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View Poll Results: Does (or did) Geezer inspire you? | |
Yes he's someone to look up to.
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Nah he's not that good, really
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I'm not sure, he might make a difference
|    | 4 | 4.60% | |
Who's Geezer?
|    | 5 | 5.75% |
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02-09-2003, 04:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Diest, Vlaams Brabant, Belguim | | | Geezer butler?
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A thing i wondered when posting pictures of my fav bassists.
Are you inspired by Geezer butler or not??
i know i am.
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now i think of it, don't take my advise.. i'm crap myself
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02-09-2003, 06:29 PM
| | | | My playing is very influenced by Geezer. NIB was one of the first songs I learned. |
02-09-2003, 06:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Merrimack, NH | | | No, but i like him.
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02-09-2003, 10:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Boston, MA, USA! | | Yes. I began to learn how to play the bass on many sabbath songs over a decade ago in my first band. It was good fun. 
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02-09-2003, 11:35 PM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | he was bassist #1 for me... 1979 summer vacation with the family from across the street, I was 11 and searching for 'my' music. The other families late teen's stoner child hooked me up with his copy of 'Paranoid'.
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02-09-2003, 11:38 PM
| | | | I like him a lot. Sometimes he plays to much like a guitarist for me taste, but he defiantley adds a lot to Sabbath.
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02-10-2003, 12:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | He concentrated on groove in a metal band... I recommend that everyone learn a geezer lick or two.
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02-10-2003, 12:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Virginia | | Geezer wrote many of Sabbath's songs:
Interview from here How involved were you with the songwriting in Sabbath ?
I probably wrote 95% of them. Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, "bah, bah, bah" (Hums riff to "Black Sabbath") and everybody joined in and we just did it. However long the song is was how long it took us to write it. So most of the stuff was just done from jams. Like "NIB" just started with me doing the bass riff and everybody joined in. In those days we didn' t have tape recorders or anything and nobody would write stuff at home and bring it to the studio. We just used to go to the studio and jam for two or three hours and see what came out. Did you write a lot of the early stuff while you were recording it?
Definitely ! The first record, we just went in and played it. It was like Sabbath live but in the studio, and the producerjust cut out things. One song, "Warning," went on for like thirty five minutes, and he just cut out selected bits, like the twenty minute guitar solo! (Laughs) |
02-10-2003, 03:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Arvada, Colorado | | | I think the first song anyone ever learns is a Black Sabbath song. That or Merry had a little lamb.
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02-10-2003, 11:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Kunsan AB, South Korea | | | Geezer...Geddy...Steve Harris...Sheehan...
my main influences |
02-10-2003, 11:11 PM
| | ****** | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Shreveport, LA | | | He was cool. I liked alot of his lines. |
02-11-2003, 03:03 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: The land of chicken fried funk | | He has three aspects I really admire and have been an influence on me;
1. His tone - it has so much Entwistle "zing" to it but it also has an incredible "thud" factor
2. His plucking hand motion - It's very showy and makes it appear like he's working his ass off twice as hard as he really is. Admittedly, his strings are too high for me, but he really delivers the goods with respect to tone and showmanship.
3. What he did in the studio with his slides on "Supernaut" turned my head around. He isn't restrained by convention.
I don't think having a stable of Vigier basses would hurt me either. 
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02-11-2003, 03:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Braintree, Massachusetts, USA | | this smilie is SO appropriate for a Geezer thread 
word; geezer rocks.
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when it hits you
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02-12-2003, 11:47 AM
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Geezer!!!! Creative, great lines, perfect fit for Sabbath.
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02-12-2003, 04:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Outer Banks, NC | | | I remember when I first learned how to play Bassically(intro to NIB). I must have played it for 10 hours straight, stayed up all night. Definately great bass player and song writer. And to think that nowdays everybody and their mother has heard of that no-talent ass-wipe Ozzy and Butler, who wrote all the songs and made the band, making ozzy famous is practicaly forgotten. Man, I hate singers!!! happens everytime!
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02-25-2003, 11:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Rochester, New York | | I think sometimes bass players get to worried about how complicated or fast a bass player is, sometimes you (we) need to just sit back and listen to what is being played and how it sounds with the rest of the band.
Geezer may not be the most "talented" players out there but what he played fit perfect with the music, and isn't that what it's all about. 
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02-25-2003, 01:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: wherever it takes me | | Geezer rocked man, he was an essential part of the Sabbath sound
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After leading her troops, on elephant back, through the Himalayas, Carol Kaye, believing the Earth to be round, discovered the New World, colonized it, derived the formula E=mc2, and was the first human on the moon. Makes a damn good cheesecake too - Jazzbo.
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02-25-2003, 01:38 PM
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Geezer rules, period.
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02-25-2003, 01:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Portland Maine | | Quote: Originally posted by CaracasBass
Geezer rules, period. | well said! I concur!
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02-25-2003, 08:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Prince Edward Island | | Quote: Originally posted by Killdar
well said! I concur! | what does that mean? did you fart or something? just kidding 
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