Really SBL?!

[alack]

It’s already been said here that context is everything. So I have trouble with the use of isolated tracks to make a point. McCartney was not creating a solo tone. He came up with a tone that works in the context of the overall arrangement. The thumping staccato tone allows him to do the upper register melodic fills without the song losing bottom. It works perfectly with Ringo’s drumming and the other instruments. I would argue given the artistic results it’s the perfect bass sound.

It’s like looking at a great painting and saying the artist used the wrong shade of blue here.

 

[Holdsg]

what's next? supermarket tabloid headlines?

"Sure Signs that the Bass Apocalypse is Eminent?

"Alien Love Child born with Bass in his Left Hand"

"Where Blake and Gwen Are Spending the New Years Holiday?

 

[Jazz Ad]

Freak on a Leash, September and Don't Stop Believing are 3 of my very favorite tones. So unique, so perfect for the song.
And What's going on ? It's the epitome of a bass tone. This is silly.

 

[MikePlaysBass]

It’s definitely clickbait.
Unless you’re recording and mixing yourself or running the front of house PA while playing, your tone is very much being determined by someone else. The old advice for picking studios and technicians is to listen to other music they released. If you like the tone, then you can work with them. If you don’t like the tone or the bass is lost in the mix, why would you expect any different results if you went with them?
Obviously, the producers thought those basslines fit the songs or they wouldn’t have released them.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

Sure, it's clickbait and this thread has almost 600 views currently, sent quite a few views to YouTube. Success!

 

[Harper]

He has almost 1,000,000 YouTube subscribers and over half 1 million followers on Facebook. People can squawk and complain about him all they want, but he found a way to monetize playing bass on the Internet better than almost anyone. I’m not a subscriber, but good for him.

 

[Koshchei]

A) never trust someone who plays bass with gloves.
B) there is no B.

I also have task specific focal dystonia (musician’s cramp). Lots of life-long musicians do. It sucks, but the gloves make it possible to play at all without my middle finger spasming uncontrollably. The alternative to a $20 set of gloves is a Botox injection every 6 months that will paralyze my hand and force my brain to relearn how to make my fingers move. Sounds great, huh? Which would you choose?

 

[FatherTrucker]

A) never trust someone who plays bass with gloves.
B) there is no B.

The dude literally can't play without them. Like, physically he is unable.

 

[Eidolon0274]

Meh. I can't imagine having to create as much content as he does to stay afloat on YouTube. At least it's not Davie504 etc etc "competition" bass playing.

For a second I thought you might be the GC got heckled guy...TB is just looking to be triggered today.

 

[jpmcbride]

A) never trust someone who plays bass with gloves.
B) there is no B.

Were you aware he has a medical condition with his hand that requires him to use the glove?

 

[dab12ax7ef]

Scott will freely admit that his YouTube content has to be more in the range of clickbait due to the YouTube algorithm. Which is why he went through the trouble of creating his own platform for long form instructional videos. The YouTube videos are more for interest and driving people to his educational content.
This video was not really negative. I’d bet that a survey of TB would yield about the same results.

 

[anightintunisia]

Y’all are just sad you didn’t make the list.

 

[Harper]

Meh. I can't imagine having to create as much content as he does to stay afloat on YouTube.

Yeah, he should pack it in and go get a cubicle job. What a crappy job, getting paid to play bass on the Internet and “having” to create content.

 

[Brich]

Click bait, and it obviously worked

 

[Corigan]

What i took from this video is that nobody likes a clanky, mid scooped, fuzzed out, chorus heavy, chicken picked, bass line that is so turned down in the mix its not audible.

That was time well spent.

 

[micguy]

A) never trust someone who plays bass with gloves.
B) there is no B.

Pleas inform us when you develop a physical challenge that impacts your ability to do the thing you love most in life. We'll make fun of you then.

Actually, we won't - because we have a bit of class.

 

[Tubehed]

Surprised by some of the nominations. I'm not a big Journey fan and wouldn't mind if I never heard "Don't Stop Believing" again in my life. But, have to say, that bass line cuts through like a scalpel and really blows me away every time I hear it. I'm scratching my head over "The Real Me". I think it sounds great isolated and in the mix. It's all very subjective. Fun to debate. Boring to agree on everything all the time. No harm in that!

 

[sxaxsx]

I think most of those suggestions were from trolls, hence the McCartney, Jamerson, or Flea being on there twice, etc. And what a tone sounds like solo'd is irrelevant, songs are mixed so that everything sounds good together. No one producing these songs were concerned what it would sound like if in 60 years someone listened to the bass by itself.

 

[iiipopes]

Well, you know, the players of the bass tones criticized are making much, much more playing bass on one day of their current tour than I will probably ever make. And likewise for SBL. So no criticism from me.

 

[Inky13]

I do not loose sleep over bass tone.
A good song is a good song.
Life is short.