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 wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
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.
Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense".
Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.
So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.
Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin
During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.