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Nobody has worse press than the bassist. The singer is almost always the first person who comes to mind when thinking of the band as they perform the vocal melody and they are in the spotlight. The lead guitarist is the second (complete with virtuoso solos, Air Guitar, dramatic guitar face, and strutting around the stage), next there's the wild and crazy drummer/percussionists, then the keyboardist/pianist turning out a lightning-fast solo, and then maybe musicians playing lead instruments which are found in jazz, orchestras or bands - saxophonists, violinists, banjo players, trumpeters, etc. And last in line, if at all... the bassist. There are hardly ever any bass solos. There are relatively few bassist/singers. There is no hope. Okay, maybe not ZERO hope. For the short heroes' list of bass players who have risen above this cosmic injustice, see Lead Bassist. This can be enforced or justified. The inherent structure of much rock and pop music encourages a simple, supportive bass line that emphasizes root notes and accompanies the melody. This makes it hard for a bass player to stand out naturally, and doubly hard to do so without simply showing off at the song's expense. So most of the time, a bassist doing his job properly ends up drawing relatively little attention to himself; bassists who try to defy this and push their way into a Lead Bassist role without actually taking the songs themselves into consideration will quickly piss off their bandmates and be shown the door. At worst, they may be treated as a Butt-Monkey or The Friend Nobody Likes. Even if they don't make it as lead bassist, there are a few upsides, which would explain why so many bassists put up with this. Some people prefer to stay out of the spotlight, or just love playing bass too much to care about it. Others learn the instrument so they'll be in high demand. In fact, it's often said that finding a good bass player is one of the hardest parts about starting a band, while guitarists are a dime a dozen. And if no one pays attention to you, you don't have to worry about Loony Fans and Groupie Brigades (though you might be better off if they don't; compare My Friends... and Zoidberg). This trope tends to be averted in jazz, soul, funk, and R&B music, especially from the '60s and '70s, where the bass is much more prominent than it is in rock and pop. In small jazz groups, the bassist may get a solo on most songs. In soul, elaborately decorated, fluid basslines are a key to the sound. In funk, bassists do percussive slapping and popping along with muted "dead notes", hammer-ons, and slides. This trope refers to this phenomenon and media in which it is discussed. Compare Dumb and Drummer, which involves similar levels of disrespect but with outright insults instead of the musician simply being forgotten about. |
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Blind Guardian is an interesting example. The singer Hansi Kürsch played bass on their first five albums, but Nightfall in Middle-Earth-onward he has focused only on singing, with session musicians playing bass on studio and live. | |
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Metallica have played with this trope: In their Garage Band days, bassist Ron McGovney was this as far as then-guitarist Dave Mustaine was concerned. Mustaine regularly abused him, but the final straw was pouring beer down McGovney's bass. He received an electric shock when he played it that blew him across the room, whereupon he quit the band and told them to leave. (Mustaine and his fans are still convinced he's done nothing wrong). Subverted with their first official bassist, Cliff Burton, who was not only loved by the rest of the bandnote even Mustaine, who despised Metallica for most of his career, said that Cliff was the one member he still respected afterward , but is considered a God of bass as far as bassists and metal fans are concerned. In fact, he contributed so heavily to their first three albums that many fans believe that when he died in 1986, the music died with him. Played straight, in one of the most infamous cases in metal, with the next bassist Jason Newsted, who was treated as the Replacement Goldfish for 14 years. It is believed that the other members were subconsciously hazing him as part of their grief from Cliff Burton's death). It was even (indirectly) admitted there was an attempt to mute the bass as much as they could in his debut album, ...And Justice for All. Their current bassist, Rob Trujillo, subverts this as far as the band is concerned, although many fans still don't like him (but to be fair, he is the bassist in an era when most Metallica fans don't even like Metallica). |
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Daisy Jones & The Six: Pete Loving, the bass player for the titular The Six, gets the least amount of focus compared to the rest of the band. He ultimately appears to have been the most stable member, never getting into arguments with the others and staying with the same girlfriend he'd had since before the band got together. The only time he's interviewed is towards the end of the book, and even then he admits he doesn't really have anything to say about about his time with The Six. | |
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Rock Band: The first game had no solo bass career, as allegedly the bass didn't have enough interesting songs to warrant a solo mode. Fans of the bands found under Lead Bassist disagreed. The instrument shop has an oversized double-neck Fender custom with the description "For once... they will pay attention... to the BASSIST!" One of the loading tips said that if your bassist claims he has an idea, give him a Kit Kat and tell him to think it through a bit more. In Rock Band Blitz you can unlock the super bass power which comes with this description: |
