Bassfinger

Good luck.  Hopefully you'll be well enough to work around it.  If it's any consolation I had to give up guitar after knackering my elbow and shoulder in an accident, and losing the feeling in 2 finges and partial feeling in my thumb.  I was a guitar player (spit) and while I could still knock out a tune I can no longer finger pick etc, and it was depressing me.  Mrs Bassfinger went out on a limb and bought me a cheap (but surprisingly playable) bass from gear4music, on the basis that the bass has a third less strings to pluck and I might be able to play it more extensively.  She was right, and I'm really digging it and I'm now in the middle on building a Jazz bass to go with the cheap one.

Anyway, point being that you're not alone and you may yet be able to work around it, or use your skills to try something else.  With luck and a following wind your love of playing may still get soothed.

Good luck 

Do bands these days not take burly minders along with them, if only to fight off the groupies?

Telling someone to get to France? That's really out off line!

I'm designing a bass guitar tatt for my right forearm.  The left is already taken.

1.92M? I don't get this low calorie metric stuff.  What's that in old money? About 5'2"?

For crying out loud, and I did a search too! 🤣

I've got all the usual tatts.  Nudey lady from my youf, which I'm not especially proud of.  Motorbike themed tattoo, and a Led Zeppelin job.  I'm thinking of a fourth to even things up, and I've decided that a bass guitar themed tattoo is in line to be my next.

So do you have any musically themed or bass tattoos? Don't worry about me copying them cos I'm designing my own, but I'd be interested to see what my brothers and sisters in bassland have got.

So, it would seem that guitarists are a puny bunch compared to us lofty bass playing Adonnis's.

She's fallen out of a time warp from 1979.

It's how Inspector Clouseau would look if he had to go undercover as a jazz muso.

Perhaps you shouldn't have ended with a final sentence of "P*** s*** w*** c******"?

John Paul Jones is actually very tall indeed, but due to his modesty only allows himself to be pictured in extremely large building, or stood further away from the photographer when in the company of shorter people, this giving the illusion of being diminutive.

4 minutes ago, Twigman said:

1.78 m

 

 

Can get to over 6ft with back combing

With a bit of creative combing of my quiff I could managed 6'7" in my heyday. Alas, without the assistance of Donald Trump's hairdresser thats no longer possible.

Very unscientific, but it would indeed seem that us bassists are a loftier than average bunch.

So, 6 feet or over, or 5 feet 9 and under, few in the middle ground.

Surfing the interweb trying to get my fix of bass related news and I found this...

http://www.thecavanproject.com/tall-musicians/

...postulating that us bass players are a tall breed.

Is this true? The first example that came to my mind was myself, and I'm 6'5". But does the correlation hold water?  Are we a breed of Hightowers, or a random mix of heights?

56 minutes ago, Sibob said:

While I appreciate the humour (😉), in the context of the thread, I’m suggesting he’d stick out like a sore thumb. 

Si

It's all in the ear of the beholder.  If it sounds good then no ones opinion is any more valid than anyone elses, and it is possible to sound good without necessarily conforming to genre rules and norms. 

I've been doing some walking myself, quite by accident while messing about and twiddling some little fills between changes.  It doesn't follow any written rule, any structure that I'm aware of, but the lad I play with is a proper guitar teacher and he nods along quite happily with it.  If some self appointed, pipe smoking, velvet jacketed, Jazz Club wannabe doesn't like it he's probably in a minority anyway, so who cares what they think? Some people are so far up their own behinds with theory they've probably forgotten what an actual tune sounds like.

@lownote12 should carry on doing whatever the hell he likes.  If it works for him, great.  If no one else is throwing themselves out the window in terror while he plays, then so much the better.

6 hours ago, Sibob said:

On a serious note (no pun intended), I suppose it depends who your audience is. If it’s jazz musicians, at worst you’ll look like a blagger who doesn’t know what they’re doing..

So, you're saying he would fit right in then?

A bad gig is where the males in the audience throw their knickers at you.

I'm liking that.  It's simple yet stylish, just like me

Whatever You Want, by Status Quo.  Classic track from their peak, doing what they did best.  Only 7 bass notes in the whole song, but lifts and carries it along beautifully.

Planet Rock.

Reminds me of the Jumping Jews of Jerusalem from Blackadder.

I get stuff like locking strap nuts from Ali.  Absolutely identical to the ones sold here for £11 a pair, but they're 99p each posted from Ali.  UK sellers are making a terrific mark up on stuff like that.

Am I brave enough to buy a bass from there...no, at least not yet.

It doesn't matter, because politicians know better than the rest of us poor thickos and will never implement such a thread.