bobbass4k

Mask, nudity, setlist written on chest and one of the greatest quotes of recent memory: "If Freddy Mercury were still alive, he would be an environment". Also a damn fine bassist.

Unfortunately not. The "lesser" musicians usually get shafted by label deals. Often it's whoever wrote the main riff or the recognisable melody or the such, the bassist and drummer could write their parts entirely and not get credit for it.

[quote name='bode' post='1297813' date='Jul 8 2011, 11:11 PM']Any guitarists who need to use capos simply don't know enough chords. My old band tuned down to D because it sounded heavier. We learnt any covers by ear using D tuning and that was that, no capos, no moving up frets.[/quote] That doesn't really work, if a riff or something uses an open string and lots of high frets in quick succsesion in the tuning it was recorded in, playing it properly in a different tuning is pretty difficult without a capo. I've even been known to use a capo on bass for that reason, my bass is in D standard/Drop C all the time now, most songs can just be transposed, but some just can't, and it's a pain in the arse to retune if I just want to play one song.

I'd say the thumpinator definitely depends on your amp setup, if the amp head is already filtering the range, then the Thumpinator pretty much has nothing to do. Volume is also a factor, at low practice volumes, the speakers won't move much no matter what you're putting through them.

I'd say they're less common than 8 or 10 years ago (chirst, it's depressing I can use phrases like that), when all the nu-metal bands were around, 5 strings were the standard amongst those kinds of bands. Now that the most popular stuff is middle of the road indie/folk/electro twaddle, I'd say 4 strings are definitely the standard now. In fact, I'm struggling to think of a current popular band that has a 5 string playing bassist. Maybe people have realised that Drop C is just perfect for every situation.

Such an amazingly fun tune to play. The video is not for the faint hearted though.

Music For Sunsets.

From the front page this reads as "Having a ridiculously sized pe..." I was dissapointed.

[quote name='bartelby' post='1281126' date='Jun 24 2011, 03:29 PM']I've seen more and more bands doing this. Most of the time I assumed it was because the band member were old and didn't like to bend down all the time. [/quote] I actually had to do this cos of back problems, at the ripe old age of 19...

DR, they're expensive, but I just can't go back, especially now I've discovered their DDT strings, the best strings I've ever used for drop tuning. They cost a fair bit, but they last 3-4 months on their own, and they'll clean back to a zingy sound 2 or 3 times, so you can get 7 or 8 months out of one set.

The harmony modes with delay are very nice, especially if you play harmonics, a bit justin chancellor heavy perhaps but very nice all the same. In fact any modes with delay are quite nice, you can get some good soundscapes going with some +1 oct sweeps and a long delay.

Their live show is an odd combination of fear, hilarity, and nudity.

Chloe Alper anyone? Damn good player too.

Tremolo? A man can dream, assuming they've fixed the bypass.

Started on trumpet and violin in school, but then I got into rock and wanted to play that. There were no bassists at my school just dozens of guitarists and i've always liked been the odd one out, so I took up bass. I actually wanted to take up drums too but as soon as I said the word drums to my mum she just said no. So bass it was and 8 years later I'm still loving, I play guitar and drums now too but bass will always be first.

I never got the slap fixation, it's just one of many ways to play bass, fingerstyle, pick, tapping are all equally as important and valid, and a good player should be well versed in them all.

Mark Heron (Oceansize) - Drums Josh Homme (Kyuss/QOTSA/TCV et. al) - Guitar Mike Vennart (Oceansize) - Vocals/Guitar Barry Burns (Mogwai) - Keys/Piano/Guitar And if I wasn't going to play bass it'd be Chris Wolstenholme or Neil Mahoney (Amplifier)