Kev Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 (edited) 24 minutes ago, TimR said: Except that was exactly what he meant. You thought his comment meant that bassists and drummers are all men, and guitarists/singers/keyboardists/whoever else in the band are all young female people? Edited December 6, 2021 by Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 2 hours ago, Japhet said: So you're saying that size matters. I'm so offended by this that I'll now have to lie in a darkened room for several months (on full pay naturally), until I hopefully get over it. Otherwise I'll have to try to live with it for the rest of my life. Am I being over sensitive? It might matter to some...I wonder if Billy Boy and his 34 incher would have joined a Rock Band called Mr. Small? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinny Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 One must confess to being something of a plenk spenker one's self ahwah-hwah-hwah. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 2 hours ago, Kev said: You thought his comment meant that bassists and drummers are all men, and guitarists/singers/keyboardists/whoever else in the band are all young female people? No. I thought he meant that the bass and drums were large heavy sections like men and the other instruments were light and delicate like women. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 He's not wrong, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 23 minutes ago, TimR said: No. I thought he meant that the bass and drums were large heavy sections like men and the other instruments were light and delicate like women. Yeah me too, basically. Why from that did he get personally attacked by someone telling him they were better than him, despite him being a heavy man? I'm just trying to make sense of it. I get referring to lighter/more delicate things as girly is an old fashioned and outdated way of referring to things, but I don't understand why a female artist would see it as an attack on their musicianship? But, as I think @EBS_freakwas angling at by his ponderous question to me, I am speaking from a position of privilege, if that truly means anything in this particular context. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Grief. You need to see it in the context of a Phil Lynott documentary. Phil unashamedly played up to his reputation as a womaniser, albeit usually with his tongue in his cheek (if not someone else's) viz. "Hey you good lookin' female. Come here!" Clayton was no doubt trying to humorously reflect on this, but his choice of words does come across as "I'm going to finish this metaphor, no matter how deep a hole it needs..." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doddy Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Conversely Melissa Auf Der Maur once said in an interview.... "Bass is a very feminine instrument, it's a natural role for women to take in a band. Its not that women play better. With bass, you have to rely on feel, and women are good at that. Also, the dynamic of bass in a band is to follow and nurture. Women are a lot more capable of that". Personally, I don't give a chuff what anyone thinks about the gender of the bass. I'm more interested in if they can play. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS_freak Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said: Clayton was no doubt trying to humorously reflect on this, but his choice of words does come across as "I'm going to finish this metaphor, no matter how deep a hole it needs..." He should stick to playing bass… …having said that… 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 What a waste of the time it took to read 4 pages !! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreadBin Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 7 hours ago, Doddy said: Personally, I don't give a chuff what anyone thinks about the gender of the bass. I'm more interested in if they can play. Yet we are discussing Adam Clayton... 🤭 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegs07 Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 It’s like the Sex Pistols on the Grundy show all over again. These libertine rock stars and their potty mouths. I even heard that the bass player from Coldplay blasphemed whilst preparing his Quinoa avocado salad. Filthy degenerates the lot of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveXFR Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 39 minutes ago, tegs07 said: I even heard that the bass player from Coldplay blasphemed whilst preparing his Quinoa avocado salad. That's not his worst crime. He probably helped write their music or at the very least he agreed to record it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroydiamond Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 This guy has an interesting take on the notion of being offensive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downunderwonder Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 I took 'girly notes' to mean the high pitched ones up the neck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cetera Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 10 hours ago, Doddy said: Conversely Melissa Auf Der Maur once said in an interview.... "Bass is a very feminine instrument, it's a natural role for women to take in a band. Its not that women play better. With bass, you have to rely on feel, and women are good at that. Also, the dynamic of bass in a band is to follow and nurture. Women are a lot more capable of that". I'm OFFENDED!!!!! Outdated sexist stereotype...... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveXFR Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Maybe basses are female. I've just looked at mine and it has a socket at the bottom for a male Jack 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cetera Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 My mate has an Attitude bass with two sockets at the bottom for male jacks..... but we won't go there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 10 hours ago, Doddy said: Conversely Melissa Auf Der Maur once said in an interview.... "Bass is a very feminine instrument, it's a natural role for women to take in a band. Its not that women play better. With bass, you have to rely on feel, and women are good at that. Also, the dynamic of bass in a band is to follow and nurture. Women are a lot more capable of that". But then she bollokcsed it all up by saying that Jazz Basses were only any good for "walking around going dink-dink-dink" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 I just made a mental list, The 1000 Bassists Who Best Express The Glories Of Masculinity Through Their Playing, and strangely enough, there's no sign of Adam Clayton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 28 minutes ago, Rich said: But then she bollokcsed it all up by saying that Jazz Basses were only any good for "walking around going dink-dink-dink" That's not true, they burn pretty good too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmywinks Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Click on clickbait, get offended at clickbait, write on a forum about clickbait. Guess there has to be something in the lull between Poppygeddon and the "they're offended by christmas" fury. As said above, this is manufactured outrage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DubDelay Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Taking offence at what self promoting millionaires have to say is a pretty fruitless errand. Looking at what he's said, banal tripe that's just there to fill airtime or white space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegs07 Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Has there ever been a time when rock stars don’t offend people? Even Coldplay offend me with their overwhelming wholesome blandness. Even more bizarre is when people look to them for spiritual or moral awareness or care what they think. He’s a bass player not the Dalai Lama. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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