WHA--?! I thought everyone has, at least, heard of Yes. Not to mention, Mr. Squire plays a 4001
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You know you're a bass player if...
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MikeBass
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Matthew Bryson said:
Oh my stinking God....I've heard this sooooooooooooooooooooo many freaking times I could puke.
And you wouldn't believe how many after I got my first 5- a Yamaha BB5000s, not long after they came out.
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* You judge the power output of the bass stack by the amount of trouser leg flap it causes.
* When asked the time, you automatically reply in the format "oh it's V past II"
* You want to strangle the guitarist who says "oh don't worry that's just a G for you" when you know damn well it's a Gm7 and you're sick of trying to tell him the "m7" bit does actually matter.
* When your friends visit you and you ask if his wife, who drinks gin and tonic, wants a "tonic and fifth*
* You decide to use your 800 watt bass stack in a 200 people congregation church so the organ player doesn't dare put his foot anywhere near the footpedals.
* When asked the time, you automatically reply in the format "oh it's V past II"
* You want to strangle the guitarist who says "oh don't worry that's just a G for you" when you know damn well it's a Gm7 and you're sick of trying to tell him the "m7" bit does actually matter.
* When your friends visit you and you ask if his wife, who drinks gin and tonic, wants a "tonic and fifth*
* You decide to use your 800 watt bass stack in a 200 people congregation church so the organ player doesn't dare put his foot anywhere near the footpedals.
I *hate* when wannabe guitarists say "I like the bass better because it has less strings" when I outplay all the guitarists on their own instument who say ignorant things like that.
Especially since I'm in highschool, I get the "play white stripes thing too many times." /em double eye-poke
You know you're a bass player when...
...you are just playing an improb. bass line and people think you are reading off "tabs."
...you get too much appreciation when you don't want to be bugged and none at all most of the time.
Especially since I'm in highschool, I get the "play white stripes thing too many times." /em double eye-poke
You know you're a bass player when...
...you are just playing an improb. bass line and people think you are reading off "tabs."
...you get too much appreciation when you don't want to be bugged and none at all most of the time.
Sometimes, but that was in response to what IvanMike said... about turning up TV commercials for the bass lines... I'm guilty of that.
...every time you are moving your cabs you think "Damn, I REALLY ought to have considered playing flute..."
Guiseppe said:
That's why I bought two bamboo flutes off of Amazon for 10$ a piece
.. I'll be a 1 man Jethro Tull.... Without the sex change.
Tull got a sex change??
You know you're a bass player if.... picks? What are these things you call "picks?"
(Actually, I use a pick sometimes.
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You know you're a bass player if.... picks? What are these things you call "picks?"
(Actually, I use a pick sometimes.
)I don't exactly play bass yet so here is my "You know you want to be a bass player if" things
You know you want to be a bass player if:
-You find yourself mezmorized by the bassiest at every concert you go to
-You asked for a bass for christmas and your mom got you a guitar and used the line "What's the difference" and you pulled out your Smashing Pumpkins CD and made her listen to the difference during 1979 (i did this)
-Your attracted to bass players, not because they are attractive, because their bass is
-You upgraded your speaker system just to feel your seat vibrate...and people think you did it because your "hip hop"
-Your in awe of anyone who even owns a bass
-The cashier at the local music shop knows you by name and knows exactly what your going to ask before you ask it and is always nice when he says "No new basses yet"
-Your friends say your "punk" just because you know who plays bass in your favorite bands...and you know what kind they play if you've seen them live
thats all!
You know you want to be a bass player if:
-You find yourself mezmorized by the bassiest at every concert you go to
-You asked for a bass for christmas and your mom got you a guitar and used the line "What's the difference" and you pulled out your Smashing Pumpkins CD and made her listen to the difference during 1979 (i did this)
-Your attracted to bass players, not because they are attractive, because their bass is
-You upgraded your speaker system just to feel your seat vibrate...and people think you did it because your "hip hop"
-Your in awe of anyone who even owns a bass
-The cashier at the local music shop knows you by name and knows exactly what your going to ask before you ask it and is always nice when he says "No new basses yet"
-Your friends say your "punk" just because you know who plays bass in your favorite bands...and you know what kind they play if you've seen them live
thats all!
I asked for a bass for my birthday a few years back.... I got an acoustic guitar. It was a nice guitar... if only it had four strings, instead of six. I took it back and traded it in for the J. Reyolds I have now.
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