Basschat Top Trumps

[kodiakblair]

Year started playing 1982.

Number of basses: 50+

Music theory:1

Technique :1

Groove :2

[paul_5]

Year started playing 1994.

Number of basses: 3

Music theory: 9 (ABRSM grade VII)

Technique :7

Groove :8

[Skybone]

Year started playing 1985

Number of basses: 3

Music theory: 2-3

Technique: 5

Groove: 7

[Reggaebass]

43 minutes ago, kodiakblair said:

Number of basses: 50+

That’s impressive mr k 

[Reggaebass]

Year started playing, lessons as a teen 1978

Number of basses: 15

Music theory: I’d say about 5

Technique: tricky one to score, maybe 4

Groove: I’d like to think I’m in the groove 8

[kodiakblair]

20 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

That’s impressive mr k 

 

Down a third from a few years back.

 

Bottle crashed as I neared @cetera heights, there can be only 'One' and I couldn't handle the pressure 😀 

[thodrik]

Year started playing: 1999

Number of basses: 6

Music theory: 2.0 litres

Technique: 4x4

Groove: about 5.5 seconds

[NancyJohnson]

4 hours ago, tauzero said:

Year started playing: 1975 

Number of basses: 35

Music theory: 5

Technique: 7

Groove: 8

 

And this is why I can't even begin to compete.

[NancyJohnson]

1 hour ago, kodiakblair said:

Year started playing 1982.

Number of basses: 50+

Music theory:1

Technique :1

Groove :2

 

Photos or it didn't happen.  

[ped]

0 to groove in 6 seconds

[kodiakblair]

6 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

 

Photos or it didn't happen.  

OK, here is some of the Peaveys.

[NancyJohnson]

35 minutes ago, kodiakblair said:

OK, here is some of the Peaveys.

 

Blimey.  Why Peavey?

[Mrbigstuff]

29 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

 

Blimey.  Why Peavey?

You haven’t seen the Alpher, Bassmods Cort, Dusenburg, Enfield, Fender, Gibson, Hartke, Ibanez, Jackson, Kramer, Labella, Musicman, Nordstrand or Overwater rooms he also has first

[kodiakblair]

46 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

 

Blimey.  Why Peavey?

They just sort of appeared in my vicinity.

 

After the first few I made some good friends within the company and more started popping up wherever I was 😁 Next thing I knew I'd at least one of every model from 1978 to 2010.

 

Wish Peavey had made stamps, be a damn sight easier to store 🤣

[StingRayBoy42]

Year started playing: 1991

Number of basses: 7/8/9 (Depends what counts as a 'Bass')

Music theory: 10

Technique: 10

Groove: 10
Modesty: 10

😃
 

[Chiliwailer]

9 hours ago, BigRedX said:

Groove:

Entirely subjective, and probably an old-school way of looking at micro-timing that doesn't really take into account how popular music has developed in the last 50 years. My micro-timing is perfectly suitable for the music I choose to play.

 

Groove as ‘micro-timing’? 🤔

 

- ’Micro-timing is in the heart’

- ’One nation under a micro-timing’

- ‘Micro-time me’

- ‘Get into the micro-time’

 

Nah 😊

 

 

[Bassassin]

Year started playing: 1978. Blame The Stranglers.

 

Number of basses: Loads - I've genuinely lost count. Think of a number, triple it, then add 1, because one's a twin-neck.

 

Music theory: Don't understand the question. I have many theories about many things. One is that music ruined what might have been an otherwise normal (and probably happier) life.

 

Technique: As Lemmy once replied to the same question - "Sturm und Drang thrashing", except in my case in 7/8 & 5/4.

 

Groove: I don't f*ck with the groove, the groove don't f*ck with me.

[LowB_FTW]

Year Started Playing : '88 (I think)

Number of basses : 10 (damn you, BassChat!)

Music Theory : -10

Technique : About 3

Groove : Records?

 

Bloody hell my stats are rubbish.

 

Mark

[Baloney Balderdash]

9 hours ago, Chiliwailer said:

 

Groove as ‘micro-timing’? 🤔

 

- ’Micro-timing is in the heart’

- ’One nation under a micro-timing’

- ‘Micro-time me’

- ‘Get into the micro-time’

 

Nah 😊

 

 

Totally micro-timey, man... 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by Baloney Balderdash

[knirirr]

Year Started Playing : 1993

Number of basses : 4

Music Theory : 7 (*)

Technique : 3

Groove : 5

Swing: 7 (nice!)

 

(*) I think my theory sucks, but I did manage ABRSM grade 5 (classical) and understand jazz chords so this score will perhaps suffice.

[cetera]

Year started playing: 1983

Number of basses: Currently 94. Used to have and now gone - 75 others

Music theory: 2

Technique: 6

Groove: 7

Edited 5 hours ago by cetera

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

1 hour ago, cetera said:

Year started playing: 1983

Number of basses: Currently 94. Used to have and now gone - 75 others

Music theory: 2

Technique: 6

Groove: 7

I think you’re underselling yourself a bit there mate.

[cetera]

4 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

I think you’re underselling yourself a bit there mate.

Very kind, but I don't read music, am self taught and just play familiar patterns when writing my own lines....

[StingRayBoy42]

45 minutes ago, cetera said:

I don't read music

Neither does Paul McCartney and he makes a decent fist of it.

[paul_5]

Just a thought, should we not have a category for ‘Heft’?