I just watched this episode of Hot Ones with Flea. In it he mentions getting to a point while playing bass where you are thinking about nothing else and you’re just in the zone and you start to drool. (@ 13:50 in the video)
I was so happy he said that. That happens to me especially when I’m trying to learn a particularly hard bass line. I’ll end up with drool on my shirt. And I always think “how gross, what is going on.” But apparently it must be a thing. It only happens when I play bass. Not while playing the drums, not when I took piano lessons. Does this happen to anyone else?
LOL, not while playing but when I do the mod and so focus sometimes I caught myself starting to do that. I remember the first few times I had to solder the pot and it’s not sticking it happens, ha ha.
Well certain toons such as Light My Fire and Riders on the Storm can induce a near hypnotic state whilst waiting for the keyboard to finish their thing… then you are late for the change and awake again.
LMAO no, I never drool while in the zone. I mean, I have definitely been in the headspace where there is nothing else happening except the music, but it’s never left me needing a bib!
Apparently this joke is very popular between musicians here in Finland, and I thought it was a local joke. Apparently not!
When I told a singer friend that I started to learn to play bass, she and her husband wanted to tell me every bassist joke they know, and every joke had something to do with drooling. I couldn’t figure out how or why these drooling jokes were invented. Now it seems some bassists really drool while playing!? Why bassists? Don’t guitar players drool?
Maybe it’s fortunate that singers don’t drool while singing - can you imagine? Or drummers - the drool would fly everywhere!
Jonathon Groff, the celebrated Broadway/TV star, is notorious for drool when he sings. It is readily visible during his performance in Hamilton, when he plays King George.
Not only do I drool when I play, I also start to nod off too. Not even when I’m playing something slow or that I know well. Chugging away at 140bpm and I’m trying to keep my eyes open.
@faydout It sounds like playing is very relaxing to you! Do you mean you start to fall asleep? It would be interesting to set up a camera and find out whether you keep playing after falling asleep. Maybe some people speelwalk, and some sleep-play
I’m just doing a Kaizers orchestra cover (oompa til du dör).
It sounds better when I drool.
Usually I dont drool, but now I use it as an aid to play better
I see a missed commercial opportunity here: the music stores sell string wipes, microfiber cloth to polish bass guitars, oils, waxes and all sorts of things, but nothing specifically to wipe out drool from the instruments
