lazykat411 said:
Don't get me wrong, I like playing my instrument and talking to other bassists and stuff; but I don't think I'd be able to keep myself from breaking fingers if some dork ever did that to me in public.
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You know you're a bass player if...
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Don't get me wrong, I like playing my instrument and talking to other bassists and stuff; but I don't think I'd be able to keep myself from breaking fingers if some dork ever did that to me in public.
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I-Love-Ratm said:
I disagree.
You know you are bassist when your finger technique doesn't require mentioning.
dTune said:
I don't know about that... i was doing that before i became bass... acctually before i felt inlove with bass... that was one of my things todo when i listen to music... tab my fingers and thumb...
Then... maybe thats why i choose and love playing bass now... just didnt relise it before
Oh ya... i cant believe she didnt get anything in the end... i was sooo waiting for her to bust outvegaas said:
dTune said:....You have your matriculation exam tomorrow, but all you do is write TB and play..
Damn... thanks for reminding me!!!!! that paper that was due yesterday is due tomorow... polisci... and then that article... crap... o well i got hour between classes tomorow... i'll do it then:/
and ya... the calling fish bass ...bass (the way it should sound) guilty of that today... friend of my "there is no such thing as fish called bass (baise))" had to spell it
lazykat411 said:
Best First Post...
Ever!
Welcome to talkbass lazykat
You got off to a good start 
...you've played "Freebird" publicly 1,386 times. Points aren't awarded until 1.3 million renditions.
...you can name all the places in a song where your favorite bassist plays a hammered G followed by a triplet but you can't remember if the song has words.
...the large size of your amp/speakers has proven useful as another appliance like a table, ladder, or bookcase.
...you grasp any long, slim object and mentally compare it to a bass neck.
...you not only don't get help with your bigger-than-normal gear, you are the first to get it set up and then help with the drums.
...you firmly subscribe to the notion that, as the bassplayer, you are a better musician than the rest of the members of the band.
...when the guitarist breaks more strings in the first 2 sets than you have in the last 13 years.
...you've spent hours trying to figure out what you could do with used strings. Surely, all that metal in one place has another use.
...when you take pride in knowing a guitarist will never get to appreciate the feel of a 35" scale instrument.
...you can name all the places in a song where your favorite bassist plays a hammered G followed by a triplet but you can't remember if the song has words.
...the large size of your amp/speakers has proven useful as another appliance like a table, ladder, or bookcase.
...you grasp any long, slim object and mentally compare it to a bass neck.
...you not only don't get help with your bigger-than-normal gear, you are the first to get it set up and then help with the drums.
...you firmly subscribe to the notion that, as the bassplayer, you are a better musician than the rest of the members of the band.
...when the guitarist breaks more strings in the first 2 sets than you have in the last 13 years.
...you've spent hours trying to figure out what you could do with used strings. Surely, all that metal in one place has another use.
...when you take pride in knowing a guitarist will never get to appreciate the feel of a 35" scale instrument.
vegaas said:
That is so bad i'm still laughing
Next step: a double bass player only palys one bass at each show...
lazykat411 said:
Yeah... I do that a lot of times when I i listen to something good - and sometimes I find myself slapping the bars/railings or simply just plucking it... Does that mena i'm addicted?
Hambone said:
I use my cab to put my mobile /cell phone on it. I usually have it on in the sounds off / vibration on mode, and therefore I would not hear it unless I put it on my cab - but this way I can hear it from a long distance
- when you even endure to lsten to the kinds of music you usually despise to see who the player is, what gear he/she has, and what is the melody being played (I think this applies for many of us here, not just me... )
- when on a concert, you stand the closest to the bassist, and look most of the time at what he/she plays...
- you know a song by the bassline, but you dont remember the title or any part of the song (happens to me...)
)- when on a concert, you stand the closest to the bassist, and look most of the time at what he/she plays...
- you know a song by the bassline, but you dont remember the title or any part of the song
(happens to me...)
..at a hot date, you find yourself trying to explain the differences in bass pickups to the girl.
..your image of a sexy picture is John Pattitucci or Anthony Jackson playing their respective six-string basses.
..you get a uncontrollable surge of funky energy from hearing syncopated hihat work on the radio and have to start grooving to yourself.
..your image of a sexy picture is John Pattitucci or Anthony Jackson playing their respective six-string basses.
..you get a uncontrollable surge of funky energy from hearing syncopated hihat work on the radio and have to start grooving to yourself.
You realize that when you work out, the way that you count 20 reps is; 1 - 2 - 3 - 4, 2 - 2 - 3 - 4, 3 - 2 - 3 - 4, 4 - 2 - 3 - 4, 5 - 2 - 3 - 4
You know that you're really in deep when you don't even call it 20 reps anymore - it's five bars of 4/4.
You know that you're really in deep when you don't even call it 20 reps anymore - it's five bars of 4/4.
dont know if it counts but few times on long drive i tapped my shifter out of gear... and when it went to nutural car went insane becuase i was going near 100 and my bas was very close to floor i had to stop and acctually figure out how it happened:/
It was queen on the tapedeck:]
i had to stop and acctually figure out how it happened:/It was queen on the tapedeck:]
You hear somebody talking about their Corvette Stingray and you think they have a Warwick / Music Man "Frankenbass".
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