Artists and bands you would love buuuuuuuuut...

[skwee]

Danzig always needed a different producer.

[Beersurgeon]

Bob Dylan. Amazing songwriter, but every time I hear his voice, I poke myself in the eye

I love the Bob Dylan covers and remakes!!

[HaMMerHeD]

Periphery....I wish dude would just shut the hell up and let the musicians play.

[Stilettoprefer]

Rush... Cannot stand Geddy Lee's voice! I'd love their music if they were without Geddy on vocals.

Same deal with Bob Dylan.

[Beersurgeon]

Originally Posted by Stilettoprefer

Rush... Cannot stand Geddy Lee's voice! I'd love their music if they were without Geddy on vocals.

Same deal with Bob Dylan.

+1 Geddy, hate his voice, love his bass lines

[knumbskull]

I'm really enjoying Baroness (Yellow/Green albm) at the moment, but it always feels like their bass tone lacks low end. it's so close to being really heavy!

anything Devin Townsend has produced. i used to be an uber-fanboy of his, but now i just can't listen to that overblown production...

[Spectrum]

Originally Posted by Bloodhammer

I'm surprised to see bass players that focus so hard on singers when they listen to music! I guess I adjust to a singer's voice if I like the music.

I play bass.

I listen to music.

Sometimes music with no bass, even.

Foo Fighters is my "almost like them". I really want to like this band. I like Dave Grohl and think he's cool, and like when he plays drums and all. But FF music seems to be loud and aggressive and goes nowhere, like it just keeps building up and never resolves. There are exceptions; Everlong is an awesome song, for example, I wish they would go that direction more often.

[zachoff]

I'm also not a Jaco fan... or a fan of jazz or solo instrumentals, in general. I know there's all kinds of jazz and I'm sure if I listened to enough I'd find something I liked. Plus the staccato style isn't something I love, but I know that's not all he does... Just what he's known for.

Solo instrumentalists though... Never dug them. Maybe the closest I'd get to a soloist that I like is probably Paul Gilbert but don't really even like his stuff that much.

[Passinwind]

Originally Posted by Bloodhammer

I'm surprised to see bass players that focus so hard on singers when they listen to music! I guess I adjust to a singer's voice if I like the music.

The vast majority of the music I enjoy most does not have vocals. There's a whole lot more I might enjoy if it followed suit. That said, if there are vocals they are almost always the most important element of the mix and at the center of my attention.

[Bloodhammer]

Originally Posted by Passinwind

The vast majority of the music I enjoy most does not have vocals. There's a whole lot more I might enjoy if it followed suit. That said, if there are vocals they are almost always the most important element of the mix and at the center of my attention.

Maybe it's because most of the music I like has the vocals in the mix as part of the music, rather than them standing out above the mix..... I dunno. I need to go through my collection to see if that's true....

Or maybe I just don't pay as much attention to singers and lyrics as much as the music. I tend to listen to music from the drums up.

Or maybe I like odd, quirky singers with weird voices. That's probably what it is.

Either way, I just don't get turned off by singers so easily unless it's an occasional guest singer that doesn't belong. That can stink up a song for me.

[Bassist4Eris]

A lot of metal bands to me sound like four virtuosos, plus a guy who grunts in an unintelligible monotone. Maybe I'm missing something, but I'd prefer a lot of that music with either more melodic vocals, or no vocals at all.

[DeathFromBelow]

Originally Posted by oniman7

90-95% of Melodeath/ Post Hard Core/ black metal. Absolutely flooring melodies and emotional music, but I can't stand most of the vocals.

So what do you want? Ronnie James Dio doing vocals for Converge and Gorgoroth? Come on man...

[Bassist4Eris]

Originally Posted by DeathFromBelow

So what do you want? Ronnie James Dio doing vocals for Converge and Gorgoroth? Come on man...

Holy cow man! I had never heard of either of these bands. I just checked out two Gorgoroth tracks on Youtube and I'm on my second Converge. This stuff is frickin cool! Thanks for that. Been listening to too much jazz lately.

[DeathFromBelow]

Originally Posted by Bassist4Eris

Holy cow man! I had never heard of either of these bands. I just checked out two Gorgoroth tracks on Youtube and I'm on my second Converge. This stuff is frickin cool! Thanks for that. Been listening to too much jazz lately.

Check out Gorgoroth's "Under The Sign Of Hell" album and Converge's "Axe To Fall" album. Your mind WILL be blown.

[Passinwind]

Originally Posted by DeathFromBelow

So what do you want? Ronnie James Dio doing vocals for Converge and Gorgoroth?

Just checked them both out, and found it 90% cool. Yes, just about any actually capable singer would make me consider buying something from them.

[DeathFromBelow]

Originally Posted by Passinwind

Just checked them both out, and found it 90% cool. Yes, just about any actually capable singer would make me consider buying something from them.

Well, then I guess your definition of an "actually capable singer" differs from mine.

[RxFunk]

Originally Posted by Spectrum

I play bass.

I listen to music.

Sometimes music with no bass, even.

Foo Fighters is my "almost like them". I really want to like this band. I like Dave Grohl and think he's cool, and like when he plays drums and all. But FF music seems to be loud and aggressive and goes nowhere, like it just keeps building up and never resolves. There are exceptions; Everlong is an awesome song, for example, I wish they would go that direction more often.

There's a song that Grohl did with Norah Jones that was awesome(maybe I'm amazed), I prefered him in that to some of FF stuff he's done. Not saying I don't like FF, because I actually do like them..but I thought what he did with her was really cool and differnent for him.

[Passinwind]

Originally Posted by DeathFromBelow

Well, then I guess your definition of an "actually capable singer" differs from mine.

No worries Bro, but yes, my definition is clearly a lot different. I'm not a classically trained singer in any sense myself, but lots of people seem to dig my vocalizing and I'm fine with that distinction. They are very different things in my world.

[DeathFromBelow]

Originally Posted by Passinwind

No worries Bro, but yes, my definition is clearly a lot different. I'm not a classically trained singer in any sense myself, but lots of people seem to dig my vocalizing and I'm fine with that distinction. They are very different things in my world.

Just sing my man!

[morgansterne]

my entry would be Phish. These guys are amazing, killer musicians. But they sing such silly lyrics, I can't stand it.
"pack a double decker on a llama taboot. LLama, taboot taboot."
Pulitzer time!

As far as Rush goes, check out Emotion Detector. it's one of Geddy's best vocal performances and shows off his lower range. Matter of fact, he doesn't really go super high on any songs anymore. It's a big improvement in my opinion from the 1970's stuff where they seemed desperate to prove how great they were.

I also really like John Mayer but I get people who don't like his singing -- he's really breathy. John Mayer haters should just listen to the John Mayer trio cuz the solos are longer.
plus you get to hear some Pino!

dave grohl is the single classiest, coolest guy in rock music, but I think foo fighters ran out of creative steam after "there is nothing left to lose" or so. All their songs strike me as such radio fodder anymore which is sad because the first two foo fighters albums are awesome, creative and fun AND spawned serious radio play. Why do you think Grohl plays out with them crooked vultures and Bob Mould? he probably is bored stiff with his "day job."