you look like a bass player

[iamdenialNJ]

People usually ask me if I play basketball. I'm 6'4". I say, "No, I play bass."

 

[Basshappi]

Yes, I've gotten this comment before, several times in fact. Each time I asked the person what about me made them assume I played bass and none of them have been able to give a specific reason, it's usually "I don't know, you just do."

 

[Bochafish]

I'm only 5"9 and I still get this. I'm not sure just being a big guy is what does it. Bass player do seem to develop their own type of mojo.

 

[aus_bass]

Yup, get it all the time. Maybe it's because.....

- On the wrong side of 40
- 6' 1" 240
- receding hair line
- the "go to" guy when stuff breaks
- the only one in the band who knows how to setup the PA
- I carry the biggest amp (by myself)
- better rhythm than the drummer
- play that pounding stuff that makes the chicks dance
- has the best music theory knowledge in the band
- actually knows more chords than the guitards
- knows what syncopation means
- understands dynamics

 

[jbl71004]

Haha. Went in to record our CD last summer, and the guy who owns the studio and doing the production looks at me as I walk in for the first time and says "hey, you must be the bass player!" I look at our singer, the only guy there and the only guy the producer knows at that point, and he just shrugs. The producer can tell I'm a bit baffled, so he says, "you can just tell." I took it as a complement!?

 

[J-Razz]

I get it sometimes, mostly in response to my "trademark" hat I always wear, like "With a hat like that you must be the bass player" lol.

 

[MonkeyBass]

I get that too.

I'm 5'6" with stubby fingers (has anyone set up a stubby fingers club yet). I wear a hat and sometime facial hair.

I doubt it's a "look" more of a vibe that makes us "look" like bass players.

 

[thekorean]

yea pretty lolsy moment

unnamed person: Hey you a musician?
me: yeah
Unnamed person: what do you play?
me: bass
Unnamed person: I thought you were a musician?
me: i am
Unnamed person: well i'm talking about musicians with talent

I just laughed and went on my way

 

[macaroni tony]

wth??? ? oooohhh

 

[Pbassguy]

Bass player?...I find most of Joe P dont even know what bass is let alone want to get in a conversation about it....ha

 

[nato101010]

1st gig I did on bass, I was called out on "looking like a bass player".

 

[s_mcsleazy]

yup

 

[wagstaff]

cuz we just know we do...were just not mean enough to hurt everyone else's feelings

Les Claypool says so himself, it must be true

Mark

 

[eddievanbassman]

ive been told i look like cliff burton, geezer butler, geddy lee and people have said "Dude you look like a bass player". But since I got long hair lotsa people assume I'm a guitar player.

 

[JoZac21]

My sax player recently said that to me...

he said it was a good idea for me to have made the switch from the guitar to the bass, since I "look more like a bass player, anyway." hmmm...

 

[tom once dead]

yes, one time when me, the guitar and tiny tom got pulled up by the cops, because we must look like we do drugs and carry knives. He looked at my black nails and cuffs and said "what's this, are you the bass player". That cop was a total W******

 

[BlueriverPT]

no one ever told me that :'(, i believe its because when people look at me they imedeatly think, u must be a cool idiot. what can I do?

A lot of my friend didn't know i played guitar or bass when i first brought the bass they only said to me: " didn't knew you play guitar" i only reponse: "IT'S A BASS" why is the bass so underrated? all the bassist should do a strike for one they, and then i would ask? did you like the music without bass? and of course you know the awnser

sorry the bad english and the long text but i was a bit upset with this.

 

[Honk'n_down-low]

I've been told that many times - look at my Profile Pic - I AM the Poster Child for what a Bass Player should look like - lol!

 

[lunarpollen]

People never peg me for a bass player... I am tall, lanky, cleanshaven, usually sport a casual mod look I guess, sometimes a bit gothy (old school post-punkish), look younger than my years, and it used to be that people would most often mistake me for a piano/keyboard player. Then occasionally people would ask if I played guitar. Now most often people think I am a drummer. Maybe it's because I am always doing my best awful Gene Krupa or Cozy Cole impression on random objects and surfaces around me... Maybe I need to learn to play drums...

 

[muziktyme]

Anyone ever have that said to them?

I was in the bar earlier today with people in my class, who i've only known about a month, we were talking about bands and gigging, i mentioned i'd been in a few bands over the years...and they all said they reckoned i played bass as i "look like a bass player".

I wasn't offended or anything i just found it very curious, and when i asked them why i looked like a bass player, they could only reply with "eh, you just do!".

I once had a person ask me if I played guitar which I replied,

"Yes!"

In a very deep, BASS tone.

lol

As much as I love playing lead guitar it still isn't close as to what I feel when I play bass!