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Post-punk / New Wave Bassists Club
- Thread starter darkrider1
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Count me in too.
I'm only 21, in a band with 4 others who are aged 26-30, yet the common ground is the fact we are all huge late 70s-early 80s music fans. We're called Super 8 Cynics (Link Removed): there's only a short clip of one of our tracks on there (a vocal-less version) as we're a big hush hush at the moment. We're nearing completion of our self financed album which will hopefully get us somewhere! Anyway, have a listen.
Our synth player owns more albums than anybody I know, and he's got enough early Human League (Travelogue, Reproduction, etc), Bill Nelson, Magazine, early Ultravox (Ha! Ha! Ha! etc) to go around us all. He's spoilt for gear too, with him being a tech-nut, so we've got a pretty contemporary pop-rock sound with authentic 80s synths (Jupiter 8, Moog Rogue, Emax, Prophet 5 etc).
As my username suggests, I'm an out-the-closet Duranie- they don't get the credit they deserve, especially amongst people around my age who dismiss their music.
I'm only 21, in a band with 4 others who are aged 26-30, yet the common ground is the fact we are all huge late 70s-early 80s music fans. We're called Super 8 Cynics (Link Removed): there's only a short clip of one of our tracks on there (a vocal-less version) as we're a big hush hush at the moment. We're nearing completion of our self financed album which will hopefully get us somewhere! Anyway, have a listen.
Our synth player owns more albums than anybody I know, and he's got enough early Human League (Travelogue, Reproduction, etc), Bill Nelson, Magazine, early Ultravox (Ha! Ha! Ha! etc) to go around us all. He's spoilt for gear too, with him being a tech-nut, so we've got a pretty contemporary pop-rock sound with authentic 80s synths (Jupiter 8, Moog Rogue, Emax, Prophet 5 etc).
As my username suggests, I'm an out-the-closet Duranie- they don't get the credit they deserve, especially amongst people around my age who dismiss their music.
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You sir, are a wonderful bass player. Love your style (and your band is pretty good, too!)
sign me up, im in a post punk "revival" group. i loves me anything like JD/New Order, The Cure, Gang Of Four, U2 (obviously early for the purposes of this club) Siouxsie, Television oh and the name of this bands is Talking Heads
Any Julian Cope/Teardrop Explodes fans out there?
Another major favorite of mine was Jah Wobble in PiL. Metal Box/Second Edition is the archetypal post punk bassists album.
Another major favorite of mine was Jah Wobble in PiL. Metal Box/Second Edition is the archetypal post punk bassists album.
Having learnt playing bass by listening to all those great chorusey hook lines (pun intended), I guess you can count me in, too.
One cannot deny the 80ies Gothic/Wave influence on our tracks:
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Oliver
One cannot deny the 80ies Gothic/Wave influence on our tracks:
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Oliver
Great taste my friend!
I just saw Gang of Four last night in Chicago... and am seeing Wire there in April...
The show last night was AWESOME... plenty of old stuff off the first and second albums... and their current bassist (name?) rocked it out. I was prepared to be disappointed, yet was not... one to mark off the list for sure.
Can I have a number? I spent all day watching the Trilogy DVD by the Cure, Stop Making Sense by the Talking Heads, and a Depeche Mode DVD.
I wish I would have grown up in my parents' era. My dad was all into INXS and Echo and the Bunnymen and my mom loved Duran Duran (specifically John Taylor
). They actually went to see Echo and the Bunnymen in Cleveland last March I believe.
The bassline from Other Voices by the Cure was one of my favorites in high school.
Progressive metal is taking up most of my playing time lately, but post-punk and new wave is where my heart is and I hope to start a post-punk/shoegaze project sometime soon with a friend.
I wish I would have grown up in my parents' era. My dad was all into INXS and Echo and the Bunnymen and my mom loved Duran Duran (specifically John Taylor
). They actually went to see Echo and the Bunnymen in Cleveland last March I believe.The bassline from Other Voices by the Cure was one of my favorites in high school.
Progressive metal is taking up most of my playing time lately, but post-punk and new wave is where my heart is and I hope to start a post-punk/shoegaze project sometime soon with a friend.
Also, has anyone else noticed that the hipsters nowadays look just like the people in the audience of Depeche Mode shows in the '80s?
Oh yes! Kilamanjro, Fried and World Shut Your Mouth album and Nation Underground are my faves
Jah Wobble is a god!!
