No-bass anxiety...

[ras52]

I'm in a pub watching the champions' league final, and there's a band setting up in the corner. Judging by the amps they're putting up, there are going to be three guitars and no bass! I'm finding this very disturbing!!!

[PlungerModerno]

I always miss bass if it's not there.

I'm OK with traditional music or music without bass - but if the keys trys to cover the bass role . . . I'm not sticking around.

[ras52]

This is all electric. I think one of them has an octave divider :-(

[discreet]

It's funny. Out of everyone, those who most seem to undervalue the electric bass are... other bloody 'musicians'. Yet it's the punters who seemingly know no better who react well to the bass, even if they don't understand what it is - it's fundamental to a song and gets them moving. My 2p.

[PlungerModerno]

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It's funny. Out of everyone, those who most seem to undervalue the electric bass are... other bloody 'musicians'. Yet it's the punters who seemingly know no better who react well to the bass, even if they don't understand what it is - it's fundamental to a song and gets them moving. My 2p.
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+1 See this thread for research links and discussion that seems to support the instinctive bias towards bass & groove: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/263499-science-suggests-bassists-are-far-more-important-than-most-people-realize/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/263499-science-suggests-bassists-are-far-more-important-than-most-people-realize/[/url]