Recent content by uberpsycho

I can't think of my favorite ten albums in the last ten years let alone 2013, and I'm not joking....it's not that all of the music is bad, it's just that most of it is not intriguing or captivating. I could think of just three that really grabbed my attention last year: New Order - Lost...

Hey, curiosity question here. I've read about bassists overdubbing bass lines; Jamerson overdubbing an electric bass with a double bass, same for Herbie Flowers on "Walk on the Wild Side", though the one I'm really interested in is Paul McCartney's overdub on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"...

Not yet...but I really should

Anything can be stupid if it's not executed right... Peter Hook of New Order once infamously started a band with three bassists called Freebass, though the actual result utilised only two. And New Order, especially later era New Order, regularly employed a low synth bassline, and hi melodic...

Oh, and here's another good one Babel 17 - Angels of TV http://youtu.be/7WvvROig50o The bass sounds like it's from the underworld but it's groovy as all hell. And that bridge/solo section on the high notes is just perfect. Very fun song to play.

Does anyone here have success or experience writing pop songs on a bass? Is it easier, or does the work come out better, when you write on a bass as opposed to a guitar or a piano? And what's the key difference in writing music on a bass, instead of a chordal instrument? (that is to say...

Sad Lovers and Giants has dozens of great basslines I could've posted but these two are some of their more intricate lines. The Outsider Invalid Link Removed Life Under Glass Invalid Link Removed I believe both are by Ian Gibson, who would leave them after this one album, but their...

This is a kind of a silly question, but whenever I watch a show like "Lives with Jools Holland", or any late-night talk show. Most of the time, you can not hear the bass at all, even during the quieter sections. It's like it's completely absent. I mean one can still enjoy the tune, but there's...

The only covers that are worthwhile are the ones that redefine, and transform the original. The rest can be discarded. Having said that there are covers, and then there is Hendrix's version of Invalid Link Removed He took an already great song and shot it to another planet. I cannot listen to...

Like some of the others who have posted, I started as a guitarist, intially in my school's guitar class, albeit recreationally. It was great for awhile, it springboarded me into learning and actually feeling some of the great popular music of our time (The Who, The Beatles, in particular) But...