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    Steven Cobert on Bassists...

    In the Immigration chapter of Steven Colbert's book I Am America (And So Can You!):

    "If we want to get rid of these occupational interlopers, I say we give them jobs nobody wants to do...

    Bass Player: It's like you made a poorly worded deal with the devil to be a rock star. Instead of fame, fortune and groupies, you stand in the shadows plucking one note for 90 minutes while the lead singer picks out a trio of coeds from the front row for a post-show pansexual trapeze act. Even worse, you're expected to room with the drummer."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgPY1adc0A
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    "Bill, Smoke a Bowl and Crank Van Halen I, Life is better when I do that"
    Donnie Swanstrom 01/25/06..miss ya!

    "Well, your friend would have Bell's Palsy, which is a facial paralysis, not "Balls Pelsy" like we're joking about here." Toejam's attempt at sensitivity.

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    • #3
      Hah I got that book for Christmas from a friend. You can't get through a page without laughing out loud several times.

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      • #4
        That's funny, but even though I'm a mainly a guitarist, I think the bass player has the best "job" in a band. it's physically and mentally easier, you get to enjoy the music more, and strings never break!

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        • #5
          Originally posted by tanpsi View Post
          That's funny, but even though I'm a mainly a guitarist, I think the bass player has the best "job" in a band. it's physically and mentally easier, you get to enjoy the music more, and strings never break!
          Oh that is so wrong!

          I'm a guitarist and bassist..and bass is MUCH harder..unless you're in a AC/DC tribute band...

          I have so many pics with my hands bloodied and bandaged up..just to get halfway thru a set..and I jumped up twoo gauges (from 95's to 105) because all I did was break my low E string..

          But your right for the majority of bassists who just lay back in standard metal/rock bands..even tho there is plenty of tricky stuff going on in alot of that stuff too...as ya know.

          But if you play any Rush-school progessive, jazz/fushion, funk, motown, Disco, R & B or Iron Maiden..Bass is a pretty big deal.

          I'm tellin' Claypool and Flea on you!!
          "Bill, Smoke a Bowl and Crank Van Halen I, Life is better when I do that"
          Donnie Swanstrom 01/25/06..miss ya!

          "Well, your friend would have Bell's Palsy, which is a facial paralysis, not "Balls Pelsy" like we're joking about here." Toejam's attempt at sensitivity.

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          • #6
            guitar is a piece of cake compared to real good bass playing
            "There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

            "To be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost" - Gustave Flaubert

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Endrik View Post
              guitar is a piece of cake compared to real good bass playing
              AMEN BROTHER!
              The Truth Hurts Only If It's Supposed To !

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              • #8
                Originally posted by horns666 View Post
                But if you play any Rush-school progessive, jazz/fushion, funk, motown, Disco, R & B or Iron Maiden..Bass is a pretty big deal.
                Agreed!


                - E.
                Good Lord! The rod up that man's butt must have a rod up its butt!

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                • #9
                  dude, that bass line on the intro to Unskinny Bop is WAAAY hard!
                  Hail yesterday

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                  • #10
                    This is funny stuff. It does reflect the public opinion on bass players. But I dont care. I play bass for me, not for what others think I should be doing. And my playing speaks for itself. ... An yeah, Colbert is a funny dude. Any of the guys that came from John Stewart's show are great.

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                    • #11
                      Just go to Youtube, and check out vids from Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten,
                      and Billy Sheehan! Those 3 guys smoke 90% of all the 6 string players
                      ever!

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Robert Burns View Post
                        Just go to Youtube, and check out vids from Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten,
                        and Billy Sheehan! Those 3 guys smoke 90% of all the 6 string players
                        ever!
                        +1 also checkout Steve Bailey and Rhonda Smith.

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