Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love that people can feel the bass in their body.
I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.
I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.
I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.
In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this sound out there that's just a little bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going.
I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.
For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.
I still don't really feel like a bass player.
I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
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