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The Hard Times: A helpful article about "How to Tell Your Bassist None of Their Takes Made It on the Album". Irresponsible Musicians Leave Bassist In Hot Van ends with the bassist chained to a fence. Bassist on Zoom Still Hasn’t Realized He’s Muted. Immigrant Bassist Was Lead Guitarist in Home Country compares said immigrant's plight to a doctor becoming a taxi driver. Bassist on Life Support Not Even Plugged In: The bassist's own mother doesn't care that her son's dead, treating his continued attempts at living and breathing as, well, trying to pursue a musical career. |
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In Bocchi the Rock!, Nijika firmly believes this, claiming that the three B's of a bad romantic partner are "bassist, bassist, and bassist", largely due to the main bassist characters in the series, Ryo and Kikuri, who despite being proficient musicians have some serious character flaws that have soured Nijika on bassists in general. Ryo is arguably the most skilled musician in the band (except for maybe Bocchi herself) and is easily the most serious about her music... but she's also The Gadfly and constantly mooches off her bandmates because she spends all of her money on music equipment. Kikuri, meanwhile, is a Lead Bassist who's so skillful that Ryo idolizes her... and she's almost perpetually drunk and has absolutely no impulse control. | |
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In the short-lived British sketch comedy series, Bruiser, the band members of "Pussy on a Stick" all get applause, except for Holness, the bassist. After the performance, they all get women's underwear thrown at them... Holness gets an egg. Backstage, they are making out with groupies, except Holness, who sits alone reading a newspaper. | |
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1977:The Comic, where central character Bud Chambers realizes that nobody notices the bass player. Ever. | |
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The Simpsons: In "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation", Homer goes to a rock-and-roll summer camp, and when they begin to run out of guitars, Elvis Costello is forced to suggest that someone learn the bass. The camp-goers don't take it well. In "Covercraft", a music store owner suggests that Homer play bass guitar, and asks him to simply pluck the same string over and over. The owner starts shredding on his guitar, and Homer wonders if he'll ever be able to play so well. The owner responds that he's already one of the greatest bass players of all time. In "Trash Of The Titans", U2's bass player, Adam Clayton, is the least respected member within his own band, with the other bandmates refusing to let him go with them to Moe's bar and lead singer Bono tossing one of his collectible spoons while they're flying to their next gig. |
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A segment from The Kids in the Hall features Kevin McDonald lamenting the woes of being a bass player (represented by Bruce McCulloch) while simultaneously showing admiration. | |
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story: At Dr. Demento's pool party, John Deacon of Queen introduces himself to the crowd first only by his name to blank stares. When he says he is in the band Queen, the confused looks only continue. Once he finally clarifies he plays bass for Queen, everyone reacts with agreement they at least understand who this person is because, as the bassist, no one at the party has previously cared about him in the slightest. When Al fights with his band, he tells Jon Schwartz that he can replace him with a drum machine, he tells Jim West that he can replace him with a "guitar machine", but when he gets to Steve Jay, he forgets what type of instrument he plays. |
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A Cracked photoplasty of "25 Team-Ups in History That Would Have Changed Everything" had this◊. Noticed the lack of bassist? (we could guess the guy put Kirk Hammett when he wanted Cliff Burton, but that's giving him too much credit) | |
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Metalocalypse: Murderface is generally The Friend Nobody Likes, and his role as Dethklok's bassist is often (though not always) said or demonstrated to be completely superfluous: "Why don't you make like a bass guitar and be inaudible?" By unanimous consent, Murderface's bass lines are always re-recorded by the band's lead guitarist Skwisgaar in the final mix, when they aren't tuned to inaudibility or left out entirely. Their producer Dick Knubbler refers to Murderface as "almost part of Dethklok." To his face. In The Doomstar Requiem A Klok Opera, a rock opera where almost every line of dialogue is sung, Murderface gets the least amount of dialogue. He's the only major character that doesn't get a song or major verse of some kind. Mind you that characters like Abigail and Ishnifus, who had just appeared in the tail end of the previous season, both got full-length songs. This was due to Tommy Blacha (Murderface's voice actor) being unable to sing in key, leaving his parts dealt out to other cast members. Murderface admits that sometimes at concerts he'd leave his bass unplugged and just "pretend play". No one noticed. |
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Show by Rock!!'s adaptation has the bassist of Plasmagica, Retoree, bring this up. She doesn't have the star power of Chuchu, nor the playing ability and wow factor as Rookie Red Ranger Cyan, so she confesses that she feels like the rest of the band and fans don't care for her. Luckily Cyan puts those fears to bed since she considers everyone in the band her dearest friends. | |
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Nina Van Horn in Just Shoot Me! insists that she "would never sleep with a bass player unless I was bombed out of my mind... oh." The fact that she did precisely that years earlier is the punchline to the entire episode "Nina in the Cantina." | |
