colgraff Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Are you a bass player, a bassist or a bass guitarist? Do you care which of these names people use to identify you? Personally I don't mind but I know some people get very exercised about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyV Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Hmmmm......, for me I think it has to be bass player or bassist. Tend not to use the g word! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grangur Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 [quote name='RickyV' timestamp='1456101146' post='2985474'] Hmmmm......, for me I think it has to be bass player or bassist. Tend not to use the g word! [/quote] This^ My late Mum had an anoying habit of describing me as "a guitar man". It always made me cringe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I'm an American Electric Bass Guitarist. To me bassist is more for the jazz guys that play the double bass. Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Musician. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman Sam Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 A grumpy old fart who plays bass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegriffiths91 Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 +1 on musician. My tool of the trade happens to be bass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Incompetent fretboard botherer and string tickler. If pressed I'd use the term bass player as I play bass. I never use the term guitar when referring to the instrument so wouldn't use guitarist. Bass guitar just doesn't sound right to me, it's a bass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthedog Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Bass player, bass guitar player, I don't really mind. Even guitar player will do, after all I don't hear many saxophonists stating what sax they play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Jedi Master Of The Low End, Keeper Of The Secret Flame Of Rhythm, Thunderbird Maximus, Riff Finder General, and of course Playground Monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twincam Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 My name is Twincamus Decimus Meridius, bass player of the North, General of the Fretted Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Leo fenderus. Father to a murdered tone, husband to a murdered technique. And I will Learn to play the bass, in this life or the next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamdenRob Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 (edited) I much prefer "bassist" or "bass player" to "bass guitarist" I know bass is shaped and played similar to a guitar but that's where the similarity ends. They are completely different instruments, fulfilling different roles and requiring a very different skill set and musical approach. Despite what the uninitiated may think, we do not just play the same as the guitar an octave lower... Edited February 22, 2016 by CamdenRob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telebass Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 [quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1456125666' post='2985511'] I much prefer "bassist" or "bass player" to "bass guitarist" I know bass is shaped and played similar to a guitar but that's where the similarity ends. They are completely different instruments, fulfilling different roles and requiring a very different skill set and musical approach. Despite what the uninitiated may think, we do not just play the same as the guitar an octave lower... [/quote] Precisely, it's a guitar-like bass, it's not a guitar. So bassist or bass player it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luulox Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Bass player but used to work with a guy who played bass that insisted he was a guitarist and didn't like been called a bass player. He used to say he played guitar but it's only got 4 strings!? He was amazingly defensive about been a bass player for some reason. I started avoiding him as he also liked a moan too, it all got to much for me. 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Bassist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle psychosis Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Don't care. People get way too precious about this kind of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leftybassman392 Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 So... slow day at the office then, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbayne Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Bass player. Sometimes Bassist too. depending on the mood I,m in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratman Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I beg to differ, it is a guitar, it's a bass guitar. And I play one. I don't care what I'm called, unless somebody ignorantly spells it 'base'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamdenRob Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Just to add that I'm not mortally offended if someone calls me a bass guitarist. ... I'm called worse on a daily basis at work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockfordStone Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 i'm a musician, i just specialise in bass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefbaker Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 [quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1456106168' post='2985491'] Musician. [/quote] +1 The world knows me better for the electronica I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefbaker Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 But if comes down to it "Bass Player", especially as I play some EUB too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssentialTension Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 [quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1456131227' post='2985553'] Don't care. People get way too precious about this kind of thing. [/quote] Yes, why would anyone care? If I said to someone in possession of, for example, a Fender Precision bass 'so, you're the bass guitarist' and they replied 'no, I am a bassist, it's not a guitar', I would think 'what a pompous twat!' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peted Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Bassist or bass player usually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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