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09-26-2006, 09:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Northampton, MA | | | Don't quit your day job. Bassists nearing extinction??
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Originally Posted by Ostinato The 62 is warm, inviting, classic, like a sexy brunette in a alpaca sweater holding a strong Belgian ale. | Fender MIM Club Member #10
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09-26-2006, 09:04 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | Awesome, I'm obsoleted in ANOTHER way 
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09-26-2006, 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by tplyons Awesome, I'm obsoleted in ANOTHER way | +1 Me too =[ |
09-26-2006, 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by tplyons Awesome, I'm obsoleted in ANOTHER way | you mean...by a dildo? 
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09-26-2006, 09:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Urbana, IL | | | Don't even have a day job...
None of this machinery crap will ever replace a bass player. Just won't happen...
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09-26-2006, 09:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: New York, NY | | | Patent's expired. Breathe easy.
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09-26-2006, 09:51 PM
|  | Jazz Chicken | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ennui, IN USA | | Sounds like a description of a clavinet, to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavinet
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09-26-2006, 09:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Chicago, IL | | Uh...yeah...about that...
Keyboardists have been occupying our sonic space for about 3decades, and heavy-metal guitarists have been complaining that a bassist's job is to be seen and not heard since the 80's.
The fact of the matter is, as people like to see and hear "musicians" and not digitally or electronically reproduced incarnations, I wouldn't worry. That stuff may find its niche, but it won't be in the sonic and visual territory that most of us tend to occupy, anyway. Heck...even Madonna has a bassist! 
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09-27-2006, 01:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: australia, new south wales | | | that sounds like a pretty cool invention, but i dont know of any bassists anywhere that it could replace. you cant beat the human feel of things. we've had drum machines for years and years but we still have live drummers am i right? |
09-27-2006, 01:53 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Mike Lull Custom Basses | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: SLC, Utah -USA- | | | Don't quit your day job......................
Not to worry. I remember when the Fairlight stuff came out and the word then was drummers and bass players would soon be phased out. It hasn't happened yet.
*Off topic* I may have found a better paying job, but it's a swing/graveyard position. If it pans out, I will be leaving my present day job. It's too early to tell, but my bar-band days may be over for quite some time.
But If I'm able to pull off Sunday mornings, I'll start playing in church again. IMO it's a much saner gig anyway!
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09-27-2006, 04:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bos, MA | | yes, but can it play " donna lee"? 
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09-27-2006, 05:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: maryland | | there were no pics, so it doesn't exist. all is good.  |
09-27-2006, 07:59 AM
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Originally Posted by aquateen there were no pics, so it doesn't exist. all is good. | You have to click images.
And this was meant as a joke I don't think it's really feasible. Unless there are still One Man Bands walking around.
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Originally Posted by Ostinato The 62 is warm, inviting, classic, like a sexy brunette in a alpaca sweater holding a strong Belgian ale. | Fender MIM Club Member #10
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09-27-2006, 08:36 AM
|  | One lab accident away from being a supervillain | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Powder Springs, Ga | | | It will never make it in popular music . . . it can't slap.
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09-27-2006, 06:11 PM
|  | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | | | In bassist.
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09-27-2006, 06:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Newcastle/England | | | i would love to hear how well this thing can groove.... |
09-28-2006, 11:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: ohio | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Trevorus Don't even have a day job...
None of this machinery crap will ever replace a bass player. Just won't happen... | Heh, heh, Don't be so sure. I just saw an act at the Fair that was all kareoke.....and the crowd loved him. I thought it sucked, but more liked it than hated it. |
09-28-2006, 12:22 PM
| | | | the only one man band ive heard that was really good was Sleep Terror, but they are basically a full band now, minus a bassist, but they do record real bass tracks though. theyll probably get a second guitarist and bassist once they find one good enough |
09-28-2006, 12:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO | | | I for one welcome our new electro-mechanical overlords.
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09-28-2006, 12:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Hessle near Hull,England | | | Im sorry but bass players always have a tough time.I didnt know a keyboardist disliked me until the other day and the reason was I play bass.
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