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Pondus' old band didn't even have a bassist. What they had was seven guys on guitar, and a very displeased Jokke on drums. The band broke up when Jokke bought a guitar. | |
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In That Thing You Do!, when the bass player of the Wonders is referred to (which isn't that often) it's always by description rather than by name. In the credits the character is listed as "T.B. Player," and when he disappears during the band's trip to Los Angeles, nobody really cares; they replace him with a studio musician. Also averted with the replacement bassist in that when the Wonders fall apart the manager tells him (paraphrased) "see you around" while his attitude towards the actual band members is closer to "goodbye and good luck." The eponymous song was written by bassist Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and features a recognizable and melodic bassline. It would be an ideal part for a Lead Bassist to play. Take that out and the song sounds very different, which makes it especially ironic that the group's bassist is so peripheral. |
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Wada (stage name Jagi), the bassist of Detroit Metal City, is the least-focused on of the band trio. Off the job he is a professional musician who does his job because it's his job, and is neither as conflicted about his role as Negishi or as outright crazy as Nishida. His only Day in the Limelight involves this trope being lampshaded by fans talking about how the other two members overshadowing him. | |
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In I Am America (And So Can You!), Stephen mentions how while the singer and guitarist pick out a group of grade-A groupies to spend the night with, you the pitiful bassist are forced to take from the lowest C-grade dregs. Also, you're expected to room with the drummer. | |
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In the Home Movies episode "Guitarmageddon", Jason complains about getting saddled with bass, saying it's thankless and the bass player is "the loser of the group." His friends disagree, but when he offers to trade instruments they back out quickly. | |
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Discussed in a Rocky strip, where Rocky and his buddy concludes that being a bassist is a job for slackers since nobody cares if you show up for rehearsals or even for the concerts. | |
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Laney, the bassist for Grojband, is the Only Sane Woman whose objections are often ignored or disregarded by the other band members. She's also frequently mistaken for a boy. | |
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During Ross Valory's absence from Journey, the band replaced him with non-member hire Randy Jackson (later of American Idol). | |
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In a Rolling Stone article, Taylor Swift accidentally backs her SUV into the parked car behind her, which happens to be owned by bassist Amos Heller. The first thing she says is, "Oh, my God. OH, MY GOD. OH, MY GOD. OH, MY GOD. OH, MY GOD. OH, MY GOD. OH, MY GOD. OH, MY GOD. OH, MY GOD. OH, MY GOD. OH, MY GOD. OH, MY GOD." The second thing she says is, "Oh, is that my bass player? It's fine. It's my bass player!" | |
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In one issue of Teen Girl Squad, the girls form a band and What's Her Face, despite her wishes to the contrary, "gets stuck playing bass". | |
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The Life and Times of Juniper Lee: Juniper and her brothers have a band named "Short Angry Freuds". She told her big brother Dennis nobody would pay attention to him because he's the bassist. | |
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In BanG Dream!, Himari is supposed to be the leader for Afterglow, but for all intents and purposes, those roles actually befall Ran, who’s already the lead singer and thus naturally the one the audience would look at. Even Real Life marketing treats Ran as the band’s leader and front-figure! Also, Chisato is a child actor who naturally assumed she would be the face of Pastel Palettes when it was created, only to be visibly annoyed when she was given the role of bassist instead. |
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On The Colbert Report, Steve Van Zandt was asked a question about the E Street Band bassist Garry Tallent. At first, Van Zandt was confused, and then replied, "Nobody told Garry; we don't talk to him." | |
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In the Phineas and Ferb episode "Dude, We're Getting The Band Back Together!", the boys are trying to re-form Love Händel. When they approach the bass player, Bobbi Fabulous, his response is "You don't need me. I just play bass in the background. Nobody even remembers me." | |
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The anime of Lychee Light Club pokes fun at this, at one point. The club decides to form a band, and everyone is eager to participate until Zera asks who will be the bass player. Everyone goes dead silent. | |
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Similarly to Anthony, both bass players for The Eagles, Randy Meisner and Timothy B. Schmidt, are less recognized for their bass chops and more for their tenor vocals. Both had been recruited from the country-rock band Poco, where they had played similar roles. | |
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In Rock Band Blitz you can unlock the super bass power which comes with this description: | |
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Super Mario Bros.: Perhaps playing on this idea, Mario's underappreciated and neglected younger brother Luigi has been seen playing the bass in booklets. | |
