Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

[El Raro]

Ouch, that stings. But at least you'll have the summer with her. My goddaughter is also obsessed with Frozen and she replays it 500 times a day. I'm amazed the DVD hasn't worn out by now.

 

[kzr750r1]

Musicals kill me. But if she's into it I'm game. They all remind me of the sound of music hammy delivery and all.

 

[Korladis]

That idea comes up allot....
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That seems both really cool and also kinda terribad.

Welp, my gig tonight probably couldn't have gone any worse. Guitarist/vocalist breaks both his bottom E and A strings half way into the first song. I tell him to just pull out his backup but he tells me he didn't bring it. So what does he do? Proceeds to restring his guitar on stage. In an attempt to make the situation less awkward, the drummer and I locked into a nice filler groove with the use of my flanger. Tell you what, I was considering offloading the BF-3 these last few days but now its pretty much earned permanency on my board haha.
So the guitarist decides "I'm taking too long here" and just flat out leaves out the A string and doesn't bother to tune up the E string properly. As you can imagine, that made for some absolutely laughable riffing and chords. We crank into the next song and, lo and behold, the singer decides to scream every line for absolutely no legitimate reason. That and any actually sung lines were so off and so terrible, I literally had to look away from the audience out of embarrassment. He then belts out this horrid broken scream at the end of a mellower song which made me, and I'm sure many others, wince. After that song ended I actually heard a woman in the crowd say "Wow, even HE's shocked by it" presumably making reference to me.
To add insult to injury, the sound guy tells us over the monitors that we have one more song to play. At this point, we had only played three songs and been on stage for a total of 20 minutes of our 30 minute slot. Any other gig I would have cracked the ***** but considering the circumstances, I was thrilled to be getting off the stage that soon. We finished our set and I tore down my gear the fastest I ever have.

My only consolation about tonight is that I was able to do a little improv which I never thought I was able to pull off. It sounded good, I locked in with the drummer brilliantly and we even got some kind words for it after our set. A couple of members from the other bands came up to us and said things like "Nice save" and asked me about my effects. Of course, one of them asked "So what's up with your singer? He on something?" to which I replied "Unfortunately, no. That's just him".

So yeah..bit of a wall of text but I just felt like venting a little. What cuts me the most is that I know the vocalist/guitarist isn't going to take anything away from this experience and he's just gonna keep ****ing things up because apparently not giving a **** makes him look cool. There's no hope for him and unfortunately I've learned that far too late. I don't particularly like being on the end of a joke (which is what I feel manly people look at this band as) and I fear this crap is gonna hurt my reputation personally, which I normally wouldn't admit to caring about but if I want to take my music seriously then I suppose I need some sort of dignity). I'm gonna put myself out there to join a new band that I'd enjoy playing for. Once that's locked in, I'm ditching old mate's band for the better.

Why would you let a singer into the band who only shags things up?

And not giving a poopie doesn't make him look cool. It makes him look like a rank amateur.

the high/low dual gain setting on a demon (or rat tail) works if you want your "cleaner" gain to be lower in volume than your "heavier" gain.

I've always setup my distortion to be louder than my clean tone, so this never really bothered me. Gave the appropriate amount of boost when going from low gain to high gain. But everyone likes different things obviously.

My overdriven sound is also always louder than my clean. It confuses me somewhat when people don't do this, because I feel that the point of clean tone is to have parts that are quieter and so make the distorted parts seem louder in comparison. Also I tend to just get my "clean" tone by turning down my bass' volume on my one-pickup bass, or switching to a lower output pickup on my two-pickup basses.

Getting way ahead of myself and wondering if I should pick up a Squier P or J 4 banger for the new project. I doubt we'll be in B or E standard - yes I could transpose and use the 5er - but I like hammering away on those open strings. Theoretically I could sell my Rat and pay for low-end squier w/ my employee discount.

I pretty much tune to either E standard or B standard. I'm kinda closed minded that way, I guess. I suppose partly because I don't want to go having to figure out strings.

I'm fully with you in theory, but in practice (and this is probably because your band mates are far better at dynamics than mine) the volume diff is too great for me if I want one knob at three o'clock and the other at nine for example. I either can't hear myself on clean, or crush my mates and invoke their whine-age on dirty.

Tell them to turn down their clean volume? It drives me nuts when guitarists set their cleans as loud as their overdriven tone. Makes the latter seem really lacking when they change over.

 

[Kaa]

Sartori is the Kung fu master of the multi-quote feature.

 

[Pelham Bleu]

Monster cab alert!
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Never seen one of these before. 2x10&4x12 in one cabinet.

Let me fetch my team of oxen to pull it...

 

[mbelue]

Let me fetch my team of oxen to pull it...

LOL.
Verily.

 

[Squanch72]

Morning Gents, thank Datassian it is Friday. Finally finished Dexter last night, bummer. I will miss seeing Yvonne Strahovski on the boob tube.

 

[bassboysam]

up since 4am for no good reason. going to be a long day.

 

[Corey Y]

up since 4am for no good reason. going to be a long day.

Right there with you, I woke up at 5:30 and we're driving to Disneyland right after work.

