Best Compliments You've Ever Received

[Perry]

What the best compliment you've ever had as a bass player? Mine has to be at a gig my band did where we were support one of the areas best bands, they're all really talented, experienced musicians and anything they had to say about our band i'd respect and understand.

Anyway after the gig their guitarist was talking to ours and he compared me to another local bassist in the area who is an absolute god on bass, he said this:
'For every note your bassist plays, that guy plays four, but you bassists note means so much more.'

i was chuffed :)

[ebe9]

"Holy ****! Your fingers look like a spider on speed!"

I will take it as a complement. Was basically wanking around on the fretboard, and the chap did not know any better.

[funkyhoney]

"you're a true professional, dealing with that **** wothout stressing out and still playing damn fine"

i thought it was a bit toooo far but meh

[funkyhoney]

"Holy ****! Your fingers look like a spider on speed!"

I will take it as a complement. Was basically wanking around on the fretboard, and the chap did not know any better.

thats gold!!! :lol:

[ebe9]

thats gold!!! :lol:

Thanks. I also had a good laugh at that one. Kept me smiling for the rest of the evening.

[Wintermute]

"God DAMN you, you smug git!"

That was really just for the comedy value though - a friend of mine was playing Guitar Hero, and losing. So I grabbed a bass and started to solo along to the song. :p

I recommend it. It annoys the HELL out of people.

[peeted]

people asking for lessons, my last bass teacher saying he had nothing else he could teach me and asking me to play bass for his prog band, loads of local bands asking me to stand in for ill bassists etc. that sorta stuff means more to me than some kid coming up to me and saying "dude your realy good and like have loads of strings, whoa dude"

[ebe9]

"Oh my god! It's huge!"


Ladies and Gentlemen..........We have a winner. :naughty:


EDIT: Then again, maybe not. Damn post deleters.

[Polyamarous]

Hehe, I thought someone would get it!

[ebe9]

Hehe, I thought someone would get it!

Why did you delete it though?

[Polyamarous]

I don't know. Should I un-delete it?

[Aukai]

I believe mine was, you have the biggest nuts I've ever seen.

[ebe9]

I don't know. Should I un-delete it?

Un-delete / Make a new post.

It was good and one of the few times you can get away with that outside of the casual.

[sanray]

there is a local guitar "god" who was my bass instructor for about two years, and he teaches everyone(small town)

and one day a guy comes up to me at school and says that my guitar instructor recomended me as his best student, the guy was looking for a bassist. I take this very heavily cause I saw this instructor once pick up a bass(not his normal instrument) and play hotel california(guitar part) on it.

[Jamie]

"If your bass playing reflects how you are in the sack, get the next bus here!!"


.... Unfortunately I jest! Hmmm... My compliments are usually just your average ones tbh! I don't have that good a memory for compliments!

Although, when I went into Gamestation and totally kicked arse playing Guitar Hero for the first time, I got a few compliments from people!! Playing bass IS a transferable skill to Guitar Hero!!

[naut]

"i'd buy your cd." or when people e-mail me asking my advice. or...when this one guy downloaded a video from my website, then put it on YouTube 'cause he thought i was a "great bassist.":lol:

oh and one of my mom's friend hadn't been motivated to belly dance for quite a while; but her urge was suddenly rekindled after she heard one of my songs.

*shrug*

[rh15951]

"next door have called the police because pictures are falling off their walls"

[trumpeter]

"I've never seen that on bass before"

heheh

First time my friend's saw me bass tap.

[Sergio]

"You've written the most kickass and challenging stuff I've ever had to play"

My drummer, in response to the songs I wrote.

And the songs aren't that challenging. :p

[bass&cookies]

a guitarist from a really good local band saying that i'm probably the best bassist at our high school

":eek: " "wow! i didn't know you could do that with a bass!"
i always get that when i play mario for someone. especially the underground and tapping parts

[Naveed Afzal]

Tasteful.

