The Truth About Bass Players (Sorry Folks, Couldn't Resist!)

lbpesq · May 09, 2011, 07:03:14 AM

Bill, tgo

sonicus · May 09, 2011, 07:31:51 AM

Hey _____! That's what happened to me but I wanted to be the next world famous Trumpet player like Herb Alpert back in the 1960's instead . I never even tried to be a guitar player. I went from Trumpet to Bass , never guitar , LOL ___.
I Still play the Trumpet . Bass Clef to Treble Cleff , Treble Clef to Bass Clef .

Hey__ that's not a C it's an E . NO ____that A is really an F !! LOL _______

sonicus · May 09, 2011, 10:45:57 AM

Not to forget______Before I started on the Trumpet lessons when I was 10, I had Piano lessons at age 8 for 2 years, but that did not work out for me because of various reasons. By the late 1960's I was living and hanging out right in the middle of the San Francisco Rock Sound and wanted to jam with my musician friends ( many of them guitar players) so I purchased my first used Bass for $35.00 when I was 15 .I continued to play the Trumpet and had to read the parts in the school bands as written but when I went home I picked up my Bass and ran off to jam and make up my own Bass parts with my friends who were all Grateful Dead Fans .I often latter got in in trouble with both the Band and Orchestra conductors for improvising parts on the trumpet around this time which often resulted in me being highly reprimanded and being told to leave the until I would agree to comply to the arrangements as written. By this time all really wanted to do was explore more musical freedom and at the time the Bass had become a great love of mine for this musical exploration, and besides; my friends didn't throw me out of the class ! lol ____

jacko · May 10, 2011, 04:45:22 AM

Thanks for the smile Bill.

Graeme

terryc · May 10, 2011, 07:16:57 AM

Okay...Intelligent bass players??

A bass player goes into a shop and says to the assistant
I have been playing 4 string electric bass for 20 years and I want to expand my ability to a 5 string
The assistant replies;- So you are a bass player eh?
The guy answers Yes
The assistant then asks;- So are you any good at it?
The guy replies Yes I am, I play nearly all styles of music, can sight read music and chord charts, have a good knowledge of musical theory and set up all my 4 string instruments
The assistant then replies
This is grocery store..you need to be further down the road

Yes a crap joke, I know

mario_farufyno · May 10, 2011, 07:59:10 AM

One for drummers:

- Hey kid, what do you want to be when grown-up?
- Drummer
- Hey, one thing or another...

hifiguy · May 12, 2011, 11:44:18 AM

Years ago a bass-playing friend told me this one:

How many bass players does it take to screw in a light bulb?'

Four.

One to do it, the other three to stand around saying 'that's not how Jaco would have done it, dude.'

edwin · May 12, 2011, 01:14:42 PM

How many bass players does it take to change a lightbulb?

a) No one knows. No one ever noticed.
b) None, the keyboard player does it with his left hand.

tubeperson · May 12, 2011, 01:17:37 PM

Edwin, keyboard players use their left hand so that it feels like someone else is doing it.

Bradley Young · May 12, 2011, 09:45:23 PM

Did you ever hear about the bass player that was so bad that even the lead singer noticed?

hieronymous · May 13, 2011, 10:23:55 AM

Did you hear about the bass player who locked his keys in the car?

Took him an hour to get the drummer out!

:p

sonicus · May 13, 2011, 10:36:27 AM

LOL !!!

benson_murrensun · May 13, 2011, 01:53:14 PM

From a drummer friend:

If a drummer beats on his drum in a forest and no one is there to hear it,
does it really make a sound?

I don't know.........................

I'm a drummer - duh!

Next:

How many drummers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A. I don't know, but they must be really tiny. I wonder what size sticks they use...?

B. Ten - one to actually do it and nine to argue about how Steve Gadd would have done it.

cozmik_cowboy · May 14, 2011, 11:29:13 AM

How many bass players does it take to change a lightbulb?

One. Five. One. Five.

Peter

slawie · May 14, 2011, 04:53:25 PM

An oldie but goodie!

This guy goes on vacation to a tropical island. As soon as he gets off the plane, he hears drums. He thinks Wow, this is cool. He goes to the beach, he hears the drums, he eats lunch, he hears drums, he goes to a luau, he hears drums. He tries to go to sleep, yet he hears drums.

This goes on for several nights, and gets to the point where the guy can't sleep at night because of the drums. Finally, he goes down to the front desk.

When he gets there, he asks the manager, Hey! What's with these drums. Don't they ever stop? I can't get any sleep.

The manager says, No! Drums must never stop. It's very bad if drums stop.

Why?

When drums stop...bass solo begins.

slawie