I posted a poll on the official Metallica boards, asking what song people would most like to see me play. And Battery got the most votes, so here it is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5iet-IZRrE

Let me know what you think, and enjoy! :bassist:



Played on this bass, in case you couldn't tell :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/JasonFan/Stambaugh%20Custom%206/DSCN3143.jpg

I can't really hear that well... are you gallopping on your bass or are you just playing eighth notes? I can't gallop that fast with my fingers yet :p

I'm galloping away ;)

Sweet. Love the tone. Didn't watch much... maybe the first 2 minutes, but your playing is excellent. Definitely deserves a bass of such fine caliber.

Pretty cool, but like I said before, you need to record something with your starfire!
-Alex

The gallopping sounded kind of weak. Dunno if it's because you didn't want to go too loud or because of the crappy video quality of youtube, but it didn't sound as clear as the other parts.

Still, I wish Metallica had bass that audible. Overall, I'll take that version over the original, because you make the bass sound ominous and powerful.

It is kinda hard to make out the gallops. Partly because of the video compression maybe, but I think it's more my playing style and this bass. I use really light gauge, low-tension strings and play with a light touch. Playing any harder would make the strings buzz and clack a whole lot more than they already were in parts of that vid. So playing gallops more softly like that (at that speed) makes them kinda blend together, since you don't hear the attack of each note as well.

That's how I see it anyways...


The Starfire will be in the next vid I put up. I've got a month off of school for winter break so I'll be doing a bunch of vids ;)

It is kinda hard to make out the gallops. Partly because of the video compression maybe, but I think it's more my playing style and this bass. I use really light gauge, low-tension strings and play with a light touch. Playing any harder would make the strings buzz and clack a whole lot more than they already were in parts of that vid. So playing gallops more softly like that (at that speed) makes them kinda blend together, since you don't hear the attack of each note as well.

Yeah that makes sense.

Keep Rockin Greg ! :bassist:

Me likely. :D

Insane 0_o
It's always confused me why Cliff Burton did these sorts of things when you can barely even hear them on the album.

Nice playing :P

Sounds like you created your own bass lines for it as Cliff is next to impossible to hear on that album. If so, the lines you came up with are very good. I could pick out the galloping with my headphones. I think I heard a timing issue here and there, but great work.

This is one of those song that I could never get down, especially when the vocals come on is the verse.

Overall very good. I didn't really care for some of the fills. I feel a couple didn't fit. IMO, I didn't feel your playing.

You played it a lot better that I can. :)

Sounds good, hella chops there! The growling tone you have is all you can really hear Cliff with.

nice playin much better tone than cliff...

i think cliff clean tone is pretty crap, u can only hear him when he turns on his distortion pedal

Off topic, but...

Am I the only one who'd like to get the multitrack masters for the first 3 or 4 Metallica albums and bump the bass up and check out what it would sound like?

On Topic: Nice playing... and beautiful Stammie!

What kinda bass is that?

Yeah i just had to look at every thread you've posted. Your bass has captivated me. Im defiantly making some electronics additions to my custom Gecko build.

Off topic, but...

Am I the only one who'd like to get the multitrack masters for the first 3 or 4 Metallica albums and bump the bass up and check out what it would sound like?

Pretty impossible, unless you have a lot of money. Your looking at corporate owned property. Im sure not even Metallica can get you those. Usualy the masters are owned by the record label.

What kinda bass is that?


It's a Stambaugh custom. You can check my threads on TB about it :)

i actually really liked the fills you added into the song , and how you made it your own.

also, i searched for those and justice vids you said you did , but i never found them, itd be pretty cool to hear some of those songs with bass haha.

They're not vids. Just audio clips that someone put onto youtube. Search for "Lokire" and you should find them, along with the rest of my vids.

Or just click on this :p

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lokire&search=Search

ah , thanks

thats pretty cool, whatd you use to bring up the bass? Just a standard eq in a recording program?

ah , thanks

thats pretty cool, whatd you use to bring up the bass? Just a standard eq in a recording program?

no, no no. :p

That was a project I did a few years ago (with my old DeArmond bass), where I recorded my own bass over the tracks. Playing exactly what was written in the official tab books. ;)

BTW: I've got a couple honors on youtube now:

#11 - Most Viewed (Today) - Musicians
#90 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Musicians


And the Battery vid itself has 3 honors:

#85 - Most Viewed (Today) - Music - All
#37 - Most Discussed (Today) - Music - All
#32 - Most Discussed (Today) - Music - English

Thanks guys! :hyper: