Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. I am flattered at being liked so quickly.
Haha! (I think I should also say that I rarely use "lol" and say "mmhmmm" or "yeah" when something meant to be funny is not particularly amusing to me). I actually make sure never to play the bass with a pick and am equally disapproving of others doing so. I think that part of the essence of a bass guitar is it's being played with fingers and as such it is metaphysically impossible to play a bass with a pick and those who claim to are really just playing a heavy, four-stringed guitar.
You're my new best friend.
I hate people that think that they can play bass just because they can play guitar it's not the same.
I had to play a with one of these people "Bass only has 4 strings right? The stand tuning is E,A,D and G right? So I can basically play bass on my guitar right?". ;~; I tried explaining to him there was a difference but he wouldn't listen
Well I'm not trying to hate on all bass players that use picks because there are some great bass player that do use them. :P