Has your bass playing ever gotten you...

[deathpanda]

[quote name='munkonthehill' post='891034' date='Jul 10 2010, 08:03 AM']no way am I the only person that doesnt have a clue what this guy is on about!![/quote]

no, I don't have a clue either. I'll have a bit of whatever he's smoking though...

[munkonthehill]

[quote name='munkonthehill' post='891034' date='Jul 10 2010, 08:03 AM']no way am I the only person that doesnt have a clue what this guy is on about!![/quote]


my wife doesnt really bother with my playing,,, she came to see my first couple of gigs but lost interest very quickly thereafter haha.

I dont think ive ever had any attention though

[OldGit]

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='890962' date='Jul 9 2010, 11:44 PM']Yes, but they're usually drunk and being egged on by their drunk mates. Honestly...don't they know anything? Thats no way to start a deep and meaningful relationship based on trust and respect. [/quote]

"Root admin" eh?
C'mon Steve, Spill the beans










PS is there a "Fifth admin" too?

[OldGit]

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='890971' date='Jul 9 2010, 11:56 PM']I was out with some friends, including a lady who was 'the plan' and pretty much in the bag as it were. Nice lady, but the second glance you give her might not be for the 'right' reason. Her much hotter friend I'd not met before comes up and says to me 'I hear you play bass, what do you have? I've got a washburn.'. Total ah dammit moment. Stuck with the bird in the hand, worked out pretty well for a bit. Still wonder what could have been though.[/quote]


You could go and see her band and, afterwards, ask her which input socket she prefers, how much compression she uses, preferable scale length, and how loud she gets.


Hummmmmmmmmm Joe Jackson was right, it [b]is[/b] different for girls....

[OldGit]

[quote name='witterth' post='890992' date='Jul 10 2010, 01:01 AM']Yup, I mean it, what didn't you understand?


Patronising?
I suppose so....Ah well[/quote]


Goodness, Lighten up.

We've covered this subject a number of times,
It's not at all childish as "getting women" is often cited as one reason for playing in a band. Indeed for playing any instrument.
Sure it's usually lead singers who get the attention but that's the point of the thread.

[JTUK]

Bass players and female singers often work...IME

[witterth]

[quote name='munkonthehill' post='891034' date='Jul 10 2010, 08:03 AM']no way am I the only person that doesnt have a clue what this guy is on about!![/quote]
Just meant, I thought the whole thing is a bit childish really.
hence "go away small boys"

all right..allright... I do tend to think a bit "allover the place" of a Friday night!....apologies

its a laugh this Basschat place innit?

....dont smoke though, you "hippy"

are old enough to smoke deathpanda? (j for joke)

Edited July 10, 2010 by witterth

[Ian Savage]

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='890962' date='Jul 9 2010, 11:44 PM']Yes, but they're usually drunk and being egged on by their drunk mates. Honestly...don't they know anything? Thats no way to start a deep and meaningful relationship based on trust and respect. [/quote]

[quote name='The Hold Steady']If she happens to suggest a love based on trust and respect, tell her I've been wasted since last week...[/quote]

I met both of my major 'significant others' of the past seven years through playing live...

[BigRedX]

No.

Never.

Unfortunately for me my "rock god" on-stage personna is simply that - an on-stage personna.

Once the music is over I'm a shy and retiring bloke who wouldn't recognise a come-on if it was sat squirming in my lap...

Also I don't get the people who have commented that they use the their band to get away from their wife/girlfriend/SO. For me music is pretty much the most important thing in my life and I couldn't even contemplate being in a relationship with someone who wasn't as enthusiastic about (mostly) the same music as me. Maybe that's why I'm single...

[witterth]

[quote name='OldGit' post='891083' date='Jul 10 2010, 09:31 AM']Goodness, Lighten up.

We've covered this subject a number of times,
It's not at all childish as "getting women" is often cited as one reason for playing in a band. Indeed for playing any instrument.
Sure it's usually lead singers who get the attention but that's the point of the thread.[/quote]
Goodness, I'm as lightend as could be! OG

[witterth]

[quote name='OldGit' post='891083' date='Jul 10 2010, 09:31 AM']Goodness, Lighten up.

We've covered this subject a number of times,
It's not at all childish as "getting women" is often cited as one reason for playing in a band. Indeed for playing any instrument.
Sure it's usually lead singers who get the attention but that's the point of the thread.[/quote]
Goodness, I'm as lightend as could be! OG

BTW you'll know who Chick Murray is surely?

