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07-09-2011, 01:44 AM
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A long time ago I thought Pete Wentz was the best bassist alive. That was before I started playing bass. Now I see him as one of the most overrated. I can't really call him a bad bassist, but he is pretty overrated, and I'm tired of hearing people say how he is so good.
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07-09-2011, 01:45 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Quebec | | Trust me, he's not overrated around here  . |
07-09-2011, 01:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Marton  Trust me, he's not overrated around here . | +1
pretty sure most people here would go as far as to call him a "bad bassist."
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07-09-2011, 01:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado | | | Pete Wentz is the Slash of bassists...
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07-09-2011, 01:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: alabama | |  I wouldn`t go so far as to say " I strongly dislike him as a bassist." I just strongly dislike him.
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07-09-2011, 02:01 AM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | I like that video that the monkey directed, and I like how he went on Howard Stern a couple years ago and told in detail what it's like to bang Ashlee Simpson. Other than that, I don't spend 10 seconds thinking about him. Don't wish him any ill will, but not a fan.
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07-09-2011, 02:49 AM
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07-09-2011, 03:00 AM
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07-09-2011, 03:04 AM
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Unofficially Endorsing Genz Benz, Fender, Avatar TB-153 Cabs, Musicman | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Scottsdale Az | | | So I've heard of Pete Wentz but who has he played with? |
07-09-2011, 03:27 AM
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Originally Posted by faulknersj So I've heard of Pete Wentz but who has he played with? | Some all-girl group.
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07-09-2011, 03:31 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Austin, TX | | | Funny, it's the first time I hear his name and I am on talkbass every day. I don't know his work, but the fact that he is not mentioned here at means that he cannot be overrated. |
07-09-2011, 03:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Milton Keynes, UK | | An example of the 'work' of Pete Wentz: YouTube - ‪Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin Down (Concept Version)‬‏
I like the song but his bass work is definitely nothing special. That's why he seems to be disliked - he's rich and popular without being talented. Life has ever been thus.
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07-09-2011, 03:51 AM
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07-09-2011, 03:58 AM
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Originally Posted by WilliamSandoval Pete Wentz is the Slash of bassists... | I really don't think there's that many people who think he's particularly good. I don't think anyone would ever call Pete to guest on their Super Bowl Halftime show. I think Flea is still pretty much the main person in modern rock known for being a bassist. I really don't know if anyone has entered the public consciousness on the instrument that strongly since him (In radio friendly rock music, outside of the musician community). Maybe the cat from Muse.
My thoughts on Pete are he's actually a pretty unique lyricist who got very lucky to team up with a very talented singer/songwriter in Patrick Stump. He's obviously just a serviceable bassist, and he'd be the first to tell you that.
Nice guy though, he used to shop in my store all the time before he moved. Barely a hair above 5'4'' too. |
07-09-2011, 04:00 AM
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Originally Posted by SoVeryTired I like the song but his bass work is definitely nothing special. That's why he seems to be disliked - he's rich and popular without being talented. Life has ever been thus. | +1
Although he's probably better than me.
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07-09-2011, 04:00 AM
| | | | I like his bright, fat, slightly dirty tone but that's about it. I took me all of 30 seconds to learn one of his most popular bass lines, and the pentatonic scale I warm up with is more interesting. He's over-rated as a pop star but has never received much recognition from fellow musicians because of his simplistic style. |
07-09-2011, 04:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Saskatchewan, Canada | | | Hahahaha He is certainly no fretwanker. He seems to "serve the song" and "sit in the pocket" and not "play too busy". I wonder why TB folks who don't like fretwanking, also don't like this guy???... he seems to be playing exactly like some TB members say a good bass player should play.
I myself prefer fretwanking.... It's a lot more interesting than Pete Wentz-ing
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07-09-2011, 04:06 AM
| | | | his live sound and playing is horrible, really.
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07-09-2011, 07:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: UK | | why is everybody so obsessed with Pete Wentz? seems like there's a new thread about him every week. |
07-09-2011, 07:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Kingston, ON, Canada | | | How can he play bass when he just sits at the bar all day and talks to Cliff and gets abused by Carla?
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