Do I Play Guitar, or Do I Play Bass? YES. I Do, and So Should You.
I have always noticed that a lot of my fellow guitarists have wildly varying and sometimes very dismissive, dickish attitudes about a band member most bands cannot exist (or exist AND sound "decent") without: the bass player. Everyone's heard the shitty guitar player jokes about bassists... "What, six strings too much for them?" "What do you call a guitarist who can't play? A bassist!" "How do you reduce wind-drag on a bassist's car? Take the Domino's Pizza sign off the roof!" "What do you throw a drowning bass player? His amp." "Why don't bass players tell blonde jokes? They don't understand them." "What do you call a beautiful woman on a bassist's arm? A tattoo." "What's the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a bassist? The vacuum cleaner has to be plugged in to suck." "How can you tell when the stage is perfectly level? Drool comes out both sides of the bass play...