Bass confessions

[pigface]

Great thread for me. I am not even a bassist. I own one, an Ibanez acoustic which is very nice. But in truth I am a guitarist and a singer and have never played bass at a gig. I suppose I could manage root notes if I had to. But I have never tried it and feel a bit of a fraud even lurking here, as I usually do.

 

[NikNik]

I foolishly sold my bass. It's was my very first bass. 😉

 

Been looking for it for years......

[StickyDBRmf]

I used to worry about what my bass looked like. Like, keeping those stupid chrome thingys on my Jazz bass.

[Raslee]

Groove remains a mystical concept…even after several pints! 

[BillyBass]

I own a guitar.

 

In my defence, I didn't buy it, it was given to me by my next door neighbour.

[kendall]

In the first band I played in, I never once tuned my bass, or changed the strings.  Prior to our first gig I told our guitarist, who was a perfectionist, that I didn't know how to do it properly.  For 3 years he kept my bass in perfect tip top shape.  I would rock up with a new set of strings every now and again, pass them onto him and leave him to work his magic while I smoked a Marlboro or two and supped on a Newcastle Brown Ale.  Happy days!

Edited March 23, 2022 by kendall

[Woodinblack]

38 minutes ago, BillyBass said:

I own a guitar.

 

In my defence, I didn't buy it, it was given to me by my next door neighbour.

 

I own many many guitars, that I did buy. Virtually never play any of them though

 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I own not only guitars which I play, but also a few ukuleles.

[ezbass]

1 minute ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

I own not only guitars which I play, but also a few ukuleles.

[NikNik]

45 minutes ago, ezbass said:

AT least he doesn't own an accordion.....

[dclaassen]

Or (shudder) bagpipes…

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I also owned a banjo, however it sold on Reverb over the weekend and was delivered to its new owner this morning. Blummin’ loud things banjos; they’re great for annoying the missus so much that she’s relieved when I put it down and play a bass instead.

[EssentialTension]

I like accordions ...

[EssentialTension]

... and banjos ...

 

[EssentialTension]

... even bagpipes ...

[EssentialTension]

... and concertinas.

[EssentialTension]

Once you start on this confession stuff, it can be difficult to stop.

[christhammer666]

sometimes i love the thought of playing the bass more than actually playing it

[ezbass]

1 hour ago, EssentialTension said:

I like accordions ...

 

1 hour ago, EssentialTension said:

... and banjos ...

 

 

1 hour ago, EssentialTension said:

... even bagpipes ...

 

1 hour ago, EssentialTension said:

... and concertinas.

[Woodinblack]

1 hour ago, EssentialTension said:

I like accordions ...

 

1 hour ago, EssentialTension said:

... and banjos ...

 

1 hour ago, EssentialTension said:

... even bagpipes ...

 

<checks the rules to see what ban section we can use...>

[ubit]

Listen to this and tell me you hate banjos

 

 

 

[cetera]

I bought various Darkglass pedals looking for that cool, punchy, grinding bass tone in my head....... only to find they just made me sound like a generic metal player.... and I actually already had that cool, punchy, grinding tone in my bass/amp/pick combination....!

 

[EssentialTension]

44 minutes ago, ubit said:

Listen to this and tell me you hate banjos

 

 

 

 

Thanks for that.

[EssentialTension]

 

[Clarky]

Despite all the agonising on this forum about tone, I pretty much don't care what my bass sounds like as I reckon the punters don't give a rats @ss whether my high-mids are appropriately balanced etc. As long as it goes dum dum dum on a gig I figure that's fine