Life spent with a Bass guitar (tell about yours)

[Bass4real]

I played 100s and 100s of shows over the 40+yrs I've playing Bass.

I've played in front of an audience of 9 people up to a crowd of  , ? 60 - 80 maybe more at lalapalooza in 93 at JFK Stadium in 

PHILADELPHIA

We were invited into the stadium did a 15 min. 3 song set on a sidestage .

Our manager/booking agent/roadie/driver 

got us shows with  powerman 5000 , Gwar

Type O negative, savatage , pantera . in the early 90s.

Released our first full release DISRESPECT 

in 95 , then on a compilation cd of American metal bands released in mainly European countries. We were Never paid a penny for the song we wrote specifically for the compilation. LOL.

Parted ways with FA in ? 96/97. 

Played club circuit with a top 40 cover band for two tortuous yrs. 00 to 02.

С 2003 по 2009 год я возил свои бас в

Турцию Италию и Россию .

Just wanted to play bass in foreign countries.

My bass and I traveled to RUSSIA and being a native English speaker helped my teacher friends students in learning the English language , by playing American music, my music. They were taught the lyrics and they would sing in English.

My guitar and bass and songs from 

Led Zep , Nirvana , motley Crue,

rage against the machine . The stones etc etc helped Russian students from 8 to 30 

to whatever age learn something different from kings English they learned American English, a big difference.

The most fun I've ever had was playing American music for.

2012 FATAL AGGRESSION asked me to be their Bass player again , for the first time in almost a decade all the original members except the original singer were going to be in FA again. I was not the original Bass player but was the bass player they wanted in F.A.

we practiced for 2 months did one small show before our 1st "WE'RE BACK" show 

with  FATES WARNING  HATE ,and a local band starting the show. 

It was a long night of the loudest crowd , the heaviest of metal, the hottest of the hot 

in degrees it was more than 23°C 75 °F

I met MIKE PORTNOY of Dream Theater at the bar . He was there to see

Fates Warning  not Us . 

I did 15 shows with FA .

It was a great time 

But I was a tired dude.

Said my I'm out to my boys.

I haven't played a live show in 4 yrs

And 

I'm ready to get back out there 

I NEED A BAND 

I really really want to be out there playing with an original metal band .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Geek99]

Maybe you should play something else. Blues perhaps, for variety. 

[Cosmo Valdemar]

On 07/02/2025 at 00:39, Bass4real said:

I played 100s and 100s of shows over the 40+yrs I've playing Bass.

I've played in front of an audience of 9 people up to a crowd of  , ? 60 - 80 maybe more at lalapalooza in 93 at JFK Stadium in 

PHILADELPHIA

We were invited into the stadium did a 15 min. 3 song set on a sidestage .

Our manager/booking agent/roadie/driver 

got us shows with  powerman 5000 , Gwar

Type O negative, savatage , pantera . in the early 90s.

Released our first full release DISRESPECT 

in 95 , then on a compilation cd of American metal bands released in mainly European countries. We were Never paid a penny for the song we wrote specifically for the compilation. LOL.

 

That was very much my scene in the 90s - what was the name of your band?

That sounds like a fantastic career though! I haven't played in a metal band in years, it's a more progressive space rock vibe these days, but metal is still very much in my DNA.