Be a proud to be a BASS player, BASS PLAYER

[Bass4real]

When I was playing bass for, maybe 2 years or so, I wasn't that good at bass yet.

  I've never taken a BASS lesson EVER !! ,

I'm proud of that now.

I just thought if I took Bass lessons  I wouldn't develop my own style , I'd be and play like the teacher whether I realized it or not.

but I have been a paid by the length of the lesson BASS teacher with my own students at a music store in the late 90s

I know wtf right. 🤔

   Anyway I practiced every single day to  an AM radio station or albums or 8 track tapes, I didn't even know about FM radio stations yet , FM  stations weren't a popular thing back in the day. 

  I've seen so many beginner bass players quit because they couldn't get really good in a month or two.

   They had no idea what it took to become a good musician . Practice , practice , and more practice , practice is never ending.

   To this day every time I put a bass over my shoulder  I learn something new , and I 

play one of my basses every single 

day  , and pretty much have since 1976 .

   Yea I  love everything about the Bass guitar.

   I've been in a punk band , top 40 cover band , an 80s big hair/makeup/spandex almost metal but not really 😬 cover band , 

I started 2 original bands with 1 guitar player , and 2 bass players a traditional bass player and  lead BASS player (me),  keyboard and drummer., Every guitar player I knew didn't exactly hate us , but didn't wanna see a band with 2 bass players as good as we were either ,

Yea well  🖕.

  I joined up with an all ORIGINAL popular thrash band in ,93 thru 96

FATAL AGGRESSION  I first saw FA in 1990 at a packed bar and over packed bar of METALHEADS and fine Kitty cat  ;? ) in Reading Pa. 

They were young kids  , like 15 - 16 yrs old 

I was in my late 20s I think or maybe early 30s a well known bass player around town 

Those kids in FA tore me a new ***hole that night , they were the best band I ever saw from Reading , by the way I'm a Philly boy but raised in Reading .

  Three years later , I was FAs BASS player,

we released our 1st full length release in 1995 , titled DISRESPECT  produced by a famous jazz Bassist at " SIGNAL SOUND STUDIO '

   DISRESPECT  is still selling, to this day ,

but it's selling for a little more than it did in 1995 it was $12 .00 now it's over ?60.00.

BASS HAS BEEN BERY BERY GOOD TO ME 

So to all you Bass players just starting out 

LEARN IT - LIVE IT - LOVE IT 

work hard, YOUR ON YOUR WAY 

ENJOY THE LIFE OF A a metal or whatever you're into of a PROUD to be a proud BASS PLAYER .

Like me You'll be glad you never quit 

☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️