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08-17-2011, 08:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Chico, CA | | | Flea Don't Sound Like Flea No More...
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Just got done checking out the new video and well, the Frusciante impersonator did a better job of blending in than FLea's new sound IMO. Nice big, fat, round, vintage style tone but did not sound like Flea. Where is the GK grind, the bite, the edge, that killer funk staccato? I don't know, maybe I am just biased but the switch to Acoustic just doesn't work for me but Flea must do what's best for Flea I guess.
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08-17-2011, 08:07 PM
|  | I'm gonna love and tolerate the **** out of you! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | | I haven't checked out any of their new stuff besides that one single they released. Personally, I'll pass. I think they lost their mojo right at the beginning of Californiacation. |
08-17-2011, 08:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: glasgow (on the 16 bus) | | | ok not being a chili's fan im honistly listening to this from a diffrent point of view. the bass actually sounds really good imho.
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08-17-2011, 08:19 PM
|  | Spiritual Advisor to Muppets Everywhere | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Indianapolis | | | Flea hasnt done it for me since the one hot minute album.
Once he quit playing a 'Ray, he lost it for me.
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08-17-2011, 08:33 PM
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08-17-2011, 08:35 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Clovis, CA | | | hes grown up and matured a lot as a player. i think when you get THAT good and youve been playing THAT long and youve been famous THAT long... you just gotta say f*** it and play whatever the hell you want.
and the only new stuff ive heard is rain dance maggie single. if theres newer stuff, please posttttttttttttttttttt
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08-17-2011, 08:42 PM
| | | | He's actually said the change was intentional. He's grown up and matured, and says he doesn't feel the need to overplay and prove himself all the time anymore. He just wants to sound good and play some tasty stuff that's right for the songs.
Besides if anybody really wants to hear the "old" Flea that badly, that's what CD's are for. |
08-17-2011, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by The Lemon He's actually said the change was intentional. He's grown up and matured, and says he doesn't feel the need to overplay and prove himself all the time anymore. He just wants to sound good and play some tasty stuff that's right for the songs.
Besides if anybody really wants to hear the "old" Flea that badly, that's what CD's are for. | +1 I bet Flea feels he has "been there, done that, got the t-shirt but didn't bother to wear it"  |
08-17-2011, 09:07 PM
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08-17-2011, 10:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Chicago, IL | | | Pretty sure the Acoustic amps Flea is using now are the new USA made acoustics. Not the guitar center ones.
That being said the one new song I've heard was just a bad song Flea's tone was ok. |
08-17-2011, 10:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Round Lake Heights, IL USA | | | How many Mothers Milk and BSSM albums should they do before everyone says they have become boring??
Thats why they changed their style.
But Flea still has his moments. I just listened to By The Way and Stadium Arcadium yesterday and there are a LOT of great tones from Flea's bass on those albums.
One song's tone dosen't mean that the entire album is exactly the same.
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08-17-2011, 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by PastorofMuppets Flea hasnt done it for me since the one hot minute album.
Once he quit playing a 'Ray, he lost it for me. | What was "Suck My Kiss" recorded with?..........
That Wal bass has more balls than the Stingray.
I like his tone with a Jazz Bass.
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08-17-2011, 10:55 PM
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Originally Posted by low2groove Everybody grows up sooner or later! | Are you sure about that?
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08-17-2011, 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by The Lemon He's actually said the change was intentional. He's grown up and matured, and says he doesn't feel the need to overplay and prove himself all the time anymore. He just wants to sound good and play some tasty stuff that's right for the songs.
Besides if anybody really wants to hear the "old" Flea that badly, that's what CD's are for. | What I've heard of the latest album is really REALLY boring. A bit of "overplaying" might just have saved it. |
08-17-2011, 11:13 PM
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Originally Posted by vin*tone What I've heard of the latest album is really REALLY boring. A bit of "overplaying" might just have saved it. | +1
The single sounded kind of lazy...
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08-17-2011, 11:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: New Hope, MN | | | That is actually what I said when I heard their new song. Its still some good stuff I thought. Just alot different from what he used to do
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08-17-2011, 11:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Shenzhen China | | | I saw them live in Hong Kong 2 weeks ago. He ain't lost a thing. |
08-18-2011, 06:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Chico, CA | | | Keep in mind that I am not speaking as to Flea's technique, style or chops. Just his tone. Still sounded like Flea playing, just not through the right gear with the right tone. Great sound, just not the best for Flea's style of in-yo-face bass.
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08-18-2011, 07:01 AM
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Originally Posted by PastorofMuppets Flea hasnt done it for me since the one hot minute album.
Once he quit playing a 'Ray, he lost it for me. | I thought most of OHM was recorded with a modulus?
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08-18-2011, 07:03 AM
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Originally Posted by 4001 What was "Suck My Kiss" recorded with?..........
That Wal bass has more balls than the Stingray.
I like his tone with a Jazz Bass. | Actually most of the album was recorded with the wal.
He just used a ray for the video's because it looks better.
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