Bass Player Face...

Found this on another blog I read called Stuff Christians Like. Sometimes, I get bass player face after I watch Joe worship! Bass player face is a good thing. Read below...

When it comes to worship, I do three very different things with my eyes. I close them if I'm feeling brave and know all the words. I watch the overhead screen and sing along to the words. Or I watch the bass player, because "bass player face" is one of my favorite things ever.

Even if you don't have a bass player at your church, even if the idea of having an electric guitar plugged into your church's electrical system sends shockwaves through your traditional values, you've experienced this to some degree. Bass player face is kind of like "face dancing" and it's something that any and every musician can do, regardless of instrument. It's where a musician, playing any kind of instrument, gets so into the experience that they just stop caring what their face looks like and start making outrageous scrunching motions with their mouth, forehead and cheeks. John Mayer does this when he plays guitar and the guy from Rusted Root used to do this all the time and it's what Lincoln Brewster is doing in this picture.

I've never been a musician, but here is what I imagine is going through their heads:
"Boom boom ba doopy do bop. I am feeling this today God, whaaa, hittin' all my notes! I want to dance like Kevin Bacon in Footloose but I can't while holding this instrument so I'm going to let it all out with my cheek bones. Feelin' it, feelin' it, in my cheekbones! Ba dop!"

That's it isn't? If you're a musician, can you please just comment and say, "That's exactly right Jon, 'boom ba doopy do bop,' is what's going on in our head, you have incredible musical insight."

But I love bass player face because it encourages me to be more honest with my worship. When I see someone else letting go of the concerns of how they look, especially someone on stage, it inspires me to drop my guard too. To really worship instead of worrying what I look like. I might not go as far as to pretend I'm holding an air guitar, but I'll definitely face dance from time to time. Sometimes you just have to, when you're feelin' it, feelin' it in your cheekbones. Boom ba doopy do bop.

May we all pursue the bass player face and worship instead of worrying what we look like! Here's my bass player face...