I became a bass player when I got married and I wanted to become invisible to women.
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When did you become a bass player?
- Thread starter BarfanyShart
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When I was 12 years old ,I got private lesson from a guitar teacher on guitar .
I sucked so bad that the teacher told my parents do not waste your money and this boy time .
So I stop playing music but liked music so much .
Once I was in gym practicing with a friend,He said he wanna pickup bass guitar.
so After gym we went few shops and he tried few basses .
I started search for him and listen to bass sound it was meh for me .
Finally we went to a live concert and saw this guy
for first time noticed bass sound in the music and liked it .
Two days after that went to start learn bass and 5 years later here I am.
I sucked so bad that the teacher told my parents do not waste your money and this boy time .
So I stop playing music but liked music so much .
Once I was in gym practicing with a friend,He said he wanna pickup bass guitar.
so After gym we went few shops and he tried few basses .
I started search for him and listen to bass sound it was meh for me .
Finally we went to a live concert and saw this guy
for first time noticed bass sound in the music and liked it .
Two days after that went to start learn bass and 5 years later here I am.
Funny you should say that. My first exposure to playing bass at 16 in 1969 was when two guys spending the summer in the area needed a bass player and we couldn't find a bass so modified a Harmony Meteor to be a "bass."
I didn't know you could play patterns or riffs or melodies on the guitar or bass (I knew about 4 guitar chords at the time) so the guitarist had to show me how to play every note.
After I heard Jack Bruce's descending bassline on this. Took me another 2 years to figure out the sound I was hearing was a bass.
I received my first guitar at age 17 from my parents too, it was a cheap classic guitar, i started to playing than i noticed a pair of antennas inside the sound hole. There was a roach in my bass, i wonder where did my farther bought the guitar
But things got worse..
When i told my father about the roach, he told me "it comes with the guitar, you will play and he will sing". Also was a victim of a dad joke
As far as dad jokes go, that was a good one.I received my first guitar at age 17 from my parents too, it was a cheap classic guitar, i started to playing than i noticed a pair of antennas inside the sound hole. There was a roach in my bass, i wonder where did my farther bought the guitar
But things got worse..
When i told my father about the roach, he told me "it comes with the guitar, you will play and he will sing". Also was a victim of a dad joke
Well, going by the OP's criteria, listening to JPJ play the intro to How Many More Times. I was probably around 6...
4:30? In that case I've been playing bass for 45 years.
1996. My friends formed a band we needed a bass player. I took on the challenge. I started on piano...then Alto and Tenor Sax...but I’ve been playing bass the most.
In 1974...I played guitar in a garage band with 3 other guitarists and a drummer. I always played the bass line on guitar so since I was the only one who could hear the bass line, I traded in my guitar for a bass and NEVER looked back!
I had played flute in school band since age 8, and drums semi-informally since even earlier than that, but the day I knew I was going to become a musician was some time in 1969 or 1970, so I woulda been prolly 9 years old, I'm sitting in the allergist's office waiting room about to get my monthly injection, Mom is sitting next to me reading McCall's magazine and I've just pulled a copy of Life or Look off the magazine rack on the wall...
and it has an article featuring a black&white photo spread of The Rolling Stones' concert at Altamont.
I had no idea what those people were doing in those photos. All I knew was that I wanted to do that!
It was like someone flipped a switch: I no longer told people I wanted to be a paleontologist when I grew up; I started saying I wanted to be a rock star!
I settled for musician. Guitar came almost immediately thereafter; bass came about 3 or 4 years later.
and it has an article featuring a black&white photo spread of The Rolling Stones' concert at Altamont.
I had no idea what those people were doing in those photos. All I knew was that I wanted to do that!
It was like someone flipped a switch: I no longer told people I wanted to be a paleontologist when I grew up; I started saying I wanted to be a rock star!
I settled for musician. Guitar came almost immediately thereafter; bass came about 3 or 4 years later.
