I suppose that depends if you consider Stanley Clarke a jazz bassist or not. Wiki does, but YMMV. Same with Chris Brubeck
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Breaking Bass Stereotypes
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I suppose that depends if you consider Stanley Clarke a jazz bassist or not. Wiki does, but YMMV. Same with Chris Brubeck
A bassist I know plays a Mockingbird in a Trad band. Lol, you guys have no idea how weird that looks!
whoa whoa whoa! no no no! he joined carcass didn't found them... but jeff walker did use something odd on this tour.... hang on
that! ^ what is that?
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Squire is progressive rock, not pop. Please never make that mistake again.
Ever.
And lets forget 90125 (and Tormato) ever happened.
(Hey, Drama wasn't that bad!)
I have a black, beat up p-bass. I've never played punk, but my dad plays claw hammer banjo and sometimes we jam.
Skills!
Skills!
whoa whoa whoa! no no no! he joined carcass didn't found them... but jeff walker did use something odd on this tour.... hang on
that! ^ what is that?
OH MY LORD
IS THAT AN ESP EC 304?!
Chris Brubeck (Dave Brubeck's son) played a fretless Rick when playing with his dad. I thought that was pretty out there, but the sound was actually pretty nice. He migh have had flats or nylon tapewounds on.
As an aside, my high school music teacher played with a guy who played a Rick with nylon tapewounds for rock, and he said it was one of the best bass tones he'd ever heard. Go fig.
-Mark
N.B. I missed Sartori's post. Oh well.
Boy I wish I was ninteen again. I just down have time to give a crap anymore....
I'm glad I no longer mess with genres that spend more time caring about image than practicing.
Awesome. I may be playing my Ibanez Destroyer at an upcoming Celtic Heritage festival if my G&l is not repaired by then. Even if the G&L is ready I may play the Destroyer anyway. Pointy bass and kilt=Awesome.
i would really enjoy to see a band with a black tama drumkit, all esp, ibanez and jackson gear and start playing something really soothing and gentle with all that gear.
people use all kind of things. if you see any contemporary reggae band, they probably play über-expensive 6 string active basses. in the old times, the guys played jazz basses or just anyhing that they had available.
it sounds good in both ways.
people use all kind of things. if you see any contemporary reggae band, they probably play über-expensive 6 string active basses. in the old times, the guys played jazz basses or just anyhing that they had available.
it sounds good in both ways.
I'm glad the lot of you think I care more about image than talent.
If you actually read the post, I just stated that some basses are better for certain genres. I was talking about tone-wise not image-wise.
There is not enough deviation in how Basses look to go on about what Bass follows what look best, and it is not like the crowd will ever notice what you are playing in the first place.
Acoustic Bass in a Metal Band?. Hey along with an acoustic guitar and some brushes on the drums, imagine that a metal band you can actually hear and understand the vocals on.
Although understanding the vocals may not necessarily be a good thing.
Excellent, LOL, you should wear big ass New Rock boots too. Don't forget the pictures. I HAVE to see that!
If it was all acoustic then it wouldn't be "eardrum-shattering" now would it?
My point was a bass that was too aggressive in a mellow setting would be distracting, while a mellower Bass in a heavy music setting would not be heard at all.
P.S. I can understand most metal vocalists just fine.
i used to play in a ska band with a maverick nemisis that was not only black and spikey but had upside down crosses as inlays and pentagrams on the pickups it looked very odd but sounded great and there's nothing more amusing than watching a bass that looks fresh out of a dimmu borgir video playing rat race by the specials 
It was a joke son. I understood your point and your point about the lyrics. My mama used to tell me she couldn't understand a word Elvis was saying.
I'd heard all the jokes about only needing 3 chords in RnR too and found it absurd. Then I went to a KISS concert and W.A.S.P. opened with only 2 chords per song and the most annoying blaring garbage I had ever heard. Kiss was fun and pretty well polished by then
I'd watch the eardrum-shattering levels though.
