yorolpal
Care to expand on that?

There is only one rule and it applies equally to all musicians:
 
Play what the music requires. Nothing more. Nothing less.
 
 
A simple rule, but the difficulty is in determining just what the music is and what it requires.
 
And if one always thinks the music requires more of me and perhaps less of him or her or them, then perhaps one needs to take a step back (or take up the cowbell).

 
Ok.

How many commandments are there for cow bell? I've only heard one so far.

1. More cowbell.

Hi,
 
Haven't seen it yet (blocked here at work), but will look at it at home.
 
I was thinking that one comment needs to be that the bass player has to be a frustrated guitar player, and that the only thing he plays is the same stuff that the guitar player does, and the same keys, with one note variance every hundred years!
 
If the bass player doesn't do that, and is on his own trip like Bootsie used to, then it ain't music ... it's some crap that no one can listen to out of Germany, Spain (GASP!), or Italy or Japan! It ain't rock'n'roll!

Welp...I thank you was right Bapsi...I'm not sure I do understand it:-)
 
It's not a question of more versus less.  It's more of a right versus wrong as far as any band or session I've been in low these many years.  It aint rocket science.  It's groove.

 
Really???

The only groove I gots goin' on is on my backside.

You crack me up!

yorolpal
You crack me up!

Mine ain't all it's cracked up to be.

Does this have something to do with your G string?