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SteveXFR

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  1. I've been listening to a lot of 90's shoegaze bands this week (Swervedriver, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine etc) but I'm not finding any new shoegaze bands. Do they exist?

  2. Got it. I loaded the track in to Reaper, set up a loop on the riff and slowed it to 75% and stuck with it.

    The rest of the song was a doddle after that. I still don't get why that was the bit that tripped me up. Great song though and really fun to play. Makes me want to start a stoner metal covers band but that seems like a band no one would ever book!

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  3. 2 hours ago, Terry M. said:

    Btw are you equating nerdiness to one's technical proficiency?

     

    Yes, absolutely. To become that good requires a certain level of nerdyness to put in the thousands of hours of practice. 

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  4. 15 minutes ago, Grahambythesea said:

    Nerdy has to be any Multiscale. Who are you trying to kid, it’s bass for centuries through double bass and bass guitar the same length strings have worked so having them of different lengths is nerdy!

    I rest my case.

     

    I played a multiscale. Not sure I'm good enough to be nerdy but the prog metal bassists who normally play them definitely are.

    I'd recommend trying one though, utterly pointless unless you use the low B string a lot, then it really makes sense

  5. Anything to change tone is not an upgrade. There is no better or worse tone, only different tone. We all have different tonal requirements to fit with our band and the genre we play.

    A funk bassist would hate my super bright sounding strings and high output pickups but for me, they're great.

  6. I almost forgot, I bought my daughter a MIN Jazz bass for Christmas. As a music student she should be nerdy BUT she doesn't even like prog or jazz. She's in alt rock, shoegaze and punk bands but I think only uses the jazz bass for the shoegaze band and that's definitely neither cool or nerdy.

  7. 16 minutes ago, Grooverjr said:

    Nice people, maybe, but I have never been anywhere near a fight since I stopped hanging around with them. Must be all that testosterone 🤣

     

    Really? Most of my friends have been metal heads since I left school nearly 30 years ago and I've never got in a fight. The one time it got close, some idiot wouldn't stop bothering my girlfriend (now wife). In the end, me and my mates dragged him behind the pub and stole his clothes instead of beating him up. 

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  8. 4 minutes ago, Grooverjr said:

    I'd say possibly for a little bit in early 90s with Metallica and the tail end of GnR, but largely true. In Latin America rock and the whole long hair and leather thing was very cool for a very long time, mind. 

     

    I'd say even then, over here at least metal was uncool. 

    Metal heads are the nicest, best people though.

  9. 20 minutes ago, Mrbigstuff said:

    The days of any metal style being cool are long gone!

     

    When was metal ever cool? Metal has always been for misfits and outcasts.

    I love metal but I'll be the first to admit it's not cool.

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