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The bass equivalent to Jack White?

zachoff

zachoff

Apr 16, 2003
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#1
You think there is one? Plays junky basses like they're going out of style, plays a mean blues piano, writes catchy, old dirty blues songs like nobody's business, shows with no setlists, pours his heart and sould into ever performance, lives for improv...

Kinda weird, but him and Dave Grohl are kinda my new age heroes & aren't even bass players. I just like what they've done for music. :)
 
#4
JW fascinates me for some reason. He isn`t that great a player, his singing is atrocious. But it`s his quirkiness that`s refreshing. He plays all that obscure, crap gear, records in outdated RTR studios, writes and records albums in weeks rather than months or years (the way it used to be done), generally shuns newer tech - a definite Luddite and throwback. He is a great songwriter / lyricist too, btw. A bassist version of him? No one I know of.
 
#5
zachoff said:
You think there is one? Plays junky basses like they're going out of style, plays a mean blues piano, writes catchy, old dirty blues songs like nobody's business, shows with no setlists, pours his heart and sould into ever performance, lives for improv...

Kinda weird, but him and Dave Grohl are kinda my new age heroes & aren't even bass players. I just like what they've done for music. :)
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I don't know of a bassist offhand, but I like the two musicians you mentioned, and might I add Dex Romweber.
 
#7
pnut166 said:
JW fascinates me for some reason. He isn`t that great a player, his singing is atrocious. But it`s his quirkiness that`s refreshing. He plays all that obscure, crap gear, records in outdated RTR studios, writes and records albums in weeks rather than months or years (the way it used to be done), generally shuns newer tech - a definite Luddite and throwback. He is a great songwriter / lyricist too, btw. A bassist version of him? No one I know of.
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+1 ;)

I thought his (quickly saved) JAMES BOND theme song for the last movie was a beauty too. IMO one of THE best Bond theme songs ever!
Ireverent!?!? :p
 
#14
The genius of Jack White is that he's totally osmosis'd (osmosed?) himself with old blues 78's, but he forges forward with a sonic pallette that's uniquely his. He's a luddite in a lot of ways, but he's always quick to embrace new technology (Like the whammy pedal, for instance.) He's doing what guys like Peter Green, Clapton, and Rory Gallagher were doing forty years ago--taking the blues and modernizing it.

As opposed to, say, the Black Keys, who (IMO) write pop songs that sound like a lost blues record.
 
#15
thomashawk said:
I'll say Mike Watt, but only after Jack puts a few more miles on himself.
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That was my gut reaction to the OP too!

But i really love those links for Death from Above 1979.
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Cool stuff, very similar to the 2 pc bass/drums project I've envisioned for a while ('cept I'd be doing the lead vocals while playing bass.)
 
#18
Funny, when they were a local band here in Detroit, they/he was kinda a joke.
Give someone a record deal and a cover of Rolling Stone and they are on another level all of a sudden.
Just IMO....
At least Dave Grohl can play.
 
#20
MikeBass said:
Funny, when they were a local band here in Detroit, they/he was kinda a joke.
Give someone a record deal and a cover of Rolling Stone and they are on another level all of a sudden.
Just IMO....
At least Dave Grohl can play.
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That's funny, because the first thing I thought was "how long will this take to turn into a 'Jack White sucks' thread?"

Looks like 38 minutes is my answer.
 

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