WHUFC BASS Posted June 29, 2012 Author Share Posted June 29, 2012 (edited) No mention of Bert Weedon - the catalyst to the most inspirational guitarists Edited June 29, 2012 by WHUFC BASS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51m0n Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Joe Meek.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassPimp66 Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 I played all 40 sound clips ... Now, my wife is upset... OK, maybe because it's Saturday 7:00 AM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassace Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 [quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1341008104' post='1712921'] Joe Meek.... [/quote] Certainly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 (edited) I thought it was adequately geeky, given that it was:[list=1] [*]A list of 'distinctive sounds' rather than a list of techniques or influential musicians [*]Aimed at music fans rather than seasoned musos [/list] Good examples too, if one's looking for the most egregious example rather than the first recorded instance. And of course one might expostulate "Where is the Mouse Organ, eh, eh? What tripe!" but that would be to miss the point, IMO. If we're really that bothered, we could make our own list. My thanks to the OP for a pleasant diversion. [color=#ffffff].[/color] Edited June 30, 2012 by skankdelvar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panamonte Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 ^ ^ Yet again Skank hits the nail on the head. I thought it was an entertaining article. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51m0n Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 And yet its ok to slate every 'best bassist' and 'best bassline' list published by some tool who knows little or nothing about bass? Interesting.... I'd put Quincy Jones in the list of greatest influences on pop too thinking about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 (edited) [quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1341141467' post='1714188'] And yet its ok to slate every 'best bassist' and 'best bassline' list published by some tool who knows little or nothing about bass?[/quote] I don't, y'see. Slate them, that is. Generally steer clear of list debates, me. Far too contentious, people getting angry because something got left off a list. Get enough of that from the Missus - "Why didn't you put teabags on the list? And corned beef - you know we've run out." Thought this would be a safe one, bit of jollity, that sort of thing. Clearly mistaken, mea culpa, least said soonest mended, etc. Edited July 1, 2012 by skankdelvar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 I'm with skankdelvar on this. Nearly all these lists are made by and aimed at people who listen to music rather than play it. They have a different perspective to most musicians, which is something that those of us who play music and hope to entertain people like them as an audience would do well to remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1341150692' post='1714307'] ...people who listen to music rather than play it. They have a different perspective to most musicians ... [/quote] Too true. First time I heard Good Vibrations I was about 8 or 9. "Go on Mum," I said "Buy that record that goes wheee-oooh". Thing is, funny noises and sound effects used to sell records. A lost art, it would seem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musophilr Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 [sup]I liked this on wind chimes:[/sup] [sup][QUOTE][/sup] [sup]As the verse approaches, a finger dragged slowly backwards or forwards across the chimes creates a tingling sound, the equivalent of dusting an already sugar-heavy cake with additional icing sugar. They also make a particularly alarming noise when they topple over, but that has, so far, not been employed in any Top 40 hits. [/QUOTE][/sup] [sup] [/sup] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51m0n Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Ha, I'm not angry at all Skank, I just dont particularly like bad research in a published article. Yes I have my own list, it runs to several hundred items (easily) and I could bore you all to death with it. I dont because I think everyone has their own list, and its all equally valid, however the minute you publish your list on the internet as [i]The List[/i] it becomes a target if it is not very adequately researched or backed up. And that is where we are at this point Having said that I havent really commented on a list article before, because none of them has seemed so utterly pointless, or bull as this one does to me before..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oopsdabassist Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1341150692' post='1714307'] I'm with skankdelvar on this. [/quote] Me too, gutted at no mention of the mouse organ!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Wobble board..? Stylophone..? 'Sparky's Magic Piano..