[tim_commerfordism]

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[Radiobass81]

"You've got a great ear for melody."

"You've got Jaco on your fingertips."

"Just learn to sight-read, and in a few years, everyone will be wanting you to play with them. Everyone."

"We need that jazzy touch of yours for our music."

Darn, I miss the days when I was actually good, and got called all those compliments... :upset:

[bassmancrv]

Drummers girlfriend( to my drummer): " Is he good? "
Drummer: "hes real good."

bass teacher: " were not even gonna work on technique, you dont need it"

" im playing bass because of you "

those were all a while ago though.. i wish i could still get those, real moral boosters

[bottlerocket]

I was jamming with my good friend Chris and his friend Nick I just met and they wanted to improv. Chris played guitar, Nick played drums, and I was playing bass. Chris just told Nick to start, then Chris came in, and then I came in. After about a half an hour of improv, Nick goes, "Hey, Gavin, do you go to Berklee or something?"

I felt on top of the world for about 5 hours. :D

-Gav

[BassVirtuoso]

"I think I'm going to retire when you graduate."
-Jazz Band Director

[chipmunk2510]

This band I gigged said I was really good.

[JeBuSrOcKs]

a lot of people at my school that i just left say to me "your well good, your like the best bassist ever" when im quite clearly not they just dont realise that being able to play chili pepper basslines etc is not the hardest thing in the world. but still it makes me feel well good knowing that people appreciate me being able to play bass

[ScorpSath]

My band teacher when I was in band, I was overhearing
"Riley refuses to do his theory homework, and has trouble showing up to class. Brilliant ear though"

[sixner]

"SPIDER FINGERS"
"you've inspired me to play more" (twice, feels great)
At a battle of the bands, we got the most fan points, but judge points are what matter most... and we only got 4 judge points (each judge could only get out 4 points)... i found out after the show, those 4 points were all from 1 judge.. he happens to be a bass player, haha. he came up to me "dude, you tore that bass up! and your crazy on stage! i had to get you my points!"

made me all giddy inside

-Sixner

[Rowan S]

i get alot.. usually about how quick i picked it up. Stuff along the lines of "your going a long way buddy"

basically.

[sixner]

ah, and its not really a COMPLIMENT... but its always great to go to a music store and start playing, and then you notice a few random people watching you play, or gather around a bit..
-sixner

[Radiobass81]

"I think I'm going to retire when you graduate."
-Jazz Band Director
That's pretty amazing, really.

[Dark_Hero]

"You are like Malmsteen on bass!"

[toxicmudd]

aahh i see you only suck a little bit then

my friends are all wankers

[lemoley]

when my bass/guitar teacher said i am better than him

[faelun]

i've gotten a few duuuude show me how to do that's and holy crap u can play fast on a bass?

[Pyramidman]

"hey, you bass playing didnt make me vomit"

thats about the best ive gotten
lol

[neatobassman]

"Your bands music sounds like/reminds me of Incubus/Tales from the Punch Bowl/Rush/Dilenger's Escape Plan" and "you make me want to stop playing" and "why have so many pedals?"

[Massive_Boredom]

"You don't suck that much...You'll get better...Maybe"
lol

[thelowsoundofbass]

I had a drummer tell me that I held down the sickest groove that he had ever heard. Quite a compliment because his bass player is one of the best bass players that I have ever seen.

lowsound

[Killer Fridge]

Bass Tutor :

"Ive only got 2 students who I believe should be doing a degree in music, and youre one of them"

He says that everytime I tell him I'm doing a Higher Diploma in bass, and will be doing the degree next year. He wants me to do it now, saying that its a waste of a year. I just want to be certain that I can actually do the degree. I always feel well chuffed when he says that.

[sr800bkBassist]

"your playing is alright, but damn you can write good a song."

regarding my technical ability in comparison to my creativity.
i also got a similar remark by my art teacher about my paintings, because i can't paint a nice, perfected picture of a face or scenery, but i can come up with interesting surrealist and abstracted pictures.

