Why do you love Being on the bass drum?
Tell me please.

If you have 4 other people who love it as well, it can be mighty fun. When everybody just clicks and plays there part right on the money, you just get that feeling.

I love it because of all the splits. They just sound so cool.

If you get four other guys and you practice hard enough to where everybody is playing with the same technique and all the runs sound like one guy playing five drums its the coolest sounding accomplishment in the world.

It gives you a chance to learn good timing because of the splits.

splits and fun people can make a bass line real fun.

I like to listen to them. They have a range of sounds. From an indoor line to an out door line they are all fun to watch and hear. In a way it brings the players together.

No one else on the line can have the weird connection that you do with the other people on bass with you. You have to trust those people so much, and know that they are trusting you in the same way. You keep the internal beat in the band, and in the line. You can have crazy tonal runs. Playing bass drum is just beautiful.

its a matter of team work.. i mean, it is one thing to get a good snare or tenor line, because they all play the same thing. but if you have a good bass line then thats even better because then you have 5 players that have 5 different parts that have learned to play them together and make it sound good. it is hard work to make 5 different drums and 5 different people play fluidly and exactly on time. cause once you miss your note thats it, you have screwed up the run and everyone knows. if one snare or tenor screws up, nobody can tell just from sound. you have got to rely on others to be there and when they're not you have got to learn to trust yourself.... i dont know, its just a feeling ya get when you hear that you are part of that amazing run, it is just flat out awesome.

totally.
It takes alot a lot more work from the 5 person bass line to get good than it does for the snares or tenors. No matter how anyone looks at it, the bassline puts in alot a lot of work to get good.