Has your bass playing ever gotten you...

[YouMa]

Loads,its the reason i started playing slap bass.

[parker_muse]

[quote name='YouMa' post='894023' date='Jul 13 2010, 06:28 PM']Loads,its the reason i started playing slap bass.[/quote]

I chuckled rather hard at that.

[dannybuoy]

[quote name='YouMa' post='894023' date='Jul 13 2010, 06:28 PM']Loads,its the reason i started playing slap bass.[/quote]

The best way to attract a slapper is to become one yourself!

Edited July 13, 2010 by dannybuoy

[mep]

3 in total, and it took years before the first.

First was a backing singer who was seeing the drummer. We were all expats and he had to go back to the UK after his contract expired, so we got it together for a while. When he came back she dumped him and we finished our fling.

Second was on a rebound who I knew and used to come to the bar I played in. She was interested in my fingerwork!

Third was how I met my wife. She was a friend of the singer's wife and friends. She had seen my picture in the local paper and came to a gig.

Edit. Lasy night at a gig a father & son told me they came in because they heard my bass!

Edited July 17, 2010 by mep

[budget bassist]

Nope, never.

[rOB]

Last gigging band I was in we all got a bit of attention at one time or another. During the whole time the band was together, every member had serious partners of their own so nothing ever happened as far as I'm aware.

I seem to mostly attract unattractive people from both genders.... humm....

[thisnameistaken]

[quote name='Rich' post='893992' date='Jul 13 2010, 05:59 PM']Brilliant.
Many years ago, a mate and I managed to succeessfully get the same sod-off-and-leave-us-alone result by telling two annoying women that we were plumbers working on nuclear submarines, and proceeding to explain to them in great detail how toilets work underwater.[/quote]

Oh that one sounds fun! Another time me and a friend from Belfast told two girls that we were the Finnish mens tennis doubles team. I don't think either of us even knew the rules of tennis at the time or what Finnish people sounded like. Fortunately neither did they.

[Sarah5string]

Nope... but then again you don't see a lot of brazen lesbians around these parts

[Commando Jack]

Never really pulled as such, but get the odd bit of attention now and again. I think though it's more about how you act on stage. Apparently I can look quite moody and stand offish at times.

To be honest that's true, because when I've just finished playing for 2 hours I just feel the need to go home for a cup of tea (even on the nights where I've had a couple and get quite gregarious as a result). Even though I appreciate the ego boost of female attention, I just can't be bothered half the time!

[Rich]

[quote name='Commando Jack' post='894591' date='Jul 14 2010, 12:20 PM']when I've just finished playing for 2 hours I just feel the need to go home for a cup of tea[/quote]
WAHEY! ROCK'n'ROLL!!

[size=1]Actually yeah, I know exactly what you mean [/size]

[Spike Vincent]

Yes.Several times,although as I'm still with the last one 15 years later and she's in the room it might not be wise to go into detail.

[Oscar South]

Closest I think was a girl coming up and saying something along the lines of:

"I really liked your playing, it looked like some kind of special guitar, what was it?" "Bass guitar" ... ".. Oh."

[velvetkevorkian]

I was "recruited" for a band formed by a girl I met briefly at uni. The band didn't last long (and wasn't great in any case) but we're still together three years later

[OldGit]

[quote name='Commando Jack' post='894591' date='Jul 14 2010, 12:20 PM'].

To be honest that's true, because when I've just finished playing for 2 hours I just feel the need to go home for a cup of tea[/quote]

Funny how civilians expect you to go out partying all night like they imagine the Stones do/did when we have to pack up all the gear and drive home so we can get up and got to work or Sainsburies in the morning .....

[Ray]

I was noticed at a gig by a girl and as I came off stage after the show I walked past her and she said hello and how great the show was. I didn't hear or even notice her and completely ignored her! Oops.

We met again a few months later and have been together for nearly 10 years now.

[Telebass]

[quote name='Commando Jack' post='894591' date='Jul 14 2010, 12:20 PM']...when I've just finished playing for 2 hours I just feel the need to go home for a cup of tea...[/quote]

[quote name='Rich' post='894603' date='Jul 14 2010, 12:30 PM']WAHEY! ROCK'n'ROLL!!

[size=1]Actually yeah, I know exactly what you mean [/size][/quote]

Ain't it the truth!

[harvey1-8]

[quote name='Commando Jack' post='894591' date='Jul 14 2010, 12:20 PM']Never really pulled as such, but get the odd bit of attention now and again. I think though it's more about how you act on stage. Apparently I can look quite moody and stand offish at times.

To be honest that's true, because when I've just finished playing for 2 hours I just feel the need to go home for a cup of tea (even on the nights where I've had a couple and get quite gregarious as a result). Even though I appreciate the ego boost of female attention, I just can't be bothered half the time![/quote]

Pretty much this for me as well.

If I've worked all day and have a gig in the evening; you spend an hour setting up + helping everyone else, play for 2 hours, and then an hour packing down, my desire to stay and socialise is pretty non-existent. Where as shower – tea – bed is an appealing combo.

[bassmanAzz]

[quote name='Oscar South' post='895169' date='Jul 14 2010, 10:32 PM']Closest I think was a girl coming up and saying something along the lines of:

"I really liked your playing, it looked like some kind of special guitar, what was it?" "Bass guitar" ... ".. Oh."[/quote]


that sounds kind of familiar!
it seems more people ask what im doing as i only have 4 strings. ive had guys come to me (and my band) saying how much of a good looking band we are :|

basically no i havent lol

[urb]

I pulled at a party where my jazz funk band were playing - miraculously managing to chat up the girl while I was playing... no idea how I did it but I've not managed to repeat the trick since...

[Bassmonkey]

[quote name='urb' post='895605' date='Jul 15 2010, 01:38 PM']I pulled at a party where my jazz funk band were playing - miraculously managing to chat up the girl while I was playing... no idea how I did it but I've not managed to repeat the trick since...[/quote]

I have had the occasional drunken female mongy blathering on but mainly get blokes telling me that they also play guitar (rarely bass) and could have been in a band except for etc, etc.....

......once played in Pontefract and got some old geezer telling me his mates had been in a band in the 60s but he couldnt be arsed ! I loved that one

Mind you, I am singer/bassist so perhaps it's that?
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