Knitting Cozies for Your Bass Guitar?
Posted in Bass Guitar, Music in General, The Low End In General on December 4th, 2007 by RyanGoogle News occasionally shoots me updates on the keywords “bass guitar” - most of the time I receive yet another story about Rockband or Guitar Hero, but I occasionally get some interesting news. Something from PRWeb caught my eye today, mostly because it mentioned my bass book (I am a vain little monkey). It was just a passing mention, but the press release kicked off with this line:
From the series that brought you Teach Yourself Visually Knitting, Teach Yourself Visually Golf, and Teach Yourself Visually Bass Guitar . . .
Somebody (at least the publishing company) has matched playing bass guitar with hitting the links or making a nice little sweater. Toss in a Republican candidate playing bass (another thing the Google News updates remind me of constantly), and the low end has practically become a Norman Rockwell stronghold.
While I’m heartened by the place mainstream America seems to have given to bassists, I’m afraid of total assimilation. It was crazy enough when James Brown endorsed Richard Nixon. Can we afford another step in that dark, dreadful direction? The funk is truly music under a big tent, but these are staggering implications.
