Mikeg Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Ive been playing for around 2 years, and I like to think ive gotten quite good. I get quite a few compliments gigs, but one question comes up quite alot. "Why do you play bass and not guitar?" I find it quite hard to awnser, ive always prefered bass, and it comes more naturaly to me than guitar. Somthing my drummer said anoyed me, "Your to good to play bass, you should be our guitatist" . Anyone else pondered on this before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartelby Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 For me it was because the noises Steve Harris, John Entwistle and Cliff Burton made were more awesome than the guitarists in the their bands.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mylkinut Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Yeah, I just prefer the sound of it. It doesn't stop me picking up a guitar once in a while but I'll always be a bassist. I got told at my gig last night that I even 'look' like a bass player. Most people say I look like either a pirate or Jesus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_S Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 I've been in a couple of bands where I'm a better guitarist than the guitarist (not so with my current band, I hasten to add), but I'll always keep to bass because I enjoy the role more on stage. I find it's less stress for the same level of responsibility, so I get to actively enjoy the music that I'm playing as I'm playing it. On guitar I'm too engrossed in getting it right to actually enjoy doing it, so have to rely on reactions after the fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubs Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 When I was 15 my mates wanted to start a band and needed a bass player and I knew someone with a bass... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 I`ve just always preferred both the sound, and the look, of the bass guitar. It`s definately my personality, being more of the side-man than the front-man, so I suppose the bass suits me in that respect too. I know there have been a fair few extrovert bassists, but there are many more who are the side-men. I`ve also had friends who have heard me play guitar and asked why I don`t play guitar in bands, as if the bass is the beginners instrument, and I`m better than "just" playing bass. Can`t really explain it to them, it`s like why you fancy one girl but not another, when each are nice to look at. It`s just "something" that`s there with the bass for me, where that "something" just isn`t there with the guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Most of the bass players I know are competant and play to a high standard - a lot of the guitarist I know are waiting to wake up and be as good as Jimi Hendrix - I bet there are millions of guitars sitting in the corner of bedrooms, in the back of cupboards and in lofts not being used.. Better to be a good bassist rather than another mediocre guitarist!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardHimself Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 No-one else wanted to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanark Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 I played cow bell in an open rehearsal - next day I got a call asking if I wanted to replace the bassist. Next rehearsal I picked up a bass for the first time in my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.i.stein Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 why bass ? ..get thee to a nunnery ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janmaat Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 because everybody can play the guitar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderthumbs Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 I have my big sister to thank. She was a Bay City Rollers fan when I was knee high to a grasshopper, and she fancied Alan Longmuir, the bassist. That naturally persuaded me to notice the "guitar with only 4 pegs". As I got slightly older, I got into The Jam and Bruce Foxton's sound walloped me against the wall. I knew there and then it was the instrument for me. Myself and a mate got a band together when I was 13, so I bought myself a bass from my paper round money and taught myself how to play it. The rest is history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris2112 Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 When I was 13 I decided I wanted to learn to play bass, probably because Paul Gray of Slipknot looked like the man playing bass on stage. Stuck with it ever since and it just feels natural to me now. I've thought of learning guitar a few times, but when bass feels so natural and right to me I don't feel like changing! I've always loved the role of the bassist; providing support, rhythm, harmony and melody all in one go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Far too long ago to remember! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 I can only play one note at a time, so bass was perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassPimp66 Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Grooving on bass makes girls shake their booty !!! Guitar solos don't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 (edited) Because I used to play naked and a guitar was too small to hide my giant bassist package. I played bass because everyone and their mum plays guitar. I actually play very little guitar, I play drums and bass well, a little flute and piano, some flugelhorn. But guitar I've never really gotten into, got quite fat fingers so it's difficult. Edited August 6, 2011 by Ross Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slipperydick Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 [quote name='BassPimp66' post='1330092' date='Aug 6 2011, 05:34 PM']Grooving on bass makes girls [s]shake their booty[/s] booties shake !!! Guitar solos don't [/quote] Fixed ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Guitar solos just make them gush uncontrollably, you think thats sweat and beer on the floor at a rock gig? You're mistaken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Wazoo Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Why bass? Well I'd sooner play bass than French Horn, and I don't like a French Horn, come to think of it... I don't like nothing French, me!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartelby Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 [quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='1330135' date='Aug 6 2011, 06:04 PM']I don't like nothing French, me!. [/quote] Wine? A bit of JJ Burnel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardHimself Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 [quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='1330135' date='Aug 6 2011, 06:04 PM']Why bass? Well I'd sooner play bass than French Horn, and I don't like a French Horn, come to think of it... I don't like nothing French, me!. [/quote] What about the Cor Anglais? An english instrument if ever i heard one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slipperydick Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 [quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='1330135' date='Aug 6 2011, 06:04 PM']Why bass? Well I'd sooner play bass than French Horn, and I don't like a French Horn, come to think of it... [b]I don't like nothing French, me[/b]!. [/quote] Not even hairy armpits and Belgian Lager... Ooops! wrong forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merello Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 JJ Burnell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blademan_98 Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Because it only has 4 strings....... (I am really a guitarist who has jumped ship!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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