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You know you're a bass player if...
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BMW engineers design the Ernie Ball Bongo Bass, therefore is partially a product of BMW.saxnbass said:
did they really, or is there any irony in there?tplyons said:
I thought it was just because they loooked so similar - had no idea it was the same designers!
meh, when i read that one, i laughed so that dr. pepper came out my nose... sad but true. ruined my keyboard.
althought i usually read the forum i don`t usually reply, but i`ve to say that you know a bass player when:
-you teach to your drummer how to play a 15/8, you show to your guitar player how to play an Em7 chord, and you are the back up singer cause you `re the only one in the band who could sing a 5th
-the slap on everything you have near is so true. I`ve learned the Tommy The Cat bass solo on a 600 Coke bottle, and tell to my students to practice on them all the time
-You meet a girl and she don`t know what`s the difference between a bass an a guitar. After 6 moths of dating, she can sing every bass line she hears, knows the meaning of "Syncopa", "Slap", "Walking Bass". Also you catch her singing "Wynonas Big Brown Beaver" more than once. And one of the things that makes me more proud:
She used to listen crappy music but now owns a respectable collection of jazz music including some wheater report, mingus,
- Your friends talk crap about your instrument, but after you download "Come Togheter" from MM, they realize how cool your instrument is.
-You friends switch from rock guitar, to bass masters after you show them the "Rush in Rio" DVD
-You listen and know how to play Satriani and Vai. Know also the main riffs and some solos. Also learn the entire "Scenes From a Memory" to jam with your drummer. But when you start playing Teen Town no one know what the hell you are doing
Bass rocks
-you teach to your drummer how to play a 15/8, you show to your guitar player how to play an Em7 chord, and you are the back up singer cause you `re the only one in the band who could sing a 5th
-the slap on everything you have near is so true. I`ve learned the Tommy The Cat bass solo on a 600 Coke bottle, and tell to my students to practice on them all the time
-You meet a girl and she don`t know what`s the difference between a bass an a guitar. After 6 moths of dating, she can sing every bass line she hears, knows the meaning of "Syncopa", "Slap", "Walking Bass". Also you catch her singing "Wynonas Big Brown Beaver" more than once. And one of the things that makes me more proud:
She used to listen crappy music but now owns a respectable collection of jazz music including some wheater report, mingus,
- Your friends talk crap about your instrument, but after you download "Come Togheter" from MM, they realize how cool your instrument is.
-You friends switch from rock guitar, to bass masters after you show them the "Rush in Rio" DVD
-You listen and know how to play Satriani and Vai. Know also the main riffs and some solos. Also learn the entire "Scenes From a Memory" to jam with your drummer. But when you start playing Teen Town no one know what the hell you are doing
Bass rocks
hahahaha
i went to the kitchen to make my breakfast and couldn`t stop thinking of more and more "You are a bass player if"
must add:
-you listen more music than all the other members of the band + her brothers + sisters and significant others.
-Someone said, "you teach how to play reggae to the drummer", i must add:
teach the guitar player how to play funk
-You know that theres a whole new music world besides Rock.
-your ringtone is "donna lee"
-your Messenger picture is you playing bass, or Jaco, Geddy, Les, or your bass hero. A lot of girls thought i actually was Geddy Lee, and a lot of people actually asked me why i cut my hair. THAT`s what happend when you always have a Geddy picture and also have a big nose, and a black Fender Jazz.
-DMV is a song first, then you realize that it`s also a place that has something to do with vehicles, licences...
-When you hear the Dave Matthews band, you listen everything, but Dave Matthews.
-when you know that bass has all the guitar techniques and sound good and a lot of thechniques that only sound good on bass. (I know you can slap a guitar... but it doesn`t compare!)
-When you learn Rapper`s Delight, Last Train To London and My Sherona just to make girls happy.
-When you are the only musician in the band who loves music for the music. Not because you get chiks. And you love playing what it has to be played.
-when your guitar players plays 156.000 notes per second and looks at you and says: "Guitar is the BEST" and you just play your Dropped D string and feel the extreme power and the whole room shaking and look at him
"YOU KNOW NOTHIN´"
-When you got addicted to low frequencies... and your Amp never got enought bass power
-you get drunk and start talking about bass, and bass related things and you know no one cares, but you keep on trying to make mr.pastorius the most popular guy in the planet
-when my fish didn`t have a name,but after reading the whole thread now it`s called Mike Gordon
I don`t knowif it`s made, but someone has to make a thread called: "Great Moments in the life of a Bass Player" including:
-The face of your guitar player when you asked some sweepicking tips to use with the wooten pick/thumb technique
-the face of your drummer when you can play his pattern using dead notes
-the no guitar, full dance floor in red red wine
-After a whole day in the beach, with your guitar player playing hit songs and singing, you pick up the guitar and play that tapping Bach song you`ve worked for the last 2 months and with just that, you have more compliments that anyone else.
-everyone is dancing in your solo
etc etc...
Cause i found that we are mostly complaining the bad sides of bass but c`mon, it has a lot of good moments!!!
Peace
and forgive my reaaaaaally poor english
Manu
and of course, you are a bass player when you got drunk with your girl and you start grooving with her. Yes, you also know that your girl loves you too much...
