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Fodera Ryan Martinie signature

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bass12 said:
What's interesting to me is that I originally found it weird when Warwick began to become associated with metal players. I had previously associated Warwick much more with fusion guys or with players such as T.M. Stevens and Jack Bruce. Given Ryan Martinie's style (his actual playing style, as opposed to his image or to the image of Mudvayne), it makes perfect sense to me that he would be interested in Fodera. Regardless, I don't totally understand brand loyalty on the part of the people not actually doing the playing ("Why is he playing that bass - I want him to play that one!"). I'm not saying that is how the OP is coming across, but I have seen the sentiment expressed in other places. I guess this sort of attachment to image (and, perhaps, wanting to associate with aspects of a given image) is part of human nature, but I still find it a bit odd that we can care so much about what basses other people play.
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I'm always looking for an excuse to share this video as it's one of my favorite things that has ever existed.

Amos Williams from Tesseract is another great metal guy who plays/played a Thumb. He since had a signature Kiesel and now has some sort of Ibanez.

 
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This may or may not be of interest to anyone here, but... Bon Lozaga (Ryan's partner in Soften The Glare) was/is also a member of the Gong offshoot Gongzilla. Hansford Rowe (Pierre Moerlen's Gong, Gongzilla, Gong Expresso, etc.) is also a long term Warwick endorser. Hansford has always spoken very favourably of Ryan Martinie whenever we have discussed him.
 
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mmbongo said:
I'm always looking for an excuse to share this video as it's one of my favorite things that has ever existed.

Amos Williams from Tesseract is another great metal guy who plays/played a Thumb. He since had a signature Kiesel and now has some sort of Ibanez.

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Their new live record is incredible if you haven't gotten to check it out. And yeah, Mos had a Signature Kiesel for like, two or three months and now he plays Ibanez AFRs exclusively.
 
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I mainly just thought it was cool that he was switching up his bass.
bass12 said:
What's interesting to me is that I originally found it weird when Warwick began to become associated with metal players. I had previously associated Warwick much more with fusion guys or with players such as T.M. Stevens and Jack Bruce. Given Ryan Martinie's style (his actual playing style, as opposed to his image or to the image of Mudvayne), it makes perfect sense to me that he would be interested in Fodera. Regardless, I don't totally understand brand loyalty on the part of the people not actually doing the playing ("Why is he playing that bass - I want him to play that one!"). I'm not saying that is how the OP is coming across, but I have seen the sentiment expressed in other places. I guess this sort of attachment to image (and, perhaps, wanting to associate with aspects of a given image) is part of human nature, but I still find it a bit odd that we can care so much about what basses other people play.
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I know, when I first saw the promo video with Mudvayne on their IG page, I recognized the headstock of the bass first and was like W.T.F. He's been a Warwick guy forever, and I just thought it would stay that way. His percussive style of playing will definitely be a great fit for Fodera.
 
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Dr. Cheese said:
This is pretty funny because I get the feeling that folks are surprised he would have company associated with Fusion and studio players build a macho Metal man, like him, a bass.;)
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I kinda approach it a different way. I would be equally surprised if Dan Briggs switched to a signature fodera. He's an upright trained vegan, far from a macho metal head, he just so happens to play progressive metal. I view Ryan the same way. If I'm not mistaken, didn't a bunch of the mudvayne group connect from show choir?

Would love to meet both of them over a latte. They both seem very broadly interesting.
 
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Bryan R. Tyler said:
It’s interesting that they’re going to make it a signature model as they currently don’t cater to that market at all, but good on them for trying to expand their customer base.
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This is kinda what brought about my shock presenting the other thread. It's strange, but I absolutely love that both are branching away from norms. I like things weird.

I played this at church this past Sunday. I'm a little weird too.
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If you look at the Fodera one can easily see he is basically going for the same tone. Pickups in the same position and back of the neck looks like a dark dense wood like wenge so doubtful his tone will change much. I say if it works for him. People need to keep in mind that doesn’t mean he’s not gonna do all of his recordings with his old Warwick’s. A lot of guys don’t like to see what they actually used on any individual track. Sometimes I think they really don’t remember and other times I think they’d rather just keep it a secret. Flea is a good example of this.
 
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Obese Chess said:
Their new live record is incredible if you haven't gotten to check it out. And yeah, Mos had a Signature Kiesel for like, two or three months and now he plays Ibanez AFRs exclusively.
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I didn't know they had a live album out but I saw some videos of it on YT when I was searching for that video. Immediately ordered the BluRay :)
 
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Dr. Cheese said:
This is pretty funny because I get the feeling that folks are surprised he would have company associated with Fusion and studio players build a macho Metal man, like him, a bass.;)
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His other project Soften the glare is pretty fusiony.

Needless to say. He's got the chops to back the endorsement up.

Also, he's as far from macho as one can get, he's such a cool memester dude.
 
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makanudo said:


His other project Soften the glare is pretty fusiony.

Needless to say. He's got the chops to back the endorsement up.

Also, he's as far from macho as one can get, he's such a cool memester dude.
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Hahaha! that video reminds me of a VHS tape I used to have. We would put the kids in Rubbermaid containers with padding to make them look like seats and the video was basically a POV of a rollercoaster ride. Then my wife and I would grab the Rubbermaid container with the kid in it and move it around mimicking the ride! lmao!!!

Good on him for trying something a little different.
 
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