if they were from Canada they would be Angine De PoutineI just discovered that Angine De Poitier band and at first I was like woa not for me no way. I bought both the albums and rock them at work now.
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"Serious skills, but..."
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I've never been a fan of anything where the focus is on the players and how good they are. I like to hear well written songs, and I don't care how good the playing is on said songs. That being said, if the great songs happen to have great playing, even better. Yes, I have some favorite players, but they definitely aren't technique-focused players.
Unfortunately, this cancels out 99.9% of instrumental music for me. I've never heard an instrumental track that makes me think "wow, what a killer song!" But I'm not knocking that sort of thing. It's just unlistenable to my ears.
Unfortunately, this cancels out 99.9% of instrumental music for me. I've never heard an instrumental track that makes me think "wow, what a killer song!" But I'm not knocking that sort of thing. It's just unlistenable to my ears.
There is so many things to say here, all summed up nicely by simply stating that bass players who insist on boxing themselves into imaginary sets of rules do nothing but drag the rest of us down in the eyes of other likewise ignorant players. I wont use the term musicians, because most true musicians (who have not forgotten music is art and not a box) won't do this or have this view of others.
It's the same mentality that drives other super rewarding topics like string count, endless compressors, no rounds on fretless, how many notes to play, etc.....
It's the same mentality that drives other super rewarding topics like string count, endless compressors, no rounds on fretless, how many notes to play, etc.....
I think a bass players style of playing is an attractant or a repulsion.
Also think tone becomes a factor in that atractant or repulsion.
If you find what you like, thats terrific. Some have to search a little longer. Older bass players that tend to like what and who they grew up with as influencers, tend to stop looking at newer trends as they inevitably stray away from those inflences.
Hence the pidgeon holing of an era to a style and sound. Boomers were the pioneers of the electric bass. That's a blanket approach perhaps but it covers a long spread from pethaps 1960 - mid late 70's. The trends therafter seem much shorter and don't spread as much influence across the subsequent age groups.
If you picked up the bass guitar and stayed with it, that's a good thing so matter you age or influences. I still go out and watch local bands and although there's no influence there, I still enjoy watching them do their stuff their way.
Also think tone becomes a factor in that atractant or repulsion.
If you find what you like, thats terrific. Some have to search a little longer. Older bass players that tend to like what and who they grew up with as influencers, tend to stop looking at newer trends as they inevitably stray away from those inflences.
Hence the pidgeon holing of an era to a style and sound. Boomers were the pioneers of the electric bass. That's a blanket approach perhaps but it covers a long spread from pethaps 1960 - mid late 70's. The trends therafter seem much shorter and don't spread as much influence across the subsequent age groups.
If you picked up the bass guitar and stayed with it, that's a good thing so matter you age or influences. I still go out and watch local bands and although there's no influence there, I still enjoy watching them do their stuff their way.
I've always disagreed with the classifications. Particularly in the UK. The disaffected generation were listening to Punk Rock including a band called Generation X so how come the term Gen X got applied to the happy go lucky generation who were into Wham! and Duran Duran?
. As a result of this error they've had to create Generation Jones. Who is this Jones?PS. I enjoyed Duran Duran too but "my music" is mid to late 70s bands like Blondie and The Police.
So Anyway, the OP brings up some serious points, but.....
It might be because I'll never be a virtuoso but impressive technical brilliance is interesting but it doesn't get into my record collection unless it touches my emotions. Gary Moore's guitar solo on Out In The fields is a great example of his skills but I love it because it's a great solo musically, not because it shows off what a supremely accurate speed-picker he was.
I'm also not moved by intellectual music. Rick Beato's episode on songs by Sting highlights that - as usual Rick was wetting himself over the fancy chords of some of Sting's solo stuff but then he got to a Police song and to me it was "music at last".
The other thing I don't care about is the hierarchies and pecking orders that are really just childish "my favourite bassist is better than your favourite bassist" arguments. That used to be a thing at my highschool with tiresome discussions as to whether Jan Akkerman was the fastest guitarist in the world. Fortunately the tappers came along and rendered all that moot - thank you Eddie!
Yes. I agree on all counts. I'd rather listen to green day or the police than jaco 99 times out of 100.
It might be because I'll never be a virtuoso but impressive technical brilliance is interesting but it doesn't get into my record collection unless it touches my emotions. Gary Moore's guitar solo on Out In The fields is a great example of his skills but I love it because it's a great solo musically, not because it shows off what a supremely accurate speed-picker he was.
I'm also not moved by intellectual music. Rick Beato's episode on songs by Sting highlights that - as usual Rick was wetting himself over the fancy chords of some of Sting's solo stuff but then he got to a Police song and to me it was "music at last".
The other thing I don't care about is the hierarchies and pecking orders that are really just childish "my favourite bassist is better than your favourite bassist" arguments. That used to be a thing at my highschool with tiresome discussions as to whether Jan Akkerman was the fastest guitarist in the world. Fortunately the tappers came along and rendered all that moot - thank you Eddie!
Also, David Gillmour is my favorite guitarist. All feel. Not a virtuoso in the technical sense.
Gillmour is the bassist's guitarist - exactly the right note in exactly the right place. What's more, he'll play a chord that makes me go "wow!" but when I figure out the chord it's nothing more than an Em or something!
It doesn't matter which party or which shoe, it's taking a political shot safe in the knowledge that any political replies would break the rules. This comment is an admission that you knew exactly what you were doing.
I'm still trying to understand it too but for a different reason. For the first 50 years if my life, a "boomer" was someone born post war, 1945 -1960. It was carved in stone and never questioned.
Since moving to the US, the term has been affected by calendar creep so that people born in some period in the '60's are included? WTH?
I don't get it and don't get the dart throwing. We are bass players which is a brotherhood, not a competition.
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He's from Flibberoloo , not Jibbertylot. It is political. Also, there might be a pet wind up lobster involved
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Don't worry I can't spell and pronunce correctly many english words too, I think the best of us here are the canadian french and cajun/creole people.
Poutine fries are considered a sacrilege in Belgium you know... specially the walloons beware if you come to Chimay or Charleroi. I still laugh when I write "french fries", it's the belgians that invented those for fck sake lol
Or like watching a youtube video made by americans talking about their "belgian malinois"... malinois comes from Malines (french version of Mechelen in dutch), it's a belgian city in the flemish region, Flanders so, so just call it a malinois ! It's like saying "hey I'm enjoying a canadian poutine"... it's ALREADY canadian if you use "poutine" dude hahaha
And by the way they are actually canadians, canadian french from Québec.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. And now what I'm with, isn't it anymore, and what is it, is weird and scary. It will happen to you too, one day.
Throwing a blanket judgement over any demographic is myopic.
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