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i went to the kitchen to make my breakfast and couldn`t stop thinking of more and more "You are a bass player if"
must add:
-you listen more music than all the other members of the band + her brothers + sisters and significant others.
-Someone said, "you teach how to play reggae to the drummer", i must add:
teach the guitar player how to play funk
-You know that theres a whole new music world besides Rock.
-your ringtone is "donna lee"
-your Messenger picture is you playing bass, or Jaco, Geddy, Les, or your bass hero. A lot of girls thought i actually was Geddy Lee, and a lot of people actually asked me why i cut my hair. THAT`s what happend when you always have a Geddy picture and also have a big nose, and a black Fender Jazz.
-DMV is a song first, then you realize that it`s also a place that has something to do with vehicles, licences...
-When you hear the Dave Matthews band, you listen everything, but Dave Matthews.
-when you know that bass has all the guitar techniques and sound good and a lot of thechniques that only sound good on bass. (I know you can slap a guitar... but it doesn`t compare!)
-When you learn Rapper`s Delight, Last Train To London and My Sherona just to make girls happy.
-When you are the only musician in the band who loves music for the music. Not because you get chiks. And you love playing what it has to be played.
-when your guitar players plays 156.000 notes per second and looks at you and says: "Guitar is the BEST" and you just play your Dropped D string and feel the extreme power and the whole room shaking and look at him
"YOU KNOW NOTHIN´"-When you got addicted to low frequencies... and your Amp never got enought bass power
-you get drunk and start talking about bass, and bass related things and you know no one cares, but you keep on trying to make mr.pastorius the most popular guy in the planet
-when my fish didn`t have a name,but after reading the whole thread now it`s called Mike Gordon
I don`t knowif it`s made, but someone has to make a thread called: "Great Moments in the life of a Bass Player" including:
-The face of your guitar player when you asked some sweepicking tips to use with the wooten pick/thumb technique
-the face of your drummer when you can play his pattern using dead notes
-the no guitar, full dance floor in red red wine
-After a whole day in the beach, with your guitar player playing hit songs and singing, you pick up the guitar and play that tapping Bach song you`ve worked for the last 2 months and with just that, you have more compliments that anyone else.
-everyone is dancing in your solo
etc etc...
Cause i found that we are mostly complaining the bad sides of bass but c`mon, it has a lot of good moments!!!
Peace
and forgive my reaaaaaally poor english
Manu
and of course, you are a bass player when you got drunk with your girl and you start grooving with her. Yes, you also know that your girl loves you too much...
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You know your a bass player if.....
You get into a fight with your wife and storm out but your children say "He will be back, he didn't take his bass equipment."
True story!
You get into a fight with your wife and storm out but your children say "He will be back, he didn't take his bass equipment."
True story!
Stingraymund said:
Both apply to me
Here's another:
- You have found yourself practicing your plucking with your fingers on your thumb
Well, I have
. . . when asked by your girlfriend/wife which you love more, you have no response . . .
. . . when walking, your girlfriend/wife has to hold your hand so you don't look TOO much like an escaped mental patient . . .
. . . when walking, your girlfriend/wife has to hold your hand so you don't look TOO much like an escaped mental patient . . .
beyondhairy said:when u have enough time to get a mate, u arent dedicated enough
*but...but....it just...happened...she's my groupie repellant
You know you're a bass player when
-you routinely hold your fingers over candles to get that "fire-hardened effect."
-your girlfriend/wife wishes it was Playboy she kept catching you drooling over instead of Bassplayer Magazine.
-you can crush a walnut between any one of your fretting fingers and thumb.
-you have a strange affinity for cats
-you think thunder is natures version of a bass solo. ( I know that last one was weak)
-you routinely hold your fingers over candles to get that "fire-hardened effect."
-your girlfriend/wife wishes it was Playboy she kept catching you drooling over instead of Bassplayer Magazine.
-you can crush a walnut between any one of your fretting fingers and thumb.
-you have a strange affinity for cats
-you think thunder is natures version of a bass solo. ( I know that last one was weak)
You know you'r a bass player if:
When you're giving away your old wardrobe,you say to your dad:"Look at the grain on it,it would be a great bass with natural finish."
When you're giving away your old wardrobe,you say to your dad:"Look at the grain on it,it would be a great bass with natural finish."
beyondhairy said:why would u want that
I know what i'm getting after the show
*harharhar*
i just don't like people hanging off my arm
You know you are a bass player if the end of your fingers are so hard that you can poke people all day long, with no side-effects.
filthandfury said:Both apply to me
Here's another:
- You have found yourself practicing your plucking with your fingers on your thumb
Well, I have
I do that, too.
I also do that on my car's steering wheel, which embarrasses my son.
How do you know you are a girl bassist?
When all your girlfriends despair of the horrid state of your short, worn fingernails, and the callouses on your fingers that feel like they're made of rawhide. They try to buy you a gift certificate to the nail salon...
And you get a pedicure instead, so you won't ruin your hands.
The girls have given up on making me have girly nails and what-all. I *could*, without fakes, but I cut them off soon as they grow past my fingertips.
Also, when your honey asks you what kind of jewelry you'd like for Christmas, and you say, "I'd rather get a good set of strings, or a nice setup job from Bass Emporium", and your girlfriends think you have lost your mind.
Cherie
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