Here’s what I’ve been thinking about the other day. You all know that in the summer of 2006 I joined the online music management game Popomundo. On a whim, I gave my character Lianne a bass guitar and let her do backup vocals. Why the bass guitar? I had no idea. I thought bassists were kinda cool and I figured that other people would play the electric guitar in our band. I was fine with bass. I had a shitload of fun with the character, and the idea of bass grew on me some more.
Flashforward to the end of 2007 when Olli and I were rocking out to Guitar Hero 3 and I found to my amusement that I was better with rhythm guitar & bass sequences than I was with lead guitar. Which was of course funny in the light of me channeling Lianne in Popo. And then in early 2008 the boys founded their band and I saw it all happen and thought: if I would play an instrument, what would I play?
If there’s anything I loved to do, it was to be lead singer. I’m an attention whore and I love to sing – but unfortunately I am as tone deaf as I am unable to smell. But what I am able to do is keep a rhythm and stick to it (kinda). Not drumming, but I think I’d be able to play bass if I tried. For a long time I backed off from the idea because the band was this thing that the boys were having together. I didn’t want to intrude – and I still don’t.
And then there was last weekend where I saw Jeanne Sagan rock out so hard and so awesomely on her bass guitar during the All That Remains concert… and that was such an inspiration. I didn’t think of Lianne when I saw her, but I thought of me. And I thought, fuck, I would REALLY like to be able to do that. It would so rock if I could do that. Even if I could only do a LITTLE bit of that. Going with the boys to the jam studio last night only reinforced that idea.
I’m seriously considering to try and learn the bass guitar. It won’t be easy, and I’m lazy. I like to be able to DO things, I don’t necessarily like to LEARN things. But if I can learn how to drive a car, I can also learn how to handle a bass, even if it’s only a little. And wouldn’t it be fucking AWESOME? The world needs more bass chicks. Why not become one?
Thus my thoughts this weekend. What do you think? 
