ziggy played guitar...

[BrandonBass]

just wondering, why didnt ziggy play bass?

 

[vindy500]

umm who? and WHAT the ????

 

[tplyons]

Because he didn't want to?

 

[evan_phi]

Because he didn't want to?

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[vindy500]

who is ziggy

 

[oldrocker]

Because he was jamming good with Wierd and Gilly. Weird played Bass.

 

[syciprider]

And why did he play it left hand?

 

[mrmoonjam]

just wondering, why didnt ziggy play bass?

1. Because "bass" doesn't remotely rhyme with "Mars" or "far."

2. Because it also doesn't scan, rhythm-wise.

3. Because David Bowie didn't play bass, he wasn't weird enough.

4 Another example of anti-bass bias?

 

[BrandonBass]

Because he was jamming good with Wierd and Gilly. Weird played Bass.

How do you know its Wierd but not Gilly who played bass?

 

[vindy500]

but who is ziggy

 

[Chase_The_Bass]

ziggy marley?

 

[seanm]

I may be out in right field but I always thought Ziggy was loosely based on Jimi Hendrix.

Hence the left handed guitar.

Just a thought.

 

[jmorbita]

Ziggy stardust, "alter ego" of david bowie somewhere around the seventies... he had this album out called "the rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars"... i suppose you must be really young not to have ever heard about ziggy stardust!!! it's a great album in my opinion.. i'm a big bowie fan. when the album was out, and on tour, bowie was supposed to be ziggy and his band were the spiders from mars. and then ziggy was killed by his fans i think...
I suppose he played it left hand in reference to jimi hendrix... cause ziggy was supposed to be this great guitar player and front man. and since it's the story of a front man, its most common for frontmen to play guitar than to play bass i guess...

 

[jmorbita]

I may be out in right field but I always thought Ziggy was loosely based on Jimi Hendrix.

Hence the left handed guitar.

Just a thought.

yep, that's what i thought too.

 

[basstard1]

well, as much as i love my bass, my absolute faviroute instrument, i spose it just aint as romanticised as the guitar. imagine some cowboy riding off into the sunset on his horse with a warwick thumb bass on his back.

 

[jmorbita]

well, as much as i love my bass, my absolute faviroute instrument, i spose it just aint as romanticised as the guitar. imagine some cowboy riding off into the sunset on his horse with a warwick thumb bass on his back.

hehehehehe!!!!!!

 

[jmorbita]

just wondering, why didnt ziggy play bass?

try to imagine bowie singing at the end of the song
"ziggy playyyyeeeed baaaaaasssssssss"
or "ziggy playyyyeeeedd basss guitaaaaaaaaarrrrrr"

 

[mrmoonjam]

How do you know its Wierd but not Gilly who played bass?

By his name .

 

[oldrocker]

How do you know its Wierd but not Gilly who played bass?

Because Gilly was the drummer.

 

[beaglesandbass]

why don't you ask him?