I've been part of various internet forums involving music and playing for a long time, and have noticed that guitars and basses seem to get played by people with certain characteristics.
Guitarists - tend to be over the top characters, even when they're bedroom-bound. No woman is ever lovely enough, music is an olympic sport (you have to play faster and harder than everyone else) and GAS is king.
Bass players - tend to be socialist, depressed or married to someone who is depressed, introspective, technically obsessive and need to be in control.
It's curious, since to look at them, there's relatively little difference between the instruments, yet they attract or engender such different characters. I wonder if it's down to the required approach to music, and whether that shapes their thinking.
These days I play both guitar and bass (though mostly back to guitar right now) so maybe that makes me a little schizophrenic?
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