[naut]

lolz you made that up.

[Roo_bass]

"...a ****ing genius"

My band was in this competition in London and some guy from Kerrang was there, that's what he said about me. I don't think I would call myself a genius, I think that was the first time he'd seen a six string bass or something.

[sr800bkBassist]

lolz you made that up.
no, it was from a bandmate so i guess that adds bias to the equation, but regardless it is real.

EDIT: another good one was when 2 i didn't know came up to me after one of our shows and complimented me on my bass playing (which, IMO, was decent at best) and on my guitar playing (i didn't play anything other than chords with a few cool little tricks that i taught myself to make my playing sound more unique, but i guess they liked it) but the fact that they liked it was pretty cool.

and another time, somebody at a show came up to me and was like "hey! you're in For the High Seas aren't you!" not really a compliment, but the fact the he was interested enough in my band to learn the name and actually think it was cool to see a member somewhere was very satisfying. especially when most of the nicest things anyone ever said about that band were simply "your singer is hot!" and other things of that nature....

[Dark_Hero]

"your playing is alright, but damn you can write good a song."

regarding my technical ability in comparison to my creativity.
i also got a similar remark by my art teacher about my paintings, because i can't paint a nice, perfected picture of a face or scenery, but i can come up with interesting surrealist and abstracted pictures.
In other words, he's flattering himself because he supposedly writes good songs.

[sr800bkBassist]

In other words, he's flattering himself because he supposedly writes good songs.
i already cleared that up! and to add, my worst, simplest songs were written for that band. my more complex, post-rockish stuff was unfortunately never brought into that band because it didn't fit our style and nobody was really willing to work on anything longer than 5 minutes anyway. so i only brought my straightforward songs to the table and kept my better stuff to myself and i haven't really played it for anybody except a couple non-musicians who liked it but don't know enough about making music to give any real criticism unfortunately.

and sheesh! i get jumped on by two people after making one post!
anyway, another compliment i got a week or so ago was when a friend of mine from my favorite local band (moving past "local" status lately, touring all over US and internationally) asked me when the hell he's gonna hear more of my music, since my band had split. he said he really wanted to hear more music from me, which i took as a huge compliment, since first of all, he is a young guy, just a couple years older than me, doing extremely well off as a musician and making some awesome, unique music.

[naut]

LOMYALE @ this guy.

[museic]

my favourite complement was that i was noisy and beautiful at the same time.... i still need to figure that one out!

[sr800bkBassist]

my favourite complement was that i was noisy and beautiful at the same time.... i still need to figure that one out!
listen to anything off of the album Loveless by My Bloody Valentine and you'll see. it's noise rock with layers upon layers of distorted guitars/bass, yet it's very pretty sounding, the way they do it.
after hearing that CD i realized noisiness and beauty are very similar.

[Jody LeCompte]

"That was amazing. Did you improvise that? You didnt miss a beat, you should be in the Bill Withers band!"

After I played Use Me by Bill Withers in a blues club.

[museic]

listen to anything off of the album Loveless by My Bloody Valentine and you'll see. it's noise rock with layers upon layers of distorted guitars/bass, yet it's very pretty sounding, the way they do it.
after hearing that CD i realized noisiness and beauty are very similar.

yes man thats a good album! my band's style is soo different to that though! u cant really link it to that comparison... i suppose im very dischordant and sparse with my playing...i let the rhythms take the lead role and i play the notes that fit the feel. im a bassist that doesnt like to show off but i like to add another edge to the music without the listeners realising

[Mr. Pickle]

"ur pretty good"

[PainKiller8191]

i got some wows, i get some people gathering around me if i plug in at a music store
when i auditioned for my band they said I was black on the inside
while warming up after plugging in at a rehearsal space I heard the lead guitarist from this huge israel metal band callled WhoreXcore saying i reminded him of jaco, and the bassist from that same band come up to me and ask me how I got my tone, and when are we playing live

and I'm a guy with really low self esteem and just about zero confidence, so when i hear stuff like this I feel like a king

[sanray]

another favorite of mine is when in my first year of jazz band when I first learned how to read bass clef, my band teacher who i respect a lot and has played with many jazz greats, said hey james would you like to get a solo on one or two songs? I was very suprised but I got two cause who can turn down a bass solo?

