Owen Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 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. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burns-bass Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tayste_2000 Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 1 minute ago, Burns-bass said: I appreciate you proving my point. 😇 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 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 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Browning Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 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!! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulKing Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 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. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 IIRC we were at that gig. Is that one of @Silvia Bluejay's videos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted November 2 Author Share Posted November 2 I'm not trying that with an EUB! 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulKing Posted November 4 Share Posted November 4 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... 😆 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petebassist Posted November 4 Share Posted November 4 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeEvans Posted November 4 Share Posted November 4 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted November 4 Share Posted November 4 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulKing Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 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. 😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hubrad Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hubrad Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 (edited) On 31/10/2024 at 15:03, Happy Jack said: Edited November 5 by hubrad Duplicate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tayste_2000 Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 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 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 Play naked, and keep threatening to move out from behind it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 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). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted November 5 Author Share Posted November 5 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted November 20 Author Share Posted November 20 My solution. Tie scarves on the end of it... And wear a kilt! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted November 21 Share Posted November 21 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 ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted November 21 Share Posted November 21 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted November 21 Share Posted November 21 On 01/11/2024 at 09:10, Burns-bass said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Jinman Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 I find a wind machine positioned in the wings to my left really helps me 'pop' from a visual perspective. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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