Jack White Playing Bass

[The Mock Turtle Regulator]

Originally Posted by agreatheight

I play in a cover band and we had to drop the White Stripes from our set because our drummer couldn't cop the feel. When we played it sounded too tight. It actually sounded bad when played (technically) better than recorded..

haha, in my old cover band I joked to the drummer that when we played 7 nation army he needed to be really drunk.

the White Stripes played Later With Jools Holland a month ago, and Jools joined them, playing keyboards. you could see he was struggling to lock into what Meg White was playing. it's like trying to hit a moving target.

[ROGI]

my2cents: well it's ok to be diferent, to make songs that crowd will like and you don't have to work hard or truly kick your instrument but the negative aspect of it is i think that many many people (most of them not playing anything) will diminish the value of musicians how are truly building themself both in tehnique and in the "art" , and that is the bad thing i think. most of kids now don't pickup their instruments because they want to progress and make music, to build themself as musicians but only to be cool, so they can say "wee ladies i have a band!". that leads to general public having perception that all those "young bands" play like crap. another negative thing that leads to another.

it's not all the time all the place law, but i felt that on my own skin. i don't care if WS suck playing but i care when some kid says "wee man, why do you need 6 strings?" or "that's shredding without feeling" i see bands like WS giving the fuel for the "%(playing tehcnical wise good) = %(apsence of feeling)"


but then again i remeber the good old rule
how little you know about music is revrsely proportional to how much you think you know about muisc