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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

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steubig said:
glad to see you back. had wondered about you. one worries. covid and all.
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Yeah, I guess its a thing. No 'rona here however!! I've been hella busy with work and album prep.

We tracked crap for like 12hrs in the studio last Saturday, so that has been a pretty big time sink getting everything ready and to that point... Did everything on both of fretless basses so that was a fun project and a new experience for me.I still have to go back and track some backing vocals and fix a couple parts here and there but we're pretty excited to get to this point as a band. Being able to wrap some of this up is has been like a year in the making.
And I mean, lets be honest, we're at best a step above a garage band, but its nice to get to a sort of point were able to move on to writing and making new stuff!
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
Damn straight!!!
From Death to grind to hip hop to noise to ambient to avant garde to jazz. ...whatever.....its all good
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Yep... plus, I have a huge background of punk, rockabilly, Oi, punkabilly as well as metal, old rock, country, contemporary Christian... if it sounds good, it is good
 
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MTN.bass72 said:
Yep... plus, I have a huge background of punk, rockabilly, Oi, punkabilly as well as metal, old rock, country, contemporary Christian... if it sounds good, it is good
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There's a podcast called No Dogs In Space that covers the history of iconic punk bands. The episodes are multi-part and fairly detailed. I don't love the hosts' personalities, but they aren't awful, and the information they summarize seems good. I've listened to everything they've put out so far, and enjoyed it all. I do like the way they list influences and play examples, and describe the history and context of certain bands. I wasn't a Stooges fan, but the podcast opened my ears to what they were doing. I had never heard of Suicide, and I certainly wouldn't have called them a punk band, but I liked learning about them. The most recent episodes cover The Cramps.
 
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that's definitely the picture i'm getting. because it was the mid/late 80's when i started getting into heavy/loud music, the "punk" image had been formalized and there was already a uniform for it, and post-punk was already a thing. i didn't think of it in terms of how it broke from existing "rock" norms of the time. i just knew that if i went to the store to buy music that i liked metal more than punk. it was a style/fashion/taste choice.
 
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monsterthompson said:
that's definitely the picture i'm getting. because it was the mid/late 80's when i started getting into heavy/loud music, the "punk" image had been formalized and there was already a uniform for it, and post-punk was already a thing. i didn't think of it in terms of how it broke from existing "rock" norms of the time. i just knew that if i went to the store to buy music that i liked metal more than punk. it was a style/fashion/taste choice.
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I was heavy into skateboarding (still am....hence the broken foot.....old fart....)
So with the skateboarding crowd came the music. Punk, hardcore and some metal.
The only hip hop in my end of the world at that time was Public Enemy, Beastie Boys and Cypress Hill plus a couple others like NWA, Ice Cube etc....

The rest is history.
Maybe I should have became a lawyer or a used car salesman,......???
 
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I liked metal, but I was a dorky prog head in the 80s. I was probably the only kid in my school who even knew what Tangerine Dream was, too. As a prog head, I looked down on most punk as music for people who wanted to look cool but couldn't be bothered to learn how to play their instruments worth a damn. Lot of time has passed since then and I have a much more open mind about lots of types of music now, and have a lot of punk and post-punk love now, but I still dislike laziness disguised as rebellion or coolness.
 
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monsterthompson said:
There's a podcast called No Dogs In Space that covers the history of iconic punk bands. The episodes are multi-part and fairly detailed. I don't love the hosts' personalities, but they aren't awful, and the information they summarize seems good. I've listened to everything they've put out so far, and enjoyed it all. I do like the way they list influences and play examples, and describe the history and context of certain bands. I wasn't a Stooges fan, but the podcast opened my ears to what they were doing. I had never heard of Suicide, and I certainly wouldn't have called them a punk band, but I liked learning about them. The most recent episodes cover The Cramps.
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Can't wait to dive into that podcast, looks awesome. I'm a fan of all the bands they have covered so far. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
 
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