Well... not to be a smarty-pants... but the bass IS a guitar. It's a bass guitar. And think about all the artists who've made memorable bass lines with a pick. Pretty much anything you've heard of Sting's white NS-2 was done with a pick.
I just knew if I said that about a bass that somebody would come back with,"but the bass IS a guitar".
Of course it is.
Listen to this and tell me if a pick with a Spector is "too guitarish" LOL. This was the song that made me stop paying attention to the crew filming him and I focused on that bass. I was in the first row of this very concert.
Undeniably, that NS-2 sounds awesome!!!
WOW! Wonder what pedals/ effects he used as well? Or was it raw unmessed with Bass? I haven't tried using a pick with my NS-2A yet...I'll give it a whirl today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZmkjfPrBZo
As a former guitarist... I understand how intimidating a good bassist with a great sounding bass can sound. When you listen to songs like
this one by Trent Reznor (NIN) and realize that the main riffs and melody are all handled with a bass (the outro is a guitar tuned in C... which might as well be a bass)... a killer bass can do so much... you start wondering if you need a guitarist in your band at all.
You make them scared for their own job security. So good.
Ignore them.
So true JPS! We bassist have the best of both worlds at our finger tips...We can make our Bass fill in as a 6 string steel guitar but a guitarist would be hard put to do the reverse. Plus when we Bassist are setting the beat and adding "soul" to the music, who can argue with that,right?!
Yeah... and IMHO he has a pie hole... it should be stuffed with pie so we don't hear his pathetic whining. When a dog yaps and whines... sometimes you gotta smack it to get it to shut up. LOL. Seriously. Just kidding.
Well...that certain guitarist no longer plays in our band. His choice!
I do have little patience for prima-dona guitarists. I KNOW the mentality... and thankfully I saw the light and moved over to bass. Which honestly is a more dynamic instrument IMHO.
I couldn't agree with you more! Especially since you've been in both worlds, you have a very great understanding of both "guitars". That I'm sure is a huge under statement on my part...
There are many. Don't let the 6-string short-short scale fools in your band tell you that you can't play the way you feel is best (because it treads in their territory). When musicians start talking like that you've already lost the battle. Music should be about expression, fun, and the sound... not who gets to do what.
For sure! That's what music is all about, expression!
Bassists have been held back, not considered "full musicians" and all that BS for way too long. My own father, a talented guitarist, didn't want me playing a bass because "bassists play one note at a time... monkeys can do that"... No joke... words that came from his mouth. I've since made him eat his words with what you can do with a bass.
Way to go JPS! Did your father actually admit that to your face?
It does. For me, I think I'm more of a basic black sort of guy. My wedding band is Tungsten (because tungsten is important in the film industry... so it's symbolic) and my watches are all stainless steel.
I don't wear gold... so if I had my way... I'd have chrome or black hardware on all of my Spectors. Just because I prefer silver to gold. Black to flashy.
For me it depends on the full color scheme of the instrument. For instance...my Legend 4 Classic is an awesomely beautiful black cherry...I've seen the Legend Customs with gold hardware and it just adds a marvelous accent to the color! "Now drooling and wiping up the puddle on my desk".
But for my Rebop all natural, looks better with black hardware and for the NS-2A Amber burst... the jury is still out on that one. I'll have to live with her a little longer...
But there's nothing wrong with gold. Gold is pimpin'... "G". LOL.
