List of Famous Bass Players I Don't Get

[Old Garage-Bander]

I don't get why people get so worked up over something said on an internet forum.

You shoulda seen the hate when they stopped calling it Arpanet. 1200 baud modems the world over were burning up the Cat 3. The conversations went on for weeks. Not because millions of people were involved, but because hundreds of people and no bandwidth.

We bitch, therefore we are.

 

[LUpton]

I got it...an antibiotic got rid of it.

Hope I don't get it again...

 

[projectapollo]

Adam Clayton.

 

[ahc]

 

[Chrisk-K]

I have one question to TB bass players who bash Verdine White or Steve Harris.

What have you accomplished bass-wise compared to Verdine or Steve?

 

[vegas532]

I've often felt that the Cliff Williams of the world are every bit as relevant as the Victor Wootens. I tell students to absorb as much music as possible during the learning process. There are lessons to be gained even from styles of music and players that you're not all that fond of.

The bashing is petty.

 

[mellowinman]

In my point of view, it's important to promote acceptance. I feel I am doing some people a favor by sharing this. I realize I could be wrong, and yet I persist. Perhaps I'm just insane.

It's like back when IMDB had actor/actress pages that you could discuss on an in-page message board. Invariably, a beautiful actress would have the comment posted by someone, "she's ugly," or "she's not that beautiful," or whatever, and then they would post some obtuse criticism about her nostrils being uneven, or her eyes being too close together, or far apart.

Invariably, the woman in question was, at the very least, a lot more attractive than average, and the poster was some troll posting from his/her mama's basement.

You have the right to criticize those who have things you do not have. Of course you do!

Does it do anyone any good?

No.

Least of all you.

So I regularly lecture/encourage people to find what is good in others, instead of stupidly criticizing.

Maybe it wouldn't be so important to me if I hadn't always had such a large contingent of haters online and in real life.

They used to really bother me.

One day I realized my mama was right.

They're just jealous.

And that's how I read comments saying someone with obvious talent and appeal is "overrated."

Am I upset about it?

Not in the least.

Just doing my part, however misguided, to help.

 

[GretschWretch]

I don't get a thread whose content seems to have nothing to do with its title. I do get Welsh, or at least borderline Wales, writers: Sorley, Gurney, Edward Thomas.

I do not get Welsh spelling or pronunciation.

 

[Jeff K]

I don't get a thread whose content seems to have nothing to do with its title.

I agree with you that the title of the thread is misleading. But I'm not sure whether the O/P "got" that it was misleading...

 

[stringthrough]

I have no problem with "I don't get . . . " threads. They can be helpful to the OP because people can come along and point out what's special (at least to them) about the individual in question. This could cause the OP to change his/ her view.

 

[Yonni]

I have no problem with "I don't get . . . " threads. They can be helpful to the OP because people can come along and point out what's special (at least to them) about the individual in question. This could cause the OP to change his/ her view.

Which is exactly what happened in the aforementioned Steve Harris thread. There was no “bashing” going on at all.

 

[Mannyinnewyork]

I love walking out on to my back porch and not seeing any neighbors, not hearing the bass heavy thump emanating from some rusted out corolla with airfoil duct taped to the trunk, not hearing some angry couple screaming at each while the kids keep a safe distance, no gun shots that are close enough to be identified by caliber.

Bass players are fine with me in any way shape or form.

 

[Spectrum]

When I saw the title of this thread I was going to ignore it, but then I saw it was Mellowinman and decided it was worth checking out. Was not disappointed.

 

[Wisebass]

I don’t get it

beat me to it!

That settles it. There will no longer be threads about "I don't get _____..."

I get what you mean and maybe we should try....

But that "s like trying to tell the bird, to stay inside for more than 15 min!

Even without that pic, it will never happen!


Wise(b)ass​

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

I have one question to TB bass players who bash Verdine White or Steve Harris.

What have you accomplished bass-wise compared to Verdine or Steve?

I think your question about other's relative accomplisments is valid.
But is it fair to limit our comments about other bass players only to those of our equal or lesser ability?
That would certainly take a lot of famous bass players as well as TB members out of the conversation.

I have no issues with anyone here commenting on famous players, I just think those who make such comments would come across as being more enlightened if they were to include rational arguments, and preface a comment with it being their opinion instead of stating something subjective as if it were fact.
In other words if someone can state why they don't like, or don't get someone they would be less likley to be looked upon by their peers as a an opinionated blowhard.

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

You are free to not "like", or "get" anyone/thing. I don't like/get Bartok, cilantro, a lot of punk and heavy metal, and a number of other things. Doesn't mean they are bad, just not for me.

Right on man!
"Turn down that danged music and pull up your danged pant's."
When you go deaf and when you fall off your skateboard, who do you think is paying for the free clinic?

 

[Spidey2112]

One day I realized my mama was right.

Yep.

 

[Michael Case]

There's that, but then there's the not being able to get your head around why countless others love it.

Why care, just move on with life.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

It's not something I dwell on, but it has come up in some recent threads.

 

[Ross W. Lovell]

Hmm. This might be a pointless and meandering post here, but I think it might have some relevance.

I like and dislike a great many musicians overall. Doesn't make me a bad person. Just makes me a person with an opinion (or, to some, opinionated!).

I cite an example of a great (to me) bass player- Scott Thunes (Frank Zappa, Fear).

He is a GREAT, in my books. He isn't highly technical (at least not in the world's sense of "technical"). He's not a Billy Sheehan or a Stu Hamm, or even a Geddy Lee), but he IS a seriously educated (classically trained) person, and thus obviously a great music reader (which was REQUIRED if you even wanted to audition for FZ's band).

He had HIS own opinions about HOW the bass should be played (and viewed) in a band that many people (even fellow FZ band members) found derogatory or just downright offensive.

Scott could intelligently and very successfully debate WHY he didn't agree with most people's idea of what a bass player should be and do in a band (thousand notes a minute, two handed tapping, slapping/popping that made little sense to the song). His attitude was to play whatever Zappa put in front of him.

Isn't it funny that in our own ways, we have a bit of that attitude as well?

Scott is great!