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Trying out some basses in a long and mcquade, one of the guys working said I had Steve Harris fingers. I thought that was pretty cool.
The three best compliments for me are:
You guys are really tight!
You guys sound so full!
Your band sounds like there are 5 or 6 people playing. (We are a 3 piece guitar, bass, drums band and we all sing)
You guys are really tight!
You guys sound so full!
Your band sounds like there are 5 or 6 people playing. (We are a 3 piece guitar, bass, drums band and we all sing)
Had finished playing a halloween party at my frontman's house, there were these two cute girls dressed up as wayne and garth. So sweet blond garth comes up to me and says she likes my bass playing, I talked to her for a sec, but wasn't in the moment enough to take that where it needed to go...Lesson learned. If a cute chick ever comes up to YOU, chase after her!
Got told my tone was "phenomenal" by another bass player on the bill not too long ago & it made me smile. Got asked to have sex with a girl after a show in college, but alas... I had a wife and said no. She's not my wife anymore so I should have, anyway. 
"I wanna f@%! you right now."
Had nothing to do with my bass, but as she was smokin hot I didn't mind one bit.
Had nothing to do with my bass, but as she was smokin hot I didn't mind one bit.
Compliment: Being comapared w/Claypool or Flea or Entwistle.
Complement: My wife's red heels w/a lace catsuit(on HER)& a bottle of red.
Complement: My wife's red heels w/a lace catsuit(on HER)& a bottle of red.
In a guitar shop ...... " you're one of the few guys who comes in here and we can recognize what you're playing"
At church .... the mando player had bagged a few strings, so she was double teaming the on the piano with the regular piano player. ( try to keep up with and play something that can be heard in THAT situation sometime ). I upped the mids and highs a bit and felt the spirit and went at it .... they just stopped and turned around to look at me while I kept playing.
Matt
At church .... the mando player had bagged a few strings, so she was double teaming the on the piano with the regular piano player. ( try to keep up with and play something that can be heard in THAT situation sometime ). I upped the mids and highs a bit and felt the spirit and went at it .... they just stopped and turned around to look at me while I kept playing.
Matt
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A keyboard player I played with at church was doing a show at a theatre in town in September. He originally tried to get me the gig as well, but the music director already had a bassist hired. After a week of shows, I asked him about how the show was going, to which he said:
"The bass player isn't you. It's one thing to play the notes on the page, but completely another to play all the stuff that isn't there."
"The bass player isn't you. It's one thing to play the notes on the page, but completely another to play all the stuff that isn't there."
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My best one came from my guitarist after the weekends gig. He was listening back to the recording and said in regards to one song:
"Dan, you ****ing owned it. That was amazing. Nice job mate. Your bass lines in the solo were tasty as a mutha******!"
Normally it is just good job.
"Dan, you ****ing owned it. That was amazing. Nice job mate. Your bass lines in the solo were tasty as a mutha******!"
Normally it is just good job.
A couple years ago we had this drummer sub on a gig, and this dude was lights out. His tempo was impeccable, his ears were huge, and he brought the groove like few others I've played with. Seriously talented dude. At the end of the first set, he said to me, "I appreciate yo' pocket". I thought that was cool, because this guy had the credentials to understand what that means.
A very experienced and talented drummer's wife telling me her husband(our drummer) said "her husband said I was the best bass player he's ever played with".
At soundcheck after running through the patches in my Line 6, a bass player working at the venue approached me and said
"I didn't know you were playing with a pick"
after the two "cut through" patches were tried. I told him I wasn't and showed him how the patches/EQ, callouses, and playing towards the bridge sound very close to a pick. THAT is why those tweaks/patches were made, to sound like a pick with my fingers.
At soundcheck after running through the patches in my Line 6, a bass player working at the venue approached me and said
"I didn't know you were playing with a pick"
after the two "cut through" patches were tried. I told him I wasn't and showed him how the patches/EQ, callouses, and playing towards the bridge sound very close to a pick. THAT is why those tweaks/patches were made, to sound like a pick with my fingers.
