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05-07-2006, 11:24 AM
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Who does all this rating? Do they realize that the very future and popularity of artists rests on this arbitrary rating system? The balance of power rests firmly their shoulders. Why do they bother with simply controlling musical rating when there are many fish, large and small, to placed into fryers of all sizes?
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05-07-2006, 11:37 AM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | |  huh? what rating system? |
05-07-2006, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by James Hart huh? what rating system? | Well I imagine there would have to be at least one. How else could some bassists be overrated, others underrated, while others still aren't even rated. Not taking into account that often a bassist might be overrated by some and underrated by others. Which would lead me to believe that there are at least two rating systems. |
05-07-2006, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by James Hart huh? what rating system? | +1.
I've certainly never heard of any "rating system" for bassists. 
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05-07-2006, 11:48 AM
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05-07-2006, 11:54 AM
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05-07-2006, 12:53 PM
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05-07-2006, 01:09 PM
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"I rate therefore I am". 
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05-07-2006, 03:51 PM
|  | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | | i generally wait to see what woodchuck says about the bass player, and then i go from there...
in an alternate reality, i would imagine the rating system being society, and what they believe is good. for instance, society claims mark hoppus is good...i say he is not...therefore i say he is overrated
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05-07-2006, 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by abark000 This thread was meant to be tongue-in-cheek about how I think "over or underrating" a bassist is ridiculous. No drugs were invovled in this thread. | Thanks. I will never again have an opinion about any bassist. All bassist are equally good all the time. 
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05-07-2006, 04:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Norman, Oklahoma | | | Oh come on. You know who does the rating, and you know what over rated means.
Everybody does the rating, when you say to a friend "Hey the other day I was checking out ... on bass, and he was awesome" you just rated a bassist. Somebody is over rated when they can't play as well as everybody seems to think.
It's real simple, and it is pretty silly to think it can be avoided.
Is that a really tall horse you are on?
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05-07-2006, 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by guy n. cognito Thanks. I will never again have an opinion about any bassist. All bassist are equally good all the time. | And I didn't say that. This thread was created in jest about all the over and underrated threads that I'd seen lately. If you think something is good, it is good simple as that. |
05-07-2006, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Bryan_G Oh come on. You know who does the rating, and you know what over rated means.
Everybody does the rating, when you say to a friend "Hey the other day I was checking out ... on bass, and he was awesome" you just rated a bassist. Somebody is over rated when they can't play as well as everybody seems to think.
It's real simple, and it is pretty silly to think it can be avoided.
Is that a really tall horse you are on?
Bryan | But don't you agree that is impossible to quantify overrated? Playing well (or your example, not playing well) is in the eye of the beholder. Some think consider wanking all over the fretboard to be playing well, others are the polar opposite. Whose "rating" is the correct one?
I was also joking about how the same famous names end up in both discussions. How Bassist A be overrated and underrated?
No horses here sorry.
I think everyone took a silly thread that I created too seriously. Sorry. |
05-07-2006, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by abark000 I think everyone took a silly thread that I created too seriously. Sorry. | Don't be sorry, humor is tough to pull off on the web sometimes. I chuckled after reading your reply to me. I'll close this before it gets ugly. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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