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You know you're a bass player if...

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you know you play bass when you show a guitarist you can slap/pop on a guitar (kinda)

repeatedly hurt you back carrying gear, and buy a hand truck to keep in your truck (you bought the truck to move gear)

Your girlfriend repeatedly tells you to shut up when you watch school of rock, because its "DOESNT" propigate the stupid bassist myth (it does though, she's wrong)

youve actually watched to see if your cabs scoot on the floor when playing

you got cables and adapters to hook you TV/DVD amp up to your bass rig.

For the nerds - play shooter games with you computer hooked up to your rid because you like the punchy responce you get when shooting/being shot

Check the local musical items for sale daily for the next great catch

but my personal favorite -
you can show people different rattles in your house hitting different notes. I think i can get almost everything in my house to dance around now.
 
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gilbert46 said:
you can show people different rattles in your house hitting different notes. I think i can get almost everything in my house to dance around now.
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:D You must know me. I can do this trick where I put a golfball on my shelf up stairs, play a G down stairs, and get the golfball to roll into a bucket I placed next to the shelves. I had a lot of free time last summer. I can also change the temperature on my thermostat with an open D.
 
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Matthew Bryson said:
You know you're a bass player when any time you injure any finger, you imediately take note of whether or not it will impact your bass playing and to what extent.
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I'm guilty of this, yesterday I had to walk outside for awhile and I had no gloves on. When I got home my left hand(fretting) was so frozen that when it warmed up it felt like it had been inflated and I as like "ok how long is this gonna last, cuz i feels wierd and if either of my hand don't feel 'normal' it distracts me while playing"

Luckily my hands feel much better today
 
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Transverz said:
bought car around bass gear...

-You listen to your rhythm guitars rig intently to make sure he isn't muscling anywhere near your territory

-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 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?")
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I'm guilty for all of these, except I always laugh on how small guitars are :)

The rack stuff scared my band mates at first until they started using my power conditioner for added protection :rolleyes:

I was asked last practice why I bought my Sunn amp when my Hartke worked just fine...this came from my drummer of course...so I just told him it has better tone plus it doesn't hum when I take my hands off my strings. He just nodded, smiled and walked away.
 
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You know you're a bass player when any time you injure any finger, you imediately take note of whether or not it will impact your bass playing and to what extent.
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I'm so guilty of this...on Saturday I injustred my finger pole vaulting (at least I didnt smash my head in...almost did...but first thing I thought of was well, that my new SX was comin in that night and I wouldnt be able to play it...

I played it anyways...and with teh busted finger (the top layer of skin was ripped off on my middle finger so it hurt when anything touched it) I played for like an hour during service on sunday at church...didnt really hurt.
 
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-You can't wipe the smile off your face when you put on your bandmates' guitars and keep saying "Wow, it's so light!"
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This is actually distressing for me, as my bandmate's guitar feels like a toy, like extremely fragile after I've put my bass down... I'm actually afraid of braking it. :D


continuing, you know you're a bassplayer when you constantly slap any surface, like the shifter when you're driving.

and constantly look around in a paranoid fashion to make sure nobody's laughing at you, lol.

:hiding:
 
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Along the lines of the whole injur thing, your a bass player if your calluses are so thick that when you touch a hot muffler it doesn't even hurt, I'm speaking from experience here...
 
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Aussiephoenix said:
This is actually distressing for me, as my bandmate's guitar feels like a toy, like extremely fragile after I've put my bass down... I'm actually afraid of braking it. :D


continuing, you know you're a bassplayer when you constantly slap any surface, like the shifter when you're driving.

and constantly look around in a paranoid fashion to make sure nobody's laughing at you, lol.

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Lol, I can say amen to this...I put away both my friends electriic and acoustic/electric the other day...was like OMGITS SO LIGHT!

...And then I picked up my viola in school the next day and am like wha?
 
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lazykat411 said:
You know you're a bass player if...

- (for C15C0 PHR33K's) To exaggerate the importance/complication of the bass to your non-computer literate and non-music friends you say "It's like subnetting a CIDR network with 3 IP addresses, each address is the reserved address range for that class (A - 10, b - 172, C - 192), port translation and doing it all in Binary"
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The scary thing, is I know exactly what he's talking about... :hiding:
 
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