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01-23-2010, 07:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Your location can be this long | | | Things that sound like bass facts.... but aren't
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Start sharing with us the things about basses or bassists that SOUND true, but are just.... well..... total crap.
For instance: Geddy Lee is known to transform into his ultimate form, the Geddy Yeti, when angered.
Okay, so maybe they don't HAVE to sound true.
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01-23-2010, 08:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Oklahoma | | But that IS a fact... 
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Burnt Marshmallow Club #4
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01-23-2010, 08:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Charlottesville, VA | | | Bass is easier than guitar because it has fewer strings.
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01-23-2010, 08:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan | | | James Jamerson used dead roundwounds.
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P&W #90. Squier P5 -> GK MB115 Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian_L  Note to self: Read whole thread, THEN post. Read whole thread, THEN post...... | |
01-23-2010, 08:33 PM
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Lark in the Morning Instructional Videos; Audix Microphones | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Santa Cruz Mtns, California | | | In the Afterlife, Jamerson uses live flatwound strings.
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Originally Posted by KillianRussell The best hat for metal, is the hat the dude, Kesslari wore the other day to open for The Ohio Players. | Funkranomicon
Fretless Instrumentals: Folk in A
Zon, Genz Benz, BFM and LDS
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01-23-2010, 08:38 PM
| | | | Jaco only played a 4 because he couldn't afford a 5
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Originally Posted by snyderz Any bass can play any thing. | Naked Bassist Club Creator [#1] Carvin Club Member #89 Vegetarian Club Creator [#1] |
01-23-2010, 09:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Blackshear, Georgia | | | You should change your flats every week because the dirt repels the funk.
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Originally Posted by Eric Perry Gard was the big spoon. | Quote:
Originally Posted by funkydjembe "tie the rag on ye eyes wench!, I be sneaking in me guitar!" | |
01-23-2010, 09:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | Jamerson had to file down round wound strings to get flats, until he invented flatwound strings in london. hundreds of years into the future.
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P-Bass Club #588 ,The Atheist Bass Player Club #89
SX Club Member in Good Standing
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01-23-2010, 09:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Blackshear, Georgia | | Jamerson's funk machine was never stolen, it just went home. That's classified information though, so.... 
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Originally Posted by Eric Perry Gard was the big spoon. | Quote:
Originally Posted by funkydjembe "tie the rag on ye eyes wench!, I be sneaking in me guitar!" | |
01-23-2010, 09:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Fort Worth, TX | | | That Bass is not an instrument but actually a popular game fish.
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Drummers bang harder, Guitar players finger better, but Bass players go DEEPER
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01-23-2010, 09:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: St Louis, MO, USA | | | "Bass guitar is just to add color to the kick drum"; ex drummer soundman credo.
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01-23-2010, 09:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Blackshear, Georgia | | | Entwistle was known to do lines off of his Buzzard before every show.
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Originally Posted by Eric Perry Gard was the big spoon. | Quote:
Originally Posted by funkydjembe "tie the rag on ye eyes wench!, I be sneaking in me guitar!" | |
01-23-2010, 09:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Fort Worth, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CBgaragebassist Entwistle was known to do lines off of his Buzzard before every show. | That is true.
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Drummers bang harder, Guitar players finger better, but Bass players go DEEPER
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01-23-2010, 09:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Blackshear, Georgia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by eddievanbassman That is true. | Ha, i was thinking the same as i was typing it. 
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Originally Posted by Eric Perry Gard was the big spoon. | Quote:
Originally Posted by funkydjembe "tie the rag on ye eyes wench!, I be sneaking in me guitar!" | |
01-23-2010, 09:28 PM
|  | (No Longer) Tradin' My Hours for a Handfulla Dimes | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Boston | | | The Doors never used bass players...
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Warwick Club#248...Lakland OG #373
GK Club#581...Fretless Club #607
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01-23-2010, 09:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio | | | Paul McCartney now owns 80% of Hofner.
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Black & Maple club #283 - Mediocre Bassists club #297
"So a buddhist walks into a pizza parlor and says 'Make me one with everything'"
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01-23-2010, 09:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Blackshear, Georgia | | | Jaco referred to his Jazz as the 'Bass Of Doom' because the souls of drowned kittens and murdered hookers possesed it.
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Originally Posted by Eric Perry Gard was the big spoon. | Quote:
Originally Posted by funkydjembe "tie the rag on ye eyes wench!, I be sneaking in me guitar!" | |
01-23-2010, 09:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Dalian, Liaoning | | | Most bass players are former frustrated guitar players.
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01-23-2010, 09:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Ohio | | | Flea and Les Claypool are the greatest bassists in history; with Flea inventing slap-style playing and funk music, and Claypool inventing two-handed tapping, the 6-string bass, and the fretless bass.
Their styles are so unique and innovative that they can not possibly be imitated. EVER. This is such a well known fact that no one bothers trying to copy them.
Also, Les Claypool plays in tune 100% of the time.
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She said It's a bit pornographic. Then again, I don't suppose you would crash your ship for a nice girl in sensible shoes.
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01-23-2010, 09:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada | | | The best bass tone is a boomy, muddy sludge. (apparently believed by many sound techs) | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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