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"Hey dude, play something awesome!"

Ski3223

Ski3223

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Every time you go to a gig, or a jam with some non-participants attending and you're a halfway decent bassist someone will inevitably walk up to you and say:

"DUDE! Play something crazy/awesome/*fill in the blank*!"

What is your go-to song(s)/riffs(s) when you get asked this question?
 
The neapolitan Tarantella played at warp speed, always works or.... Jaco's Teen Town

Come to think of it I heard Petrucci plays a version of the Tarantella too... hmmm
 
Well, I'm not a halfway decent bass player so I never get asked that.

People like the band, though.

If somebody were to ask me that right now the first thing I'd probably play is Tony Levin's awesome vamp from the end of Peter Gabriel's "Don't Give Up."

When I get the blank "WTF?" look that would inevitably ensue, I'd probably just play some instantly recognizable thing like Rescue Me.

I would NOT play Money. :p

Seriously, my head just doesn't work like that. I've never done the Guitar Center wankfest at all well, and most basslines are meaningless outside the context of the song.
 
adouglas said:
.... and most basslines are meaningless outside the context of the song.
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not true, it may be for you, but you can't seriosuly generalize that statement as correct, otherwise we as bass players would be all a bunch of bland and groove-less monkeys easily replaced by drum & bass machines.
 
Grand Wazoo said:
not true, it may be for you, but you can't seriosuly generalize that statement as correct, otherwise we as bass players would be all a bunch of bland and groove-less monkeys easily replaced by drum & bass machines.
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Fran, at a stroke you have solved my band's problems!!!
 
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