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targa911S · 04-26-2012, 04:12 PM

I would agree that Fender owns the bass GUITAR market, everybody ...myself included plays a Fender bass. However, when was the last time you saw a fender bass amp on stage? Ampeg still owns the back of the stage.

Superman · 04-26-2012, 04:39 PM

7%. That's alarming and comforting at the same time. One of the nice things about being a competent bass player is that there is work everywhere. Almost nobody plays bass, for reasons I simply cannot understand. Seriously, I feel the bass player holds the entire song in his friggin' hands. Nobody has as much control over the sound. Even and especially the subtle rhythm nuances that come from the bass. I feel like I am sort of "in charge" of the sound. It grooves if and only if I MAKE it groove. And I can turn the groove factor up and down. I feel like Superman. Wait a minute, I AM Superman. Nevermind.....

targa911S · 04-26-2012, 04:54 PM

you don't run the whole show. you need a good drummer to use as yer wing man.

Superman · 04-26-2012, 05:06 PM

Yeah well, I KNOW you know what I'm talkin' about....

I feel like I didn't choose bass guitar. It chose me. I like everything about it. Including the shortage of bass players. Heck....half the 'bass players' out there are guitar player wannabee washouts who don't really even understand bass. I think it is THE critical instrument. But as you say, the drummer has a role as well. An important one.

azasadny · azasadny's Garage

Yeah! Drummers and bass players are the "salt and pepper" of the band!!

targa911S · 04-26-2012, 05:45 PM

well for BOTH of you I have dragged my share of drummers around all night too. that's when having a big sound helps, you just start leading everybody around. It's a PITA but it happens.

Yes, I know what you mean. I was born a bass player. I grew up in Cleveland Ohio, right across lake erie from Detroit. At night CKLW would go 100,000 watts and all that great Motown music would literally flood the AM band on your radio. James Jamerson was planted deep in my brain at an early age. I got my first guitar, a Stella six string, when I was 10. It took me about a week before I tuned the lower 4 strings down to play the deep parts. I had no idea what I was doing. Yeah it sounded like crap, slacky little strings. I got my first bass at 12, it was a Harmony H-22. Had a silver tone amp with a single 12" speaker, maybe 50 watts. I have not looked back since. I can play guitar as I learned that later, so I can "read" guitarist hands which helps a lot. Now you never want to "hear" me "play" guitar, it's pitiful really.