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signature bass fail...
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Give the guy a break, Adam needs a bit of extra pocket money after his housekeeper pilfered 3 million euro out of his coat pockets while he wasn't looking. 
Producer Simon Widdowson, who helmed the first Decemberists album, told me how he spent a season living in Cork, Ireland, and became synonymous on the club circuit for a short while with the sound
of the Farfisa organ he was playing, so much so that he was widely exalted for his unique and compelling tone. He admittedly to being somewhat dismayed and embarrassed to be receiving singular praise for the stock
sound of the keyboard he happened to be playing largely by circumstance.
As musicians, we should all have such problems, I suppose.
Shows how little you know Jimmy. I ghosted Clayton on that song with a 1962 jazz bass that was specially painted sherwood green by Leo himself. that was the bass Claytons sig bass is now based off.
It was given to me that year as a birthday gift on my second birthday. After the recording a got a cookie and took a nap
What baffles me the most is how U2 got so popular in the first place. Nothing personal against Adam Clayton or anyone in the band, but their music has always been incredibly boring to me. It would have been to my advantage to like it, too, since I've spent so much time in Ireland, a place I like very much. It seems a lot of people have enjoyed their music. I honestly tried and was unable to. But maybe a lot of those people were never able to enjoy Hendrix while I've always liked his music very much. Maybe it all equals out. I know that people either "get" Hendrix or they don't, and maybe it's the same with U2. Maybe it's the same with any band. It's just that with many bands I can at least see why people like them, but in U2's case, I can't say that.
True. If greed is the enemy of quality, stop listening to the Beatles. John and Paul would say "let's write a mansion with a swimming pool."
(or something to that effect.)
I think it has to do with the big stadium sound they have and the shows they put on. They're not as big in Ireland as everyone thinks despite all of their fame abroad, I think people stopped taking them seriously here in the early 90's. They certainly have a big 'sound' whether you like it or not and put on a great live act. Ironically I think the popularity of their music its largely down to to Adam Clayton's simple but driving bass lines and the chorus/delay/reverb (whatever) from the Edge. Bono is reviled in Ireland by the way.
Ernie Ball have announced an Adam Clayton signature E-string 
Gibby RD... Talent or not, he at least has some good taste in basses.
Maybe I'm closer to the Irish way of thinking than I realized. I dslike Bono's voice and that chorus/delay/reverb sound also drives me bonkers that the Edge can't seem to get away from.
Sometimes players have some innovative design ideas like Dime Bag did (RIP) Dime Bag took pointy a$$ hell to a whole new level. I personally always liked pointy as did many other metal players 
these two also answer the age old question what's the best bass for Metal
these two also answer the age old question what's the best bass for Metal
It is possible to play absolutely impeccably in support of the music without flashing lots of technique. I never thought he was "anything special" in terms of "bassists with the most skills", but he does what's necessary to make the music they're making, and does it well. Not one of my "bass heroes", personally, but I do like a lot of their stuff. I agree with a previous poster, though - they did seem rather more inventive and original in the early days before they were really quite as proficient. Necessity is a mutha, and all that.
Tell you what, you give me a line up of 10 people, and I couldnt tell you which one was Clayton. Might as well have you on ad copy as far as I am concerned.
Victor Wooten, Steve Harris, Geezer, Larry Graham, Marcus Miller, Geddy Lee... I could pick them out.
I'm with Harry, we grumpy old men must stick togeather.
Whats with all these kids today always wanting to "Like" things....Bah!
I could probably flash a large sum of money in front of Trujillo and ask him to let me use Jaco's bass for this one gig, and I doubt anybod is going to come up to me and say "Dude, you sounded just like Jaco,"
Face it, the crowd doesn't care about "your tone" or anybody else's.
Face it, the crowd doesn't care about "your tone" or anybody else's.
I simply can't stand U2, nor ever could. Just listening to "Sunday bloody sunday"'s hi-hat beat makes me sick, poor motricity. Bono simply can't sing in tune properly (live, which is what counts, anybody can be half decent in the studio), besides his overacted artificial way of singing feels nauseating to me (what I feel about his demagogic save-the-world b/s is way beyond nausea). The Edge is just overrated (repetitive and boring, as in NO EDGE at all, lacks the necessary resources and variety a decent guitarist must comply with for me to think seriously of him in any way). So the only non 100% sucking thing in this band seems to be Adam Clayton. IDK, if somebody told me the best thing in my band is, at best, a mediocre bassist, I'd kill myself. If I was making as much money out of it well, I'd study more to deserv it, choosing to keep sucking would be the stupidest of choices (the choice of the mediocre).
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