[Manticore Guy]

This one is definetely the most interesting one I've gotten...I'm aware it's pretty rude lol.

"Dude, your solo was a ****in orgasm. I couldn't tell if it was you playing or me jacking off."

:lol:

[will66]

nice playing

[Saitoku]

I have a friend who plays guitar who refuses to jam with me because I'm "too good" for them to compete with.

Personally, I think it's silly.

[will66]

yeah that sounds pretty stupid

[blizzard]

In my school jazz band a teacher told me that, "I was excellent, one of the best bass players he knows and I sounded great." It meant a lot to me since i didn't know this guy all that much.

[Riouken]

Whenever someone takes the time to e-mail me about how they enjoyed one of my Bass Videos on the net That's alwyas compliment.

When I am asked to teach, or when people come to a show to see me play. They are all compliments.


After the show I get random thigns like "that was amazing" and stuff like that, and I do appreicate those as compliments, but there are other things that mattter more to me than that.

[twankie]

i get called the freak by a bunch of people. but... well... i dont think theyve seen many GOOD bassists. i can easily name 5 bassists i personally know who i look up to...

also: getting accepted into my latest band. that was a pretty big compliment. pretty major stuff.

id also like to point out how cool bassists are. look at this thread. people RARELY say "yeh man i was playing this awesome solo thing and everybody was like YEH"...

its more like "yeh i was sort of mucking around and some people watched. i wasnt doing anything that good but i guess they thought it sounded okay"

bassists seem to be more modest.

but thats a HUGE generalisation...

did i spell that right?

[Rocky Raccoon]

My friends and I played at this girl's birthday party, and when we finished a girl came up to me and was like "You're crazy!!! You were all like... WAHPUHHPAHPUHPAH!!!", flapping her hand all over the place. :lol:

I guess she'd never seen anyone slap before....

[sanray]

"That solo was like frieken jaco and ****", pretty nice coming from another bass player

[nilon]

I often get girls come up to me and be all "Oh man, that's pretty amazing what you did there, where it's all diddlydiddly. You could go places! You got some crazy fingers!" Which is worrying, and sexual harassment! :p

I often get "Didn't know you could get sounds like that out of a bass." in regards to playing chords and very simple slapping.

Once two randoms came up to me and said if they "ever need to kick our bassist out you'll be be the one we call, the rest of the band are alright, but you impress more than anyone, sometimes your stuff is workmanlike, but then you explode into something fantastic, kinda like that guy from Tool."

I was very nice and modest and replied with "Without the band I wouldn't have any opportunity to shine, a band is a whole with a sum greater than its parts. But yeah, I'm the best!"

Once some scottish army fellas got really drunk and kept tellings us to play Busted and Oasis (BARF) so we told them go to take a sexy walk at which point they applauded and left. I think it was a compliment?

[b00mer]

Maybe my bass teacher, who is easily the best on the island at bass (about 100000 people I think) saying he had nothing left he could teach me or when I was told by a fellow bassist that I was the best in my high school and I have 2 whole more years left of school. I was pretty proud :) I try not to be smug though... it just pisses people off.

[irishslappop]

"your the best bassist in Morgan Hill"
-Tim Kiefer (owner of a major club in my town)


keep in mind that morgan hill only has about 30k people in it and id say maybe only 80 of them play bass, but still it felt damn good when he said that.