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Lonestar hasn't had a full-time bassist since John Rich was fired in 1998. Rich has become famous as one-half of Big & Rich, along with plenty of songwriting and production gigs. Since his departure, Lonestar uses different bassists in concert and session bassists on albums. | |
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Power Gig: Rise of the SixString did not include a bass mode. | |
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The most famous such band is The Rolling Stones, who haven't had an official bassist since Bill Wyman left. Darryl Jones has largely replaced him, but he's a salaried employee of the band, not an official member. | |
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Death in Paradise: In "Music of Murder", the bassist of the Venerators, after being discovered by Richard to be the one who did it, is dragged away and rants about how he'll be remembered forever. Richard expresses his doubts. The guy's just a bassist, after all. | |
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In Lost, Charlie's singer brother invokes this while talking to him (who's the bassist and main songwriter): "I am Drive Shaft! Nobody even knows who the sodding bass player is!" | |
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The Mary Whitehouse Experience book described Queen as consisting of "Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and the other one," said "other one" being bassist John Deacon. The band's resident quiet one, John was the only one who never sang lead or even backing vocals (he hated his singing voice), and he spoke little during rehearsals and even less during interviews unless a question was specifically directed at him, resulting in him being seen as the least memorable of the four. It hasn't helped that Mercury's death hit Deacon pretty hard; not only did he leave the group, but he also retired from showbiz and public life altogether. He has chosen not to participate in any reunions and did not attend the band's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Even Brian and Roger have little contact with him unless they need to discuss financial matters that affect them as a group. The biopic Bohemian Rhapsody acknowledges this by depicting Deacon as the Butt-Monkey (being given the smallest room during the band's songwriting retreat in the countryside) and having the other band members comment on his boring and quiet nature (at one point Freddie realizes he has no idea what John was up to before joining the band). Still, the film does acknowledge he wrote some of the band's best-known songs including "Another One Bites The Dust", "You're My Best Friend", and "I Want To Break Free". Ironically, the success of the film has resulted in John becoming more publicly known, with several tributes and fan art being posted online since its release. | |
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The CollegeHumor skit "Learning Guitar to Get Laid" plays as the first installment of an instructional video series which only teaches the bare minimum of guitar techniques necessary to attract girls. The ending gag is an ad for another fictional video series, Learning the Bass and NOT Getting Laid! | |
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The eponymous song was written by bassist Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and features a recognizable and melodic bassline. It would be an ideal part for a Lead Bassist to play. Take that out and the song sounds very different, which makes it especially ironic that the group's bassist is so peripheral. | |
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Fanboys makes sure to promote the air-bass whenever they mention Guitar Hero. | |
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Class of 3000: Philly Phil is very likely the least popular kid at Westley and is strongly implied to have had both a Friendless Background and have no friends other than his classmates. Not coincidentally, he's also their bass player. | |
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In Regular Show, Mordecai skips the name of the bassist while naming off the popular band 'Hair To The Throne' when they show up at the park, and just calls him "the bass player", then the bassist frowns. He's also the only band member who gets no speaking lines. | |
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In Almost Famous Stillwater's bassist Larry has maybe three spoken lines in the whole film, and he's mainly treated as the dumb one. The director's cut includes this hilarious exchange when he's being interviewed by protagonist William: | |
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In Jersey Boys, the bassist Nick Massi is The Quiet One. He barely impacts most of the plot, and he calls himself Ringo at one point. When it's his turn to narrate, though, look out. | |
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In Detroit Rock City, Lex is definitely the fourth man of the cover band Mystery; ironic in that Gene Simmons is a prime example of the Lead Bassist in KISS itself. | |
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Babylon Bee has an article about a new, dumbed-down bass guitar model specifically for worship bands in church, noting: "It also has decorative knobs, so you can pretend to adjust settings and turn up your volume, even though the church bass is turned off in the house anyway." | |
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Subverted in Rhapsodies where Shilo, the Circle Band's bass player serves as the band's unofficial executive officer. He's also happily married with kids. | |
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Nile have had full-time bassists sporadically since Jon Vesano left back in 2005. | |
