The only real hipsters were in LA and NY in the early '90s. Anyone who currently follows that trend is a wannabe hipster, and a wannabe hipster is just about the worst thing you can be. :)
 
#80
Every instrument/piece of equipment I decide that I want to get being so expensive it takes forever to scrape together enough to buy it. Then, while surfing the web and/or talking to people, finding out you could have gotten a barely used one for half the price :scowl:

People that run pawn shops/music stores and they have no clue what they're talking about

People that ask me what I do in the band

Coldplay
 

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