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09-29-2001, 01:40 PM
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What bassist would you say is closest to
A) Your ability
B) Your writing style |
09-29-2001, 02:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherla | | Nobody can my compete with my l33t bass-hompin' skills  |
09-29-2001, 02:20 PM
| | | This is just a hypothesis but in my opinion you would have to combine the talent of Jaco, Victor Wooten, Bill Dickens, Michael Manring, Stu Hamm, Stanley Clarke, and Juan Nelson and many many others to get just a tiny fraction of my skill. This is coming from someone who can play Classical Thump...with his toes, on 2 different basses, similtaniously. Plus I can play 8192nd notes at 10,000 bpm, with one finger.
BTW I use a 17 string bass   |
09-29-2001, 03:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: WPB, Florida | | I am the greatest.  Mix between Les Claypool, Flea, and P-Nut. A little Rob Merrill-style, I mean heavy rock. |
09-29-2001, 04:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: British Columbia, Canada | | That's pretty good, but I hate to break it to you, I can do all that with 3 strings. |
09-29-2001, 04:14 PM
| | | | Re: How good are you?
Quote: Originally posted by drmike
What bassist would you say is closest to
A) Your ability
B) Your writing style | Another drmike? Wow, one in the US and one in the UK.
A) Nobody - I am closest to me.
B) Tolkien. |
09-29-2001, 04:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Hell's Half Acre, Texas | | | better than sid vicious, fieldy, and that guy from linkin park so maybe i suck.
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09-29-2001, 04:27 PM
| | | Quote: Originally posted by XavierG
That's pretty good, but I hate to break it to you, I can do all that with 3 strings. | Very nice. |
09-29-2001, 04:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: burlington, vt | | | hehe.. tolkien. He writes.. with the.. and the book.. and hey.. i dont get it. nevermind
I write like Robert DeLeo (Who sometimes sounds like he cant figure out what the guitarist is doing.) But I prefer comparing my ability to P-Nut. I think we're about on the same level.
You really can't compare yourself to a regular conversation topic on here without sounding conceited... unless you can.
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09-29-2001, 04:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | | Quote: Originally posted by XavierG
That's pretty good, but I hate to break it to you, I can do all that with 3 strings. | ya...umm...well...uh...i can do that on my washtub bass! |
09-29-2001, 04:51 PM
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wake up with a beautiful stranger | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Australia ~ Sydney, NSW | | ho-hum, another thoroughly inviting thread for newbies to come and tell us how much they'd kick the sh*t out of Flea if he was here right now
there's no point in comparing myself to guys in bands, because what they play in the band probably has little bearing on what they can rip out in their spare time. if one was to judge my skill level by the lines i play in my band, i would immediately be deemed "crap on a stick", but then again a lot of guys don't understand the concept of taste or the need to simplify (i sing as well, and thus finger-frying passages go out the window in favour of keeping my voice in tune. sorta.). i like to leave a fair bit of space for my bandmates to stretch out and show what they can do (getting away from my rep as a "lead" bass player was always going to be difficult), so i guess i take the "Sting approach" towards my lines, although of course i don't possess Sting's understanding of music so naturally my lines suck next to his. bugger.
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09-29-2001, 05:00 PM
|  | - that dog won't hunt, Monsignor. Moderator | | | | Quote: Originally posted by XavierG
That's pretty good, but I hate to break it to you, I can do all that with 3 strings. | sorry poser, I can do it with NO strings!
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09-29-2001, 05:45 PM
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sorry poser, I can do it with NO strings! | Oh yeah? Who're you calling a poser - I can do it on a BASS as in FISH! 
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09-29-2001, 06:49 PM
| | | Amatures, I can do all that and more by sticking my hand in my armpit and playing it like that (remember the great fun making fart noises like that? ) |
09-29-2001, 08:23 PM
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09-29-2001, 08:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Austin, TX | | | 1- Not Horrible*. But marginally so.
2- Horrible. By no means marginally.
3- Working on both of the above.
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Horrible- Only a bit better than a fish out of water at a cat convention.
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09-30-2001, 02:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherla | | Quote: Originally posted by melvin
Amatures, I can do all that and more by sticking my hand in my armpit and playing it like that (remember the great fun making fart noises like that? ) | BWAH !! all i do is eat some hot mexican bean-food, and the rest... well.. it comes.. naturally.. |
09-30-2001, 02:51 AM
| | | Quote: Originally posted by AllodoX
BWAH !! all i do is eat some hot mexican bean-food, and the rest... well.. it comes.. naturally.. | AllodoX, we are talking about a stringed instrument, not a wind instrument. [holding nose] |
09-30-2001, 03:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: England, Grimsby | | | As good as my kittie.
And i write like a first grade english student.
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09-30-2001, 10:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Scotland | | | Well I am quite crap. I have been playin 'bout a year and a half and I have yet to start learnin slap bass or anythin. Sayin that my bass is ****e too. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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