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Mostly averted with Steel Panther, but after bassist Lexxi Foxx departed, guitarist Satchel had this to say: | |
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This is the bassist's problem in Guitar Hero World Tour. She quit her former band because she was sick of being overshadowed by the others. At the end of her story mode, she makes a solo album and becomes famous... with Lou's help. | |
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Used as a diss in Epic Rap Battles of History by Winston Churchill, pointing out to Theodore Roosevelt that if (Mount) Rushmore was a band then Roosevelt would be its bassist (being overshadowed by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln). | |
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After bad experiences with bassists, Waterparks decided to not have one as the current lineup gets along well and didn't want to disrupt that balance by having another member involved. Instead, the band uses fill-in bassists in studio (and occasionally live) and pre-recorded backing tracks during shows. While they might not want a bassist, questions about why they don't have one and if they'd consider having one abound, much to their chagrin. This has opened up some great collaborations, like Mikey Way from My Chemical Romance performing bass on the Cluster EP and live for Waterparks on Warped Tour. In that case, everyone loves the bassist! Both drummer Otto Wood and guitarist Geoff Wigington had previously expressed interest in playing bass for the band, with Otto being the most insistent on it. Obviously this hasn't worked out. This is referenced in the video for "Gloom Boys" by Otto mentioning that he was once the band's bassist...for a day. The video also features a guy trying to become their bassist; in real life, attempts by fans to get Waterparks to let them play bass on stage with them are met by Awsten immediately shutting them down, often by reminding them that Otto and Geoff already called dibs. He's also rejected people by joking that the band "hates friends". |
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Glenn Fricker, owner of Spectre Media Group and longtime heavy metal record producer, elevates this trope to an art form. He constantly makes jokes at the expense of so-called bass players; those who can play and maintain their bass guitars as needed simply laugh it off and even wear the T-shirts he sells with his controversial statements on themnote "Rule #2 [of recording]: Your Bass Player Is a Useless ####" and the more recent, more work-safe "Bass Players Do It Worse", but very often there are bass players who take it completely the wrong way and flame the comments of his YouTube uploads. Naturally, he often reads these and makes fun of them, as they often do nothing but validate his many criticisms of bass players. He usually plays this trope straight but also discusses it quite frequently, especially in How to Not Completely Suck on Bass Guitar. He despises bass players because he has spent decades producing records for bands with bass players who give their instrument a bad name. The ones he hates are legion, though he doesn't hate them all - the ones he hates have many things in common: They can't play their instrument because they never intended to, thinking that since the bass guitar usually has only four strings and bass riffs usually aren't that hard they don't even need to practice; they can't perform proper maintenance on their gear, including changing strings more than once a decade; and they waltz into the studio unable to play, not knowing their own material, and not caring because they think the producer can just use computers to fill in the gaps. They also tend to spend way more money on tattoos or booze than on anything important to their careers, like good gear or their bands' records. In short, they're more interested in the rock 'n' roll lifestyle than rock 'n' roll itself. That being said, when a 13-year-old kid asked if he should learn bass or guitar, Glenn told him to learn the bass and practice hard and become a great bass player, assuring the kid that a great bass player is in demand wherever he goes. He also advised an aspiring session musician to do the same, for the same reasons. |
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Brütal Legend: Justified in that the Killmaster and his Thunderhogs are capable of healing your infantry with their bass music, but have no offensive capabilities and thus they only serve as support units while the rest of your army does the heavy lifting. Inverted with the bassist in Kabbage Boy: he's the only member of the band who treats Eddie with respect and is subsequently the only one who survives Ormagödden's arrival. |
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At Dr. Demento's pool party, John Deacon of Queen introduces himself to the crowd first only by his name to blank stares. When he says he is in the band Queen, the confused looks only continue. Once he finally clarifies he plays bass for Queen, everyone reacts with agreement they at least understand who this person is because, as the bassist, no one at the party has previously cared about him in the slightest. | |
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: In the film, Scott and one of the evil exes engage in a "bass battle," which is treated as a self-evident gag scene. | |
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The Presidents of the United States of America, instead of having a bassist, have "basitar" (played by Chris Ballew) and "guitbass" (played by Andrew McKeag), which hold down the bass frequencies. | |
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In Fuuka, during Blue Wells’ nationwide tour, the band quickly manages to sell lots of photos of the different band members, except for Yuu. It probably doesn’t help that Yuu looks very plain and unremarkable compared to the rest of the band. Even when they play a gig in a rehearsal studio (for an audience of 11 people), nobody wants to talk to Yuu after the gig, except a middle schooler. | |
