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08-14-2008, 06:50 PM
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i was cruising around the essex website and found this http://www.rondomusic.com/product1052.html
are the guitards trying to copy us bassists or what?
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what does this sound like?
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08-14-2008, 06:52 PM
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08-14-2008, 06:52 PM
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08-14-2008, 06:55 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Glendale & La Jolla, CA | | | Daniel Gildenlow of Pain of Salvation uses a fretless guitar on some songs live. |
08-14-2008, 07:29 PM
| | | | It's been done, and it sounds really cool, kinda eastern/sitary. There's a couple guys on sevenstring.org (another forum I hang out at) who have defretted their guitars and have loved it.
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08-14-2008, 07:31 PM
| | | | check out ned evett...he's the best i've heard so far.
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08-14-2008, 07:34 PM
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08-14-2008, 07:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bos, MA | | | david fiuczynski is also quite the beast on fretless.
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08-14-2008, 07:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada | | | I think Adrian Belew used one on Three of a Perfect Pair. |
08-14-2008, 08:08 PM
| | | | Well they already have actives, and fretless... let us have whammy bars >=)
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08-14-2008, 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by steve21 Daniel Gildenlow of Pain of Salvation uses a fretless guitar on some songs live. | Really? Tell me which songs on which live albums (if applicable)
I'd love to hear that. |
08-15-2008, 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by jugoziithouu Well they already have actives, and fretless... let us have whammy bars >=) |  Electric bass tremolo
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08-15-2008, 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by StanFan I think Adrian Belew used one on Three of a Perfect Pair. | Indeed he did; most evident on the tune "Model Man". (edit: sorry, it's actually the tune "Man With An Open Heart" where the fretless guitar is best audible.) He also played it all over his Twang Bar King album.
Also see if you can find a copy of Randy Roos' long out-of-print LP Mistral, where he plays a fretless guitar that has a stainless steel fingerboard (!)
I went to school with Tim Donahue, who's apparently considered one of the pioneers of fretless electric guitar. Back in 1982 Tim was playing stuff that was mind-bogglingly cool sounding on fretless guitars he built himself; I can hardly imagine what he sounds like these days (...though I guess I could just turn on the darn speakers attached to this computer & find out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZUmgwF6SxM )
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08-15-2008, 08:51 AM
| | | Thank you, this "guitard" just found his next eventual purchase!
[signed, a fretless bassist who plays a fretted guitar] |
08-15-2008, 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Valerus Really? Tell me which songs on which live albums (if applicable)
I'd love to hear that. | He started playing it live like last summer or so maybe even later. If you youtube it you can see some. Just search Pain of Salvation. I think "Undertow" might have fretless guitar. |
08-15-2008, 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by king_xanadu | why is that copying?
they could easily turn around and say bass copied guitar originally in fashion (from upright to "guitar" form).
a fret less instrument is just a fret less instrument |
08-15-2008, 02:02 PM
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08-15-2008, 02:09 PM
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08-15-2008, 02:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Somewhere in Canada | | | I heard somewhere that Frank Zappa played a fretless guitar.
Honestly, I would have to hear it. I've heard some guitarists get away with really smooth transitions between notes, without having a fretless. I don't think you'd get the "mwah" from a guitar, would you?
It depends on the style, anyway. I don't see why not, to be honest, but I don't know if you'd use it to play death metal.
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08-15-2008, 02:20 PM
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