Oh, and bite me. Hard...n'kay?
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Yeah, pretty much this, exactly.
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One of my proudest accomplishments was proving #8 ("but when you break a string, EVERONE notices") wrong - I once broke a string playing DB in a trio once, and the singer who was standing right next to me didn't notice anything for about two songs, and then only noticed me pulling out the remnants between songs. I did get bad cramps with a few songs left in the gig from all the flying around the fingerboard between the G and A strings, but up until that point apparently I managed to sound like nothing was wrong.
Yea he sounds like D*** lol. Anyone who says that apparently has no idea the bass even exists unless its being slapped. I also have an acquaintance who gives me poopie everytime I play asking "how many times did you slap during the show". I respond with "zero" and he shakes his head. This is also the same guy that gives me poopie for playing a four string bass. Ignoramus.
No one has ever said any of those things to me, and no one ever gives me crap about anything I do, except on this forum.
Go figure.
Go figure.
Mellow, have a laugh, wouldja? It's actually not a bad thing to do. Therapeutic, even...or so I'm told. Consider it an amalgam of all the "greatest misses" threads on TalkBass.
No. It means the drums were so loud that people wanted to tell you they couldn't hear you, but you didn't hear them because your ears were still ringing from the cymbals.
I laugh all the time. You know the expression, "its funny 'cuz its true?"
This one is not true for me at all! Nobody ever slags me off for playing bass. Honest!
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I laugh at things that aren't true all the time. Like animals in people clothes, that's hilarious to me. It never gets old, and it's definitely not because I think that a potbelly pig might actually try to perform surgery or do some killer detective work.
I must be misremembering, but I'd have sworn you said you were married.
Yes, 19.
And there was also the time I was practicing and my five year old son came into the room. I start up the backing tracks to play with, and before I even play a note, he says, "Wow, you sound great!"
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... "Thanks, son!" 
And there was also the time I was practicing and my five year old son came into the room. I start up the backing tracks to play with, and before I even play a note, he says, "Wow, you sound great!"
...... "Thanks, son!" 
