Recent content by inanimate_carb

Thanks for the 411, I’ve been playing a Sadowsky since 1990. I saw the history happen and did didn’t read about it on legit sources like No Treble Bass Player magazine, or illegitimate sources like this forum. I’m not a hobby player or a wannabe and I haven’t met a single working bassist who...

From my experience actually doing this, it’s very difficult to broadcast chord changes (or anything about arrangements in general) while in a band holding a bass guitar. Nobody’s listening to you as intently as you think they are. This is where body language, announcing stuff on a mic, or even...

I don’t have a crystal ball, but Fender will eventually scrap the Fender Elite Series, no matter how awesome y’all say it is. They do this all the time, and history proves it. Sadowskys, on the other hand, will remain pretty much available and largely unchanged five years from now. Why? Small...

I’m a longtime Wimbish fan, who was doing groundbreaking stuff with effects 15-20 years before it was cool. He creates with all his pedals and you can still hear him live in the context of the band when he does. It isn’t just show-and-tell with him. That said, some guys do go a little too nuts...

I’ve been playing for a long time in all sorts of bands and have never had anything like this happen, ever. I must be doing something wrong. :roflmao: You can sue but you’ll be laughed out of court, and getting on the phone to tell club owners about it is silly. The reality is that the vast...

There’s other forums if you don’t like it here. Your constant use of pirated copywritten material without permission from its respective authors is also markedly disrespectful, even if the moderators here have no problem with it.

Oteil’s a profoundly accomplished musician that simply happens to play bass. That’s what matters.

The only answer to this question is “anything BUT m7b5 chords” ....

Absolutely not. If the four string was going to be made obsolete, it would’ve happened for good 15-20 years ago when every no-talent online with a bass with more than 7 strings gleefully insisted it would happen. It didn’t.

Here’s some fairly recent work from Donny Osmond. He got some guy named Pino Palladino to play bass on this. :D

He did.....

Just complete the arch and go Dingwall.

Why is everybody losing their minds over this band? I can't go online without seeing them somewhere. They must have an amazing and expensive publicist.o_O

Allan Holdsworth had a long history of hiring the very finest electric bassists, Marien is among that select group.

The funny thing about these “real bands don’t make money” clowns is that they all seem to be into the same 2 or 3 genres of abominable, unlistenable music. I won’t mention the names of specific bands in these genres, but when I worked at a club years ago, every one of these bands passed through...