It's called a guitarrón.
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"You look like a bass player"
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i WANT ONE OF THIS BAD!
Funny, every number's been gussed...
...except for the bassist...#2!
#1 is singer/guitarist
#3 is drummer
#4 is lead guitarist
...except for the bassist...#2!
#1 is singer/guitarist
#3 is drummer
#4 is lead guitarist
I've gotten this before, usually from girls. I'm 5'6, all of 110 lbs, beard beyond my years, glasses, flat cap, small girly hands. Can't figure it out. When pressed they usually say it's either because I'm "the weird one" or "the smart one"
No takers on my idea to promote the Roger Waters-style scarf for bassists? Come on, we can start a trend here and beat the hipsters at their own game. Also, note that Nick Mason was pushing the "stupid hat" fashion for drummers...
I was doing the scarf thing, back in the 80's.
Okay...this may not mean a lot to you guys, but it means a lot to me. At our last gig the venue was hot, no air conditioning, and the drummer was pouring sweat. So, in between songs, I reached in my resource bag, pulled out a towel and a cold beer, and handed it to him. He smiled and said to the guitarist....."bass players." He didn't say "females" or "thanks mom," he said "bass players." That one statement still makes me happy.
Well 'thanks mom' would've also been appropriate, seeing as you're clearly the bandmom: you come prepared, and take care of the 'children' playing the other instruments
Wait....aren't bass players the most stable, responsible members of the band? I assumed all bassists were solid, rock-steady and ready for whatever comes up. Right?
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The Bassist of the band tends to be the "Den Mother". Extra battery, cord etc.
In general the adult.
So this actually happened to me for real the other day.
I walked into a 7-11 to get something to drink on my way to band practice. I was wearing loose-fitting carpenter jeans, biker boots, and a Robert Cray T-shirt with a picture of Cray playing a Strat on it. I have hair down to my shoulders, but so do a lot of guys who aren't musicians. In my day job I'm an engineer who wears khakis and polo shirts and lots of techies I work with have hair longer than mine.
As I walk past a guy standing in line at the counter he says, "Robert Cray, who's he play with now?"
"You mean who's in his band? I don't know. I saw him about 2 years ago when I bought this shirt but I don't remember his band's names."
"Do you play?"
"A little."
"Bass, right? You look like a bass player."
I had to fight not to laugh in his face as I thought of this thread.
I walked into a 7-11 to get something to drink on my way to band practice. I was wearing loose-fitting carpenter jeans, biker boots, and a Robert Cray T-shirt with a picture of Cray playing a Strat on it. I have hair down to my shoulders, but so do a lot of guys who aren't musicians. In my day job I'm an engineer who wears khakis and polo shirts and lots of techies I work with have hair longer than mine.
As I walk past a guy standing in line at the counter he says, "Robert Cray, who's he play with now?"
"You mean who's in his band? I don't know. I saw him about 2 years ago when I bought this shirt but I don't remember his band's names."
"Do you play?"
"A little."
"Bass, right? You look like a bass player."
I had to fight not to laugh in his face as I thought of this thread.
So true.. I carry at least one or two spares of everything but our guitard can barely remember the power cord for his boss pedalboard....even more sad I'm 20 years younger than the drummer and guitard
From time to time, I astonish people, when I walk up to a total stranger.. tell him he looks like a musician..
Usual reply is YEAH..I PLAY BASS. How could you tell?
I respond with, I'm a bass player too..We all look alike..
We laugh and talk basses/ rigs and walk our seperate ways. [At least I know they are either telling me the truth or knowenough to be dangerous]
Oddly..I don't think I look like a musician..unless I have a bass in hand. I am looking at 60..short hair..look like a
regular 'citizen'.
My only explnation for my percentages of accuracy is some sort of intuitive version of guessing on my part.
Usual reply is YEAH..I PLAY BASS. How could you tell?
I respond with, I'm a bass player too..We all look alike..
We laugh and talk basses/ rigs and walk our seperate ways. [At least I know they are either telling me the truth or knowenough to be dangerous]
Oddly..I don't think I look like a musician..unless I have a bass in hand. I am looking at 60..short hair..look like a
regular 'citizen'.
My only explnation for my percentages of accuracy is some sort of intuitive version of guessing on my part.
Definitiely been pegged as the bass player here quite a bit. 6'2", 240lbs. Broad shoulders, long hair. Size 13 shoe. Big hands with thick sausage fingers. Used to wear a goatee, went clean shaven when It started going grey. Hair hasn't gone grey yet, when It does, I'll just let It go. (I'm 41).
I play around on guitar some to write or at jam parties, etc. but don't consider myself a guitar player. When I hold something like a Telecaster or an SG it looks like a ukelele on me and my fingers are scrunched together to make chords, never any space between them unless I'm stretching for something across more than 4 frets. When I hold a bass, it looks like a normal sized instrument on me, like a guitar does on normal size people.
My SO identifies guitar or piano player by their long skinny fingers.
Don't like hats, unless they're part of a show band look, or like the cowboy hat in the country band, or the sombrero in the mariachi band, etc.
I play around on guitar some to write or at jam parties, etc. but don't consider myself a guitar player. When I hold something like a Telecaster or an SG it looks like a ukelele on me and my fingers are scrunched together to make chords, never any space between them unless I'm stretching for something across more than 4 frets. When I hold a bass, it looks like a normal sized instrument on me, like a guitar does on normal size people.
My SO identifies guitar or piano player by their long skinny fingers.
Don't like hats, unless they're part of a show band look, or like the cowboy hat in the country band, or the sombrero in the mariachi band, etc.
I know the "look" about which everyone is talking. I know that there is the rule and the exception. All told, however: Paul McCartney, Scott Walker, Doug Feiger, Sting, Ben Orr-I wish that I looked more like a bass player, and had their problems with beautiful women.
