The only reason my wife knows who’s playing bass in our band is because she’s married to the bassist.
I don’t think she’s the exception here, most people could care less about bass.
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Not entirely true but they just don’t know enough in general they know. That’s why early generations of Beat headphones sold so well.
Anyways, there’s always heckling fan interrupting your song right?
And they are not even American, jeezh! 
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‘til you take it away, then the know what we do 
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Blackmetal:
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Yeah, that’s why death metal is better!
And no (I think) burning of cultural landmark churches!
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fewer nazis too
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Yeah. Unfortunately a problem to some degree across pretty much all the heavier genres. It would be nice to see a Nazi metalheads fuck off adaptation of Nazi punks fuck off.
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In my world, Mr Mark King of Level 42’s Alembic bass.
Ah, I learned something today: “The bass guitar is seldom used to play stand-alone melodies. It is common for the bass to be muted against the guitar, or for it to homophonically follow the low-pitched riffs of the guitar.”
Source: Black metal - Wikipedia
Tons of blackmetal bands have no bass player at all.
Sometimes with downtuned guitars you don’t even notice with that style. While Oathbreaker here is much more blackgaze than blackmetal it’s still close enough here that you can hear it working fine for them:
They actually do play live with bass (and record some stuff that way) but apparently not this one. They just have a really good guitarist doing double duty here, probably downtuned.
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There’s this Audiotree recording where they have an additional musician on bass guitar:
But it is true that there are black metal bands without a bassist 
But to get back on topic, I’d say the most famous bass is the Fender P-bass. It’s just all over the place 
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Oh I’ll have to check that out @Nebel !
TBH I read White Line Fever and although I love Motorhead and Lemmy’s work, he actually comes across as a bit of a dick in his autobiography. I can see why he had a lot of problems with relationships, although a lot of that was probably down to him spending years shovelling down kilos of drink and drugs…
I actually wonder if he may have been a bit of an interovert - the substance abuse would have helped with any stage fright. Hendrix was also apparently a very quiet person in real life…
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That’s why it’s called “Sex, Drugs and Rock’n Roll”, not “Marriage, TV and playing muzak in a cover band”.
True art needs extremes! And it’s even more extreme if you’re an introvert…
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I doubt the big man was without his flaws. And I agree, especially the intro with the plane incident does not speak in his favor. Still doesn’t take away my admiration for his contribution and especially his “I do it how I want, not how you want” way.
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Wiegedood and the whole “Church of Ra” is an amazing music collective. Great stuff.
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You can be a fantastic musician and not be an actual dick in real life. They aren’t mutually exclusive.
Nathan East, Leland Sklar, Tony Levin etc
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Yeah, well … everybody has his own story … and the definition of being a d#ck is fluid, I guess.
Personally I am not a fan of Lemmy’s music. But I dig his complex (simple?) personality, even though I don’t agree with everything.
And not everybody can be Taylor Swift, @Barney 
Last but least, it’s still it’s better than being a crappy musician and a d#ck
Words to live by, coach. Words to live by.
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Donald duck Dunn with his p bass who was a member of Booker T and the MGS and was also in both of The Blues Brothers movies.
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