It’s me, baby.
I’m the Bass with No Name.
Yeah, Baby.
I kept that girl going all night long. Her husband went to bed and we kept at it. She three-fingered me until I could eventually recognize “Bird on a Wire.”
You don’t use your thumb in that song. It’s a good song for beginners.
And that’s a good thing, because I’m a beginner bass.
That’s a photo of me on the left. Not a good photo, because I actually have another set of pickups. I can swing both ways: active and passive. She’s not ready for that yet.
She’s comfortable with me, because my family name is S_____, just like her husband. And I’m easy. Look at me with my four thick strings and giant frets.
She’s thinking of moving her guitars into another room so they don’t watch her accusingly when she puts me in her lap.
8 responses to “It’s the Bass, Baby”
Sting said once that a bass player should have thick fingers. “Plumber’s fingers.” And. . . oh, I forget what else. I was too busy thinking about Sting’s fingers.
The head of that guitar looks as though its having TWO giant frets.
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Becs – I try to use two fingers to emulate a plumber now.Big Dot – I never realized it has a facial expression. Now it just looks alarmed all the time now.
Yeah, you’d think a bass guitar would look cooler somehow. Not panicked. That’s a piccolo’s expression.
Big Dot – It makes him more accesible though
So, a name for your bass guitar is needed? Hmm…something to ponder
Friend 1 – no- he’s named after the bass player in That Thing You Do. We just don’t know the name because Tom Hanks never named that character. But whatever it is, my bass has the same name.