if Peter Hook's frustrated, in particular angry about his side project Monaco getting dropped by the record company, he should try writing some new riffs- I got totally sick of hearing the same riff on every recording-
I played and recorded it to show what I mean-
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he's been reusing it ever since "Run" by New Order.
practically parodying himself.
meanwhile Simon Gallup still managed to come up with new riffs- even on 96's critically panned Wild mood swings album eg. "Mint car","Club America", "Treasure".
another band who owe a debt to Joy Division, and The Cure- Placebo- use of chords on the bass, and also the six string bass (Fender BassVI, in this case, as used by Robert Smith).
re. Starsailor- one of their singles actually did have an interesting bassline using chords.
I played and recorded it to show what I mean-
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he's been reusing it ever since "Run" by New Order.
practically parodying himself.
meanwhile Simon Gallup still managed to come up with new riffs- even on 96's critically panned Wild mood swings album eg. "Mint car","Club America", "Treasure".
another band who owe a debt to Joy Division, and The Cure- Placebo- use of chords on the bass, and also the six string bass (Fender BassVI, in this case, as used by Robert Smith).
re. Starsailor- one of their singles actually did have an interesting bassline using chords.
