The Bassist
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| The Bassist | |
| First Appearance | Guitar Hero |
| Genre | Rock, Alternative Rock, Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Glam Rock, Funk Rock, Psychobilly, Heavy Metal, Alternative Metal, Glam Metal, Funk Metal, Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, Power Metal, Power Pop, Pop Punk, Punk Rock, Surf Rock, Instrumental Rock |
| Likes | Not shaving, Looking like Chewbacca from Star Wars |
| Dislikes | Shaving, Lou |
| Fretboard | N/A |
The unnamed bassist is an unplayable character in the entire Guitar Hero series and plays in the in-game cover band along with The Singer and The Drummer. Unlike his bandmates, the Bassist's depiction as a tall, slim, long-bearded, hair-covered man dressed in a plain black T-shirt and jeans has gone virtually unchanged; the only apparent alteration to his appearance was the addition of a Zildjian logo to his shirt in Guitar Hero II.
The bass parts of songs became playable in Guitar Hero II; however, The Bassist was not made a playable character, expect in Guitar Hero: Battle, which he is one of secret characters. The player had to choose from among the game's existing guitarists in order to play the bass parts. The Bassist does not appear during any multiplayer games or boss battles, instead being replaced by the second guitarist.
In the first two and Rock the 80's, the bass he uses is an Ernie Ball Music Man Stingray, and in Guitar Hero III, he uses a Les Paul bass, In Aerosmith he uses a sky blue Thunderbird bass. In Guitar Hero On Tour, he did not make a appearance only to be replaced by the lead singer, who played bass guitar and sung at the same time, which was presumably inspired by Sting or Gene Simmons.
He was mentioned by the developers during the behind-the-scenes video in Guitar Hero as the development team's favorite character.
The bassist no longer appears during actual songs in Guitar Hero: World Tour and opening acts in Guitar Hero: Metallica. He is now replaced by random people.
[edit] Trivia
- In Guitar Hero World Tour the bassist, The Drummer, and The Singer appear in the intro for a couple of seconds.
- The intro for the bass career of Guitar Hero World Tour is the only one in the game which does not show a childhood version of the band member. Instead, there is a dream sequence where the bassist imagines she is on the stage alone being cheered by fans, but then snaps back to reality, where the lead guitarist and the singer are getting all the limelight.
- In Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, he has a Max's Kansas City logo on his shirt.
- In the third Co-op cutscene, some Japanese people have papers that show the singer, the drummer and the bassist, although the bassist doesn't appear in co-op career.
