Bass related fiction?

[OldGit]

Any bass related fiction suggestions?

[ahpook]

i don't know, but i'd love there to be some hard-boiled crime fiction about a private eye who plays upright in a jazz band...

[Prosebass]

How could you possibly make playing bass interesting ?

[markytbass]

Yea ME!

On a serious note I think it was Peter or Henry Fonda who played a double bass player in a club and was acused of doing a robbery he didn't do cos someone else did it.

[YouMa]

My warwick was owned by paul rogers from free which meant bugger all to me when i bought it i didnt even know he played bass! I doubt if he would be very good.Alright now!

[JimBobTTD]

Go to Ebay and look for vintage basses. There's plenty of fiction there!

[Happy Jack]

Carol Kaye's autobiography. (Bits of it, anyway. )

[endorka]

The main character in Iain Bank's Espedair Street, Daniel Weir, is a bass player...

Jennifer

[BigRedX]

^ Beat me to it. Excellent book!

[OldGit]

[quote name='endorka' post='279465' date='Sep 8 2008, 08:11 AM']The main character in Iain Bank's Espedair Street, Daniel Weir, is a bass player...

Jennifer[/quote]

Oh yes, I'd forgotten that .. Good book!
Some versions of the cover even have a P bass image (which caught my eye and caused me to buy it)

but some show that publishers and book designers don't know the difference between a bass and a gu1tar and have given it a Les Paul image..

Edited September 8, 2008 by OldGit

[Dr.Dave]

There was this , from the days of my youth.
[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964867/"]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964867/[/url]

Starring Edward Woodward. He was an upright player who smoked a cheroot. I have a 2 second 'mind clip' of that and no idea whatsoever about the plot.

[Adrenochrome]

Yep, there's a great book by Jeff Noon called Needle In The Groove featuring a bass player... and I wont give too much away.
The entire book is formatted like a set of songs lyrics and there's a backstory of the development of pop music in the city the book is set. Highly recommended!

There was also a CD of music based on the 'lyrics' of the book out at the same time that I've not heard yet.

[BigAlonBass]

The Bass Player always gets the best looking girl.


















Well-you said you wanted Fiction!

[Merton]

[quote name='endorka' post='279465' date='Sep 8 2008, 08:11 AM']The main character in Iain Bank's Espedair Street, Daniel Weir, is a bass player...

Jennifer[/quote]


[quote name='BigRedX' post='279474' date='Sep 8 2008, 08:34 AM']^ Beat me to it. Excellent book![/quote]


[quote name='OldGit' post='279480' date='Sep 8 2008, 08:48 AM']Oh yes, I'd forgotten that .. Good book!
Some versions of the cover even have a P bass image (which caught my eye and caused me to buy it)

but some show that publishers and book designers don't know the difference between a bass and a gu1tar and have given it a Les Paul image..
[/quote]

You all got there first I like that book, tis grand. Shame about the 2nd publishers...

[OldGit]

[quote name='Adrenochrome' post='279497' date='Sep 8 2008, 09:28 AM']Yep, there's a great book by Jeff Noon called Needle In The Groove featuring a bass player... and I wont give too much away.
The entire book is formatted like a set of songs lyrics and there's a backstory of the development of pop music in the city the book is set. Highly recommended!

There was also a CD of music based on the 'lyrics' of the book out at the same time that I've not heard yet.[/quote]


Guardian liked it
[url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/may/11/1#a"]http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/may/11/1#a[/url]


"oh yeah, I play the bass/the bass plays me/the four-stringed, thick-bellied electrified monster, you know, the one that eats all other noises alive
and I've gone walking down these four strings most every hour of every day, of every year and every busted heartbeat, just trying to get along to where the last riff kisses the dark/the subsonic groove, we call it
dub culture/midnight's vibration/something to reach for
some throat, some bottom, some neck and some deep clutch of riverpulse/gets you hot just strapping yourself into the thing/and the more you play, the hotter it gets, the slicker the slide/and all for nothing much because none of the songs you discover, ever come anywhere near to what you hear in your dreams"

[Prosebass]

[quote name='OldGit' post='279591' date='Sep 8 2008, 12:01 PM']"oh yeah, I play the bass/the bass plays me/the four-stringed, thick-bellied electrified monster, you know, the one that eats all other noises alive
and I've gone walking down these four strings most every hour of every day, of every year and every busted heartbeat, just trying to get along to where the last riff kisses the dark/the subsonic groove, we call it
dub culture/midnight's vibration/something to reach for
some throat, some bottom, some neck and some deep clutch of riverpulse/gets you hot just strapping yourself into the thing/and the more you play, the hotter it gets, the slicker the slide/and all for nothing much because none of the songs you discover, ever come anywhere near to what you hear in your dreams"[/quote]

From this extract I deduce the following...

