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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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Another interesting thing about PJ that I guess I should add is that I actually know Eddie Vedder's biological sister. She's older than him and his parents couldn't take care of her in that point of their lives so she was adopted out. Apparently the lyrics from "daughter" are about her. Her adopted family is my best friend's family and that's how I came to know her. She's an awesome Woman. Runs a BBQ tent at the rodeo and it's frickin delicious.
I find the fact that his voice aged so well, considering his pitch and range, particularly amazing. I just think of Robert Plant's voice during Zeppelin, which I think is comparable range wise. By the time plant was 40 he sounded like a completely different singer. Nothing wrong with that, he really had no choice lol. Perhaps Chris was just better at taking care of his vocal chords.
Funny enough I kind of hated "No One Knows" the first time I heard it.
Fortunately, I stumbled across a satellite radio station (one of those ones that used to come with TV packages, like all the channels 900+ were actually just radio stations) that happened to be playing "Song For The Dead." THAT one got me curious enough to run out and buy the album.
And yeah, google searching "bands that sound like Queens of the Stone Age" is absolutely what lead me down the crooked path to where I am today.
Oh, the first records I bought with "my" money were "True Blue" by Madonna and the soundtrack from "La Bamba", but I already had a "collection" of my own 
(children music compilations, mostly). I have always loved music since I was a child. 
(children music compilations, mostly). I have always loved music since I was a child. 
Truly two of the best albums known to man.
Also hey y'all! I've been busy (as usual it seems) but I miss talking to y'all. Sweden's finally starting to get brighter and although we had a blizzard just yesterday, it's steadily getting warmer and brighter again and as the vaccines roll out, I am cautiously optimistic for what's to come in a couple of months. I think more and more things are starting to fall into place for me. Living alone, fighting bureaucracy, and working my career has been a lot. But it's getting less overwhelming and I feel like I'm getting more time and space for my interests and my personal growth again.
In bass news I've played around with drop tuning and decided to install a hipshot drop tuner. I'm really liking it so far on account of having access both to the ultra-low drop F tuning and also tuning up my standard from what used to be F or F# to G with a bit of a tighter low end. As I see it now I have three tunings at hand -- drop F, G standard, and C standard starting on the second string.
Oh, the first records I bought with "my" money were "True Blue" by Madonna and the soundtrack from "La Bamba", but I already had a "collection" of my own
Nice! My parents did the same for us. I was huge into my dads collection of hendrix and cream after I stumbled on to that after him playing some kinks and similar stuff. I have a pretty distinct feeling that when I was 8 or 9 I think I had gotten my first album with some allowance. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure it was backstreet boys or the like.
Needless to say I'm thankful I moved on from that crap. I think a year or so later is when I started listening to Eminem and first heard Green day from my parents. Thats what opened the doors to me really exploring music. Soon learned about misfits, clash, adolescents, rancid, grunge and rage, eventually tool, qotsa, and then to red fang, truckfighters, dozer, and you know.
Whats interesting is I also started getting schooled in jazz/funk and classical around the time I first heard Green Day. Meters, Basie, Holtz were probably my favorites of those.
I think I can top that. I was an insufferable classical music elitist. I distinctly remember thinking everything with a drumkit was rubbish.
You can all start throwing now.
Funnily enough, even those who came up with the cassette, and made it a succes, thought so.
Each of those can be taxing. I feel you!
Jesus, you are younnnnnng (and I am ooooooold
)When the Backstreet Boys came out I was already in the "I hate everyone" phase
So, finally went out to the garage yesterday and hooked up the rig. Hadn't played thru it since our practice space folded back in January. 1st time really getting the new pickup [I had swapped my EB0's mudbucker for a Dimarzio model 1] at volume.
A very worthy upgrade. Basically, the model 1 with the tone rolled off fully sounds like the mudbucker with the tone full up. At tone 100% on the model 1, it still goes boom but adds some p bass like punch. I love it.
A very worthy upgrade. Basically, the model 1 with the tone rolled off fully sounds like the mudbucker with the tone full up. At tone 100% on the model 1, it still goes boom but adds some p bass like punch. I love it.
^ was the amp the Quilter? I never got the screamin' deal I found locally but managed to find a decently priced Bass Block 800 on Reverb. Gotta sell some other amps now.
