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11-25-2006, 03:37 PM
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11-25-2006, 03:47 PM
| | I don't think, but I still am. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: So. Cali | | | Judging solely from that video, probably not.
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11-25-2006, 03:48 PM
|  | ... you talkin' to me ?? | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: DEEP in the Heart of Texas | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by BrandonBass | imo ... no . 
... just because he's using four strings , does not make him a bassist .
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11-25-2006, 03:51 PM
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11-25-2006, 03:51 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Auburn, Washington | | | Yes. Definately. He's using a bass guitar. Anybody who says different is a moron. Why? Because you are trying to restrict what is and is not "bass" music, which is VERY moronic. |
11-25-2006, 04:01 PM
| | I don't think, but I still am. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: So. Cali | | | There wasn't any bass in that video. Not that I heard.
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11-25-2006, 04:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Big spring,Texas | | | lol!
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11-25-2006, 04:08 PM
| | | | Not bass at all. The shredding, string spacing, etc made me want to cry. |
11-25-2006, 04:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Wanderer81 There wasn't any bass in that video. Not that I heard. | I heard a little bit of bass... but it was mostly from the drummer.
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11-25-2006, 04:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Chicago, IL | | | not a bass guitar or electirc bass. a piccolo bass ok. a bassitar or guitbass (like The Presidents of the United States of America or P.U.S.A played) sure. but not an electric bass. as per your question i'm sure that he is indeed a bassist in that band, though i've never heard of them and am guessing.
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11-25-2006, 04:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Wilmington, NC/Lynchburg, VA | | | I saw Fabio with his hair dyed dark playing a 4 string guitar. I dunno what you guys saw. |
11-25-2006, 05:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Earth | | | He has played bass in the past. I don't know what to call that thing. |
11-25-2006, 05:07 PM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Dave I saw Fabio with his hair dyed dark playing a 4 string guitar. I dunno what you guys saw. Quote:
Originally Posted by john turner
why would anyone want a custom bass?!?!? that's ridiculous. if you can't do it on a p-bass, you shouldn't be doing it at all.
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11-25-2006, 05:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: New Hampshire | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Poop-Loops Yes. Definately. He's using a bass guitar. Anybody who says different is a moron. Why? Because you are trying to restrict what is and is not "bass" music, which is VERY moronic. | Funny how you are calling anyone who thinks different a moron, when this is one of the most moronic things I've read on here.
How is he playing a bass guitar? So I guess a 6-string electric can also be called a BASS guitar just because there happen to be 6 string bass guitars?
True there shouldn't be restrictions on what can be called such and such instrument music, but you have to draw the line somewhere. He's playing a guitar with guitar spacing, guitar sized strings, with a pick, playing shredding riffs with full on distortion and guitar tone. There is nothing even close that would clue someone in that it's a bass guitar other than the amount of strings, which wouldn't matter if you couldn't actually see him playing. Even in some music played on a bass that is more melodic and chordial based, even if the tone and sound is similar to say things that might be played on a classical guitar, the frequency and sound is such that it still tells you that it's a BASS guitar.
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11-25-2006, 05:28 PM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | Joey DeMaio is a very competent bass player.
Pretending otherwise doesn't make much sense, since he's been doing the job for over 25 years in one of the biggest heavy metal acts in the world.
Playing a solo with a guitar-like tone is forbidden I guess if you want respect from the conservative crowd.
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11-25-2006, 05:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Orlando, FL | | | ummm it's a bass with 4 guitars strings close together, so he seems more like a guitard to me. Not a guitarist, a guitard.
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11-25-2006, 05:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Decatur, GA | | | Let's see....been the bassist in a successful band for well over 2 decades. Yeah, that qualifies as a bassist even if I think the music is silly. |
11-25-2006, 06:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: north of chicago | | | regardless of what he is playing, he is far more musically succesfull that most of us could hope to be
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11-25-2006, 06:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Wilmington, NC/Lynchburg, VA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by spudmaster34 regardless of what he is playing, he is far more musically succesfull that most of us could hope to be | Very true. Whatever he is playing looks to me like a bass with a guitar bridge/trem, a narrow spaced nut, and guitar strings. Whether or not that = a bass guitar is up to you (not you specifically). |
11-25-2006, 06:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Ensenada , B.C Mexico | | | Well yeah he plays bass so he is a bassist . however that thing he is playing is not a bass guitar so it shouldn't be called a bass solo .
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