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02-18-2009, 03:46 PM
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Further to this thread, let's have some people who play bass but shouldn't!
I vote for myself. Pete Wentz too.
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02-18-2009, 03:52 PM
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Sting!! Decent good song writer, lame bass player IMO. |
02-18-2009, 03:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Huntsville, AL | | | +1 Sting is successful by surrounding himself with betterr musicians, while keeping his own lines simple.
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02-18-2009, 03:56 PM
| | | | GENE SIMMONS. His singing is the only thing worse than his playing. IMHO |
02-18-2009, 03:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Allen, TX | | | You guys are wrong. Sting is a very good bassist and knows how to give the rest of the instruments space in the mix.
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02-18-2009, 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by LowDown Hal Bass Players - Do It Deep | |
02-18-2009, 04:00 PM
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02-18-2009, 04:01 PM
| | | | For sure Wolfgang. Can I change my vote? |
02-18-2009, 04:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Mountain View, CA | | | personally i think Sting is a phenomenal MUSICIAN first and foremost, and that translates well to his bass lines, so they are melodic and usually quite perfect for the song, but i will admit he lacks technical proficiency and that does hinder him from becoming one of the best bassists out there...as for Peter Hook, he has some sick basslines but sometimes he seems like a confused lead guitarist, but hey, he made a living out of it and he maintained his creativey unlike some *cough* pete wentz *cough* so thats got to account for something
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02-18-2009, 04:04 PM
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02-18-2009, 04:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Illinois | | How about...any bassist who spends too much time worrying about whether other people "should" be bassists?  |
02-18-2009, 04:16 PM
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Originally Posted by KenToby Sting!! Decent good song writer, lame bass player IMO. | Wow, really? 
...guess my ears are hearing something that ain't there, because Mr. Sting is a BAD man on bass, if you ask me. He's not FLASHY, but he can PLAY.
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02-18-2009, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by PBass101 How about...any bassist who spends too much time worrying about whether other people "should" be bassists? |
haha very good point, we're all bassists, we all love the instrument (or at least enjoy playing it) so who's to say one of us shouldnt play? we dont have that authority 
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02-18-2009, 04:24 PM
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02-18-2009, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Gary Way GENE SIMMONS. His singing is the only thing worse than his playing. IMHO | Gene's basslines are interesting and fun to play and you are just saying that because people love to hate him.
I vote for me and Paul McCartney, he even said he didn't want to play bass.
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02-18-2009, 04:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Gard Wow, really?
...guess my ears are hearing something that ain't there, because Mr. Sting is a BAD man on bass, if you ask me. He's not FLASHY, but he can PLAY. | Agreed. I remember him rocking what appeared to be a fretless Kubicki Factor 4 on Saturday Night Live some time in the mid 90's. Very very tasteful. He always knows what's right for the song, and executes it masterfully.
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02-18-2009, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Grizzly700 Gene's basslines are interesting and fun to play and you are just saying that because people love to hate him.
I vote for me and Paul McCartney, he even said he didn't want to play bass. | Say What? I'm not saying Paul is the best evar, best seriously some of his lines are very well written. Try singing while playing those lines.. There is about 10,000 other bass players I would mention before Paul. |
02-18-2009, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Grizzly700 Gene's basslines are interesting and fun to play and you are just saying that because people love to hate him.
I vote for me and Paul McCartney, he even said he didn't want to play bass. | There is some serious irony in you defending Gene Simmons while putting down Macca. Simmmons has said repeatedly that McCartney was his biggest influence. Sir Paul said INITIALLY that he didn't want to play bass and that he never wrote songs on bass, generally adding it last. But he also said that hearing Jamerson changed his mind and his approach to bass.
Regardless, he found a way to add melodic basslines that not only fit but made songs better - and did it while singing. Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard Wow, really?
...guess my ears are hearing something that ain't there, because Mr. Sting is a BAD man on bass, if you ask me. He's not FLASHY, but he can PLAY. | I think Sting comes off as a douchebag in terms of his personality, but he's far from a bad bass player. He plays interesting lines and has the most relaxed/way back in the pocket groove of pretty much anyone this side of Pino's work with D'Angelo. |
02-18-2009, 04:51 PM
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Originally Posted by pathdoc2 You guys are wrong. Sting is a very good bassist and knows how to give the rest of the instruments space in the mix. | Ditto. |
02-18-2009, 04:56 PM
| | | | Maybe in the studio...
Sting might get the job done in the studio where you have 150shots at getting it right, but the show I saw he was a total non factor... pretty darned tired!! Quote:
Originally Posted by pathdoc2 You guys are wrong. Sting is a very good bassist and knows how to give the rest of the instruments space in the mix. | | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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