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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

Great, it’s 2am and now I want to timestretch and mangle some CCR…


That bassline is sick.

Also, to catch up on other stuff:

--I really like Om and Al's bass playing, but I am also a big fan of dub and reggae players. Robbie Shakespeare was a big influence, and later I got into people like Bill Lasswell. But you know, people can like different things.

--I heard back from dad band BL who signed off on everything with just one suggestion for a tweak. He also said, and I quote "I can’t imagine how mind-numbing it must be to still be working on these at a micro-level (even I feel like I never want to listen to them again!)." It is nice that he gets it.

--after Steubig's advice, my wife and I sat down to listen to our tracks, and are super stoked to get stuff done. There is only one that needs any serious "cleanup" and then it's just tracking vocals and the rest of the mixing stuff. Zero arrangement decisions. Our school has this weird half-week "fall break" around Canadian Thanksgiving so we are going to use it as a vacation project this weekend and next week and see how far we get. If the ME sends back the dad rock mixes again, they will just wait.

Always listen to Steubig. And thanks for the love on my goofball tune :)

double-plus good

and admirable bass line.

Double-plus good…my stuff can be pretty reductionist…and dumbed down :)

delta im deutschland


Man, I love Rhythm Plague. I just do
 
So far I’ve come up with 3 pieces of music on the new Syntakt. The first two are…ok? Kinda dumb, but ok. The third tune is a bit more to my liking. Started to dig in a bit more and enjoy myself. There’s some really cool performance features and with Overbridge, you can jam out the stuff live and all the separated tracks pop up in your DAW to mix.
Also, I’d like to take back everything I said about the Noise Engineering Desmodus and Ruina plug ins. They’re awesome. Not for everything, but when they work, they really work. Used em both on some percussion for this dirty ‘ambient’ jam.

 
Just for the record: I hate CCR. Always have. I think it's mostly Fogerty's voice that irks me...but tbh there's not a lot of room for swamp boogie in my musical sphere.

...so of course I'd be down to participate in an ambient post-rock CCR deconstructionist project!

My favorite CCR story:
~30 years ago my new-to-me girlfriend took me to a party hosted by one of her coworkers, and populated by mostly her other coworkers, and all these people -- and, in hindsight, my new girlfriend -- were absolute tools, the most pathetically preppy/poser shallow clique-forming zombies I'd ever encountered (...well, at least since highschool).
I was miserable making small-talk with these folks, and desperately trying to find a polite way to bail, when CCR's "Fortunate Son" comes on the stereo.

Someone in the room yells "GET THE OAR!"

And a moment later this one especially preppy/poser tool walks into the center of the room carrying a canoe paddle, and he proceeds to strut around the room playing air-guitar on the oar while lip-sync'ing to "Fortunate Son". It was like Bad Karaoke x100. All the party goers were enthralled. I was fascinated. This dweeb had no guile, no gumption, and, as far as I could tell, no sense of how completely ridiculous he looked or how mind-bogglingly absurd the whole ritual was.

I think of that guy every time I hear "Fortunate Son"
 
Just for the record: I hate CCR. Always have. I think it's mostly Fogerty's voice that irks me...but tbh there's not a lot of room for swamp boogie in my musical sphere.

...so of course I'd be down to participate in an ambient post-rock CCR deconstructionist project!

My favorite CCR story:
~30 years ago my new-to-me girlfriend took me to a party hosted by one of her coworkers, and populated by mostly her other coworkers, and all these people -- and, in hindsight, my new girlfriend -- were absolute tools, the most pathetically preppy/poser shallow clique-forming zombies I'd ever encountered (...well, at least since highschool).
I was miserable making small-talk with these folks, and desperately trying to find a polite way to bail, when CCR's "Fortunate Son" comes on the stereo.

Someone in the room yells "GET THE OAR!"

And a moment later this one especially preppy/poser tool walks into the center of the room carrying a canoe paddle, and he proceeds to strut around the room playing air-guitar on the oar while lip-sync'ing to "Fortunate Son". It was like Bad Karaoke x100. All the party goers were enthralled. I was fascinated. This dweeb had no guile, no gumption, and, as far as I could tell, no sense of how completely ridiculous he looked or how mind-bogglingly absurd the whole ritual was.

I think of that guy every time I hear "Fortunate Son"
I imagine Tom Cruise playing the role of oar guitar guy. When he's not being The Life of the Party™ by night, he's racing speed boats or something by day.
 
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i'm doing more a reimagining.

truth be told, i liked ccr back in the day. they were big on the radio when i was 12 or something and they sounded a whole lot grittier at the time than bands like the tommy james or sonny and cher. (hard to imagine, i know.)

like most things that are successful, they become annoying and/or co-opted. (what's better than playing willie and the poor boys at a wedding?)

anyway . . . not time-stretching, i'ii leave that to people who know what they're doing.
 
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Great, it’s 2am and now I want to timestretch and mangle some CCR…

our work here is done.


Always listen to Steubig.

*horrible idea* (insert joke about tell my kids that . . )


And thanks for the love on my goofball tune :)


Double-plus good…my stuff can be pretty reductionist…and dumbed down :)

when i said admirable, i meant it. dumb? eh . . .


Man, I love Rhythm Plague. I just do

we had our thing.
 
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