[tomtom]

when a fairly new kid to bass came up to me after a show the band i'm did a song for a multicultural-esque day at school (they had the auditorium open all day and they had indidinous music's and the like playing all day, and we did the whole aussie rock thing [tribute to AC/DC, The Saint's, Radio Birdman ect] cause they wanted something different) and asked "wow, you'r good, can you teach me that, you'r playing was steady as a rock?"

i was really chuffed, cause i pretty much stayed in the pocket and kept things steady (all except for this one bit right at the end, where we did the whole AC/DC 'noise' thing)

[PainKiller8191]

noise?
are you talking about free time?

[SüP]

Like Twankie, my best compliment was being accepted into a band. They were just a two piece before me. There were two other bassists they had in mind...one was the guitarists girlfriend who was about the same skill level as me when I was accepted, and a blind guy who is really kickass on bass but had no internal rythem. My drummer was in a band with the blind guy.

It was a little slow going at first but I soon got the hang of it. I owe my skill progression to those two. If it wasn't for them, I'd probably still be rooter and an E beater.

Jeff, Stef...You guys kickass!

[tomtom]

noise?
are you talking about free time?

pretty much, i was at a loss for words then, but yeah, it's free time

a lot of AC/DC songs have freetime at the end, before the final chord. get's a wee bit annoying sometimes ...

[da_s_man13]

"I never knew you could do that on bass''

Thats a pianist saying to me after I played The Awakening to a group of singers, guitarists and pianists, all who knew nothing about bass.

[tomtom]

lol, i get a lot of non-musicals asking my why i only have 4 massive strings on my geetar, lol, stupid ignoranus's

[pitchfork]

I have had loads of good compliments, most of the bass players round here are terrible.
You play something like aeroplane my the chilli's and theres load of 13 year olds calling you a bass god, its hilarious.

My side band probably most complimental, they were determined to name the band after me.

[tomtom]

I have had loads of good compliments, most of the bass players round here are terrible.
You play something like aeroplane my the chilli's and theres load of 13 year olds calling you a bass god, its hilarious.

My side band probably most complimental, they were determined to name the band after me.


bahaha, i get that when i play 7 Nation Army, or Feel Good Inc (they are good warm-up's for me)

[SüP]

My guitarist hates it when I start to play "Let's get it started" by BEP although everyone seems to like it.

/I know, the song is "let's get retarded"
//"let's get it started" sounds better musically

[sunshineplaysbass]

i get people to ask me to join bands alot, but it could be because i am one of like, 10 at max bassists in my age group in our wee town of 40,000 haha

[Ich Habe Sheisse]

"you are the coolest ****in bassist ive ever seen....ive never seen anybody play that **** like u did!! it was ****in cool<3"

- A cheerleader friend of mine's comment. (on Myspace)

"GREAT JOB today Nick!! you are awesome!!! how can those fingers move so fast UGH i am jealous and i dont even play bass!!! MUCH LOVE AMANDA <3"

- A girl I know from class, also a Myspace comment.

My guitarist likes to tell people I'm really good, I keep hearing from people I haven't to in a while that I "rip it up on bass" and stuff. :confused:

[pitchfork]

I'm waiting for the hot blonde cheerleader with a nice rack to come up to me and say "Wow thats a big instrument did it take you long to get that good with it?"
then she could compliment my bass :naughty:

[nilon]

I'm waiting for the hot blonde cheerleader with a nice rack to come up to me and say "Wow thats a big instrument did it take you long to get that good with it?"
then she could compliment my bass :naughty:

Man, I'm not gonna come see your gigs if you play your wang! :p

[Ich Habe Sheisse]

Haha - that essentially what happened to me with the cheerleader I was talking about, 'cept her hair is more like brunette, I think.

Of course, she was just ****ing around.

[NisseBagare]

"Oh my god, you've some negroe fingers there."
Roughly translated.

While i was playing Hysteria :p

And that's about it :p

[Criss Frantic]

"Oh my god, you've some negroe fingers there."
Roughly translated.

While i was playing Hysteria :p

And that's about it :p

I was practising Hysteria in a music room at school and some kids said they thought it was the actual cd playing. That was kind of a compliment i guess.

