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06-24-2011, 12:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Michigan | | | Band making $15.62 PER SECOND
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I wonder how many of us will refuse to play ''lame'' bass lines for a band even if they make $15.62 USD per second...108, 000, 000 per year...  U2's salary: USD 108,000,000 per year - Salary Income Money |
06-24-2011, 12:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Pennsylvania | | | Yeah well...I.......didnt! =( |
06-24-2011, 12:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Quebec | | | Where do I sign ? |
06-24-2011, 12:40 PM
| | | | i would for about a year and then be like "OH i made a huge a mistake!!!"
and i be rich as H*** |
06-24-2011, 12:42 PM
|  | I'm gonna love and tolerate the **** out of you! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by pedroims  | I'd have no qualms playing in U2. At all. |
06-24-2011, 12:46 PM
| | | | i will play i'm a barbie girl a thousand times in a row for that cash
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06-24-2011, 12:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | I for the life of me cannot understand why U2 is so reviled....sure the basslines are simple-ish, but damn if the other extreme (jerkin off a thousand notes on the neck every 4 bars) doesn't bore me to tears. Gimmie a solid song and a solid bassline and I more than happy. Clayton does just this.
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06-24-2011, 12:55 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Didn't realize U2 was reviled around here. With or without you is such a classic bassline. Sure it's simple, but it makes the song. I don't get the root note hatred. When it is called for it totally works. Sure, if you're playing roots in a punk band and totally drowned out by distorted guitars, that's another story. But hating on U2 basslines is like saying a guitarist should never play chords.
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06-24-2011, 12:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Medford, MA | | | One of the world's top rock bands of all times, I'd like to hear who's above playing for them. Can see not liking them; I know a lot of people who don't. But those boys are rolling in it! |
06-24-2011, 12:58 PM
|  | Regal User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Orange County, CA | | | Everyone has his price. I would gladly play that music daily for that salary as most right-minded people would. It might be boring at times, but seriously what job isn't? |
06-24-2011, 01:03 PM
| | | | Adam is the coolest guy in the band, he is the most down the earth, yeah and not totally sure why anyone would hate on U2, i don't listen to there music, but nothing about them is offensive to me. Catchy songs in a way that they aren't completely cheasy. |
06-24-2011, 01:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico | | U2 are a great band and very successful, and they work for it and are the real thing. Even better than the real thing! 
Bass lines in their songs are exactly what they should be. Complicated for the sake of being complicated is boring. Ask Ringo!
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06-24-2011, 01:07 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | | DDDDDDDDAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBGGGGGGGGDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAABB BBBBBBGGGGGGGG |
06-24-2011, 01:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | hutz, sounds like a hit!!!
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06-24-2011, 01:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: North Bend, WA | | | U2 has some great songs, why the hate? Geddy Lee would not work for AC/DC. Likewise Cliff Williams would be a terrible fit for Rush. Don't hate the player for serving the song and the band.
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06-24-2011, 01:11 PM
| | | | really even i am not sure why i hate U2 so much. It's the same with the Stones. everyone tells me how great they are but i don't buy it. although Paint it Black rules
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06-24-2011, 01:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fenderhutz DDDDDDDDAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBGGGGGGGGDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAABB BBBBBBGGGGGGGG | Quote:
Originally Posted by hover hutz, sounds like a hit!!! | Yes. ALL radio hits.  |
06-24-2011, 01:13 PM
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Owner/Retailer: Jive Sound | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alexandria,VA | | | Even thought the salary is attractive, I'd take the gig just so I wouldn't have to lug gear to shows. |
06-24-2011, 01:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: detroit | | | I got to agree on simple bass lines, less-is-more tway of thinking. In my 5 piece band I am always tempted to walk, add fills, play a triplet, etc. But after spending the last few days in the recording studio and listening to how busy the music already is, I am glad that I stick my minimalist approach. I'm sure in a duo and trio its a lot different, but when you've got more than that all the movement can ruin a song's dynamics. |
06-24-2011, 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by fenderhutz DDDDDDDDAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBGGGGGGGGDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAABB BBBBBBGGGGGGGG | Yup. How else should it go?
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