Lol, fair enough. It's not exactly rock, but hey I enjoy it. Even though I don't own a birdhouse(?)
Some good Spector tone in there.
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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
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Lol, fair enough. It's not exactly rock, but hey I enjoy it. Even though I don't own a birdhouse(?)
Some good Spector tone in there.
Thanks to Laz for the lead on this.
Needs a little setup and some cleaning but otherwise in great condition. Going to swap out the high gain pickup for the original and also put on the original bridge. I really don't like the hipshot bridges.
Needless to say I need to sell my 2012 4003 ASAP.
Copy cat!
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I prefer pre-Saxophone Ihsahn.
I will dispute the claim that flute can't be in metal or rock music ("No Safe Harbor" is a great shaging song, I don't care what anyone says), but it's very difficult for me to like saxophone anything. Sigh baaaarely manages.
Also, bass and baritone saxophone > higher saxophones.
I'm not knocking anyone's taste in music I just don't feel "sweetly annoying" sounds have any place in rock/metal.
Annoying: fine.
Flutes are just too innocent sounding to me.
Innocence is incompatible with rock especially heavy music.
Again just IMO, feel free to tell me to STFU. No problem.
Annoying: fine.
Flutes are just too innocent sounding to me.
Innocence is incompatible with rock especially heavy music.
Again just IMO, feel free to tell me to STFU. No problem.
Okay. No room for flute in rock and metal?
STFU and listen to Black Sabbath
I guess I see a lot of room for weirdness and experimentation in metal, as far as instrumentation. Especially in doom. Hell, on my band's debut record there's bowed bass viol, and there's probably going to be cello on the next one. The band Sear Bliss uses trombone in black metal. Eluveitie use mandola, tin whistle, bagpipes, and hurdy-gurdy. My Dying Bride was using violin in the early 90s. Ensiferum in the studio use all kinds of weird folk instruments. In Extremo have dudes playing Invalid Link Removed. Turisas have had both violin and accordion. The Who had french horn sometimes.
This attitude just strikes me as kinda similar to the "keyboards aren't metal, man" crap (someone better let My Dying Bride and Neurosis, and hell, Catapult the Dead know that you can't be metal if you have keys). I don't think innocence is incompatible with rock or metal, and the idea that it is seems very... I dunno... restrictive, to me. And restriction is more anathema to metal and rock music, to me, than innocence.
I actually think the light, relatively quiet "No Safe Harbor," with its sad flute melody, works really well coming right after the downbeat pummeling in the previous song "Affliction." I like moments of contrast in my metal. For me it's not about the instrumentation, but whether the song is enjoyable for me to listen to or not.
And I'd rather hear more flute than another shaging harmonica. *ducks incoming thrown objects*
I get busy for a few hours doing actual work and I come back to a thread full of woodwind discussion! I'm going to set this place on fire unless someone talks about a fuzz pedal or posts something that sounds like rocks being dragged down a dirt road by rabid wolves!
I love it, you lead me straight into my core reasoning.
Just because an artist is a rock/metal artist doesn't mean everything they do is rock/metal.
I also love contrast in my music. Just about all of my favorite heavy albums have some sort of non-heavy song intrinsic to that album, be it blues, folk, soul or otherwise.
I'm just not going to call a shovel a cooking tool because a cook is holding one.
Nothing wrong whatsoever with variety either at a show or on an album.
Just because an artist is a rock/metal artist doesn't mean everything they do is rock/metal.
I also love contrast in my music. Just about all of my favorite heavy albums have some sort of non-heavy song intrinsic to that album, be it blues, folk, soul or otherwise.
I'm just not going to call a shovel a cooking tool because a cook is holding one.
Nothing wrong whatsoever with variety either at a show or on an album.
I also don't like the look and can't get the action low enough with themVery good pointthose Hipshot saddles move around a lot? The only flaw IMO.
True. I'm not sure I would describe "No Safe Harbor" as a metal song, despite the overdriven guitars. "Solitude" is certainly not a metal song, though still a great song, by a metal band.I love it, you lead me straight into my core reasoning.
Just because an artist is a rock/metal artist doesn't mean everything they do is rock/metal.
I also love contrast in my music. Just about all of my favorite heavy albums have some sort of non-heavy song intrinsic to that album, be it blues, folk, soul or otherwise.
I'm just not going to call a shovel a cooking tool because a cook is holding one.
Nothing wrong whatsoever with variety either at a show or on an album.
I think Noh Theater style flute could be pretty metal, though. It certainly isn't pleasant sounding.
I pulled the trigger on that Epi Ripper on my local CL. The seller was super cool and we talked rigs for a bit. I picked it up, liked the neck (reminds me of my T-40, actually), liked the weight, liked the body style and made a deal. It's super clean/well-cared for. I'm still out-to-lunch on the tone, though. Not yet sure whether I'd change the pups if I keep it. Or I may just try to flip it. $220 was the sale price, down from $300 asked. How'd I do?
Maybe this post'll get Corey back on track?
Maybe this post'll get Corey back on track?
I pulled the trigger on that Epi Ripper on my local CL. The seller was super cool and we talked rigs for a bit. I picked it up, liked the neck (reminds me of my T-40, actually), liked the weight, liked the body style and made a deal. It's super clean/well-cared for. I'm still out-to-lunch on the tone, though. Not yet sure whether I'd change the pups if I keep it. Or I may just try to flip it. $220 was the sale price, down from $300 asked. How'd I do?
Maybe this post'll get Corey back on track?
I would drop a single model p in there with a new pickgaurd, call it a day and DOOM the fvck out.
Huge +1. My exact thought. If your lucky it's a huge "pool route" unde there.
IMO their is no perfect bridge for a ric. Both have trade offs but the stock is, by a slim hair, the winner. After just playing the brown (Hipshot) one I think your right on the action thing. Brown ric needs a full overhaul. Been too long.
how stupid am I?
Stupid enough to stick it out with a guitard until Days of the DOOMED. After that I'm done, I made that very clear. But hey! I get to play at Days of the DOOMED! I can either see this going one of two ways maybe both, a complete trainwreck that I will regret or I'm gonna rock the fvck out with no fvcks given.
Stupid enough to stick it out with a guitard until Days of the DOOMED. After that I'm done, I made that very clear. But hey! I get to play at Days of the DOOMED! I can either see this going one of two ways maybe both, a complete trainwreck that I will regret or I'm gonna rock the fvck out with no fvcks given.
