The worst video I've ever seen

[bassmonkeee]

Sounds like a plan. I'm in.

Kinda like "TalkBass Tag-You're It."

Maybe at the next Bass Get Together, we can redub the Audio, and have Mystery TalkBass Theater 3K....

[Freaky Fender]

I think it would be good to get a laugh out of that!

[Freaky Fender]

Originally posted by bassmonkeee
Sounds like a plan. I'm in.

Kinda like "TalkBass Tag-You're It."

Maybe at the next Bass Get Together, we can redub the Audio, and have Mystery TalkBass Theater 3K....

i'm for it too! i get to be Tom!

[Stingray5]

Ooh, I'll play! I've been dying to see that thing.

[Pacman]

Ok, cool! Turner gets it first, I'll drop it off with him in the next day or two. The rules are, you've got to pay shipping to send the box and video to whoever's next. And come back here to laugh about it

[Gard]

Sign me up!!!! I'll bring it to work at Bass Central and we'll all get a good laugh out of it there!!!

[john turner]

oh my god

i just got the video from jon, and we watched it a while. the guy on the video is a poor player - he screws up multiple times throughout and he calls out chords that are not what he plays. he obviously didn't rehearse the tripe that he was saying, he's showing examples on a bass with no fretdots, so you can't even tell where he is.

but the most criminal aspect of this whole video is the point behind it - he's trying, from what i can tell, to teach advanced soloing by basically ripping off be-bop heads.

now don't get me wrong, i know that everybody quotes in their solos - this is a good thing, it gives the audience a frame of reference, sometimes helps to inject humor or pathos into the piece, and can challenge the player to keep his repertoire large to draw on.

but, to imply that the best way to solo is just transpose heads verbatim is wrong. i personally think that teachers _shouldn't_ teach quoting, i think that as a player progresses he/she should figure that out on his/her own, and apply it the way he/she feels is appropriate. that's the whole point of improv.

this video is worse than worthless.

who's next?

[Komakino]

Awwwww, the post it idea won't include me!!! All your videos are in NTSC format...ours are PAL.....NO FAIR!!

[Josh Ryan]

One of us should get a blonde wig, some spandex and do a video. We could demonstrate things like triple thumbing and butt muting technique on a DB. We could then claim to be soloing over crazy jazz chords and play the riff to Poison's "every rose has a thorn". I bet studiobassplayer.com would carry it.

[john turner]

Originally posted by Blisshead
One of us should get a blonde wig, some spandex and do a video. We could demonstrate things like triple thumbing and butt muting technique on a DB. We could then claim to be soloing over crazy jazz chords and play the riff to Poison's "every rose has a thorn". I bet studiobassplayer.com would carry it.

there's an idea! go for it...i know i'll buy one

[Chris Fitzgerald]

Originally posted by Blisshead
One of us should get a blonde wig, some spandex and do a video. We could demonstrate things like triple thumbing and butt muting technique

Good Idea! I nominate JT. If he'd do a rainbow dye-job on the mohawk, tatoo his face and spit a lot, I doubt he'd even need the wig. After all, attitude sells.

The Conklin doubleneck is also an absolute must. He should play examples on the fretless neck, and play up in the high register where all of the colorful figuration takes over the fingerboard. It would also help if he could tatoo J-A-C-O across the four fingers of his left hand, and R-U-L-E-Z written upside down along the fingers and thumb of his right, so that the mystery phrase can only be easily read when he's playing...the camera close ups would be big time.

I don't know about everybody else, but I'd pay to own a copy of such a video.

[john turner]

hee hee - i could do it in drag too. that'd be cool .

[*ToNeS*]

Originally posted by john turner
hee hee - i could do it in drag too. that'd be cool .

whoa, whoa, whoa ... i think this is the part where one must exercise that most elusive of virtues, known to many as "tact" ...

sorry JT, you in drag just does not inflate my dinghy

[rickbass]

Originally posted by john turner
...this video is worse than worthless.

who's next?

Maybe that J.D. Pinkus of Honky, who says, "If you use more than 4 strings, you ain't a bass player." ......the guy who plays the $100 Flying V bass and thinks Mel Schacher's (sp?) of Grand Funk Railroad had a bitchin' bass sound

[Gabu]

Hey Pacman.

Your homie forgot to pay his bills.

[john turner]

Originally posted by *ToNeS*

whoa, whoa, whoa ... i think this is the part where one must exercise that most elusive of virtues, known to many as "tact" ...

sorry JT, you in drag just does not inflate my dinghy

that's a GOOD thing, bud. i'd be worried about you, other wise.

shoot, me in drag doesn't do anything for my dinghy either.

[*ToNeS*]

Originally posted by john turner
{sNiP!}
shoot, me in drag doesn't do anything for my dinghy either.

we _are_ using the same metaphor here, aren't we ... JT, dressed as a woman, trying desperately to pump up a sagging dinghy .. that is too much

[john turner]

Originally posted by *ToNeS*

we _are_ using the same metaphor here, aren't we ... JT, dressed as a woman, trying desperately to pump up a sagging dinghy .. that is too much

(stuffy british officer voice)
in-FLATE, i say!!!

[Freaky Fender]

jt i'm next!!! i mean it! i'll pm you my address soon! i have the money for S&H k?

[cafepurgatory]

Add me to the list.

That is, the list of video recipients, not dinghy inflaters.