 

[mbelue]

Right there with you, I woke up at 5:30 and we're driving to Disneyland right after work.

People do this without children?
Really not knocking it I just don't understand. Does Disneyland have more adult oriented stuff than Disney world?
I've known several couples that do this sans children and none have explained it to me.
Seriously no troll.

 

[Kaa]

My ex and I used to go to Disneyland, no kids, just to ride the rides. We then graduated to Magic Mountain for the coasters.

 

[Corey Y]

People do this without children?
Really not knocking it I just don't understand. Does Disneyland have more adult oriented stuff than Disney world?
I've known several couples that do this sans children and none have explained it to me.
Seriously no troll.

My wife loves Disney, it's her birthday tomorrow and she wants to go on some sort of vacation before the baby is due in August.

We went to Disneyworld for our 10th anniversary. She has 4 older sisters and most of them are obsessed with Disneyland and go frequently with their kids, but would go if they had none. I don't care about Disney, but I have the attitude that if I'm going somewhere to have fun, I show up ready to have fun, relax and not worry about anything. I don't want to be one of those dads/husbands grouching their way through a vacation like a giant sarcastic toddler.

 

[Squanch72]

I luck out because I live so close to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg that I can get a summer pass to there and Water Country they own which are just a few miles from each other in Williamsburg, It is only 99 bucks summer season pass to go to both parks. I really only dig seeing the animals at Busch Gardens but the water park is great.

 

[Ron Now]

My overdriven sound is also always louder than my clean. It confuses me somewhat when people don't do this, because I feel that the point of clean tone is to have parts that are quieter and so make the distorted parts seem louder in comparison. Also I tend to just get my "clean" tone by turning down my bass' volume on my one-pickup bass, or switching to a lower output pickup on my two-pickup basses.

Tell them to turn down their clean volume? It drives me nuts when guitarists set their cleans as loud as their overdriven tone. Makes the latter seem really lacking when they change over.

I'm on board with all of this. I've been using my bass' volume knob to clean up my overdrive for a few years, I would switch to the neck pickup on the RD when I had that. now I just roll back my volume a bit. I'm contemplating getting another DK with the talked about 2 gain settings as the volume knob is kind of imprecise and I like to be as sonicly consistent live as I can.

The distortion/overdrive/fuzz volume should be louder than your clean volume. I cant stand it when a band goes from a "heavy" part into clean and the cleans are significantly louder than the distortion. It reminds me of bad high school battle of the bands.

 

[The_Janitor]

Had dinner at Napa Rose with Martin Guitars this year at NAMM - that's the only time I've been inside Disneyland. I get a good view from the roof of the convention center when I step out for 5 minutes.

Did Disneyworld in Orlando when I was a kid, don't remember a whole lot about it.

Also: yes to a volume bump with dirt - doesn't have to be huge, but a little bit really helps. I hate it when people kick on the dirt and everything gets quieter. That makes no sense.

 

[Squanch72]

My wife loves Disney, it's her birthday tomorrow and she wants to go on some sort of vacation before the baby is due in August.

We went to Disneyworld for our 10th anniversary. She has 4 older sisters and most of them are obsessed with Disneyland and go frequently with their kids, but would go if they had none. I don't care about Disney, but I have the attitude that if I'm going somewhere to have fun, I show up ready to have fun, relax and not worry about anything. I don't want to be one of those dads/husbands grouching their way through a vacation like a giant sarcastic toddler.

You are a better man than me LOL. Sometimes I will be at Busch Gardens with a full blow migraine and I am that guy/toddler. Two weekends back we went and they had this cool flight simulator movie experience things that you fly all around Europe. I should of known better since I had a migraine cooking but they talked me in to it. Well I get a bit of vertigo with migraines, and that flight simulator was tossing me all around and it was super hot inside so I got all sick, dizzy, and lightheaded feeling. I didn't grump and once the ol lady saw how sick I was so all I had to do was picture duty after that. I did keep saying you know if I got a bug zapper and put up some hammocks in the yard I would like it even better than being here during the summer, she raised one eyebrow...

 

[mbelue]

Corey that's a great attitude I keep forgetting your wife has a bun in the oven.

 

[Squanch72]

When I lived in Florida not far from Orlando I was studying aquaculture at HBOI and the head of the department wanted me to take an internship at Disney taking care of their Koi ponds. He also wanted me to work at a shrimp farm in the keys. Then another professor wanted to have me work at a luxury hotel in the Bahamas. I kept turning down the gigs because of the girlfriend I had at the time, young and dick dumb, wish they punched me in the face, like wake up dolt it's just pussy clouding your judgement.

 

[mbelue]

So the wife and I share the same kind of phone charger. As does our kindle. We go through micro USB cables like tissues. This time I manned up and got a wireless charger.
Holy poopie that is some science fiction. Really neat stuff. Why can't everything work like this?

 

[Blank_0101]

I guess it's harder not to go to Disney if your wife wants to go.

If your kid wants to go, I figure tell em Mickey died and you save yourself a little cash.

He also wanted me to work at a shrimp farm in the keys.

Prof. Bubba? Shrimp farm... Just sounds nasty.

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