Why is there not a show called The Bass Player?

Singers are a dime a dozen.

Well then, it must have something to do with money....how much
for a dozen bass players?

What about
'The Bass Player Factor'
Or 
'Bass Idol'

bapu


Singers are a dime a dozen.

Because Mr. Bapu has not started one ... PERIOD!
 
But if you like we can test one ... I can put together the video on my computer and ask you the questions you don't want to answer ... nhahhhhh ... just ask things about your history and how you play ... and such!
 
No different than when I interviewed members of Gong and Nektar, and Magma, and many others ... except you have a bit less fame, but that's a matter of time, right?

It would be called "The Why? Factor".  

Moshkiae

Old55


It would be called "The Why? Factor".  

The Bass Factor ... and we have to pronounce it incorrectly (not in England) just to get all the Americans annoyed, thinking that it was a fishing show! After all, they call him "FISH", not "BASS"!
 
I heard they don't have "bass" (the fish) in England, and that is why the word is horde'd by the guitar! And if England doesn't have it, it doesn't exist!

I can just imagine the final........ And the winner is............. Trilian !

LOL

bristol_jonesey
Don't tell me - you've been listening to Chris Squire again, Yes?

 
I have never been ... enamored with Chris and his work. Maybe within the context of a symphony, concert and such, the bass parts are impressive and well designed and defined musically ... very "un-rock" like in many cases ... but by the time you hear other things, and completely different music ideas and thing ... I find him very good with his notes ... but ... too many notes ... and sometimes they are not necessary ... but they sound really good ... and it helped "identify" what became known as "YES" ... but I do not think of him as the best ... or the most important one. His real gift was that he broke some folks necks along the way, because he wanted the pickus wired separatly and folks were telling him that it couldn't be done, and he knew his "electricity" and he lambasted many idiots, and the inevitable result was that he pretty much defined a "stereo" thing on the bass that became real big. This can be read about in "Bass Guitar" magazine on an interview ... and he states he was splitting the pickup already before YES came into being.
 
Bass Players that stand out for ME ... would be Lothar Meid in Amon Duul 2 as the best "touch" bass player, and the least repetitive of them all EVER ... David Darling from playing with Carlos Nakai -- and those are the only two albums that stand out that have David! -- to playing with Terje Rypdal in an incredible example of "chamber music" for electric guitar and electric bass that pop song fanatics will never listen to! After that ... there are some I enjoy, but most folks do not think they are good bass players because they don't do 4/4 and rock'n'roll and too many folks find themselves feeling inferior. Roger Waters is an excellent touch player and all the catalogue shows how strong it is in the amazing variety and changes and compositional sense. Stanley Clarke, but then he is in an environment where he knows that he does not want to do the same as anyone else, but he also knows it is all about feeling/living/sleeping with that piece, and that means you are going to take care of it with special love. Bootsie Collins, still the best effects user ever on the bass!  Of all the famous rock bands, I really like JPJ and what he did for Led Zep, because it really help define and drive ... what was a very special "individualistic" band that knew that the difference was how much of yourself can go into this ... to make it right and better ... the rest of us, just copy and don't know the difference! Eberhard Weber is also on my list ... the rest are just kids learning to play music on the script! Beginners! Sorry!

I thought I was already watching that show.

It turned out that I was really watching Wipeout.

I get those confused all the time.

Moshkiae

UbiquitousBubba


I thought I was already watching that show.

It turned out that I was really watching Wipeout.

I get those confused all the time.

Wipeout on a bass? Is that like Bapu creaming his Am to make sure he is HEARD and a part of the band?

Alembically speaking...  that's a high probability. 

the wildman


Anyway, who here plays Bass?
And is that your 'main thing', or something you do in addition to your 'main thing'?

I don't have Trillian but I have a 1977 Alembic Series I Bass. Does that count.


Oh yeah, I have an American P-Bass, a custom made (by our own spacey, aka Micahel) 5-String Bass, a Kala Uke Bass and a Line 6 modeling bass.

But I think drewfx1 plays bass. Oh yeah and My Pal Mooch(4056) plays bass too.

I thought it was the Bass-O-Matic!

I remember the night it came on. I LMAO and my wife got sick watching it. Ahh the good old days . . . . .