[Killer Fridge]

The best compliment I have given anyone, was similar to that. I was in Denmark Str. and went into the bass cellar, and thought "ah, theyve got portrait of tracy on, thats quite a good choice for a shop like this", and walked around the shop, gently listening to the cd. I get to the back of the shop and realise that its not a cd, its a guy on a warwick corvetted playing it perfectly. I had to tell him the story.

[pitchfork]

Man, I'm not gonna come see your gigs if you play your wang! :p
Pervert! (and technically pedophile)

Girls only

[Jazz Pirate]

"Man, you were doing stuff I didn't know could be done on a bass!"
"Will, you're a BASS NINJA!!"

[sr800bkBassist]

My guitarist likes to tell people I'm really good, I keep hearing from people I haven't to in a while that I "rip it up on bass" and stuff. :confused:
it's always weird when someone says something about me to someone else, and then i hear them say i'm an awesome bassist when they've never even heard me. its happened to me a few times and it's always kind of awkward because i can't really say "well thanks! i'm glad you like my playing!" or anything like that, since they've never even heard me hahaha.

happens to me kind of often. a similar thing happened 4.5 years ago, in 8th grade, when there was the voting thing for 8th grade standouts for the yearbook. i've always been really into art, and my friend was like "oh man, you're gonna win!" which i doubted because i knew hardly anyone in my year. strangely, though, being that he was very popular and intimidating, he told everyone he knows to vote for me :confused:. next thing i know, i find out that i won!

[Efrim]

I have two favourites:
"Are you taking students?"
and
"The universe can't handle someone like you"

Both were from dumbass kids who had just picked up the bass. I don't put alot of stock in what they said.

[Spencer]

Well I met this other bass player at work and after work he came to my house and watched me play. Now im hearing from people he thinks im amazing and plays nonstop cause he wants to be as good as me.

[darrell]

I was offered an opportunity to go on tour in Europe in several different countries (mind you, I live in the US) with a blues guitarist/singer who I had met an hour before. That was pretty cool.

[Alex]

" thats not possible with fingers, you need a pick [ does the "impossible"] ... oh, ****"

[playa812]

"thats AMAZING, how do your fingers move that fast?"

from my friend whos been playing for about 2 weeks. that day was just great for my self esteem.

[tomtom]

well, today the band i'm in trialled a singer, and when we where finished and packing up he said "dude, you hold these guys together, everyone feeds from you, it's awesome" which was odd, cause i was cueing myself off the drummer, so technically HE would have been holdinh us together ......

[doublepost0rz]

"That thing you do with your thumb, what's that? It sounds f'ckin' amazin'"

*played bassline of Tommy the Cat before drumline (I was in the pit) practice.*

[DeepFrequency]

after jamming with professional blues/funk guitarist.

'' wow, i would see no problem in people wanting to hire you, that jam was bitchin' ''

''you inspired me to start playing, im having so much fun''

and the eternal '' wow, you play like a black man''

[Polyamarous]

Yeah RIGHT that was you!

[Rawb]

"Wicked bass playin, dude!"

Not the best but some guy said it to me last night.

[Singh]

I'm waiting for the hot blonde cheerleader with a nice rack to come up to me and say "Wow thats a big instrument did it take you long to get that good with it?"
then she could compliment my bass :naughty:
lol irl

People say I play pretty fast, since i played guitar for 2 years but put it down permanently to play bass.

[Son of Magni]

One time I was playing cello in a recital. Afterwards a women came up to me and said I had beautiful vibrato. Turned out she used to be a friend of Pablo Casals, so her opinion held a lot of weight.

[Criss Frantic]

One time I was playing cello in a recital. Afterwards a women came up to me and said I had beautiful vibrato. Turned out she used to be a friend of Pablo Casals, so her opinion held a lot of weight.

I could make a crude joke about women and vibrato...but in the interests of good taste, I shall refrain.