The Dumbest Thing I Ever Posted

[Old_Noob]

I had to look up who Thundercat is and I'm only 3 years older than him. Get off my lawn.

Sooo. Last summer ('19), I had to chase a bunch of teenage kids out of my yard who were shooting off fireworks and banging on peoples windows. It was a Friday night and I was half-inebriated, wearing a "wife-beater" and ran after them with a baseball bat. I called the cops. When they showed up, it became apparent that they were responding to a call from the kids, not me. I was like poopie....I am "that" guy now.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Sooo. Last summer ('19), I had to chase a bunch of teenage kids out of my yard who were shooting off fireworks and banging on peoples windows. It was a Friday night and I was half-inebriated, wearing a "wife-beater" and ran after them with a baseball bat. I called the cops. When they showed up, it became apparent that they were responding to a call from the kids, not me. I was like poopie....I am "that" guy now.

Good thing you did not whack them with that bat!

 

[zon6c-f]

All I can say is if this a layman’s idea of representative Rock bass lines, no wonder so much stuff is programmed these days.

Sighs...

 

[zon6c-f]

All I can say is if this a layman’s idea of representative Rock bass lines, no wonder so much stuff is programmed these days.

Day Tripper
Jail break
You can tell those in a split second

 

[Wasnex]

I totally agree. The sound samples in this video won't inspire anybody to take up the bass.

...and yet in the context of the mix, the sound is perfect IMHO. Maybe the soloed sound does not inspire people to play bass, but there is something for bassist to learn about tone, our role in music, and how seriously we take ourselves. I would be thrilled to have a fraction of a cent of the revenue each of those songs generated.

Ultimately I think I was born to play bass, so no inspiration was needed.

This line from the "Pretty Woman" has stuck with me through the years:

People's reaction to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic. They either love it or hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to appreciate it, but it will never become part of their soul.​

The idea is you are either born to love opera or your not. I think the same is true of being a bass player.

Something I found humorous in video: Years ago Michael Anthony was in a Mesa ad and was quoted as inferring the bass should not sound like a well executed fart (see quote in red rectangle below). IMHO the Van Halen bass tracks in the video sound rather like a really nasty fart to me . Seriously man, if your farts sound like that, there's a problem .

Cheers

 

[lfmn16]

I would say that's a guitarist's idea ...

Anything that comes next can be safely ignored.

 

[bobfarabaugh]

The Winger clip sounded like a synth to me.

I heard Spector. Yeah Definitely Spector.

 

[rtslinger]

But to be fair unless you are looking a signature bass parts that creates the hook, laying down the foundation and allowing the instruments that are bringing the hook to light is what we do, then adding a little tasty fill when the chance presents itself is when we are doing it well. Painting things around that signature hook that creates a memorable bass line that screams what the heck was that at least for us bass players who are concentrating on the low end God I have been doing this too long

 

[Wolfenstein666]

I admit I’ve played the same “joke” on folks, and had some fun with it. I guess the bassist gets to be the sad clown of the band. As much as we obsess over basses, amps, tone, the reality is...... it’s for us alone.

A truer thing has never been uttered.

 

[Bikeguy57]

The joke me was that anonymous root note is so faceless that even one of the greatest bassist’s in the world was clueless. Seriously, it reflects a lot of non-musicians idea of playing bass guitar.

Admittedly, I don't listen to a lot of modern music, but is Thundercat really considered "one of the greatest bassist's in the world?" Never heard of him.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Admittedly, I don't listen to a lot of modern music, but is Thundercat really considered "one of the greatest bassist's in the world?" Never heard of him.

I would say he is. Dude is a unique player and he has unreal chops.

 

[Bikeguy57]

I would say he is. Dude is a unique player and he has unreal chops.

Alright then, I'll give a listen!

 

[Flamingo21]

People's reaction to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic. They either love it or hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to appreciate it, but it will never become part of their soul.
The idea is you are either born to love opera or you're not. I think the same is true of being a bass player.

True.
I've learnt to appreciate opera.
I was born to be a bass player.

 

[Harper]

Tim Heidecker is HILARIOUS, and I guarantee that more people saw this than if someone sat Thundercat down for a "bass interview". Lighten up

That clip has "Seinfeld Syndrome" - the people in it are too busy laughing at themselves to actually be funny.

You get a block of time to interview Thundercat and you waste it with that? I guess everyone is a star on Youtube...

 

[two fingers]

I'm really, really curious as to how history will judge this music and these videos 100 or 200 years from now.

They will look back and say "Remember when the human race had FUN and didn't take ourselves so freaking SERIOUSLY?????"

That's how history will judge the 80s. People these days are so freaking uptight and offended that there's no way 80s music would work today.

Give me EVERYTHING about the 80s right now over this crap show today. And I'm not even talking about Coronavirus. In general, everyone is PISSED these day. Winger wasn't pissed. Their fans weren't pissed.

Rant/

 

[PJ Muzikmansky]

I guess that I’m old enough that I don’t understand the humor.

I couldn't figure out what was so funny either.

In Australia we call this sort of humour "taking the piss..."

 

[lordradish]

Admittedly, I don't listen to a lot of modern music, but is Thundercat really considered "one of the greatest bassist's in the world?" Never heard of him.

Def one of the modern greats, for sure. When I saw him last year, I was floored at how young the audience was, as they tend not to go for the technically proficient stuff, nowadays.

 

[lordradish]

They will look back and say "Remember when the human race had FUN and didn't take ourselves so freaking SERIOUSLY?????"

That's how history will judge the 80s. People these days are so freaking uptight and offended that there's no way 80s music would work today.

Give me EVERYTHING about the 80s right now over this crap show today. And I'm not even talking about Coronavirus. In general, everyone is PISSED these day. Winger wasn't pissed. Their fans weren't pissed.

Rant/

80's were great if you were into style over substance, for sure - culturally, musically, politically, whatever. I don't find hair band songs about screwing and partyin and such 'offensive'. I just think they're stupid and juvenile. I'm not 14.

The bands I liked in the 70s stopped taking the music seriously in the 80s. Going for the cute hair, costumes and three minute songs about nothing.

And what I'm seeing nowadays is a lot of people not taking ANYTHING seriously, especially the things that most need to be taken seriously.

 

[lordradish]

80's were great if you were into style over substance, for sure - culturally, musically, politically, whatever. I don't find hair band songs about screwing and such 'offensive'. I just think they're stupid and juvenile.

Alright then, I'll give a listen!

His album "Drunk" is a great place to start. Very Zappa-ish in parts, as he kind of sings like George Duke.

 

[knight of ni]

Admittedly, I don't listen to a lot of modern music, but is Thundercat really considered "one of the greatest bassist's in the world?" Never heard of him.

Well he checks the 'plays difficult stuff' item and checks the 'great signature bass' item with his Ibanez hollow body 6er, so he has the right to this 'great bassist' title. Guys like him put music back on the right tracks IMO, although I admit it's quite not what I listen to usually. It's good to be challenged in one's comfort zone.