Glad you’re enjoying the bass, it’s such a cool instrument!!
Errrr, not true! I was asked to give an impromptu bass “concert” after Christmas dinner, for family and friends. Had them groovin’ in the dining room, although they were all half-cut 
BTW, I feel your pain with the recorder and violin - those instruments scarred my infant / junior school years!
The secret to why bar bands work 
Well I think almost everyone tried to play some instrument.
I can’t put better in words, when I tried to play other instruments (piano, guitar, drums…) its ok but I feel the “music” comes from the instrument, but in the upright bass and guitar bass I fell the music comes from me…
It’s weird but its how i feel it.
I know hat you mean, that same feeling is starting to come to me now when playing bass ( after a little more than a year of playing) had the same thing with playing drums when I was younger, but now I prefer the bass , like Marcus Miller said once in one of his clinics “ drumming with notes “ 
I use to play drums… I’ve always been musical and very into music - like a “music is life” person and quitting drums really killed me - but I had to because I injured my wrists and my wrists just can not take it anymore - so after years and years of being bummed out, I decided that I needed to learn an instrument that would be easier on my wrists - and I decided on bass because bass lines and drum lines go hand in hand, so I figured that learning bass was the next best thing to playing drums … and yeah, my wrists are still delicate flowers that hurt if I play bass too long, but I can play for an hour or so on bass (the length of most sets tbh) whereas I can only play drums for like 15 minutes tops before my wrists become useless and I can no longer hold the sticks … so that’s my story - bass is not my first love, but I do love bass
You know what the song says…if you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.
Mine is stupid🙈
I was 11 years old and my father listened to a variety of (good) music.
In Poland the Welsh band Budgie was very popular and we had their vinyl at home.
There were photos of the band members inside and I liked looking at them.
The frontman and vocalist of the band played bass (and thanks to that I learned that there was such a thing as a bass guitar). Because of his voice (androgynous) and appearance (he looked like Janis Joplin), I got it into my head that Burke Shelley was a girl. And I started thinking that I wanted to play same “guitar”, just like "her"
Later I realized that it was a guy, but the seed had already been planted and there was no going back
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I know what you mean! in 1979, I was working at KFC, I sliced the end of my right index finger making cole slaw. To this day, I have a little bit of nreve damage.
Thanks for the post I haven’t heard that in decades…
My dad has always been into music - whether as an instrumentalist or vocalist. He played piano and guitar, though he is presently a singer in a few different bands around town. I played piano for about 5-6 years growing up, then I heard “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and loved the guitar solo, so I wanted to learn that. He has a Peavey T-60 he let me play around on, and I had this on-again-off-again relationship with guitar - played through middle school, into high school. At some point in high school, I bought an entry-level Ibanez, and then an OLP 5-string. Of course, I became distracted and put them down, lord only knows what actually happened to them… I played some guitar in my late 20s, again for about a 3 year stint. At the beginning of 2024 (literally NYE) I picked up my six-string for the first time in a few years and told myself this time was going to be different and that I would actually stick with it. Well, I wasn’t entirely wrong… played daily for 8-9 months, and then in September of last year, while I was shopping for a new six-string (thought that procuring a Jackson V-shredder would enable me to play some Randy Rhoads), I instead spontaneously put a TRBX305, Zoom B1Four, and Rumble 25 in my cart and purchased those. I’ve been hooked since, noting a far stronger gravitation to the lower frequencies. Feels a bit “square peg, round hole” for me as when I was playing six string, rhythm was never a strong suit, though I’ve definitely adapted
So my love of making music goes back to when I was a wee lad at the age of 11 (now 51), my dad being from MI was really into Motown, my Mother into Country (cline, cash, ect). MY “cool” uncle one day said listen to this to my shock it was SGT. Pepper, he played guitar I asked him to teach me. being 11 not being able to hold chord shapes he said " have you ever thought about the bass?" fast forward to middle school started playing t-bone had lessons and could read music so easy move plus all the cool kids were in marching band and played bass in the jazz band. fast forward to after college move to Chicago and just played with anyone who would have me, played a lot of folk gigs, rock gigs got into a touring cover /original band.
my nickname story I was playing a gig guitar/bass duo some girl asked my name I responded jeff- the girl I was playing with shouted Jeff the bass player and it stuck
My uncle passed away last year it was the first time I had a chance to share that story with his step kids. they knew he played guitar but had no idea how much he influenced my musical journey
