Awesome band first of all. Uses a simple straight forward approach. Usually plays a Jazz but I have seen him with a MusicMan and a Rickenbacker. Anyone else dig the way he plays? Anyone care to discuss his technique or the fact that within one or two years after getting his first bass he is a member of one of the biggest bands in the world?
i have their first 2 albums and have dug his simple rock feel to all the songs. those were some of the first albums i learned to play along with. good stuff and good bassist.
Anyone care to discuss his technique or the fact that within one or two years after getting his first bass he is a member of one of the biggest bands in the world?
I think that fact says more about the state of the music industry then it does about the bassist's technique.
his lines may not be the most technical but they definitely cut through well and drive the songs, which is really rare for most of the stuff u hear on radio nowadays
Yeah man "Is This It" is a great bassline- but "Red Light" and "Juicebox" both have absolutely killer bass riffs. Nikolai also has extremely good taste in basses- classic tobacco burst jazz with tort pickguard-doesn't get any better than that. Furthermore, Nikolai onstage is probably one of the coolest cats around. I love how chill he is. He's really the guy that inspired me to get going on the bass.
He Has come out with some solo stuff called Nickel Eye. It's good stuff and the album is coming out in the fall.
Can't wait to hear some new riffs Nikolai comes up with for their 4th album.
i have noticed nokolai is very calm on stage. its cool he's like the bassist you just look up to
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Funny thing is i dont want bass to be popular 'cause then all the guitarist will want to be bassists. And it will be cool to play bass and i dont want that...
