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Sid Vicious could play the bass

#241
LBS-bass said:
Man, I don't know. It looks like he's playing a hybrid kit with a beat box, and that's kind of what I'm hearing too. So I would bet that you've got at least something coming off the drums. The rest of it could be stagecraft; the sax would have to be mic'd like that anyway, but who knows if the amps would be live? They wouldn't need to be, necessarily. And a quiet stage does allow a vocalist to hear a lot better, and that leads to a lot better quality on the voices.

Good band; no Psychedelic Furs influence there! But most importantlly, perhaps? Why does the lead singer have my initials tattooed onto his forehead?
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I'm not sure you mention the 'Furs to praise or to bury them... But I listened to two vinyl LPs last night and one was Forever Now. If that album sucks then call it my guilty pleasure, I just love the production (Todd Rundgren) and I had forgotten how great the bass playing is, all sizzling Precision mid-range round-wound goodness. And that singer's voice is so gorgeous, and the lyrics so pleasingly romantic.

In any case, thanks for theorizing on the sound. I'm really appreciating the quality of e-drums this week!
 
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Son of Wobble said:
I'm not sure you mention the 'Furs to praise or to bury them... But I listened to two vinyl LPs last night and one was Forever Now. If that album sucks then call it my guilty pleasure, I just love the production (Todd Rundgren) and I had forgotten how great the bass playing is, all sizzling Precision mid-range round-wound goodness. And that singer's voice is so gorgeous, and the lyrics so pleasingly romantic.

In any case, thanks for theorizing on the sound. I'm really appreciating the quality of e-drums this week!
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Are you kidding? Here are two of my all time favorite ever songs:





I am lucky that I got to see them live back in the day. Love those guys. I tried lobbying my band to do Dumb Waiters for a while, but they thought it was too obscure.
 
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The second, wider angle reveals the stagecraft. "Always the actor and his ideal... Thus sighed Zarathustra."

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Son of Wobble said:
Here is another great performance clip.







Also wanted to bring this to the attention of @LBS-bass as I noticed the band is using E-drums in this clip, which I think is a legit live recording. As with tracks LBS has been posting with e-drums, these things sounds great. My question to LBS, do you think the band is "silent onstage" in this recording? The amps look mic'd, but possibly this is stagecraft? A quiet stage would allow the singer to benefit from the natural reverb of the room without other competing reflections.... Any theorizing welcome!
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I always liked Slow Learner from the same session. There are a lot of great Swedish Punk bands. Certainly Norway and Sweden could teach most of us in the States a lot about punk and Rock N Roll.
 
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Killed_by_Death said:
I'm not even going to address the "rebels" who came to a thread that's clearly about Punk Rock to slam Punk or to comment that they're not interested.
It's not like they opened the thread & then were surprised by the topic at hand!

I do remember reading in Lemmy's "White Line Fever" that Sid came to Lemmy & said he'd been hired by McLaren to play for the Pistols & Lemmy flatly told him that he couldn't play bass, LOL!
I'm also thinking that adequate & competent are basically the same.

A lot of players weren't competent when they first started playing in a band, but then grew into it.
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Paul Simonon of the Clash started out barely adequate, and became a musician.
 
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mellowinman said:
barely adequate, and became a musician
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He was a musician from the beginning, if he was adequate.
There's just different levels of musicianship.

"musician" doesn't magically qualify a person as being good at making music

I'm a competent Logistics Coordinator, but there are folks out there who are leagues better.
 
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