As a bassist, can confirm.
I’ve only recently really started to appreciate notcing the bass in music. It’s an underdog no one seems to respect :(
I didn’t listen to bass untill I become one
Now 99% of the reason why I like certain songs is because of the bass
I am become bass, destroyer of riffs
Thundercat is a master at the base who really opened my eyes to their unappreciated percussive role in music.
Bassists are based
Me at 14 trying to recreate my favorite palm-muted metal strumming patterns from songs I know: “what the hell why does their shit sound so good and thumping and my shit sounds like AM radio static in a tin can?”
Me, many many years later: “BASS! IT WAS ALL MISSING THE FUCKING BASS!”
A song without bass is like a glass without water or something like that
It took a while as a guitarist/keyboard player just learning and starting out to realize how fundamental it is. I kept trying to turn up the low end of things in the mixer in my software to compensate without realizing what I was missing.
Just my opinion, but bass is disgusting, both the instrument and the sound it makes. The strings are so fat I felt nauseous the first time I played one.
Geddy Lee (Rush), Les Claypool (Primus, others), Dominick “Forest” LePointe (First Fragment, others), Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Chris Squire (Yes), Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead), Sting (The Police), John Deacon (Queen), Maurice Gibb (Bee Gees)…