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Throughout early Genesis albums, all bass parts were played by the band's rhythm guitarist Mike Rutherford. Playing live he would spend roughly equal time between guitar and bass; when he was on guitar, the bass notes were either left out or played on a pedal bass synthesizer. After lead guitarist Steve Hackett left the group, Rutherford would alternate the two instruments with sideman Daryl Stuermer, generally playing guitar for more contemporary songs. All the instrument swapping led to him using a series of Ace Custom 12-string/bass double-neck guitars; the most famous of which was a Shergold construction (played from 1977 until about 1990) which allowed him to rapidly swap three different guitar uppers (12-string in two different tunings, and a six-string) onto a bass lower section. | |
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In Soul Music, none of Insanity/The Blots/The Whom/Surreptitious Fabric/And Supporting Bands can actually play their instruments, but the bass player Noddy has it particularly bad since no one seems to care that he has an instrument that is impossible to play (the guitar maker, giggling hysterically, had made it from a lump of wood and some fence wire). | |
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Homestar Runner: In "Weclome Back", Cool Tapes' members are referred to by Marzipan as "me and The Cheat and our bass player." (It's Strong Mad, for the record.) In one issue of Teen Girl Squad, the girls form a band and What's Her Face, despite her wishes to the contrary, "gets stuck playing bass". In the same sketch, even after half their members are lost, Cheerleader still introduces the band as "I'm Kissyboots, and she plays bass." |
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In K-On!, the classical lack of attention towards the bassist is Mio Akiyama's reason for choosing to play the bass, as she has significant self-confidence issues. This would've been played straight had it not been for one unforeseen, panties-flashing circumstance during their first school festival performance resulting in her being the band's most popular member. | |
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Invoked with Ako in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, who struggles with worries that she is nothing but a minor character destined to live forever in the background (which, well, is kinda true) and plays the bass in a high school rock band. | |
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In So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, bass players are two for a penny in Han Dold City. | |
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In the biopic of The Runaways, bassist Robyn Robbins doesn't have any spoken lines. Also, Robyn was a character created just for the movie, as the real-life Runaways couldn't keep a bass player. Over their career as a band, they had five of them - six if you count when Joan Jett played bass instead of guitar for part of one tour. |
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Zia from Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues knows how to play both bass and piano, but prefers to emphasize the latter due to the unpopularity associated with being a bass player. | |
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Decrepit Birth didn't bother to get a new full-time bassist for quite a while after Derek Boyer left until 2008 when Joel Horner joined. Once he left in 2011, it became a revolving door of live session players once again; Sean Martinez was the most prolific, but A.J. Lewandowski and Konrad Rossa also had their day. Sean currently averts this, as he has been hired full-time and will be appearing on the upcoming fourth full-length. | |
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School of Rock: Bass player Katie has few spoken lines, and is the only one who doesn't get an end-credit solo (at least in the final cut; Jack Black would later let her perform a solo in the reunion concert). The movie's only named bassists are unsympathetic acquaintances of the main character. | |
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When Steve Harvey was a guest on The Tonight Show in 2014, a game of Family Feud was played that pitted Jimmy Fallon, Jason Segel, and Steve Higgins against members of The Roots. The first survey question was, "Name an instrument least likely to get a band member groupies." One of the top three answers was "Bass". Cut to a shot of the band's bass player, looking embarrassed. | |
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Played straight, in one of the most infamous cases in metal, with the next bassist Jason Newsted, who was treated as the Replacement Goldfish for 14 years. It is believed that the other members were subconsciously hazing him as part of their grief from Cliff Burton's death). It was even (indirectly) admitted there was an attempt to mute the bass as much as they could in his debut album, ...And Justice for All. | |
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Quinn from Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! is pretty much ignored by the plot, the director, the rest of the cast, and the audience. Ironically he was the only real-life legit rock star in the cast (he's Mark Holmes from the Canadian new wave band Platinum Blonde). | |
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In the Left 4 Dead website for the Midnight Riders, bassist Jake Thorne is referred to as a "provisional temporary band member" despite playing with the band since 1985 on 23 albums, and writing most of the band's songs. | |
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