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Stuff you hate to hear another Bassist Say

#321
Well, it seems it was my fault: I didn't knew the difference between a guitard and a guitarrist; i thought that "guitard" was a pejoratif term for the 6-stringer. Here, in Romania (Hmmm, you know, Dracula and stuff, huh!), musicians are mostly susceptible to follow the American trends. In fact, I believe you must know WHAT trend to follow: Pat Metheny is American, like Charlie Haden and a lot of other good people.
I must admit that, from some hard rock point of view, Romanians followed the British trend...

If I'm allowed, I would like to introduce you a few Romanian stuff; i choose some live one, because it's also the true one:


First of all, the best Romanian jazz guitarrist - now, he lives in Canada, as you can see. In the late '80's he teached me a few jazz tricks...




Enjoy!
 
#323
ysand said:
Thanx a lot for the links! Very interesting bands, but maybe you should make a different topic for this post, because in this one it's an "off-topic" one.
Interesting bands i have to say though :)
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I'm very glad to read that you liked these Romanian (should I say "Rockmanian") bands/musicians; I must admit I'm not quite a forum-topics-etc. guy; maybe that's why I don't know how-where-when to post all these links. Also, I'm not quite a computer guy: only for my job ("Word" and similar stuff - I'm a writer and a daily columnist) and for my passion (Cubase and other music-related programs).
If you liked these bands, you'll find in the right side of You Tube other videos related.
 
#324
Cip said:
Well, it seems it was my fault: I didn't knew the difference between a guitard and a guitarrist; i thought that "guitard" was a pejoratif term for the 6-stringer. Here, in Romania (Hmmm, you know, Dracula and stuff, huh!), musicians are mostly susceptible to follow the American trends. In fact, I believe you must know WHAT trend to follow: Pat Metheny is American, like Charlie Haden and a lot of other good people.
I must admit that, from some hard rock point of view, Romanians followed the British trend...

If I'm allowed, I would like to introduce you a few Romanian stuff; i choose some live one, because it's also the true one:


First of all, the best Romanian jazz guitarrist - now, he lives in Canada, as you can see. In the late '80's he teached me a few jazz tricks...




Enjoy!
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+30,000,000

I love music discovery so much.
 
#325
Grayson C. said:
+30,000,000

I love music discovery so much.
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Well, help yourself! Any way you want it (as Journey used to say), if you wanna discover the unknown (I mean the East European) side of music, I'll be there for you - [email protected] - if I can help you. Even if now I play the blues, I still feel my steel (Whoaaa, nice lyrics: "still feel steel" etc.) roots: rock is universal, HE has no language!
 
#326
"Real bassplayers use their fingers"

Probably the worst one. If someone prefer playing with a pick, let he/she do just that.

"Bass is for the guys who can't play guitar"

One of my former teachers. Yes, I whacked him 27 times with a chair.

This once happened when I tried an amp at a music store:
Seller: Can I help you?
Me: Yeah sure! I'd like to try this amp (points to a Line 6 LD150 which I later bought)
Seller: (Grabs a cable, and gives one end to me, and I plugged it in to my bass)
Seller: Is your bass a "battery-bass" or a standard bass?
Me: It's an ACTIVE bass

I FRIGGIN' KNOW THAT IT IS CALLED ACTIVE AND PASSIVE BASS! Also he said it with an awful tone in his voice, like he didn't think I had a chance to know what it's called.

After that, he began to turn knobs and whatnot. I FRIGGIN' KNOW HOW TO SET A TONE I LIKE ON A FRIGGIN' AMP!! His settings sucked of course, so I proceeded to set my own tone the very second his fingers let go of the amp.

He really treated me like a baby, and that pissed me off. So I kissed him upside the cranium with an aluminum baseball bat. In my mind, that is.
 
#328
"Who is Primus"
*shakes head*

When jamming with my drummer and a random other bassist.
him: "What do you want to jam"
me: "Let's just play out of an A minor"
him: *blank look* "What"
me: *disappointed* "Just play the 7th fret on the D string"
him: *blank look*
me: *sigh* "Just play the second fattest sting over and over with the drums..."

idiot.
 
#332
heath_r_91 said:
Something that happens on TB a lot really annoys me.

Q: "Should I get this Ampeg head or this GK head?"
A: "Get a Markbass LMII!!!!"

or

Q: "Should I get this Aguilar cab or this SWR cab?"
A: "Get an Avatar!!!"

:rolleyes:
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Hey, that's what I wanna get!! But i need to get a new bass first and a long string of effects first... and to anyone who made fun of pete wientz (or however you spell his name, i don't care) i literally lol'd when ever he game up. And i haven't played much other than at my school, but the sh*ta$$ techies always tell me to turn the bass down....:(then they go turn the guitarist up....:scowl:
 
#338
"...you use too much vibrato"

<RANT>I know that i get carried away sometimes, but this wasn´t one of those times, and coming from a guy who cannot play something as simple as "Just like heaven" to save his life,"Slaps" in the middle of a ballad, says that wood choice has nothing to do with the sound of a bass, "plays" a sweet´73 Jazz for a year without paying for it (of course the owner got it back), calls me "Maestro" every time he has a chance and then stabs me in the back, that was a very annoying thing to hear.</RANT>

(I´m the happy owner of the´73 Jazz, i bought it off the guy who had to retrieve it after a year, and YES this is kinda personal, but the douche i´m talking about is a bassist so i guess this is on-topic haha)
 

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