After playing bass for almost 40 years ...
I heard almost every one of these when I played drums.
Except the drummer was the butt of the joke!
As a banjo player, I have no sympathy for either of you.
*meh*
After playing bass for almost 40 years ...
I heard almost every one of these when I played drums.
Except the drummer was the butt of the joke!
As a banjo player, I have no sympathy for either of you.
My Galway born father's closest friend was a Cape Breton man named Donald Angus MacGillivray. My father would often shake his head and say to him "Ye foolish Scot, we gave you the bagpipes 1700 years ago and to this day you haven't figured out that it was a jape."
I just want to know how one plays a fish anyway.I heard almost every one of these when I played drums.
Except the drummer was the butt of the joke!
I heard years ago that there is a fungal lung infection that only bagpipers get. Seems it was on PBS's "Nature" in an episode about me, a "Fun-gi!"
The difference between a guitar and bass player?
A guitar player gets students and a bass player gets gigs!
My buddy is good enough for the orchestra. Stand up bass. Lol, HE'S the one that makes fun of ME! He's got mad skillz, I'm just banging away.Surely everyone on this forum has heard this line before. I feel like we ought to just start numbering some of these jokes, and then we can just type "No. 5!"
But I cannot help myself. "A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the bagpipes, but doesn't."
I missed this one earlier. Well-said! I still do not get the ragging on bass players. How many famous bass players seem at all dumb? Duff, maybe. Wyman, perhaps, but surely not Darryl Jones. But do Entwhistle, McCartney, John Paul Jones, Sting, Jaco, Jack Cassady, Phil Lesch, much less James Jamerson, seem dumb to anyone? I was going to say "or wild," but there is a certain argument for mentally ill.
To me, even a mediocre bass player makes live music so much better than recordings. And sometimes I am kind of with George Harrison--"I would prefer he keep it simple and stay in the pocket," so extraordinary chops are not all that necessary. And a bass player with real chops can absolutely make a band.
And, again not to be ragging on any players. I cannot play anything.
That wouldn’t work for me. No matter what, I’ll screw up the joke. I just have no delivery.Surely everyone on this forum has heard this line before. I feel like we ought to just start numbering some of these jokes, and then we can just type "No. 5!"
Well-said! I still do not get the ragging on bass players.
I'm so ashamed. I never knew they had no bass player. Lol, my first band had no bass player, which made me either TOTALLY necessary, or the worst player in the band.
They did have a bass line, though it was often played on the organ and not a stringed bassI'm so ashamed. I never knew they had no bass player. Lol, my first band had no bass player, which made me either TOTALLY necessary, or the worst player in the band.
Dang! I was BOTH!
They did have a bass line, though it was often played on the organ and not a stringed bass
Great Kids in the Hall clip. Although I do not know whether The Doors, one of my all time favorite bands, have that kind of cache with the young but true rock fan crowd, for reasons I do not fully understand.
Oh, to be middle-aged again!That clip is about 30 years old itself! Man, time flies. Somehow, I'm not still in college but middle-aged with a mortgage and kids.
Oh, to be middle-aged again!
It's funny you should say that! I have recently decided that though I will eventually leave these mortal remains beneath the sod, I don't have to hasten the process!View attachment 1208034
The Middle Ages ... good times!
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... and, we're not old!!
Years ago I ran into a Lodge brother at the store. He looked so depressed. He mentioned that it was his 65th birthday. I was all of a about 30.I got my quip from my younger brother who at the age of 40 or so was talking to an 80 some year old guy, and kind of forgot himself, complaining about some aliment, saying "oh, to be 20 again." The response was, of course, "oh, to be 70 again."
Physically it apparently does not get any easier. Hopefully, though, we have acquired some wisdom over the years so that that helps mentally!