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Davie504 More Annoying Than Ever

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#62
Davie's channel has always been a comedy channel first. Davie504 is a character he plays. Don't think too hard about it, just enjoy the LOLs.

I do think it's amazing how popular he's gotten. I've had many non-musicians hit me up in the last few months telling me I need to check him out. He's definitely hit on something and he owes it to himself to cash in while he's still hot.
 
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TinIndian said:
As far as guys I like and find interesting and entertaining and gives some knowledge the Top of my list is Rick Beato and Scotts Bass Lessons. I like those guys quite a bit. There are a couple others but those guys I'll check out nearly all their stuff.
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I agree. With me it’s:

Rick Beato
Adam Neely
David Bruce Composer
Janek Gwizdala
Rett Shull
Pete Thorn

I’ve got a Bass Academy membership so I sidestep YTube for my Scott Devine fix.

Like always though, I retain the right to "change the channel".
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Same here. I’m one of those people who will bail out of reading a book ten pages from the finish if I’m dissatisfied. I don’t subscribe to the “sunk cost” fallacy. :laugh::thumbsup:

Video gets even less of a chance than a book does with me if I find it annoying. My SO considers it a red letter day if we go to see a movie, and when it’s over she doesn’t have to go looking for me in the lobby enjoying a second tub of popcorn and discussing with an usher how lousy the film I walked out on was. :laugh:

Sometimes you just gotta call: Punt! :thumbsup:
 
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I've never been a fan, but I don't see what the purpose of complaining is. He has a big fanbase, so clearly he knows what he's doing. I don't quite understand this "he isn't doing us any favours" perspective, we aren't a monolith as bass players. Do your thing and represent yourself. I don't see anything wrong with using the bass to explore different areas of entertainment.

Besides, I'll take a popular entertainer and competent player coming to mind for the general public, rather than the "Isn't that just like a guitar but easier?" reaction that used to be common.

But he's shown that you can have a viable music career by playing bass in your bedroom and making jokes. That's a good thing, the more paths for people to make a living playing music the better.
 
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Similarly, when I encounter someone on Twitter begging for likes and follows, especially if they have some goal like 10K followers, that tends to lower my opinion of them.

It's like the whole "brand/influencer" thing. If you're great at something, brand will just take care of itself. If your success requires generating a tsunami of peer pressure, you probably suck.
 
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40Hz said:
Adam Neely
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quick digression: Adam Neely is so GD knowledgeable about music that he makes me feel like I've never even heard of the concept of music itself, relatively speaking. Amazing.

But I like Davie in general, and wish he would slow down the meme/ADD stuff.

The stuff like "laugh reveal" and "ears reveal" is actually making fun of the trend of streamers "finally" showing their faces/real voices/etc.
 
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DDXdesign said:
quick digression: Adam Neely is so GD knowledgeable about music that he makes me feel like I've never even heard of the concept of music itself, relatively speaking. Amazing.

But I like Davie in general, and wish he would slow down the meme/ADD stuff.

The stuff like "laugh reveal" and "ears reveal" is actually making fun of the trend of streamers "finally" showing their faces/real voices/etc.
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I suppose.

Davie504 still grates on my nerves. I find him annoying because I really think he could do something far more valuable for musicians (to say nothing about more enduring to his image) if he’d pursue a different tack with his videos. But whatever. We each do what we feel we need to do. If it works for him, I’m good with it. Or at least as long as I don’t have to watch it. ;)

On a more positive note, his signature bass (the Retrovibe EVO Davie504 Signature) that Chowny is doing really is quite nice. Had a chance to try one and liked it quite a bit.

Re: Adam Neely - yeah. The guy blows my doors off when it comes to music theory. He’s also a very fine bassist and a surprisingly good composer. Obviously paid attention in school. One of his greatest talents is the ability to clearly and succinctly present otherwise complex and difficult concepts so that almost any musician can grasp and begin using them. His one minute video on how to walk a bass line was absolutely brilliant and possibly the single most compact summary of a college semester’s worth of information ever made besides being funny as anything.

I’m highly impressed by Adam Neely and freely acknowledge him as true mentor for me.
 
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#71
I never heard of him before this thread so I watched a little bit of ONE video.
The high intensity neurosis of the little bit I saw is something I detest. It was like constantly watching commercials on TV - one of the primary reasons I don't watch TV.
I think this kind of frenetic media plays a part in a number of ills in modern society and I choose not to participate.
 
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#72
arbiterusa said:
It’s the social media game. He plays it properly; this is how you make money.

You may not like it and I know I don’t, but this is how it works. It’s also why it’s “free”. Worth exactly what you pay for it.
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Absolutely, he’s playing and apparently winning. I’d never heard of him...but guess what, I have now.

Agreed for most free content, and I’ll just add that once in a while, you can find free content that’s worth more than what you paid, like Justin’s guitar instructionals.
 
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SgtHulka said:
I unsubbed from Davie504 more than a year ago for a lot of the reasons I'm going to mention here but after seeing a Reddit post that echoed a lot of my sentiments, I thought I'd post a similar opinion here with my own thoughts here not having realized how bad it's gotten.

Let me first say that I think he's a talented guy.. and I don't hate him. In this spirit, I hate the game but not him.

When he started he had some great videos... the 100 top basslines compilation was one. He used to play the bass...but now videos are 10 minutes long and he barely plays anymore.

He is now, with 5 million subscribers, perhaps the biggest bass influencer and bass media source in all forms of media to the General Public.

And reading some of the comments of his cool videos, you would see comments, like, "Impressive, but can you play bass with just one buttcheek?" Those comments were funny for a while but got old. I got tired of him and unsubbed.

Fast forward and I watched this video yesterday and it was unwatchable. Constantly begging for likes and subscribers, massive over editing treating people like they have ADD, lights and sound effects.

And what I didn't realize before is that he had never laughed in a video and since he always has headphones on so he has never revealed his ears. So as a "reward" to his audience, he reveals his laugh. And because of the headphones, he promises that at 6 million subscribers, he will reveal what his ears look like. I don't know what this says necessarily about human behavior or what but it seems pathetic.

Like I said I don't hate him and I realize he's just playing the game... perhaps he's gotten a few people to pick up the bass and learn the instrument and for that I'm grateful. But what he has become isn't doing us any favors. At this point he's almost a comic book character and is the main representative to the general public about what a bass player is. If you mention in conversation to an acquaintance that you play bass, your response is very likely to be, oh yeah I know that guy davie504 from YouTube.... meh.

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Social media has become a tyranny of the stupid. My theory is that “successful” “influencers” are so constipated from sitting down all-day that the waste is simply taking the next closest exit.
 
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