A. He has never played bass

or

B. Too many drugs...

[Alien]

[quote name='markytbass' post='279435' date='Sep 8 2008, 12:04 AM']On a serious note I think it was Peter or Henry Fonda who played a double bass player in a club and was acused of doing a robbery he didn't do cos someone else did it.[/quote]


It was indeed Henry Fonda. The film was 'The Wrong Man', and it was based on a true story.

[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051207/"]imdb linky[/url]

Andy

[Adrenochrome]

[quote name='Prosebass' post='279598' date='Sep 8 2008, 12:10 PM']From this extract I deduce the following...

A. He has never played bass

or

B. Too many drugs...[/quote]

Accurate deduction; but I won't say which.

[64fender]

[quote name='endorka' post='279465' date='Sep 8 2008, 08:11 AM']The main character in Iain Bank's Espedair Street, Daniel Weir, is a bass player...

Jennifer[/quote]
yes thats right, I could not remember the book title.good book

[cheddatom]

[quote name='OldGit' post='279591' date='Sep 8 2008, 12:01 PM']Guardian liked it
[url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/may/11/1#a"]http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/may/11/1#a[/url]


"oh yeah, I play the bass/the bass plays me/the four-stringed, thick-bellied electrified monster, you know, the one that eats all other noises alive
and I've gone walking down these four strings most every hour of every day, of every year and every busted heartbeat, just trying to get along to where the last riff kisses the dark/the subsonic groove, we call it
dub culture/midnight's vibration/something to reach for
some throat, some bottom, some neck and some deep clutch of riverpulse/gets you hot just strapping yourself into the thing/and the more you play, the hotter it gets, the slicker the slide/and all for nothing much because none of the songs you discover, ever come anywhere near to what you hear in your dreams"[/quote]

I quite like that quote! I may buy it!

[dangerboy]

I think the main character in Jonathan Lethem's last book played bass.

However, only read if you want a book that over-romanticizes, and completely fails to capture the experience of, being in a band. As far as I remember.

[beerdragon]

[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='279496' date='Sep 8 2008, 09:28 AM']There was this , from the days of my youth.
[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964867/"]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964867/[/url]

Starring Edward Woodward. He was an upright player who smoked a cheroot. I have a 2 second 'mind clip' of that and no idea whatsoever about the plot.[/quote]

Alfie Bass, great name.

[url="http://imageshack.us"][/url]

yeah i know its pronounced like the fish.

[OldGit]

[quote name='beerdragon' post='279841' date='Sep 8 2008, 05:26 PM']Alfie Bass, great name.

[url="http://imageshack.us"][/url]

yeah i know its pronounced like the fish.[/quote]


Looks a lot like that shot of you in your avatar .. Are you related?

[chris_b]

[quote name='OldGit' post='279400' date='Sep 7 2008, 11:00 PM']....Any bass related fiction suggestions?....[/quote]
How about "1001 Interesting Bass Lines" by Mark King?

[Bilbo]

Patrick Suskind’s ‘The Double Bass’ – ISBN 978-0747537236

‘The Double Bass Mystery’ by Jeremy Harmer - ISBN 9780521656139

Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass.

Associated Press -- MOSCOW -- From the jagged, jumbled lettering of the title to the picture of a youngster flying through the air framed by pillars, the book looks fantastically familiar. But the figure on the front isn't Harry Potter - it's Tanya Grotter, heroine of a Russian series that has the boy wizard's backers crying plagiarism.

While Tanya Grotter is an 11-year-old girl and rides a magical double bass instead of a broomstick, she shares several attributes with her near-namesake: Like Potter, she is an orphan, wears glasses and has an unusual mark on her face - a mole on her nose. And like the Potter books, the Grotter series is full of fanciful magic words that set spells in motion.

The author of both Grotter books, Dmitry Yemets, said his work was "entirely independent." However, he also said it was meant in part as a parody of the Harry Potter series, but with roots in Russian culture and folklore.

"It's a sort of Russian answer to Harry Potter," said Yemets, a philologist by training and a specialist in Russian folklore. He said he sees his books as being in a "cultural competition" with the Harry Potter series, which has sold about 1.2 million copies in Russia.

Saying the resemblance goes far deeper than the cover, lawyers for Potter author J.K. Rowling, her Russian publisher and Warner Brothers have threatened to sue Eksmo, the publisher of "Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass," unless it withdraws the book and promises not to print any more.