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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

#5,781
Bob_Ross said:
Don't get me started: I have a mint Akai S2000 sitting in my studio that I've been trying to sell for ten years...I cannot give that thing away!
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Was kinda of a joke. I’ve been practicing my sampler skills all week and been shooting blanks and making garbage tracks. I was looking for inspiration\fresh ideas on da Tube.
Then 9th Wonder shows up on my video feed and completely flips 3 samples in an insane genius way.

Quite the kick in the nuts......but he definitely put in the work to compliment his natural skills.
 
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#5,782
Bob_Ross said:
Don't get me started: I have a mint Akai S2000 sitting in my studio that I've been trying to sell for ten years...I cannot give that thing away!
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I had a couple S2000’s in the ‘90’s. They were pretty nice as I recall, once I learned how to use the dang things. I never did learn to speak Akai. Would’ve thought I’d have owned some sort of MPC by now, but I just don’t grasp their workflow at all
 
#5,783
dukeorock said:
I had a couple S2000’s in the ‘90’s. They were pretty nice as I recall, once I learned how to use the dang things. I never did learn to speak Akai. Would’ve thought I’d have owned some sort of MPC by now, but I just don’t grasp their workflow at all
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I'd get a mpc1000 but the prices are insane.
Plus memory upgrades are mandatory now plus getting the jj.os. so that's like an extra 200$ right there. CF cards just plain suck.....

The work flow is weird. Full of sub menus,secondary functions and press one buttons for shortcuts etc....

One cool advantage is you can zoom in wavs to chop samples. Also the 16 levels, awesome feature.

But yes I agree, not that intuitive. Plus get ready to spin that rotating knob buddy!!!

Haha
 
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#5,785
monsterthompson said:
Getting back to my roots with my playlist today. The 89-91 era of metal was where I really got started.
Rust In Peace
Justice
Painkiller
Lights Camera Revolution
Seasons

Can't help but giggle at how I ended up where I am now. It's been a long strange trip.
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I used to live and breathe AJFA... haven’t actually listened in years...funny in wearing the shirt still and my kids keep asking me who the lady is on the front :)
 
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#5,786
monsterthompson said:
Getting back to my roots with my playlist today. The 89-91 era of metal was where I really got started.
Rust In Peace
Justice
Painkiller
Lights Camera Revolution
Seasons

Can't help but giggle at how I ended up where I am now. It's been a long strange trip.
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Same start. My first cassette purchase was ...and justice for all... I even started playing bass because of Cliff Burton...and now I spend my time listening mostly to Phish and making weird noises
 
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#5,789
ugly_bassplayer said:
My first official cassette my parents got me was a James Brown geatest hits.

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My mom bought me Van Halen 1984 as a birthday or Christmas gift, but was afraid the baby with a cigarette would influence me to smoke. It did worse than that. It influenced me to listen to more Van Halen.
 
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you youngsters.

cassettes! i think my first purchases was either a 45 or an lp.

when i bought ajfa, i was sorely disappointed cause i had been super into mop (which is think is a grrat record that has stood the test of time) and felt like ajfa sounded like demos. maybe it’s the lack of bass.

oh yeah, i bought mop when i was 29 or so.
 
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monsterthompson said:
My mom bought me Van Halen 1984 as a birthday or Christmas gift, but was afraid the baby with a cigarette would influence me to smoke. It did worse than that. It influenced me to listen to more Van Halen.
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My parents where cool about the music. They let me listen to anything. Even when I was young. Although cannibal corpse would not have been the best artwork to show a 6 year old.
 
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#5,792
I can't remember what my first ever album was; I had cassette copies of Billy Joel's Glass Houses and the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever. I think I was 10 years old and had no idea what was "cool" or not. I also had a vinyl copy of Styx's Paradise Theater, the one with the cool laser etching on the record, wish I still had it.

Then thanks to my older brother I discovered things like Led Zeppelin, Rush, Van Halen and Black Sabbath. From there it was Iron Maiden, Dio, and various abominations known as "hair metal".

My dad was a fan of Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd, so at least I had that going for me. My bass teacher got me curious about jazz, which helped me get into it a few years later.

At the time, post punk and new wave were really big but I kind of skipped them for a long time. The friends and cliques you hang out with have a huge influence on what you listen to early in life. Had I had different friends I might have started with the Cure or something.
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
My parents where cool about the music. They let me listen to anything. Even when I was young. Although cannibal corpse would not have been the best artwork to show a 6 year old.
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I somehow saved up enough cash and managed to buy a copy of GWAR - Live From Antarctica on VHS, without my mom blocking my shot on a trip to Warehouse Music. It explains a lot about my youth and my rock band stage persona.

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I didn’t need the wheelchair for mobility, but I couldn’t stand and play, so we built the wheelchair into my costume in this band.
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one of my favorite namm things ever was watching one of the gwar guys walking down the aisles in full regalia.

the setup: i had seen these guys advertised in the local rock papers (jesus, this is a *long* time ago) and was always impressed by their look (never actually heard!)—their whole look with the armor and all that looked very tough.

so imagine my sense of looking behind the curtains when i see one of the guys (they were doing a signing or something at a booth), looking pretty chunky and not "tough," walking down the aisle while his foam rubber "armor" **bounced and jiggled** in time to his stride.
 
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My big VHS hide from the parents was when Stern's butt bongo fiesta started making the rounds through my middle school. I still have a digital copy of that handy - hahaha. I was never blocked from my musical tastes which when I was younger was all about metal and thrash...not so much goth or anything that came with a "look" until I got into "the phish" and then my folks loathed the patchwork pants. Mom eventually threw them out on me at some point.
 
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