Rock and Roll History

[Alex Zivojinovich]

Nice! I agree that this is a pretty cool site, and am glad you showed it to me.

But in your first post you picked bass as your favorite instrument and bragged about how the bass can be the whole band? You're biased toward the bass. And calling guitarists "prima donnas" if they happen to be able to play more than 4 notes per measure, unlike most bassists?

Not cool, buddy.

Let's see a bass create "texture" like the best guitarists can.

My favorite instrumentalist is the guitar player who can switch between soft, moody textures and fast, screaming leads and back again. The kind where you might not really hear what he's doing most of the time, but he's creating an ambience that defines the band's sound.

Let's see you do that on a bass. What kind of ambience can you create with a steady, boring "thump, thump, thumb, thumb". Hell, bass is just a tunable bass drum. You could be replaced by a tympani player.

Besides, most bassists are just guitarists who weren't good enough so had to play the bass instead.