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what do guitards call US

#63
I get called Walter a lot.

I'm too polite to repeat what the guys I work with call other the other bass players in town :hiding:

I'm thinking of going the guitard-filled-moat-with-drummer-majordomo routine, though. It appeals to my sense of grandeur :D
 
#70
I had one call me a string of nasty four letter words once.

I was very, very briefly in this band with a douchey guitar player who got off on the scent of his own farts. One day, we're humping our gear up a couple flights of stairs, trying to get set up for soundcheck, and when I asked him for a hand he replies "who am I, your roadie?!" I told him to get his gear out of my van, and get it upstairs because I didn't want a parking ticket. He leaves to grab a slice of pizza.

He came back about half an hour later, while the rest of us we're getting ready to soundcheck, he's screaming and cursing my name because I left his brand new Gibson SG, his pedalboard, and his cab sitting on the sidewalk outside the club unattended. He also didn't see how I was "doing him a favour" by propping open the locked door with his Orange.

We didn't get along very well...

Most other guitarists just call me by my name.
 
#71
BadB said:
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Having played 6 string for 15 years, then switching to bass in the last two... I can tell you this is right. A good bass player is hard to find. That is why I switched. I will admit a lot of guitar player don't want input from the bass player. "Shut up and play". I've always considered the bass part more important than the 6 string. Rhythm is key to every song. But I also learned bass while I learned 6 string so I'd have a better understanding of song structures.
 
#72
When my band had a rhythm guitard, he would always say that "bass just follows the rhythm." To which i would say, "if you learn to play your instrument and play what i play, then this is true."....He didnt last long. The worst guitards are the one who can't play.

My REAL guitar player (notice no insult) calls me "amazing", "my bassist", or, best of all, nothing. He just grins though the entire song. Best kind of compliments are sometimes the silent ones.
 

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