Video: Why Bassists Get No Love

[aarontunes]

Tried to show some genuine love for bassists, and admitted straight up that I suck at bass....and I'm still gettin' hammered in the comments! Haha!




[youtube]https://youtu.be/yuJwQFiqmPk[/youtube]

 

[kaffebaggel]

It's good to get some love! I'll watch that clip over and over a couple of times so we'll get more bass videos
That is a really sweet bass, can't wait to get my p-bass body so i can start building my dream bass!

 

[ghotiphry]

1.  I watched you play the padouk neck bass.  Enjoyed it too.  Although, gotta say, I wasn't a real fan of the metallic tobacco.  Personal tastes and all.

2.  You don't suck.

3.  I want that mooncaster behind you.  The one you played to introduce it.

4.  Thanks for the love, man.

 

[SideshowDom]

I've been playing for 20 years and you're better than me  :laughing7:

 

[kaffebaggel]

1.  I watched you play the padouk neck bass.  Enjoyed it too.  Although, gotta say, I wasn't a real fan of the metallic tobacco.  Personal tastes and all.

2.  You don't suck.

3.  I want that mooncaster behind you.  The one you played to introduce it.

4.  Thanks for the love, man.

Yeah, you definetly do not suck Aaron! No need to be so critical

I have to go off-topic a litte bit while we're in the same thread Ghotiphry and admit that your 2017 51-pbass is a HUGE inspiration for my upcoming project.
That is a really beautiful bass!

 

[aarontunes]

Thanks guys. I know I don't suck, per se. I'm just being self-deprecating in the video for comedic value. I'm perfectly competent at writing parts and executing them. I've gigged on bass before, and know my way around the instrument, from a rock perspective.


But YouTube doesn't care. On YouTube you have to measure up to Davies504, the slap-bass prodigy of the universe. I can't compete with that.

 

[pirate]

Well I guess I was one of the few to watch your bass video  :toothy12:

10 years of guitar for me, then bought an inexpensive bass December of '19 and absolutely love it!  :icon_biggrin:

Waiting on two bass bodies now for builds, a short scale P bass, LPB in satin, and a short scale J bass, turquoise satin  :icon_thumright:

 

[swarfrat]

While I enjoy Davie's playing - he's really really annoying, and the opposite of self-deprecating.

 

[Jebberz]

I just love your bass videos, and you have a good rock distorted tone.

And for the number f viewers, it is the quality that counts not the quantity..

 

[ghotiphry]

I have to go off-topic a litte bit while we're in the same thread Ghotiphry and admit that your 2017 51-pbass is a HUGE inspiration for my upcoming project.
That is a really beautiful bass!

Hey thanks!  I'm open to any questions about it, if you want to PM me.

 

[rgand]

Ah yes! You don't suck, that's for sure. When I listen to a song, the thing that I listen to the most is the bass. It's what the whole piece is built on and without it, a song is just flat.

A guitar player I knew years ago said the same thing. He felt that the bass player was having more fun than anyone hugging that big ol' instrument, usually in the back behind everyone but the drummer. I don't play one and probably won't because of a shoulder issue but it's my biggest unfulfilled desire.

I really like that yellow bass, too. Nice, nice, nice!

So...

Wash your hands,

Be kind,

And keep on slappin!

 

[swarfrat]

I usually opt for a mildly compressed, fat punchy clean bass.  Once in a while a little fuzz doesn't ruin the track and might even be called for, but often I feel it just robs the bass of its power. As Michael Anthony famously described it in the Mesa Boogie Bass 400 ads "a carefully executed fart"

But by all means, more bass videos.

 

[amigarobbo]

But YouTube doesn't care. On YouTube you have to measure up to Davies504, the slap-bass prodigy of the universe. I can't compete with that.

Yeah, I quite like his one bass line.





:-\

I'm turning into everything I hate.  :sad1:

 

[BroccoliRob]

Aaron  don't worry one day you'll ascend to th heights of Thundercat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8FBaYlOkEA

 

[musicispeace]

John Taylor of Duran Duran has been posting youtube videos lately as part of his Stone Love project on bass. He walks through the story of the bass lines and writing on a DD song each video. Definitely upped my appreciation of the other stringed instrument on stage. He was highly influenced by the bass work of Bernard Edwards of Chic and DD worked many times with Nile Rogers writing and producing.