What's The WORST Advice...?

[scalpy]

Music made by session players is lifeless and not proper music. You should listen to Stax and Motown and Zeppelin. Not exactly joined up thinking.

[Musky]

[quote name='Bikenbass' timestamp='1382259884' post='2249700']
"Don't think I'd recognise a bass guitar."
Said to me Friday by a beautiful woman I tried (and failed) to chat up.
[/quote]
Someone must have told her you were the bass player. How else could she have failed to succumb to your charms?

[JapanAxe]

Harvey Vinson's book 'Rhythm Guitar' (which in all other respects was pretty effective in educating me as an 18-year-old beginner) warned that a hybrid pick-and-fingers technique was a short cut to mediocrity. Someone should have told that to James Burton, Albert Lee, Jerry Donahue etc.

[discreet]

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1382265726' post='2249775']
Someone should have told that to James Burton, Albert Lee, Jerry Donahue etc.
[/quote]

Never heard of 'em!

[GarethFlatlands]

"Just stick to the root notes. Play it how the other guy did on our demo."

Didn't stay long in that band.

[Hobbayne]

The bass should be 'felt' not heard. Maybe true back in 1960, but not today!

[Donnyboy]

"Get rid of that old fashioned Orange amp and Sound City cab and get one of these modern transistorized combos"

[BassBus]

[quote name='Donnyboy' timestamp='1382275453' post='2249905']
"Get rid of that old fashioned Orange amp...
[/quote]

He's just taking the pith, just a segment of his imagination. [size=4] [/size]

[ras52]

[quote name='Bikenbass' timestamp='1382259884' post='2249700']
"Don't think I'd recognise a bass guitar."
Said to me Friday by a beautiful woman I tried (and failed) to chat up.
[/quote]

That might have meant, "I would like to learn to recognise a bass guitar, would you please show me the one you keep in your bedroom."

Edited October 20, 2013 by ras52

[discreet]

[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1382277157' post='2249933']
He's just taking the pith, just a segment of his imagination.
[/quote]

These puns are giving me the pip.

[bassace]

No need to carry a spare set of strings. (See DB section)

[SpaceChick]

"Don't do A level music as you need to get a proper job and universities won't like A level music"

My Mum, in 1990, which led to me making a huge mistake and giving up music altogether for many years!!

[MiltyG565]

[quote name='SpaceChick' timestamp='1382286280' post='2250102']
"Don't do A level music as you need to get a proper job and universities won't like A level music"

My Mum, in 1990, which led to me making a huge mistake and giving up music altogether for many years!!
[/quote]

That's sad. My parents are pretty much the only people who would support me in making that choice, although I think that's mostly because they know they can't steer me.

[ML94]

'Not even Pro's read! Why are you trying? - This was from a dickhead university lecturer

[Bikenbass]

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1382265231' post='2249769'] Someone must have told her you were the bass player. How else could she have failed to succumb to your charms? [/quote]

I told her! Never stood a chance anyway.

[KingBollock]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1382266038' post='2249776']
Never heard of 'em!
[/quote]
Neither had I. And here was me thinking I had invented that picking technique a few weeks ago...

[mushers]

Guitarist in my first band band who was also teaching me bass told me
Reading music? thats for ........ dont do it
Worst co.ment he could have made

[Jazzneck]

"Get one of those Warwick Dolphin 5 string thingys........" from the singer/guitarist in a blues band I played in for a few years.