I started playing guitar in early 1968, and wasn't that great. A friend needed a bass player for his band. They gave me a try out, and it really clicked. It's been the bass since 1968. I love playing the bass.
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Was Bass your first choice?
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Was taking piano lessons before being recruited to play double bass in elementary school orchestra in 4th grade. Bass ended up being the main focus until my early 30's. Then developed severe tendonitis and had to stop playing although. Took up guitar and ended up going down a different musical path. Would plunk on a bass in a store from time to time. Didn't have the urge to buy one until a couple years ago. Got a Bronco bass. Sold it and then just picked up an Epiphone EB-0.
It should have been.
I still hold onto a couple of guitars, but sometimes I wonder why.
I still hold onto a couple of guitars, but sometimes I wonder why.
SirMjac28
Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion
I bet that wasn't a problem for these guys.
Oh those guys. They did these things called albums? Love electronica too.
Like others, I always found myself focusing on bass in music I heard . Once I heard Squire it was like something clicked, THAT is the sound I want make, covering bass and more mid and trebly sounds at the same time. So of course I had to have a Ric bass, a 79' 4001 Jetglo, worked summer jobs to buy it, $450 with OHSC. My how times and prices have changed. Bass is still the first thing I notice about most music.
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I was five when The Beatles hit the Ed Sullivan Show. I had no idea what they were doing, just I had to do it. Once I heard The Beatles Rain I knew that was the sound I wanted to make.
Not really....... I decided on it after my music director in school told me I was too stupid to play the French horn....
Yes.
My friend had a guitar, so I got a bass. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
I still think it was a good idea, it fits me.
My friend had a guitar, so I got a bass. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
I still think it was a good idea, it fits me.
Ha! Kraftwerk, "wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der autobahn. Vor uns leigt, ein weites tal, Die sonne scheint mit glitzerstrahl!" Great headphone pot smoking music from my wastrel youth.
That will be the next thread "do bassist like electronic music?" Outside of Tangerine Dream I love this stuff and no clue why. The English version of The Model has a funeral dirge sound but it's cool. Rock? on Kling Klang.
Not telling me anything I dug these guys and like I said, no clue why. The music just pulled me in and I'm probably wrong but it carried the low end through and through. Nothing over the top, just hypnotic, which is why someone? smoking something? would get pulled in.You gotta admit, Kraftwerk were WAY AHEAD of their time.
I started out playing guitar. I could handle rhythm but just couldn't handle lead.
I've always liked the bass...to me, McCartney was always a bassist who could also sing and write songs and Dennis Dunaway and Jack Bruce have always inspired me, so taking up the bass was a logical step.
The right step, too, as it turned out.
I've always liked the bass...to me, McCartney was always a bassist who could also sing and write songs and Dennis Dunaway and Jack Bruce have always inspired me, so taking up the bass was a logical step.
The right step, too, as it turned out.
I first wanted to play drums, but my parents wanted me to make something of my life. Picked up a guitar off a friend for $100 when I was 17 and stuck with it for a few years. I was at a party in college when a friend told me I was playing bass in his new band. That lasted for a bit and I went back to guitar for a different project. Gave it up for a while and played bass in a few smaller projects when I got out to the DC area. Put it back down to do vocals for a metal band and then picked it back up when we parted ways with the old bassist. I'd say that I haven't looked back, but I still want to learn the drums... Though I'm not going to put the bass back down!
Bass. Started on upright, actually. Later, as a music major, it was required to study piano/keyboard for composition etc., and I wished I had started playing that years earlier as well. With music, being an art, hopefully everyone plays the instrument they feel like they want to play! Life is too short to waste time on an instrument you don't connect with. I always feel a little bad for the people that play bass only because they don't have a local bassist for their band-if they don't want to play bass, that is. Paul McCartney fell in love with bass playing, eventually- and Carol Kaye did too, though neither started on bass.
