Long Bassist Poems

Eric Clapton (born March 30, 1945, in Ripley, Surrey, England)
British guitarist who influenced rock.
Later became a famous singer-songwriter.
Clapton was born to a teen mom and a Canadian WWII soldier in England.
His grandparents mostly raised him.
He...

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Stevie Ray's guitar spurred the 1980s blues boom.
He wasn't like any other guitarist.
Inspired by Buddy Guy, Albert King, and Albert Collins...
He linked blues and rock in the late 1960s.
He ruled the American blues from 1983...

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When I was fifteen my friend 'Riff' and I
started our very own garage band,
and for the first year we truly stank,
but I've always been a dedicated man.

I pushed Riff, and we quickly got better,
soon started...

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It was a night I'll always remember,
I've told this tale so oft,
Sometimes I forget, and on my 3rd repeat
My friends think my mind has gone soft

But it's way back, maybe "69,
I was but a teenager...

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Vacuous jewel in my crown of thorns, 
Razor blade in my heart, 
You torment me no more gently with the passing of time 
The wounds you inflicted still bleed, 
The pain is still as sharp...

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Carnage creators. Crackerbreads chats. And a wide angled grinning photographer who is having appalling dreams of incorrect information is now ironed flat. Just like a pizza base. But no bassist can ever locate a pretty...

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and its the bing bang boing but not bong ok nor beng or bung
A chicken diner stream is a recipe of combined cream but crossing a work surface is often best using traffic lights, zebra...

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Sad news today, February 6th in our year 2011
To "The Great Gig in the Sky" sell out in Heaven

My favourite blues rock guitarist, Mr Irish Gary Moore
Joins the "Midnight Blues, "Too Tired" no more will...

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I am not a stranger to the dark. 
Yes, Im strong to bear the light, 
Even if the darkest of nights bark... 
The best in me will keep up the fight. 

I am with you,...

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Ethan was determined to be the best,
to put to shame all other guitarists,
to rock the world in tight, leather pants,
touring like a God across the land.
So at thirteen years he learned three chords,
didn’t think he’d...

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Spent
By Sy Roth


Her ears still tremble with the sounds
Shocked into somnolence gasping to make sense.

The giddy bassist a rue of flapping gums missing the flats,
The drummer’s lips moving in asynchronous confusion--
But seem excited
She a carved,...

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Turtle wrap is a turtle entwined. Eh. Ooh.ball is the only thing for a bit. Among a fish baked grass. And a farting squid in a barrel of pickles is a introduction to a heifer...

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with an ego the 
size of the 
mother****ing 
sun
glaring out upon
us all as if
to personally
manufacture a
“god” in the
face of the adoring
fans with slobber
hanging from their
mouths, dogs let
out loose for the
last piece of bloody
meat who will
worship...

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Screaming Lapis Lazulis 

I wonder about you.
I wonder about your cold-cocked eyeball manifestations 
Wonder about your infinite perfumes of peppermint and Eau de.
Your deep penetrating cornerstones of my crested resistance,
Ascending like spent lovers at drowsy...

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SMOKE ON THE WATER

Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention
Played at their Montreux Casino gig one night
But down in the audience, a flare gun was fired
Still nobody really knows how it was acquired
That eventually had...

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In the cool fog of the predawn morning
on a cold November day.
Darkness is apparent, waiting,
A shadow bouncing along the edges of the grey.
The wind howls a melancholy song,
like a Bassist plays the blues.
A dark tall...

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essential to most bands
of all shapes & sizes,
never goes without a gig
in the city because s/he’s
known for having a small
ego, being calm & collected
for the most part &
yet so vital for the rumble
below the riffs,...

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