That's b*llsh*t.... don't believe everything you hear.
Alice Cooper would be able to answer that one pretty quickly. Winger played bass for him.
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Alice Cooper would be able to answer that one pretty quickly. Winger played bass for him.
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ben kenny of incubus was originally a guitar player with the roots. i know he played bass on a project with mike of incubus before joining the band, but as far as i've heard he was a guitarist first. either way, his joining the band was definitely a big change in style from the funk influenced playing of dirk and one of the big reasons i don't like their new stuff.
I'm reading slash's auto biography atm and i seem to remember he said duff also had worked as bot a drummer and a singer but i can't be bothered finding that bit so don't quote me on it.
Paz only played bass on 1 song on A Perfect Circle's Mer De Norms.
I like to do everything backwards and record some of my guitard's parts for them
EDIT: Slash Pg 86: Talks briefly about duff's pre-gnr music career. - just drums and guitar are mentioned - i must have made up the singing part.
Myself, since I heard that "something" that sounded as a guitar but more deep I wanted to play it, the only thing that I didn't like was the fact that guitarrists always take all the credit but now I know how to live with that =P
+1
I haven't even ever owned one or played one for more than maybe 20 minutes at a time.
Wow, that was a rockin' clip. Winger gets some bad*** tone and nails his parts.
Man bring back the 80's attitude. Everyone seems so happy, just having a good time. Probably because they were getting laid backstage by 17 year olds.
Amen! Or just look at Iron Maiden. Those guys are always smiling, have a great time. As they should. Sure their lyrics are pretty dark but it's just music! The life blood.
My Dad who has really small hands and plays guitar: "Look at the size of your hands I don't care what it is but if you don't pick an instrument I'll break your freakin' fingers."
Me: "Everyone I know has a guitar and I'm much to uncoordinated to play drums. I think I want to learn bass."
I own a guitar but I almost never play it unless I'm drunk at a campfire. I used to not put the high b and e strings on it when I first started because I just didn't see the point of them... still don't for the most part.
Me: "Everyone I know has a guitar and I'm much to uncoordinated to play drums. I think I want to learn bass."
I own a guitar but I almost never play it unless I'm drunk at a campfire. I used to not put the high b and e strings on it when I first started because I just didn't see the point of them... still don't for the most part.
Beck did 90% of the bass recordings on all of the older stuff, at least up until Mellow Gold. Maybe up to now, I'm not sure, but I know that JMJ has done a lot of studio time with him.
As for me, I was originally placed in front of a Piano, primarily by my brother and parents, who knew I was musical, and decided to get me lessons. And was good at it for being so young, but it bored me and I essentially gave up music, because I didn't want to play guitar. So I chilled out for awhile, and upon picking up my brothers bass, it was over.
I was actually the one as a bass player to pressure my two best friends into picking up instruments. The younger one guitar and his older brother drums. We were together as a band for two years before I quit that band.
As for me, I was originally placed in front of a Piano, primarily by my brother and parents, who knew I was musical, and decided to get me lessons. And was good at it for being so young, but it bored me and I essentially gave up music, because I didn't want to play guitar. So I chilled out for awhile, and upon picking up my brothers bass, it was over.
I was actually the one as a bass player to pressure my two best friends into picking up instruments. The younger one guitar and his older brother drums. We were together as a band for two years before I quit that band.
in UK guitar boy-band Busted, Matt Willis didn't play bass at all-
someone played behind the stage while he mimed out front.
a player named James Bailes is credited on the Ashdown website.
this is kinda in the topic i guess
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XSYrTKXLYH0
well they claim hes a bassist but hes not really is he?
thats not a bass solo either!
its like a guitar with longer strings (piccolo strings maybe?) put on a 4 string bass
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oNqEq6y7-Wo&feature=related
whats he done to that poor rickenbacker
im just so curious why practically no one has noticed this and is just shouting things like "he has such a unique sound he is a god" and crap like that, i just dont understand how everyone can be so nieve
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XSYrTKXLYH0
well they claim hes a bassist but hes not really is he?
thats not a bass solo either!
its like a guitar with longer strings (piccolo strings maybe?) put on a 4 string bass
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oNqEq6y7-Wo&feature=related
whats he done to that poor rickenbacker
im just so curious why practically no one has noticed this and is just shouting things like "he has such a unique sound he is a god" and crap like that, i just dont understand how everyone can be so nieve
+3, and add in the upright bass. Bought my EB-3 through the school instrument purchase program.
I wanted to "rock" when I was a kid, but didn't know guitar from bass, so had my parents buy me a guitar that I started learning to play. Then I saw a few classmates of mine playing Grand Funk Railroad songs at a school rally, and discovered what makes that deep, rumbling sound -- like thunder rolling in. Ran out and bought a used Hagstrom bass for $25, and learned how to play it. Then I was cool!
Sid Vicious didn't play bass on any recording of the Sex Pistols and according to Johnny Rotten he didnt really know how to play and was too drunk and high during gigs to actually play.
he also admitted that they took him only for his stage presence.
it is also said that Roger Waters only played bass live and that Gilmour did all the bass work in the studio.
I dont know if thats true or just a myth though.
he also admitted that they took him only for his stage presence.
it is also said that Roger Waters only played bass live and that Gilmour did all the bass work in the studio.
I dont know if thats true or just a myth though.
I guess I was always wired to think in terms of bass, from an early age.
When my brother and I were growing up, we had a couple of cheap, short-scale guitars in the house (one electric, one acoustic) to knock around and make noise with. We didn't have a bass.
When my brother would play the guitars, he'd always figure out chords and try to play solos and stuff. When I played, I liked to play single-note lines on the low strings, often playing along with vocal melodies and songs that were popular on local AOR radio at the time.
I ended up playing alto sax in middle school. I didn't get my first "real" bass until 1991, after college, but all the mental wiring (and my ear) was already there from all that early jamming with my brother. It never crossed my mind to become a guitar player, and I haven't regretted it!
When my brother and I were growing up, we had a couple of cheap, short-scale guitars in the house (one electric, one acoustic) to knock around and make noise with. We didn't have a bass.
When my brother would play the guitars, he'd always figure out chords and try to play solos and stuff. When I played, I liked to play single-note lines on the low strings, often playing along with vocal melodies and songs that were popular on local AOR radio at the time.
I ended up playing alto sax in middle school. I didn't get my first "real" bass until 1991, after college, but all the mental wiring (and my ear) was already there from all that early jamming with my brother. It never crossed my mind to become a guitar player, and I haven't regretted it!
the guy from U2 fits into that category.. I dont even know his name because I dont care. He sucks...
Heres an interesting and depressing story for you all.When I was about 14, I told my father I wanted to play bass. He responded by handing me an American Strat and saying 'No, you should learn guitar instead.. its more fun." So I learned gutiar for a year.. before my friends band Needed a bass player, which was an excuse for me to buy the instrument i really had wanted.. So while YES I did play bass because a band needed a bass player.. It was what i had wanted in the first place before guitar was forced on me.
Heres an interesting and depressing story for you all.When I was about 14, I told my father I wanted to play bass. He responded by handing me an American Strat and saying 'No, you should learn guitar instead.. its more fun." So I learned gutiar for a year.. before my friends band Needed a bass player, which was an excuse for me to buy the instrument i really had wanted.. So while YES I did play bass because a band needed a bass player.. It was what i had wanted in the first place before guitar was forced on me.
I've heard Joey DeMaio is a pretty good bass player...but he's really gotten a lot of youtube press for his bizarre solos on the piccolo bass.
