Damn Guitarists think they can play bass!

[metalmaniac]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4kHfISYjbU&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4kHfISYjbU...feature=related[/url]

hes a quick mofo,

but more to what im interested in....

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QA-1EeVLvg&NR=1"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QA-1EeVLvg&NR=1[/url]


what the hell is on his thumb
comments say-

DjFiedCaptainMo - I want to find that weird thing in his thumb and play some slap wit it.
metalhead1118 - from what i heard, its called a funk finger, and it was invented by the dude in king crimson, and its not too easy to get


anyone know what it is?


cheers

Edited December 30, 2007 by metalmaniac

[theosd]

I like how he has to physically restrain himself from getting too funkily down wit' it, in order to maintain his emotionless approach. The second vid you posted shows him actually seeming to enjoy himself... only the power of slap bass it seems could achieve that!

Edited December 30, 2007 by theosd

[Mr. Foxen]

WAsn't the King Crimson guy taping cut down drumsticks to his fingers? Sure I read about it recently on actual paper so musta been a recent mag.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Here's some info on Tony Levin's site about his Funkfingers
[url="http://www.tonylevin.com/pbtlff.htm"]http://www.tonylevin.com/pbtlff.htm[/url]
It looks like he stopped selling them over seven years ago.

[Russ]

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='111229' date='Dec 30 2007, 11:50 PM']Here's some info on Tony Levin's site about his Funkfingers
[url="http://www.tonylevin.com/pbtlff.htm"]http://www.tonylevin.com/pbtlff.htm[/url]
It looks like he stopped selling them over seven years ago.
[/quote]
Just as well I got hold of a pair when I did. Never really had much opportunity to use them, though.

[Mr. Foxen]

Now I checked out Buckethead's other stuff, he is suddenly my favourite guitarist.

[jay249]

None of that did anything for me at all, whatsoever.

[Golchen]

I have no interest in any musician who wants to look such a total tw*t. His image is a 20 second student prank that accidentally went on forever.

Guitarists playing bass - How many are there? I recall that Yngwie played bass on one of his albums, and also Eddie Van Halen played all the bass on a Sammy Hagar solo album. What other well known ones are there?

[wotnwhy]

what on earth is that guy next to him playing??/?

[umph]

^ i don't know but i want one

[bnt]

[quote name='Dillsfretless' post='113933' date='Jan 5 2008, 10:46 AM']Guitarists playing bass - How many are there? I recall that Yngwie played bass on one of his albums, and also Eddie Van Halen played all the bass on a Sammy Hagar solo album. What other well known ones are there?[/quote]
I know Joe Satriani and Steve Vai have done it, though both seem to prefer working with a bassist. On Vai's [i]Passion and Warfare[/i], for example, Vai plays boring bass on the opening song [i]Liberty[/i], then Stu Hamm adds the Ex Factor to Steve's [i]Erotic Nightmares[/i]: no risk of confusion there! On Vai's [i]Live at the Astoria[/i] DVD, there's a hilarious backstage video of Billy Sheehan's roadie trying to teach Billy to slap, so he can play some of Stu's parts.

More notoriously, Billy Corgan played a [b]lot[/b] of bass on the [b]Smashing Pumpkins[/b] studio albums - exactly how much has never been disclosed. On the DVD I have, there's studio footage of recording the "Untitled" track, with D'Arcy or Melissa* nowhere to be seen, and Billy sounding like a bassist, not just a guitarist playing bass (IMHO).

* [url="http://www.aufdermaur.com/"]Auf Der Maur[/url], that is. I've heard bits of her upcoming [url="http://xmadmx.com/ooom.html"][i]Out Of Our Minds[/i][/url] project, and I can't hardly wait.

Edited January 5, 2008 by bnt