you know your a bassist when you fall asleep on the couch with your bass in your lap, and you wake up on the floor and the bass is still on the couch
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You know you're a bass player if...
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You know you're a bass player if:
You keep tuning into ESPN to watch "Bassmasters" and are getting upset because they keep substituting it with some stupid fishing show.
You keep tuning into ESPN to watch "Bassmasters" and are getting upset because they keep substituting it with some stupid fishing show.
Relating to the 'bass is easier',
You know you're a bass player when you carry a burned cd with Portrait of Tracy only on it at all times so when someone says bass is easier you can play it.
You know you're a bass player when you carry a burned cd with Portrait of Tracy only on it at all times so when someone says bass is easier you can play it.
You know your a bassist if:
-you play bass
-you have a cd full of just songs u love the bass lines to (guilty 3 times
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-you walk around and your index and middle finger just move subcoinciously.
-You show EVERYONE the new bassline you wrote/learnt regardless of whether they care.
-you instinctavely beat the living snot out of anyone who disses you or your bass or bass in general.
-you either have really long hair, or very short hair.
-Your able to stack 9 ciggarette packets on tom of each other and pick them up between ur minndle finger and thumb.
-you play bass
-you have a cd full of just songs u love the bass lines to (guilty 3 times
)-you walk around and your index and middle finger just move subcoinciously.
-You show EVERYONE the new bassline you wrote/learnt regardless of whether they care.
-you instinctavely beat the living snot out of anyone who disses you or your bass or bass in general.
-you either have really long hair, or very short hair.
-Your able to stack 9 ciggarette packets on tom of each other and pick them up between ur minndle finger and thumb.
bought car around bass gear...
GUILTY! Best thing I ever did.
Also, you are a bass player if:
-You know more about everybody's gear in the band than they themself do and make all the gear purchases
-Your car/truck/van is the most beat up because of hauling gear
-You're the only one in the band who has some grasp of what EQ can really do, other than "make the treble/bass higher"
-You listen to your rhythm guitars rig intently to make sure he isn't muscling anywhere near your territory
-You're the only one in the band who knows what "DI" is and what it's for
-You're the only one in the band who doesn't come to rehearsal and they can play the whole set straight through
-You almost always pick up an acoustic guitar and start off bass playing for laughs
-You can't wipe the smile off your face when you put on your bandmates' guitars and keep saying "Wow, it's so light!"
-You always mutter under your breath "man, if I played rhythm/lead, I'd be so crazy!"
-You introduced your bandmates to the alternative of using a rack mounted rig...and they thought you were insane
-Your bandmates are always puzzled why your rig is always evolving and changing while theirs hasn't changed since the band started (or they say "why do you keep buying new stuff?")
At least these are true for me...
GUILTY! Best thing I ever did.
Also, you are a bass player if:
-You know more about everybody's gear in the band than they themself do and make all the gear purchases
-Your car/truck/van is the most beat up because of hauling gear
-You're the only one in the band who has some grasp of what EQ can really do, other than "make the treble/bass higher"
-You listen to your rhythm guitars rig intently to make sure he isn't muscling anywhere near your territory
-You're the only one in the band who knows what "DI" is and what it's for
-You're the only one in the band who doesn't come to rehearsal and they can play the whole set straight through
-You almost always pick up an acoustic guitar and start off bass playing for laughs
-You can't wipe the smile off your face when you put on your bandmates' guitars and keep saying "Wow, it's so light!"
-You always mutter under your breath "man, if I played rhythm/lead, I'd be so crazy!"
-You introduced your bandmates to the alternative of using a rack mounted rig...and they thought you were insane
-Your bandmates are always puzzled why your rig is always evolving and changing while theirs hasn't changed since the band started (or they say "why do you keep buying new stuff?")
At least these are true for me...
You go into a "bass" chatroom and some guy says that he has a 25'' bass on hiss wall and you tell him that you have five 34", two 35" and a 36" and a short scale, and an upright.
Stingraymund said:
I do these all the time! I still laugh at that cello thing too...
here's another one
-when you listen to a song with a bassline you know, your hand twitches.
or maybe its just me who does that?
You know if your a bass player if you get pissed at the keyboard player for walking on your lines.
... If you get a e-mail for a saturday Bass gig and your the only one that shows up at 5:30a.m. with a bass instead of a pole.
-Rav
-Rav
You know you're a bassist if
-You get kicked out of a band you started and are willing to accept their apologies when they come groveling back to you.
-You care more about what the song sounds like than what you personally have to play
-When you write yourself a boring part to make the song sound good
-When you are the only person not complaining about having to play a boring part
-When you know that circle progression is not walking in a circle that gets bigger and bigger
-You get kicked out of a band you started and are willing to accept their apologies when they come groveling back to you.
-You care more about what the song sounds like than what you personally have to play
-When you write yourself a boring part to make the song sound good
-When you are the only person not complaining about having to play a boring part
-When you know that circle progression is not walking in a circle that gets bigger and bigger
Stingraymund said:
Mmrph.. I had just gotten to know that the bass I ordered was stolen from the warehouse and that I couldn't get it after all.. ...this after three weeks of waiting.
The same day I installed XP, and what do I see? That bass user icon.
What does it look like? Good, but very much like the bass I had just gotten to know that I wouldn't get.
..the bass I ordered was this one: http://www.floresmusic.com/jpg_images/LTD C305.jpg
not identical, but pretty similar.
I just do the opposite, which explains the eyebrow. I never play "the boring part", and if I do, I make something of it.
The windows XP bass icon, what is that bass? It looks kinda like a Tobias, but isnt. Any ideas?Stingraymund said:
Nickthebassist said:The windows XP bass icon, what is that bass? It looks kinda like a Tobias, but isnt. Any ideas?
It is a tobias.
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