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Originally Posted by Dr. Rez
Just find another guitarist and make him play bass.
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^ This.
Just don't make the mistake my band did, of finding two guitarists, needing a bassist, and then asking a guy who was a lot better of a guitarist, than the guitarists. Guitarists tend to have ego. There's not much WRONG with that, but we totally do have ego, and if you get a guy in to play bass who rips on guitar, the other two guitarists will get weird about it and start assuming things.
Our situation worked out. I moved from bass to guitar when one of our guitarists quit the band, but before then, along with bad practice rooms, our band suffered a lot from the other two guitarists feeling intimidated when I would show them licks before moving back to the bass. The phrase "Why are you not playing the guitar, I'll play bass" got said a lot and I would always make it clear I was just happy to be playing anything.