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"why don't you be like a bass player and be inaudible? don't you have something important to do? like clean the bands stage outfits?"

BURN.

stoopid bass players.

I just blew up a batch of Entenmann's CC cookies in my microwave

So no one else sees any issue with theavondon insinuating Behndy is stable.......?



That pic has nothing to do with it....I'm just rewatching that super bowl. Motherfucking Who Dat? Goodell's going down, bitches.

So...what of it? You jelly?

behndy wrote:iiiiiiiii..... have always been the Band Mother. i always thought that was.... what bass players do....?

I found out pretty quickly that drummers and bassists are better friends in a band than everyone else... idk what it is... the bass player always helped me carrying my drums and stuff while the other dudes were sipping their first beer at the bar... main point yaaay for bassists

urm.... i dunno. i DO always end up moving the most equipment, but i'm a big dood, so i always just assumed it came with the territory. but yeah, singers usually don't wanna carry SHIT. last guitar player i had in a band was when i was 18 or so, and he usually only carried his amp. but he was usually pretty damn high.

I AM A VERITABLE BASTION OF NORMALACY AND STABILITY.

YOU COULD HANG PICTURES BY MY LEVELNESS.

You just gotta leave one beer at the van and another near the setup.

Bonus points if you get roof'd.

i always help carry shit to the extent that it won't permanently compress my spine. i'm usually a guitarist, but why wouldn't you help? it's all gotta go in the same truck anyway, and it's gotta go there before you can go home.

so i've finally got something to show y'all. i went out this weekend and drove 160 miles to Pine Grove, up in the Sierra foothills, to join some friends from the Gretsch forum to get together and jam. this was the first chance i'd had to see a couple of these folks in almost two years, so it was well worth the trek. since there were a dozen guitarists, i played bass and keys much of the time and was perfectly happy to do; at previous events i've also been the pickup drummer. i don't mind being the utility infielder if it means the game can proceed. so anyways, here's a clip of a blues jam with me on bass. this was the first time i'd EVER played a 5-string, and you'll notice i avoid the low string assiduously. i enjoyed playing the field between staying with the drummer and reflecting the guitarists. the bass is mixed low and running through the PA, so you might have to turn it up. it's not great, but it's not bad.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-GKindnbLs[/youtube]

The DK shows his face! You don't look like you are having a whole lot of fun though.

Reminds me when I got suckered into being in a house band for a weekly blues open jam at a bar about 30 miles east of here (in Couer D'Alene ID).

I enjoyed the company of those cats and free beer is nice,...but personally; my leanings and chops are totally not blues oriented. I'm a good bassist,...just not a good blues bassist, nor do I have the passion for it.

Because I was usually the only bassist ever to show up; I would always be up there the entire night trying to fumble my way through walking I, IV, V blues jams with entirely too much guitar wanking. Covers of Browned Eyed Girl, One Way Out, Whipping Post, Redhouse....the usual, and usually songs I didn't know nor did I care to learn. It was always the most uncomfortable 3 hours of my week. Whenever I'd ask to play something I did now (China Cat Sunflower,..Franklin's Tower,...Feel Like A Stranger,...about the closest songs to blues that I know),...I'd always get met with blank stares.

There were definitely some musical moments when the other musicians would say let's just jam and I'd find a groove I was comfortable with,...or when we would do Superstition, but beyond that,...I wanted to blow my brains out.

FACK,...just realizing that I'm going to have to come up with a completely separate guitar board for this here metal band. I'm actually interested in a juxtaposition of the modern tones the main guitarist gets with his rig with more vintage tones out of mine. Not so much bluesy tones,...but more of the old school sounding fuzzes and distortions. I think the Dizzy Tone I got will fit in (sounds beast on both bass and guitar). I'll need a distortion though and I have no idea where to start. The former guitarist (a good friend of mine who's blessing I have) used a TS-9,....which I fear will ruin my street cred if I settle on something like that.

I was thinking about a Fuck OD or perhaps using a Toadworks Mr. Ed I've got lying around.

Beyond that I want to throw a reverb,...and LS-2 for tap tempo controls,...another Drasp DL-4 and possible an Atoner.

Powersupply yeah. A second pedal board,...hurrrrrr.

I just unfortunately have all my money tied up in debt repayments and other hobbies.

Good thing my bass board is on lockdown.

there was definitely a discomfort factor going on...a combination of it being the first thing bigger than a dinner party i'd done since i split with my ex/had the total breakdown and so was as nervous as a sick kitten, was playing a 5er and thus having to concentrate to remember where my root was, and was perched uncomfortably on a stool with no strap and having to be careful not to drop somebody else's bass. i should have gone and gotten my J-Bass/strap, but at the time somebody just handed me the bass and said "do you want to play bass?" and i was drafted...people were already starting the next tune.

i went on a whole rant in Spite, Rage... about how sick i am of playing blues and other age-cohort-appropriate music with people my age. i didn't even use my pedalboard when i went up there except to demonstrate it with a five-minute loop, because there wasn't any appropriate setting for it.

but on the other hand, it was also cool. i really like the people i got together with there, even if their taste in music is somewhat lame. they've been really sweet to me when i've been down, and i was really glad to see them. i love the older guy with the glasses, who's a lovely dude who used to record rockabilly singles in the early 60s, and i hadn't seen him and his wife for almost two years. and it gives me a chance to use my walking bass stuff, which is fun...i like the mathematics of it. it's like blues chord turnarounds on guitar, "how are you going to solve the equation THIS time?"

the other thing is, i wasn't playing to have fun at that point...i was approaching it as if i was working. the guys who were blowing on lead were the having-fun guys at that point; my job was to lay down a consistent backing for them while still keeping myself entertained and working with the drummer. later on my friend played a bunch of 50s and 60s tunes, Buddy Holly tunes and "Polk Salad Annie" and stuff, and i was happy to play bog-standard rock 'n' roll bass to make him sound good. there's something wonderful about just locking in with the kick on "PSA" and going "BOOM boom boom boom." it's not necessarily what i'd CHOOSE to do, but if it makes them happy it makes me happy in an appropriate setting. most places i go aren't about what i do.

Gotta say...I'd have LOVED to have been on that stage that afternoon, but with one of my own basses and rig.

Just want to throw this out there: Some ILF users should form a band called "Bhendy's Starship"

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