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[quote name='3V17C' post='31244' date='Jul 13 2007, 01:24 PM'][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNV--9G_2tE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNV--9G_2tE[/url]


check out his facial expressions! haha...what a tool.


peace

c[/quote]

A tool who plays miles better than I can! - I think his facial expressions add to his playing, more entertaining to watch. :)

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[quote name='Nate' post='31262' date='Jul 13 2007, 01:38 PM']The melody is too disjointed in that simpsons thing...
No flow and very little groove.

A novelty with no substance methinks.
Not sure i'm into the facial expressions...[/quote]

Have to agree with you about the guy's rhythm - awful. No opinion about the facial expressions - whatever helps, I guess.

Still, I quite liked the rest of it.

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Hmmm - I've not seen the clip, but I'm not sure we should slate someone for their expressions! If Jaco, Mark King or any bass 'guru' is allowed to then we should leave alone.
If you watch people like Steve Vai (we are discussing PERFORMANCE here, not bass...) or Adrian Belew you can witness their expression with the music - they let their instrument speak. Countless others do too, this is obviously a can of worms in the making.
Of course, if it IS as ridiculous as everyone says then I take it all back!

Maybe I'm just paranoid cos I pull a lot of faces when I play!:)

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There are some truely insane genious's out there, stop the typical brittish knocking everyone, as they sure play the arse off of me, amazing, although how one ever starts out on that style of playing is a musical mystery to me, I had a go on a chapman stick once, that stuffed me and I do tap the odd chord 4th when playing but as for them 2, the short clip withstanding....im sure a life in jazz on prozac awaits as for the funny faces, go watch robin trower the grand daddy of facial expression. ( whoopsie, ive started having a pop at 'em )

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It's actually typically un-British to knock people.

That's why some might argue that Britain's not great at anything anymore. And some might argue that's why we have to find a way to compensate. Some might argue the ways in which we compensate include throwing our (limited) weight around on the world stage and overpricing everything. Hence rip-off Britain and lapdog PMs.

Go look at all the youtube comments for clips of musicians having a go - it's astounding the levels of criticism people throw around on there. And the majority of those guys are American. There's a good side and a bad side to the competitive streak that we seem to hide away from.

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[quote name='nig' post='31488' date='Jul 13 2007, 06:50 PM']There are some truely insane genious's out there, stop the typical brittish knocking everyone, as they sure play the arse off of me, amazing, although how one ever starts out on that style of playing is a musical mystery to me, I had a go on a chapman stick once, that stuffed me and I do tap the odd chord 4th when playing but as for them 2, the short clip withstanding....im sure a life in jazz on prozac awaits as for the funny faces, go watch robin trower the grand daddy of facial expression. ( whoopsie, ive started having a pop at 'em )[/quote]



MB1. :)

ive seen Robin Trower live, i agree the master of facial expression(and an amazing guitarist too.)

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[quote name='Steve Rickwood' post='31479' date='Jul 13 2007, 05:37 PM']Haha! for part of my degree I had to learn drums to a basic extent. My friend said, "The face you pull whilst playing drums is the face you pull whilst having sex."
Since then I have never been able to see him in the same light when we gig together.[/quote]


Great, im gigging tonight, Buh bye all sense of seriousness on stage >.<

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[quote name='3V17C' post='31244' date='Jul 13 2007, 01:24 PM'][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNV--9G_2tE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNV--9G_2tE[/url]
check out his facial expressions! haha...what a tool.
peace

c[/quote]
I went to the guy's band's myspace site he plays some wonderful stuff on the vid clip there and no tics.

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[quote name='guitarnbass' post='31923' date='Jul 14 2007, 10:16 PM']this is the face --- [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c46fr2EZOhQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c46fr2EZOhQ[/url][/quote]
I'd pull a face if I tried that! No I'd probably rupture myself actually.

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  • 2 weeks later...

I think its amazing that this post has gone from a guy playing bass, to snobbery about his "lack of flow", to the reasoning about why Britain is poop.
Is it me, or has this got a bit too serious? I think the guy's cool for being able to do what he can do, and not being afraid to share it.

And when it comes to "playing faces", i apparantly don the stare of the keyboard player from Sparks.

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