What Bass player should I be?

[mcm]

Bootsy!

 

[Jhengsman]

Any 70's funk band costume and then :scowl: when someone else tries to guess who you are.

 

[josiah goldfish]

Jaco pastorius?

 

[Mike Sorr]

Get a long hair wig, some pants that look like they were once part of a wet suit and an Iron Maiden T-shirt and you're Steve Harris...make sure you're playing a P Bass though.

 

[Mike Sorr]

Honestly, most people in your audience won't know the difference between a bass and a guitar. So you could also dress up like a guitar player, seriously. That opens things up a bit as well. You could even do Slash and they won't know.

How painfully true. My wife once brought one of her male co workers to see a band I was in. She told him I was the bass player and he said, "Oh really? Now, which one is the bass player again?" I'll bet I've heard that same question asked a dozen times at gigs. "Bass is different from guitar then?" That another one of my favorites. Yeah, investing in all that expensive gear and years worth of practice and lessons and most of the people you play for have no idea what you do. Kind of depressing actually. But it sure explains most of the crap that passes for music these days.

 

[Sundogue]

Tall, skinny white boy?

Easy...Pino Palladino

 

[Bassist4Eris]

Ginormous afro wig + 60's paisley shirt = Noel Redding

 

[davkane]

What about Tom Wolk, or Duck Dunn, or Kip Winger... Then there is aways Jaco. Maybe Peter Cetera? When you say the bass player dress like Gene, does he do the make-up or not? You could do the other...

 

[Stormer]

Put on a black & white skeleton suit and get a bowl haircut............John Entwistle.

 

[Signs]

Geddy Lee

Long black wig, wire rim shades, and mascara gotee. Black converse all stars, black button shirt and jeans and you're there...

 

[gumbynotpokey]

Go as Derek Smalls from This Is Spinal Tap.

Everyone will guess and talk, you'll look the part, and the REAL fans will know. Great recipe.

 

[throughthefire]

Go as Derek Smalls from This Is Spinal Tap.

Everyone will guess and talk, you'll look the part, and the REAL fans will know. Great recipe.

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Genius!

 

[ariff]

Yeah I passed several of these by the guy in the band I am working with and sadly he is right most people will never know most of the players that have been mentioned on this thread. Looks like I am going as Sir Paul McCartney the British Invasion version. I already have the suit and tie all I need is the wig. Cheap\easy and some what comfortable. I sure hope most people will at least get it that I am a Beatle or some sort of British invasion guy.. Thanks for all the great ideas..

 

[mellowinman]

Rod Stewart.

 

[5StringThunder]

I'd go with Duff. I already had the Duff hair.

 

[carlthegroover]

How about the bud from Slipknot? Too extreme maybe? He does look cool, like a Jason Voorhees as a bass player.

 

[carlthegroover]

Or, better yet, Tal Wilkenfeld.

Yeah, or how about that bassist chick from the all-female punk band Civet? She's very hot.

Whoa, that was weird! Five posts at the same time!

True, man. That was pretty eerie.

 

[shakman]

Rock a vest, beret, some sunglasses and a fu Manchu and voila- insta Les. I can't help you with the Carl Thompson though.

 

[Basshappi]

John Entwistle
Steve Harris
Dusty Hill
Nikki Sixx

 

[baddarryl]

Could you pull off Esperanza?