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As long as we're talking bout early record purchases, me and my brother had a lot of those awful '70s/'80s K-Tel compliation albums, some random 45's and KISS Alive II before our teens. Not sure how we ended up with the KISS record at that early age, but I do remember the KISS ARMY bubblegum trading cards we used to get and some weird movie they were in, which I really need to watch again. My brother got into bands later on that eventually I got into too because of typical family osmosis.......though one day at the record store I opted to buy one of my first tapes (along with some Dead Milkmen record)....apparently I was going on a theme....
I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I wasn't blown away as much as I was taken off guard by the sheer abrasiveness of the thing, and trying to understand what dee ferk these guys were so pissed off about....... I guess Klaus Flouride was the first bass player that I could actually hear and paid attention to.
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As long as we're talking bout early record purchases, me and my brother had a lot of those awful '70s/'80s K-Tel compliation albums, some random 45's and KISS Alive II before our teens. Not sure how we ended up with the KISS record at that early age, but I do remember the KISS ARMY bubblegum trading cards we used to get and some weird movie they were in, which I really need to watch again. My brother got into bands later on that eventually I got into too because of typical family osmosis.......though one day at the record store I opted to buy one of my first tapes (along with some Dead Milkmen record)....apparently I was going on a theme....
I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I wasn't blown away as much as I was taken off guard by the sheer abrasiveness of the thing, and trying to understand what dee ferk these guys were so pissed off about....... I guess Klaus Flouride was the first bass player that I could actually hear and paid attention to.
They were offered this side of the pond as well! I never bought one but I remember their obnoxious ads, which always ended:
"From K-Tel-Tel-Tel-Tel-Tel-Tel..."
Oh I have a childhood memory of Kiss as well, my mother had a couple of 45s, one of which was "Shandi" in this version, same cover as "Unmasked":
I was 3-4 years old. She had to keep it in a blank envelope because it scared the crap out of me and made me cry
I was also scared by the cover of "Very 'eavy very 'umble" by Uriah Heep and kinda scared but attracted by ELP's "Tarkus" one
Heh, I'm almost certain K-Tel made me the man I am today, if nothing else through the Goofy Greats compilation. So much nonsense in there to make you never take music seriously again, but still understand and feel it's power. I'm compelled to link to at least one track on the motherscratcher (tortured so many babysitters with that record), so I'll post the most bass-relevant track:
I honestly love when it totally Lawrence Welks out at about a minute in. I was raised thinking that this and Mule Skinner Blues were what you had kids listen to (warning: no bass to be found here).
Hehehe, my parents gave me Dressed to Kill and Destroyer for Christmas a couple of years before I bought the Styx record. My neighbor's dad was a cameraman on Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park (he had their whole catalog, of course). I would say that you need to watch it again is a very strong statement. Maybe it's just that you need to nap nearby while it plays.
I didn't happen upon it until high school, but yeah, everyone's performance in that band was a revelation to me.
Kiss my glittery behindus, prog rock. That's as musically complex as I care to get, and it sears flesh the whole way through. DK were an amazing branch of surf rock. Sometimes I think they were the ideal surf rock, even though they had vocals. But then again, I'm a pervert.
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While we're sharing... the first album purchased with my own money is hard to remember. I had a paper route so I had money, but I don't recall buying any tapes, just copying my parents records to cassette or dubbing my friends stuff. The nearest record store was a town away (or at the mall, also a town away). I got a CD player for Xmas and a couple CD's that my Dad picked out (Satan bless him for trying). But the first album I bought with my own paper route money was either "...and Justice For All" or "It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back" then I joined BMG and I know Led Zep 1 and 4 were in the box along with 7th Son by Maiden, BDP "All Means Necessary" and Follow the Leader" by Eric B and Rakim. Rap and Metal in the late 80's... pretty hilarious. By the way, I have bought thousands of albums to this point in my life; my first dozen or so are still shaging great... in my opinion.
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I think I was born into that phase...
Didn't realize you hailed from the Frozen North.
Speaking as a representative of the meek christian nations, we eagerly await the auditory assault of your avant garde viking destruction to liberate us from the monotony of our daily enslavement to simplicity and monotony.
