Sevendust

I love Sevendust, aside from the bassplayer.

 

I really like Sevendust, especially that song with Skin as a guest.

But I don't expect to find an inspirational bassist in their genre.

 

I definitely like their singer!

Their performance of "Waffle" on Conan O'Brien was great. Definitely sounds better live than on CD; they really should've made the rhythm guitar a lot louder on the recording. The ambient noise created by the tapped note and volume swells really changes the feel when it's louder, and it's great.

Their bass player has surprising good tone live, too, for how low he tunes with the light strings he uses. I just don't like how he plays it...

 

I don't know what it is, but here's a pic

 

i like 7 dust, i think the bassist is good at his role with them too. i read that he has several different basses, the one he was playing in the pic in the article looked like a les paul bass, i also remember him saying when he was asked about his strings, that he may as well be using telephone pole wires, as he uses an extremly heavy guage,

ps: i agree with Angus on the singer, that guys good, he can actually sing

 

yup

Robert Sledge (Ben Folds Five) and Adam Clayton have played it in their times....

 

I actually thought it looked like a Les Paul, but wasn't sure that there was such a thing.....

 

I beleave it's an Epiphone, as their guitarists are endorsed by that brand (I think). He also uses a p-bass. (into an SVT of course)

I realy like the band, but they use way to many effects. I saw one of them on guitar.com, and the dude kept saying "I wish I had the effect, but..." before playing every riff. It sounded fine without them tho.

And, of course the singer's good. Up until Sevendust
he was singing in an R&B band!

 

Nono, like telephone wire because they're LIGHT, and with his tuning, they flop around a lot. He uses a .125 to tune to Ab...that's smaller than I use to tune to B!

 

man i know what i read and he said he used a heavy gage in this article i read. If I can find it scan it and post it

 

I saw them a year or two ago, and thought they had a good sound. The bass player was playing his Les Paul bass and it was just about dragging on the floor. The same one he plays in the video for "Denial". The video was kind of weird because they were in some sort of cage(?) with peopl hanging and sitting everywhere.

jtbp

 

that's odd...

 

Yeah, thought so to. I always thought of epiphone as a kind of inferior gibson, But it's all they use.

 

The lead singer and this drummer I know are friends from waaaaay back. He asked the drummer to come on board for this band that he was putting together, but the drummer declined, because he thought his cover band was going places.
Chalk it up to another bad career move!

 

Hey warwick, how do you know all these bands that made it big? Didn't you know Stu Zender?

 

I met him about a week before he left Jamiroquai. As for the guy in Sevendust, he's from here.

 

look at him

Bahahaha