Video of the Day: Marvin Gaye "What's Going On"

Marvin Gaye's vocals are fantastic, but what really makes this song and many other Motown hits is the bassline of James Jamerson.

Bass Player Jokes

A while back I posted some drummer jokes here and here, now I've heard a couple of bass player jokes, and turnabout is fair play.

What do you throw a drowning bass player??
... His amp!

Son: "Daddy, I want to grow up and be a bass player."
Father: "Son, you can't have it both ways. "

Q: What's the first thing a bass player says when he knocks on your door?
A: "Pizza!"

Q - What's the difference between a bass and a rhino that's just eaten a can of baked beans?
A - One's a huge useless thing that makes a deep farting noise and the other is a rhino.

Q What's the difference between a bass and a trampoline?
A You take off your shoes to jump on the trampoline.

It's Only Talk

New Bass

1989 Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay

This is a picture of me in 1981, playing bass at a Klein outdoor party. I was seventeen, and a freshman at UT Austin. This is the first bass I ever owned, an Ibanez Roadster, and I bought it just a couple of months before this gig. I traded it in for one of the Fender Precision basses that I still own.

Mike Ruocco submitted this picture to Are You Hot or Not, and I got an 8/10 (not too bad, I thought).

I’ve got two Fender Precisions, both 1970’s models, one fretless. I’ve also got a Yamaha BB1200, and I just had a custom G&L L-2500 5-string bass made, in Belair Green. I play through a Gallion-Kruger head and a 4x10 Hartke cabinet.