kevin_lindsay Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 I'm just sitting at home playing my bass and have just thought about the fact that I started playing around age 15. Here I am now, aged 48, and I love playing bass every bit now as I did back then. That is all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassMan94 Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 I've just managed to reach the 1 year marker, playing wise. It's all I do Learn something new everyday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdowner Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Hey, i've been playing for 10 months and loving it more and more every day! It's a fantastic sound/feel/groove... good for you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 I'm 20 years in this year, still loving it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamPodmore Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 5 years and i actually find it more fun now than i did when i started. Playing slightly cheesy Pop/Punk mixed with VERY cheesy pop covers on stage is honestly the most fun thing i have ever done, especially when you have over a hundred people joining in with you. Even just sitting at home playing them is damn fun, i start dancing when i'm recording covers sometimes. Liam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PTB Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 I've just done the maths & it's 25 years this yr. I should celebrate! I wonder how best to do that!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassMan94 Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 [quote name='PTB' timestamp='1342384835' post='1734190'] I've just done the maths & it's 25 years this yr. I should celebrate! I wonder how best to do that!? [/quote] Another bass for the collection ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameronj279 Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 I like this thread. It also just dawned on me that I've been playing for exactly two years now (give or take a day or two). I love it more than I did when I started now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OliverBlackman Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 been playing 10 years, very seriously for 3 of those. I haven't been playing for the past month though because of this damn dissertation! So this thread is just rubbing it in!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumble Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 (edited) I hate bass ! Oh how I wish I had never been talked into it 38 years ago ! Still, could have been worse, I could have taken to one of those tiny little things they call 'guitars' . Fiddly little buggers that screech and wail like a bad tempered baby. Edited July 15, 2012 by grumble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louisthebass Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 27 years this month . Have been through about a dozen basses and a few bass rigs in that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerstodge Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 30 yrs me, hated it from day 1, had tinnitus for 4 yrs, will i give it up ? Nope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PTB Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 [quote name='BassMan94' timestamp='1342385016' post='1734192'] Another bass for the collection ? [/quote] Like your Overwater, perhaps? I'm sorely tempted. Hmmm....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debwilliams Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Yep, I love it too. I'm new to it but at the moment there's not much else that I want to spend my time doing. Seems I'm in perfect company here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 31 years and counting. Probably have enjoyed playing bass more in the last few years than at any other time, aside from the initial enjoyment of learning. This co-incides with both joining The Daves (when I realised I`d have to actually start playing properly, and not just winging it), and joining Basschat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman Sam Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Played for 43 years and sorry I had to give up due to RA, loved every minute of it. Just wish I could get rid of the GAS, that never goes away. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudburst Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 38 years and counting. Loved it then. Love it more now. Love it more every day. Always learning. CB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgsjx Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 What's a bass? Still enjoy playing, just like I did when I picked it up just over 28 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomBassmonkey Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 11 years for me, can't imagine life (and I quite possibly wouldn't be alive) without it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChick Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 I'm still a bass playing newbie.... But have just woken up as I had a great idea for a bassline for a song my band are doing in my dream... Got up to plot it, thought I'd check out Basschat, now back to sleep for me. I LOVE it LOVE it LOVE it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Bores me rigid, dum de dum dum dum dum de dum de dum de dum. And so it goes on. Where's the creative expression in that? Just gets me out the house tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimBobTTD Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 20 years here, albeit with a hiatus. I now feel that I am beginning to begin to understand the instrument. I wish I had not wasted a few years on guitar and that I had spent more time with music in itself rather than just the genres I like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul torch Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 31 years (with a 16 year break). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassBod Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 I'm currently refusing to count the years...but I'm still doing it, and getting paid...so I'd better not stop now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah Deere Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Roughly 20 years for me as well, I'm not addicted to it though, I could stop any time, if I really wanted to, which I don't..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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