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Just now, kwmlondon said:

I think people forget that Curt Smith was/is a hellva bass player

 

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Agree, I saw a live concert of theirs on BBC4 last week, I’d forgotten how good the bass lines on their material are.

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10 hours ago, joeystrange said:

A lot of these seem to be guitarists who have picked up a bass for whatever reason.

 

 

 

Aye, I suspect 99% of guitarists could play bass to a certain level so it's not a complete surprise to see some of them give it a pop!

 

 

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55 minutes ago, Elfrasho said:

 

Aye, I suspect 99% of guitarists could play bass to a certain level so it's not a complete surprise to see some of them give it a pop!

 

 

I recon Elvis is probably the most surprising one here. Maybe he just liked the look of it, but he seemed to enjoy being pictured with a precision.

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48 minutes ago, kwmlondon said:

I recon Elvis is probably the most surprising one here. Maybe he just liked the look of it, but he seemed to enjoy being pictured with a precision.

Apparently he was pretty decent at it. I've seen him described as having "an uncanny sense of rhythm"

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58 minutes ago, kwmlondon said:

I recon Elvis is probably the most surprising one here. Maybe he just liked the look of it, but he seemed to enjoy being pictured with a precision.

 

I also read that he loved playing bass and owned those basses in those pictures. This is him playing Bill Black's 51 Precision.

 

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On 13/07/2023 at 09:58, Lozz196 said:

Agree, I saw a live concert of theirs on BBC4 last week, I’d forgotten how good the bass lines on their material are.

I was also surprised to learn that Judge Robert Rinder is a bassist. 

 

Certainly, Robert Rinder is often curt ...

 

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33 minutes ago, Downunderwonder said:

I was surprised to learn Keanu Reeves is a bassist in his spare time. Lead actor you would think guitar hero would be first calling.

There's a bunch of other actors as well including Gary Sinise and Jason Momoa.

Keanu is in a band called Dogstar.

 

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7 minutes ago, casapete said:

Kevin McCloud from Channel 4 programme ‘Grand Designs’ apparently plays the bass ‘very badly’.

 

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What relaxes him? Kevin said about playing the bass guitar: “They are wonderful time machines, they just take you out of the space where you are and you enter the world of music and it’s the most blessed place. If there's ever been a time when music has been more valuable than now I can't think of it.”

Link to above quote, but there's really not much more to it.

I did not know that about him.

 

Mark

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This is a Davie 504 video about famous people playing bass.  The bit with 'Barack Obama' had me fooled for a bit but, unfortunately, it isn't him 😪

 

And just like Davie, I've never heard of Riley Reid and have never watched any of her videos on Pornhub.  In fact, I've never heard of Pornhub either.

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3 minutes ago, Steve Browning said:

No suggestion she actually played but any excuse to post a picture of the goddess Kate Bush.

 

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Nope! That was me last Tuesday. I bought the outfit at Primark and bass from Bass Direct (or was it the other way around?)

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