I'm been looking at this pedal as well. Which version do you recommend? There's the standard and the germanium.
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I'm been looking at this pedal as well. Which version do you recommend? There's the standard and the germanium.
What are you looking for in a fuzz overall?
Silicon - harsher, more "industrial" sounding, very high gain.
Germanium - more of a vintage tone to it.
Silicon - harsher, more "industrial" sounding, very high gain.
Germanium - more of a vintage tone to it.
I'd like to hear the germ one if it's more vintage, tonally; I have two of the silicon models (one is a backup) and they're great, and certainly gnarly sounding.
Oh, Justin...let me know if you're interested in hearing an elusive double germ. I'll probably eventually (temporarily) ship mine to the bassfuzz.com guys to include in a shoot-out. It's yet another yummy flavor of B:Assmaster goodness! 
Congratz on the BP cover. Great story. VERY glad they gave you more than 2 pages also.
I have not checked out the NIN tour schedule... but please don't skip Portland for Seattle. Play them BOTH so I can check it out twice!!!!
Edit: sorry, wrong thread. But congratz anyway!!!!
I have not checked out the NIN tour schedule... but please don't skip Portland for Seattle. Play them BOTH so I can check it out twice!!!!
Edit: sorry, wrong thread. But congratz anyway!!!!
Thanks a lot. I'm pretty stoked on life right now. I don't know much about Portland or Seattle right now (we played Seattle 6 weeks ago), but I hope we do 'em.
Best,
JMJ
Best,
JMJ
None...I didn't play bass on it. If I do appear anywhere on the album, it's likely to be drums or percussion.
JMJ
JMJ
Hey Justin,
My first concert was a Beck show in Saratoga Springs, NY with Ben Folds Five opening...awesome show!(Odelay tour). Anyway, long time fan of your playing and approach...just curious, who are some of the more fun bands you've toured with, either as openers for your current gig, or co-headliners, etc... and also, Who are some of your personal favorite, newer groups that are out and about currently? Thanks man,
-Grady
My first concert was a Beck show in Saratoga Springs, NY with Ben Folds Five opening...awesome show!(Odelay tour). Anyway, long time fan of your playing and approach...just curious, who are some of the more fun bands you've toured with, either as openers for your current gig, or co-headliners, etc... and also, Who are some of your personal favorite, newer groups that are out and about currently? Thanks man,
-Grady
I've been listening to some Beck songs lately, and I find myself increasingly impressed with the basslines! The stuff on Midnite Vultures is my favorite so far.
I remember that gig, what fun! Glad you enjoyed that.
We really had a great time with Ben Folds. Also, playing with Radiohead in Europe was awesome. Another band we had an incredible time with is a big US tour we did with The Cardigans. In fact, so much so, that all of us in the Odelay era Beck band are still in touch with various Cardies members.
Another big standout was our long tour we did with Cibo Matto; that was incredible.
With NIN, Does It Offend You, Yeah? and A Place to Bury Strangers, and Deerhunter were all spectacular bands with great people.
With Ima Robot, opening for The Sounds was amazingly fun, and Duran Duran were super cool to us as well.
Best,
JMJ
Fernando, thank you. I still feel that Midnite Vultures is yet to receive its just rewards. I love that album body and soul.
I really liked Odelay too, but I can't see it as "the CLASSIC Beck album" people portray it to be. Midnite Vultures seems like it has a wider scope, and it's just so much fun listening to it. I was walking to college the other day while listening to it, and...wow, it made that 30-minute walk fly by so fast.
Ya, Midnite Vultures is the shizzy for me, too. Sea Change is also up there, but I'm more of an uptempo kind of guy, and I love busy basslines on top of cool funk and rock grooves, so Midnite Vultures is it for me.
Beck plays bass on his albums, too. On Vultures, he played the bass on "Beautiful Way" for instance, I did everything else. I played everything on Sea Change and Mutations, he played some bass on Guero, both of us on The Information along with other people, etc. He did a lot of bass on Modern Guilt, along with whatever sampling.
While we're still on Vultures, I wanted to ask you about something I read on Wikipedia:
Wikipedian rumors can go a long way, so...is this true?
Wikipedian rumors can go a long way, so...is this true?
If memory serves, I remember us listening to that, amongst hundreds of other great tracks of that era while we were doing Vultures and related b-sides. In other words, I can't say for sure if Beautiful Way was a direct influence: that song came into its own by itself, but I'm sure that song was on the menu.
