The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.
Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.
A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.
A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.
I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.
I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.
I've always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I'd still be drawing the same pictures... should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same.
Bass guitar is the engine of the band.