bass is cool, if no one implements music around the bass then do it yourself, ever heard anything by squarepusher hes a bass player also and his music is drill and bass...

its all bass lines colliding against drum loops.

its like that with the bass cus most ppl follow the same pattern in creating a band.. just do some of this and some of this keep to the same time sigs, verse ..chorus..verse..bridge chorus and we have a song,... thats boring...

besides there are various bands that have amazing bass players and its always very nice to listen to there lines, the guiatr has more spotlight cus the media has dubbed it like taht just like the singer always get the limelight..since when do u listen to the media ???