I love it because of the splits, also because of the friends you can make.

I love bass drums because split parts, the sound, and you don't always play the same hit, to me its like your solooing all the time, but I suck with my timing =/

it's like a solo all of the time, and when you're on a smoking bassline, everyone knows it.

Costa_Drummer1 said it. I like being only one of 8 people to solo in every song. Almost every note I play on the bass drum is a Solo. No one else has that part. It’s the only instrument in the band that you are truly unique and needed.
Plus the bass line is the closest section in the band.

yeah...that too.

I've already posted about this but I'm going to post again. All the hard work the bass line puts into playing 32nd note splits, sixtuplet splits and all that other funky junk. Its just the best feeling in the world to hear it all come together and people just know when you're a good bass line, regardless of them being a former musician or not.

And the fact that you solo everytime you put that drum on. You're one of 4-9 people soloing every song depending on the music.

Because it's awesome and I just enjoy playing with others. I think that the bass line is just unique because of splits and stuff like that.

i love it because its a team effort snares and quads can improvise each other if one doesn't know the part but if a bass drummer doesn't know the part the whole bass line goes down. so its a team effort you work as a team you succeed as a team.

I love it because you have to learn to work as a team and it's a lot of work but it's fun. My bass line isn't that good yet and we have a lot of trouble with tonels but when we do get it right and our directors really happy it makes me feel good to know that I can do it. Plus it helps yourf timing with other things. Like you have to have good timing and not rush or go to slow and that has helped me with my timing on drum set as well. I just love playing bass drum it's a lot of fun.

I love playing 2nd bass (or any bass drum) because of all the split parts and when your friends with people in the bass line it makes it even more fun. Playing the top bass drums is also cool because you get to play more notes.

I love the connection my bass line has. We all just like to have fun with eachother. All of us are so unique. I specifically love being on first bass, because to me, it's an opportunity for me to "show off" what I have to offer, since I get a lot of solo spots. When you're all in the zone together, you get such an awesome vibe, and it makes it so much easier to nail the splits.