Recent content by planbbassist

Everything the Mars Volta's released. Their music is so packed with imagery it might as well have a film counterpart to it. The live Birthday Party album too. Beats the album versions to a pulp. And Mr. Bungle's Disco Volante. It's Bungle...

If you talked to me a few years back, I'd probably agree with you. But over time I've grown to prefer all the others over De-Loused. Amputechture's opening song stole my heart and I ran after it all through that album, loving every step of it. Day of the Baphomets was the roller coaster...

The only bands I can think of only released one album.. I have to disagree with Mr. Bungle and the Mars Volta. Disco Volante is a near perfect album in my opinion and California was great as well. Their first album, however, is worth buying just for Dead Goon.. what a track. As for the Mars...

Loads of distortion, cranked tube amp, and super heavy gauge strings.

He tunes A-E-A-D-G-B-E but all down an octave so it's in the bass range.

I'm not sure but they do travel around playing sometimes. I haven't been on the best of terms with them since my musical detour into "devil's music".

I grew up on the stuff so I'm afraid I'm burnt out on it. Somewhere around high school, a friend handed me The Mars Volta's second LP "Frances the Mute" and I've been walking down that musical road ever since. Very hard to play that music around here though. I could play every week in a...

I wish that's what the guy meant.

Yeah, dead in it. I live a stone's throw away from the courthouse all of that went down at.. Funny, I've got family spread out across Texas. Austin, Fort Worth and Houston.

I'm in that band because it's better than not playing music at all (WV isn't very friendly to my kind of music) and I don't follow him, it's just him playing in the same tuning as me masks about everything I do.

So he doesn't have to tune down an octave for it. This might start a fight.

First thread. I did a search across all sections and I saw a couple of tuning threads under Basses, so I hope this is the right spot. Anyways.. I joined a metal band that told me they play Drop A on 7 string guitars so I figured that's Standard Tuning with a Low A string right? Well, the...

The Birthday Party.

I almost bought one standing in front of me for that much so I'm fine with it and understand completely.

I wish but I'll be more than happy to cover the shipping costs. I'm stuck between two mountains in West Virginia...