Double Bass versus Bass Guitar.

[Richard Prowse]

A contrary view: bass guitars are easier to carry around.

[Richard Prowse]

They don't make Bel Canto strings for bass guitar.

[Richard Prowse]

A contrary view: When Oren Hudson is in his pyjamas, he chooses to play a bass guitar and not a double bass.

[Richard Prowse]

When people come to your house and there's a bass standing the corner, they are impressed because they think someone who lives here plays the cello.

[Richard Prowse]

A contrary view: When women see a bass guitarist playing in a band, they think he's a guitar player and they become interested in him.

[Oren Hudson]

Originally Posted by Richard Prowse

A contrary view: When Oren Hudson is in his pyjamas, he chooses to play a bass guitar and not a double bass.

Simply stated, since I've been eating so many grits, my belly gets in the way of the double bass while sitting down on Christmas morning in the sun room in Gastonia, NC in the heart of Dixie of The South, while the bass guitar is just a bit smaller and therefore easier to fit on my lap.

[Joel Larsson]

Good point there, Oren. When the belly is full, it chokes the vibrations of the DB! Now here's one that's got to stay FIT!!

[Ken Smith]

First off, I can't believe I'm getting dragged in to this thread.. Self inflicted I might add.. lol

Ok, you can't play any other bass in a Symphony Orchestra other than the bowed Double bass, with some pizz when indicated.

For some parts of the music business or most actually, it is one or the other type bass as it fits. Like wearing a bathing suit or dress suit? You can't dive in a pool with a suit and tie and you can't play an Orchestra concert in the bass section (or any other section) wearing a bathing suit!

[Richard Prowse]

Ken, my friend, you are funnier than a Mesopotamiam bull fighter!
Many years ago I helped out by playing double bass in a combined secondary schools youth orchestra - I was teaching somewhere or other and they were short of basses. We performed in the Michael Fowler Centre, which is where the symphony orchestra plays in Wellington - a posh venue! Ken, you won't believe this, sitting behind the basses was a kid with a bass guitar, amp et al, playing along.
I guess he ignored the 'arco' instructions on his part.

[Dave Martin]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

First off, I can't believe I'm getting dragged in to this thread.. Self inflicted I might add.. lol

Ok, you can't play any other bass in a Symphony Orchestra other than the bowed Double bass, with some pizz when indicated.

For some parts of the music business or most actually, it is one or the other type bass as it fits. Like wearing a bathing suit or dress suit? You can't dive in a pool with a suit and tie and you can't play an Orchestra concert in the bass section (or any other section) wearing a bathing suit!

Well, Carol Kaye worked with, I believe, the Denver Symphony for a little while on electric bass, and I personally have gone into a pool wearing a a tux (admittedly, it was more of a 'shove' than a 'dive', but the end result was the same...