Reply #6: That was you?

[riverdeep]

Heh, small world.

John almost made me switch instruments way back when. I used to laugh at the bass. The bass player was the one stuck in the back no could really hear or paid attention to. Who'd want to be a bassist? You got stuck with the bass, you didn't choose it. And then I heard 'Live at Leeds' on the radio. It was the track Magic Bus. The guitar and bass are each on a separate channel (speaker). I heard Townshend's great Diddley on steroids intro, the vocals, and then this strange...sound. What the hell is that? It took me till the song was almost over to realize it was a bass!

From there I learned to appreciate all styles of bass playing, from crazed in your face, to the philosophy of 'the audience should only pay attention to the bass when it STOPS playing'. Some bassist whose name I can't remember said that, and it's stuck with me. I don't really follow it, but I can understand where he's coming from.