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I have actually no idea. I often a lazy during practise and sit down instead of using the strap
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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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Why yes, I have been listening to Bell Witch a lot lately. Why do you ask?
My listening habits are all over the place. Currently, I'm listening to a few albums at a time of a single band. Whichever band that is seems to have no rhyme or reason. It was recently In Flames, who I hadn't listened to in forever. I feel like much of my listening habits revolve around learning something new these days. Whether it's revisiting old classics to appreciate them, or trying bands I didn't like previously, I don't usually just listen for no reason. Though, to your point, I first got into black metal by using them as study music - the repetition and inability to understand the lyrics made a perfect trance to study to.———————————————————————
Wife and I saw them at Aftershock Festival in Sacramento the second week of October while we were celebrating our 10 year anniversary a few months late…
That was time #8 for me and #9 for my Wife…Followed immediately by time #10 on Sunday bc they played two separate nights)…
They still COMPLETELY MURDER it live…
They really must have gotten a really good deal from Satan on their stardom or something <—-(said w/ tongue firmly planted in cheek) bc GOOD GOD MAN…HOW are ya’ll almost 60 and still playing that kind of music that loud and that fast Man???….Like *** Man??? You shouldn’t be able to play Whiplash at that pace ESPECIALLY at your age…
ANYway…I digress…
I do get what you mean about not wanting them to dominate your listening habits the way you stated that…I feel like they are also enjoyed in a cumulative manner (e.g. listening to Metallica somehow always begets more Metallica so you get this vicious cycle of wanting more (You know…Like how drugs work <—-(LITERALLY!!!)…
…And I’d be curious to know how my listening habits actually shake out in the Metal sub genres (I’d be willing to guess that they are probably 40% of my listening habits mostly due to a couple of songs early in the week followed by a TON of listening to them on the weekends…
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Ive noticed in the last few weeks/months that I tend to follow the following daily schedule of Metal:
Work: Iron Maiden (really good background noise bc they consistently have similar song structures that still sound good at a low volume)…
Workout: Nu Metal, Groove Metal, 90s/early 2000s and beyond (Slipknot, Godsmack, Disturbed, Pantera, Rob Zombie, Lamb Of God, Mudvayne, etc.)
Bass practice: Sabbath, White Zombie, Maiden, TONS of Alice In Chains, Metallica, (occasionally bands from the list above bc I tend to try to play what I listen to during the day in hopes I might learn to hear the bass lines better and thus inadvertently improve at my instrument)…
Late night relax/chill: P.O.D. or Alice In Chains (alternate between the two depending on the day of the week
To fall asleep to: Death Metal, Generic Thrash, Doom Metal, etc. (usually from Apple Music’s subcategory)…It has taken me the longest time of all Metal genres to get into this kind of music but kinda finally did it this year…
I was resistant to a lot of the music in this bucket due to bad vocals (which I now mostly ignore) until I did more research on the overall genre…Personally I am not a fan of Black Metal, so I had to learn to sift out the super Satanic bands for personal reasons, but I feel like the redundancy of the riffs and the almost incomprehensible lyrics drone me to sleep (it’s kinda like if you’ve ever tried to listen to Slayer at a low volume while you wait to fall asleep- Interesting how some of those Swedish Death Metal bands almost turn into white noise if you listen to those riffs at a low volume with your eyes closed…
So…Yeah…
In Conclusion: Metallica Rules. Thank you.
Thanks! \m/
I typically hear enough Metallica on the classic rock stations here - that's what I listen to while driving with my wife. She's not the metalhead I am...
This guy's navel is like a black hole
I hold my bass high and it's hard to find straps short enough sometimes (I'm skinny also). I also was having trouble with the weight of my bass a little so I switched to KLIQ aircell straps. Sometimes I'll use a big sheepskin seatbelt pad on my cloth/leather strap and get some Phil Lesh vibes going.
Also this. I began doing this and it drastically improved my comfort
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I made this bass out of an old guitar. I gave it an old strap. They harmonize in an unexpected way.
My guess (probably wrong, and if I'd bothered to look up that familiar looking tailpiece I'd be more likely to be right, but I like to speculate): It's a Hagstrom archtop converted with a piezo pickup in the bridge.
No matter how wrong I am, it looks pretty neato.
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Oh man, I am TOTALLY guilty of bandwagoning bands (for lack of a better adjective/analogy) for a period of time…Er, it’s like I’ll go thru phases…
The last couple of years I was at work I would notice this…
I went on a really big Manson kick for a while (was apt at the time bc his music reflected the fact that I felt like my coworkers were treating me as a complete and total outcast)…Also-Went thru a HUGE Slipknot phase after that when things got MUCH worse at work and I felt like I had to channel my anger into something healthy and constructive so their music became a release for that…
I think it also just sorta depends on where your head is at during a certain period of time and what you feel like you connect with musically based on circumstances and life experiences…
I feel like that’s definitely true of branching out and listening to new music, but it also happens when you don’t listen to an album or an artist for a while, but binge listen to them for a few days/weeks/months…
…And I get what you mean about Black Metal bc I’ve noticed that a lot of Scandinavian Metal bands play so fast and try to be as accurate as possible the end result is a giant sonic wall of white noise…
To try to put it another way…
Since there aren’t quite as many dynamics as other Metal genres and everyone seems to try to play as fast as possible it’s like it just sorta melts everything together into one giant Metal sonic stew…
Am starting to appreciate that sub genre a lot more especially after listening to Left Hand Path by Entombed more and more…And Speaking of Swedish Metal-The Wife and I might get to see Opeth next weekend (fingers crossed that one doesn’t get canceled or postponed)…Mastodon is suppose to open for them I might add (caught their set at Aftershock & definitely wanna see them again)…
Thanks! \m/
Black Metal has tons of shades of grey. You should give this outstanding record by Drudkh a listen.
Thanks! I don't know what "deets" are, but I wrote a conversion thread in the Luthier's Corner. Here it is:
I've been bitten by the bug.
The tailpiece is just a cheap no-brand item, and I ended up using only the "wire" part of it. The "block" part didn't work so I made a wooden replacement for that.
Drudkh are incredible! I'm going to have to put on Autumn Aurora now.
I could go on and on with really good black metal, but I digress here too often as it is...
"Deets" is short for "details"? Somewhere a dictionary goes:
But I guess the deets been done.
But I guess the deets been done.
The conversion thread I linked, is full of deets.
It is quite deeted.
It is quite deeted.
Re-reading this post, I realised you were right on most points: it's a Goldene Harfe archtop converted with a piezo pickup in the bridge.
Hehe, and even when I was wrong, I was still kinda close. It's at least an European manufacturer, and I also typed Hagstrom when I meant Hofner.
My pride compels me to add: it's a Dutch manufacturer. It is Egmond, who exported to Germany under the German brand name Goldene Harfe (meaning golden harp, of course).
Ahh, I looked up Goldene Harfe, but it didn't lead me to Egmond. That's a brand I've heard of, but I've doubt I've ever been in the same room as one. I was basing my European guess on the style of arch top and the headstock shape.
And a quick search on Reverb makes me sad I'm not independently wealthy. There's a gorgeous Egmond bass for sale there. I wants it bad, but not at that price.