[OldGit]

[quote name='witterth' post='891098' date='Jul 10 2010, 09:41 AM']Goodness, I'm as lightend as could be! OG

BTW you'll know who Chick Murray is surely?[/quote]

Yeah but I don't get the reference..
Anyway welcome to Saturday

[witterth]

[quote name='OldGit' post='891102' date='Jul 10 2010, 09:47 AM']Yeah but I don't get the reference..
Anyway welcome to Saturday [/quote]
Oh never mind....and thanks!!

[Anvil]

Playing bass is having the opposite effect for me.

SWMBO doesn't 'get' my will to learn and play bass, so am on a solitary trip music-wise. Don't worry, I haven't been dumped, she just doesn't 'get it'.

Then again, she never 'got it', when I was skydiving, flying gliders, surfing, skiing, climbing and paragiding.

[dumelow]

I think the fact that im answering a "have you ever pulled after a gig" thread on a bass guitar internet forum says a lot about my sex appeal.

[dougie]

Never got me laid,possibly because i cant play it,come to think of it the wifes tart sister has stopped flashing her melons to me....coincidently since i bought the T40.

[thisnameistaken]

Oh there was a girl who my singer tried to hook me up with. Her name was Angela, she was all blonde hair and red lips and tits, and as dopey as you can imagine.

This was in the USA, and she first asked me what I was doing over there (having just seen my band perform!). I told her I was working at McGuire air force base as a stunt pilot.

"Oh really? Wow!" she cooed.

I went on to tell her that I was an English Language graduate and to combine my two loves I became a specialist in skywriting, and that my post at McGuire was in order to teach the American pilots to punctuate correctly. Because cursive is fairly straightforward once you've got the hang of flying the plane, but semicolons are hard to write and often pilots who can write one don't know where it's appropriate to use it.

Etc.

She stood up to about half an hour of this before making her excuses and backing away.

[Marvin]

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='891174' date='Jul 10 2010, 11:06 AM']Oh there was a girl who my singer tried to hook me up with. Her name was Angela, she was all blonde hair and red lips and tits, and as dopey as you can imagine.

This was in the USA, and she first asked me what I was doing over there (having just seen my band perform!). I told her I was working at McGuire air force base as a stunt pilot.

"Oh really? Wow!" she cooed.

I went on to tell her that I was an English Language graduate and to combine my two loves I became a specialist in skywriting, and that my post at McGuire was in order to teach the American pilots to punctuate correctly. Because cursive is fairly straightforward once you've got the hang of flying the plane, but semicolons are hard to write and often pilots who can write one don't know where it's appropriate to use it.

Etc.

She stood up to about half an hour of this before making her excuses and backing away.[/quote]
that's brilliant.

[Marvin]

In all honesty I think my playing has the effect of driving most people away.

[munkonthehill]

[quote name='Marvin' post='891179' date='Jul 10 2010, 11:15 AM']In all honesty I think my playing has the effect of driving most people away.[/quote]

its my stupid dancing about that drives folk away,,,,,,,think care in the community!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dave Vader]

Plenty thanks.
Maybe cos I'm a good 20 years younger than the rest of the band, and still have all my own hair...

Oh and the wife hates it, she doesn't come along because she like us, just to keep the women away.

[OldGit]

[quote name='BigRedX' post='891088' date='Jul 10 2010, 09:34 AM']Also I don't get the people who have commented that they use the their band to get away from their wife/girlfriend/SO. For me music is pretty much the most important thing in my life and I couldn't even contemplate being in a relationship with someone who wasn't as enthusiastic about (mostly) the same music as me. Maybe that's why I'm single...[/quote]

Only the most enthusiatic, stalker level, fan will want to see you play every single gig and, personally, I'd not want one of those as a partner ...

Plus when you have kids and big jobs outwith the band it just isn't possible or practical.

[teen t-shirt]

[quote name='JTUK' post='891084' date='Jul 10 2010, 09:31 AM']Bass players and female singers often work...IME [/quote]

+1 to that cos thats my situation

[fatback]

[quote name='algmusic' post='891003' date='Jul 10 2010, 01:36 AM']The cool list in the band in order of getting the girl is:
Lead singer
Lead guitarist/Drummer





massive space
The bass player

Anyone else except the keyborad player


huge gap
Keyboard player



There are exceptions to that rule.. (when the bassist is the lead singer) so they are technically the lead singer[/quote]

LOL Spot on! Never been in a band yet where the keyboard player got laid

Edited July 10, 2010 by fatback

[thisnameistaken]

[quote name='fatback' post='891338' date='Jul 10 2010, 03:22 PM']LOL Spot on! Never been in a band yet where the keyboard player got laid [/quote]

Our old keyboard player did alright with the ladies despite being horrifically nerdy, having extreme panic attacks every time he smoked weed (but still insisting on smoking weed all the time) and being named Lambert.