Stage presence with an upright?

[Owen]

1 minute ago, tayste_2000 said:

I will add it’s quite easy to look good onstage with a double bass and near impossible with an EUB.

Not wrong. 

[Burns-bass]

[tayste_2000]

1 minute ago, Burns-bass said:

 

I appreciate you proving my point. 😇

[Beedster]

29 minutes ago, tayste_2000 said:

I will add it’s quite easy to look good onstage with a double bass and near impossible with an EUB.

Yep 👍 

[Steve Browning]

19 hours ago, Beedster said:

On stage I’m too absorbed with the physical and emotional demands of playing to give a f*** about how I look, in short I’m totally absorbed.

 

In which context an Italian lady came up to us after a gig a few years back. The singer - a good looking guy 20-years my junior - naturally assumed she was going to talk to him. She did, but she said ‘The bassist plays his instrument like it is a beautiful women he wants to make love with’.

 

Still makes me smile, and I like to remind hime. He now recognises the true hierarchy in the band 👍

 

 

I guess Swiss Tony was right!!

[PaulKing]

On 31/10/2024 at 15:07, Happy Jack said:

It's never too late to grow up, Si. 

 

As a double bassist (and yes, I know you have an EUB) my main task at any moment is to be the coolest guy on stage.

 

If I was 19 and in great shape then I suppose I could do all sorts of tricks. If I had learned to do all those tricks when I was 19 then maybe I could still do them today (I'm looking at you, @PaulKing). But seeing as neither of those apply, I just concentrate on pretending that I know what I'm doing while looking cool - though still wondering why I don't look as cool as @tayste_2000 when he plays.

 

Hmmm, what can I say. I started at 21, still going 35 years later... though not always in tune.

 

 

[Happy Jack]

IIRC we were at that gig. Is that one of @Silvia Bluejay's videos?

 

[MacDaddy]

 

 

I'm not trying that with an EUB! 🤣

[PaulKing]

On 01/11/2024 at 16:03, Happy Jack said:

IIRC we were at that gig. Is that one of @Silvia Bluejay's videos?

 

You were indeed, and it may be Silvia's vid... though I seem to remember you two were pretty close to the front?

I like to think I can trigger an early interest in bass... 😆  

 

[petebassist]

1 hour ago, PaulKing said:

You were indeed, and it may be Silvia's vid... though I seem to remember you two were pretty close to the front?

I like to think I can trigger an early interest in bass... 😆  

 

That's class mate, great spectacle!

[JoeEvans]

I think a double bass has plenty of stage presence of its own. You just need to look relaxed and suave, or failing that, inconspicuous. 

[Happy Jack]

2 hours ago, JoeEvans said:

I think a double bass has plenty of stage presence of its own.

 

And here's proof of exactly that ... if proof were ever actually needed.

 

My gig on Saturday night, a section of the set where the DB isn't even being played but it's still front & centre, making a statement.

 

 

[PaulKing]

19 hours ago, JoeEvans said:

I think a double bass has plenty of stage presence of its own. You just need to look relaxed and suave, or failing that, inconspicuous. 

I missed that day at stage school. 😁

[ezbass]

On 01/11/2024 at 08:53, tayste_2000 said:

I will add it’s quite easy to look good onstage with a double bass and near impossible with an EUB.

Just have to pick the right player.

[hubrad]

On 31/10/2024 at 15:03, Happy Jack said:

 

Troo dat, and this would include the legendary "You'll never get that under your chin".

Danny Thompson has a brilliant retort to that one: "If I had a mouth as big as yours I'd have no problem!"

Probably helps he used to do boxing.

[hubrad]

On 31/10/2024 at 15:03, Happy Jack said:

 

 

Edited November 5, 2024 by hubrad
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[tayste_2000]

2 hours ago, ezbass said:

Just have to pick the right player.

Best of luck getting the audience to kneel at your crotch.

 

especially when from another angle it looks like this

[Woodinblack]

Play naked, and keep threatening to move out from behind it!

 

[ezbass]

58 minutes ago, tayste_2000 said:

 

 

especially when from another angle it looks like this

Nosfertu, the bass player (what they were going for I suspect).

[MacDaddy]

3 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

Play naked, and keep threatening to move out from behind it!

 

 

 

Challenge accepted!

 

Nah, not really. At least until I've got a couple of more months down the gym behind me.

[MacDaddy]

 

My solution.

 

Tie scarves on the end of it...

 

 

 

 

And wear a kilt!

 

[Happy Jack]

On 20/11/2024 at 10:25, MacDaddy said:

 

 

 

I thought about writing something witty, but that shirt/kilt combo has left me speechless.

 

Next up, MacDaddy in a onesie  ...

 

[chris_b]

On 31/10/2024 at 11:30, MacDaddy said:

As upright basses are usually static, we can't run around stage throwing shapes and posing like what we can with bass guitars. 

What do you do, if anything, to have a bit of stage presence with an upright?

 

At this time of the year, Christmas lights would look cool.

 

Better still, if you got those flashing ones.

[tauzero]

On 01/11/2024 at 09:10, Burns-bass said:

 

[Richard Jinman]

I find a wind machine positioned in the wings to my left really helps me 'pop' from a visual perspective.