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Who likes basses?

Is there anyone here who enjoys a good bass guitar and/or playing the bass in general? :bassist:

I find basses and bass playing very boring…

Thump-thump-thump…

The occasional “whump”…

Pretty boring stuff, ya know…


I much prefer my favourite instrument, the glockenspiel!

Man glockenspiels are FUNKY!!!

I don’t know why bands like P-funk and EW&F never really ever went for that glockenspiel sound…

ROCK THE GLOCK, BABY!!!



(yes, I’m completely being a sarcastic moron…)
 
Wait, by bass do you mean those 4 stringed thingys that do thump,thump, thumpand make guitar players look overqualified for the job. Cause Ive got 6 in my house and these boxes with cables and knobs and speakers. And you know what when you stick these boxes to these "basses" they get a whole lot louder.
 
This arrived to me.... TRUE STORY

2 years ago, I was in a bar when a bass come to me and said ''do you want to est me baby!!' i said 'why not i like fishes' but when I eated her she didn't even want to do something with me. I was like '' hey you *uckin' fish, you're gonna regret it, I please you and you don't even want to do me a lowend job' And i killed her...:hyper::hyper::hyper::hyper::hyper: Since this time i know that BASS DONT $UCK OR EVEN F###!!!!:mad::mad::mad::rollno::rollno::bawl::bawl:
 
Well let's see.

They can range from 1 to 483 strings, have a fretboard bigger than the deck on the USS Nimitz, can cost as low as $20 to $600,000, have wood that ranges from particle board to some odd four-trunked tree grown in Borneo, be as large 2 people, light as a speck of dust to as heavy as an elephant, and can sound from really annoying high pitched noise to something that measure on the Richter scale AND can possibly knock down the building you are playing in.

I like them myself. I don't know about the others here.
 
Look! Long scale and fretless!

looks like a 6 string.

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I hate practicing scales. :scowl: