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Help with a bassist

#81
RichardWienerGuitars said:
Wow this thread went way out of control. I'm the "bassist" Gunnar speaks of, but I am actually a RHYTHEM GUITARIST. Just because a guitar doesn't have 8 strings doesn't mean it's a bass. In fact I am almost positive that a six string guitar was invented before an 8 string. And sense Gunnar has still failed to notice, our former bassist left the band 4 months ago. The keytarist (who shall remain nameless to avoid tarnishing his good name) alerted me to this thread and I am greatly annoyed that Gunnar still doesn't know the difference between a guitarist and a bassist. Though I am not surprised that Gunnar wanted advise on how best to kill me as that is indeed the metal thing to do. As far as the rhythem guitar being too loud I will let you fine and dandy bassists judge that, here is one of our songs:
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Say what?
 
#84
I'm still not convinced this is not a troll by another TB as this has ALL the hallmarks of guitard behavior. However, in the event that it is not a troll I would like to help. You see Gunnar, shredding-think-they-are-a god-among-ants type guitarists are very literally a dime a dozen. There is absolutely nothing special about you. Come down off you high horse and educate yourself in music, its a hyper-dynamic entity with many instruments all playing a separate but equal part. Just because the guitar is 60% of the sound you hear does not at all make it 60% more important. Alternatively, if you record the sound and this "lead bass playing" is in fact damaging the quality of the song then something needs to be done about it.
 
#85
sUPAmETALgUITAR said:
I think some people actually believed me, which is a bit sad but makes me kind of proud.
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That's roughly equivalent to being proud of yourself for telling a stranger on the phone that your hair is blond, then seeing them in person and saying, "Ha, I have brown hair, see? Fooled ya!"

Like most things that take virtually no effort and are of virtually no consequence, there's not much to be proud of.
 
#86
squidtastic said:
That's roughly equivalent to being proud of yourself for telling a stranger on the phone that your hair is blond, then seeing them in person and saying, "Ha, I have brown hair, see? Fooled ya!"

Like most things that take virtually no effort and are of virtually no consequence, there's not much to be proud of.
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Admittedly proud may not have been the right word, but I'd argue that in this case the over-the-top attitude that I conveyed could alert someone to the fact that I wasn't being serious. In fact, it seems to have alerted a lot of people. A better example would be me telling a stranger over the phone that my hair was blonde, then going to extreme lengths to try to convince that person that my hair is in fact blonde. A great many people would pick up on the fact that I'm trying to sell my story a bit too hard.
 
#87
sUPAmETALgUITAR said:
Admittedly proud may not have been the right word, but I'd argue that in this case the over-the-top attitude that I conveyed could alert someone to the fact that I wasn't being serious. In fact, it seems to have alerted a lot of people. A better example would be me telling a stranger over the phone that my hair was blonde, then going to extreme lengths to try to convince that person that my hair is in fact blonde. A great many people would pick up on the fact that I'm trying to sell my story a bit too hard.
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What I find interesting about this is how many people believed you despite how cartoonish your attitude towards the fictitious bassist was. It almost could be a game of how outlandish and unbelievable you can get and still have people believe you.
 
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#90
sUPAmETALgUITAR said:
Hey guys, so I've got a bit of a problem that i think you bassists can help me out with. I'm the guitarist in my band of four people. we have me, a bassist, a drummer, and a keytarist. We've been practicing and quite frankly working fairly well together for the past 6 months, gradually building up our sound as sort of a metalcore/jazzy fusion mix. However, last month our bassist began to change his style.

Normally I'd be fine with this but what really irked me was how he changed it. I'm a strong believer that bassists should primarily play a rhythmic part in the mix of the band, so naturally I was very annoyed when he began to play like a lead instrument. Honestly this is absolutely ridiculous and I have no idea what got into him. There are times when I can even hear the bass over myself. He even switched his tone to a higher one so that it'd be more audible.

So I guess my question is: What's the quickest, easiest way to get rid of him? And how can I make it look like an accident?
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Get this amp
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and the problem will be solved...
 
#93
squidtastic said:
That's roughly equivalent to being proud of yourself for telling a stranger on the phone that your hair is blond, then seeing them in person and saying, "Ha, I have brown hair, see? Fooled ya!"

Like most things that take virtually no effort and are of virtually no consequence, there's not much to be proud of.
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Yeah, but he's a self proclaimed drummer, too. Cut him some slack on things he can and cannot be proud of.
 
#97
sUPAmETALgUITAR said:
Admittedly proud may not have been the right word, but I'd argue that in this case the over-the-top attitude that I conveyed could alert someone to the fact that I wasn't being serious. In fact, it seems to have alerted a lot of people. A better example would be me telling a stranger over the phone that my hair was blonde, then going to extreme lengths to try to convince that person that my hair is in fact blonde. A great many people would pick up on the fact that I'm trying to sell my story a bit too hard.
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The thing of it is though, is that quite a few of us have actually enountered characters similar to your fictitious one. After you play bass for a while, you do run into guitarists with massive ego problems.

I kinda like the whole satire of it though. Some good stuff you've got in there.
 
#98
NWB said:
After you play bass for a while, you do run into guitarists with massive ego problems.
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Played with a band a few years ago that was covering "Fire" by Ohio Players. The guitarist was flubbing that cool guitar breakdown -- instead of playing the actual notes in the 16th-note triplet part, he just scraped his strings (basically an unrhythmic burst of ghost notes). After hearing him play it that way about 5 times, I mentioned politely that I could show him the actual notes of that part. His immediate reaction was, "In 30 years of playing that song, no one has ever said anything was wrong with how I play that part!"

Well, there's a first time for everything.
 
#99
squidtastic said:
Played with a band a few years ago that was covering "Fire" by Ohio Players. The guitarist was flubbing that cool guitar breakdown -- instead of playing the actual notes in the 16th-note triplet part, he just scraped his strings (basically an unrhythmic burst of ghost notes). After hearing him play it that way about 5 times, I mentioned politely that I could show him the actual notes of that part. His immediate reaction was, "In 30 years of playing that song, no one has ever said anything was wrong with how I play that part!"

Well, there's a first time for everything.
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I think that pretty much sums up this thread.....
 

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