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My favourite one, when I was in a sludge metal band was someone committing on a video that we should switch to playing popular covers to make us more popular 

Thanks for that career advice. I always thought disgusting, soul crushing metal that appeals to weirdos was the route to fame and wealth. Id expected to be the new Taylor Swift by now.

Rex Browns grinding, growling tone with Pantera. The most perfect metal bass tone. No effects pedals, just a Spector NS2 in to his GK amp

1 minute ago, chris_b said:

I'd like to see anyone use AI to copy how I play. Good luck to them.

Maybe thats the way to sabotage AI, expose it to the out of tune noodling of the average BC member. I could probably break it myself. 

I give up on Facebook and Instagram. AI has just made them even more irritating than they were before 

It does cut costs for the businesses using AI but does that saving get passed on to the consumer? I seriously doubt it. 

Im currently at a point where I will avoid knowingly listening to bands who I know use AI.

Should AI have any place in music? Musicians are quite rightly against AI being used to create music but some of the same people seem fine with using it for artwork or videos so happy with replacing other artists who support the music industry. 

Considering that its replacing real artists plus uses enormous amounts of energy plus it keeps any information you put in (nothing is ever free), is it right in your opinion to use AI as part of your art or any art?

Subjected to a beating - Dying Fetus

Double points?

That looks ideal for playing 70's porno background music. You'll be needing a moustache to go with it

Floods by Pantera. 

Rex Brown must be one of the most under appreciated bassists. The bass groove behind Dimebags epic solo is just brilliant. There's nothing particularly hard to play but there's a lot to remember. 

1 hour ago, MacDaddy said:

Battle of the fans?

 

Many years ago, my then band won a BotB, and because of this the following year we were invited to play a festival at the home town's twin town in Europe, all expenses paid. 

 

Plus lots of publicity in the local rags for winning. So all good 😊 

My daughters band won one a few years ago and it did really give them a boost with a few festival bookings plus a couple local venue owners were in the audience and booked the.

15 minutes ago, Owen said:

They are all sorts of reasons to not have them.

 

But they serve a purpose in that it means that people get up on stage and actually do it. The sound will be pants because in general it is inexperienced musicians strutting their stuff with their bedroom curated TOOOOOONE. And often, by now, this is the only way for young bands to hit stages. 

 

So on balance, I think they are a good thing. 

The ones I've been to had bands who I know normally sound good and none of the competing bands were inexperienced. They were all pretty good acts 

What's the general opinion of battle of the bands type competitions? 

Ive not entered any been to a few for my daughters band and mates and it seems that a big part of winning is not about who is best but who turns up with the most mates to vote for them. 90% of the people in the room know who they're voting for before a single note has been played. Every one of these competitions Ive been to has awful sound.

On the positive side, it puts bands in front of promoters and can result in bookings for decent bands who can perform. Its also good for filling a venue and giving them a few nights of good business. Most of these competitions do have judges as well as audience voting so maybe that evens things out a bit. 

I don't think music should be competitive. 

I went to a venue tonight with a signature sound and that sound is muddy bass and drums with bloody awful guitar and vocals. The same for five bands. Oddly, the sound was much better in the toilets. Maybe the sound tech had the squirts and spent the evening in there.

Id like to see a Fender 5 string headless fan fret active with triple pickups and built in cheese board.

12 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

And let's not forget Fender's extraordinary achievement of having offered 7526 different versions of the exact same model each and every year for the Namm show since your 15 years of absence...

Steady now. They've had some serious innovation. They did a new colour about 5 years ago. Thats serious innovation. 

31 minutes ago, tauzero said:

Every manufacturer must produce a fan-fret headless bass with at least five strings (a four string option is permitted), with the exception of Fender, who have been given a 50 year grace period to adjust and to find some other huge pointless piece of wood that they can put their logo on.

I believe Gibson have the same exception. Neither Gibson or Fender have created a new product in 50 years.

To get famous as a YouTube player, you need to slap 100 notes a second with an expression that suggests you've farted and its bad news. The playing should absolutely not sound good. 

New basses should be attacked with various abrasive tools to scrape off the paint in areas it would never actually wear through use.

Joe Dart is mostly about the smug expression. 

Metal bassists must own every Darkglass product and a fan fret, 5 string, active bass.

Jazz bassists now only use BC Rich Warlock basses.

Picks are now compulsory. 

16 hours ago, cetera said:

 

Thats quite interesting. It explains why im boosting the mids a lot in my amp, the tonepump has quite a mid scoop. Based on the audio samples in this video, the tonepump seems more aggressive and overall, probably the better choice for me but probably not for anyone playing less aggressive music. 

Thats ugly. I think ill give it a miss. 

To be honest, I can't see myself ever buying a bass more expensive than my Euro LX and even that is far too good for someone of my very minimal talents. 

25 minutes ago, cetera said:

 

That'll be what im looking for. Ta

Ive been looking for a comparison video, tonepump vs Haz. Is there anything out there? 

17 hours ago, p4ul said:

new irrational prejudice is unlocked!

Its standard in metal to tune lower than standard. Its the only way to get a really heavy sound. Tuning down to from E to C is pretty common. I played in a couple bands that tuned down to A#.

My current band is in standard and it's too high to get really doomy.

31 minutes ago, Nail Soup said:

For anyone who doesn't know, could someone explain what a reverse P configuration is?

@neepheid beat me to it and explain it better

8 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

My old band went through many iterations before I found it all somewhat exasperating and jumped.  Reckon we may have got up to A (me, obvs), D (second drummer), H (third guitarist) and L (third singer) before things really hit the fan.

 

L decided he didn't think D was any good and argued that we should try out ¥ (a drummer we all knew), to prove a point.  So we did, but ¥ wasn't remotely interested in joining, but L thought ¥ would.  A knew ¥ wouldn't.  A knew D was a bit crap and H was on the fence, but L decided D needed to go and said A needed to tell him.

 

So A told him.  It was horrible for A.  A then found a new drummer through Facebook (let's call him P) and he was a great player, although Ps raison d'etre was primarily for shagging audience members even while his wife was there.  'Where's P,' she'd say, 'Have you seen him?'

 

L started to make life difficult for A, despite A writing the bulk of the material, and A left, eventually being replaced by Q, R and S, before the band imploded.

 

 

Is the answer X=y^2 + 23 ?