Correction, the smallest guy with the biggest stomach.
Its a Guitarrón.
Metal bass players are almost always sporting a beanie, sorry... knit cap.
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"You look like a bass player"
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Correction, the smallest guy with the biggest stomach.
Its a Guitarrón.
Metal bass players are almost always sporting a beanie, sorry... knit cap.
completely agree, if there's a dumb hat on stage it's usually on the bass players head.
guitarists are usually effeminate, waifish and possess egos that belie their abilities.
if you don't look like this (fat, manly, humble), you might be the bass player.
I've been spotted as a bassist a number of times. I'm 5ft 11 and 150 lbs. I have very small hands and wasn't wearing a hat at the time. Perhaps I'm a special case?
I like my hats...they keep my head warm.
I like my hats...they keep my head warm.
Everyone's idea of what a bass player looks like is different. To musicians, a bass player may look like James Jamerson, Jaco Pastorious, Geddy Lee, or Ray Brown. Some of the general population may just imagine a guy with an artistic hat. Some others may see Gene Simmons or Sid Vicous... To some bass players, if the person who said that meant the latter then that person would look like an idiot with a smashed guitar over their head.
Gaolee
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It's the polyester shirt and grass stains on the knuckles. Those are dead giveaways. I always put on a different shirt and wash my hands when going undercover as a guitar player or keyboard player. I tear the shirt off and eat the pieces when going undercover as a drummer.
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I fall under the "lanky" category. 6'4", 210.
Still have hair left and none on my face.
I like to think I look the least concerned with public reaction, which is what IMO besides stature is a dead giveaway of a bassist: comfort in one's own skin, despite how discomforting that skin might be to others.
Still have hair left and none on my face.
I like to think I look the least concerned with public reaction, which is what IMO besides stature is a dead giveaway of a bassist: comfort in one's own skin, despite how discomforting that skin might be to others.
6'3 - 175. I get it a lot, but I have big hands too. It may also have something to do with my habit of using the edge that my wallet in my pocket makes in my pants as a string and play fingerstyle rhythms absentmindedly. I do enioy a good hat, but in most of my gigs lately I end up without a shirt by the end of the set, let alone a hat.
I like to think I look the least concerned with public reaction, which is what IMO besides stature is a dead giveaway of a bassist: comfort in one's own skin, despite how discomforting that skin might be to others.
I think you're zeroing in on something there.....
Funny, I get this too sometimes. Always it's a girl who guesses it. I'm not particularly distinctive-looking, average height, average build, hair down to my shoulders, I'm not tall or fat or bald (yet), no facial hair and no stupid hats.
But I have always been a geek and I think I give off that nerd vibe a little no matter how comfortable I feel, and girls can sense that a mile away. I'm a nerd who jumps around like a clown and screams into a microphone while shaking paint off the walls with my instrument, but a nerd nonetheless...
But I have always been a geek and I think I give off that nerd vibe a little no matter how comfortable I feel, and girls can sense that a mile away. I'm a nerd who jumps around like a clown and screams into a microphone while shaking paint off the walls with my instrument, but a nerd nonetheless...
To be fair, i've seen a lot of bass players in stupid hats... but there's this singer I know who always wears a stupid hat and it always looks like he's going to watch a baseball game more than sing some rock.
So the bass makes the hats not so bad, better than anyone else wearing one in fact, but that still doesn't make it right
So the bass makes the hats not so bad, better than anyone else wearing one in fact, but that still doesn't make it right
Well, I'm 5'5 I remember when I was a teen (skinny, Long Hair). I played with a guitar player
who was alot bigger than me. People would always assume he was the bass player. He used to get so mad..
who was alot bigger than me. People would always assume he was the bass player. He used to get so mad..
I have what some have called "piano hands" full octave (on a piano) from pinky to thumb. Which come in very handy on the fretboard. Appearance wise, I'm 5' 10", long (about halfway down my back) hair... I did the buzz cut thing the summers when I was 12 and 13. Short hair doesn't suit me. Five tattoos (so far), two earrings (left ear).
Do I look like a bass player? Not a clue. Cops like to ask: "What are you, a musician?". Often followed by: "Say the alphabet.... and don't sing it!". It seems to the police, I look like a singer!
Do I look like a bass player? Not a clue. Cops like to ask: "What are you, a musician?". Often followed by: "Say the alphabet.... and don't sing it!". It seems to the police, I look like a singer!
DiabolusInMusic
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Nobody has said it... so I will... are you black OP?
As Eric Cartman said, all black people know how to play the bass... hence, assumed bassist. (For those curious watch the christian rock episode, it is absolutely hilarious)
As Eric Cartman said, all black people know how to play the bass... hence, assumed bassist. (For those curious watch the christian rock episode, it is absolutely hilarious)