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 (edited) Well, here's my absolutely random list of memorable odd noises:[list] [*]Big Country's Stuart Adamson yelling 'Shaah!' all over the place, never mind the bagpipe guitars [*]Space noises and nasal keyboards on 'Telstar' [*]Revving motorcycle Sfx on 'Leader of the Pack' [*]The chink of metal on metal - XTC's 'Towers Of London' (was it?) [*]Wung-wung-wung-wung-wung-wung-wung-wung noise at the start of Zeppelin's 'Black Dog' [*]Spoof radio ads on 'The Who Sell Out' [*]Ringtone at start of Blondie's 'Hanging on The Telephone' [*]Bizarre spoken voice on Peanuts Wilson's 'Cast Iron Arm' - "So I hit him in the head" [*]Tribal ritual Sfx on The Cadets 'Lost in the Jungle' [*]Ian Anderson's flute work [/list] [color=#ffffff].[/color] Edited July 1, 2012 by skankdelvar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzneck Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 [quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1341183844' post='1714970'] Well, here's my absolutely random list of memorable odd noises:[list] [*]Big Country's Stuart Adamson yelling 'Shaah!' all over the place, never mind the bagpipe guitars [*]Space noises and nasal keyboards on 'Telstar' [*]Revving motorcycle Sfx on 'Leader of the Pack' [*]The chink of metal on metal - XTC's 'Towers Of London' (was it?) [*]Wung-wung-wung-wung-wung-wung-wung-wung noise at the start of Zeppelin's 'Black Dog' [*]Spoof radio ads on 'The Who Sell Out' [*]Ringtone at start of Blondie's 'Hanging on The Telephone' [*]Bizarre spoken voice on Peanuts Wilson's 'Cast Iron Arm' - "So I hit him in the head" [*]Tribal ritual Sfx on The Cadets 'Lost in the Jungle' [*]Ian Anderson's flute work [/list] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [/quote] + Bo Diddly's tremolo and pick scraping bottom E at the start of 'Roadrunner'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer of the Bass Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 And Roger Ruskin-Spears' amplified Trouser Press! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassTractor Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Me, I love the coinspin at the start of Gentle Giants's "The Boys in the Band". My fave noise however is when Laurie Anderson plays her violin on United States Live I-IV. Slight detail: the violin has a tape head mounted, and the bow has a tape on it with prerecorded violin tone. The speed of her bowing then governs the frequency of the produced tone. Hard to play I gues - hence "noise". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 I can't help but feel that a lot of people here have missed the point. Sure some of the examples being posted are great sounds but in the main they are unique to the people who made them and have remained that way. And that is the important point. The sounds in the article that started this off have become bigger than the people who invented them or are best known for them. They have taken on a life of their own and far out-grown their origins. In fact of all the "better" examples being posted, IMO only the plectrum scrape down the string (a cliché no guitarist should be without) is worthy of inclusion in the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassTractor Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1341222721' post='1715231'] I can't help but feel that a lot of people here have missed the point.[/quote] Either that, or we are just not giving a rat's ass about the original list. Personally, I haven't even checked it. Too many songs I don't even know. "Competing" with a list, or criticising it, feels rather unnecessary. Adding some possible joy to this thread though, is. I found Skank's list at least as engaging as the original one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-bbb Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 (edited) Hi there, nice to be with you, glad you could stick around. Like to introduce `Legs' Larry Smith, drums And Sam Spoons, rhythm pole And Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell, bass guitar And Neil Innes, piano. Come in Rodney Slater on the saxophone With Roger Ruskin Spear on tenor sax. I, Vivian Stanshall, trumpet. Big hello to Big John Wayne, xylophone And Robert Morley, guitar. Billy Butlin, spoons. And looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes. Nice! Princess Anne on sousaphone. Mmm. Introducing Liberace, clarinet With Garner "Ted" Armstrong on vocals. Lord Snooty and his pals, tap dancing. In the groove with Harold Wilson, violin And Franklin McCormack on harmonica. Over there, Eric Clapton, ukulele. Hi Eric! On my left Sir Kenneth Clark, bass sax. A great honour, sir. And specially flown in for us, a session's gorilla on vox humana. Nice to see Incredible Shrinking Man on euphonium. Drop out with Peter Scott on duck call. Hearing from you later, Casanova on horn. Yeah! Digging General de Gaulle on accordion. Rather wild, General! Thank you, sir. Roy Rogers on Trigger. Tune in Wild Man of Borneo on bongos. Count Basie Orchestra on triangle. Thank you. Great to hear the Rawlinsons on trombone. Back from his recent operation, Dan Druff, harp. And representing the flower people, Quasimodo on bells. Wonderful to hear Brainiac on banjo. We welcome Val Doonican as himself. Very appealing, Max Jaffa. Mmm, that's nice, Max! What a team, Zebra Kid and Horace Batchelor on percussion. A great favourite and a wonderful performer of all of us here, J. Arthur Rank, on gong. err is that 40 covered yet ??? and for the benefit of our younger basschatters [media]http://youtu.be/8DUEAG5eO6c[/media] Edited July 2, 2012 by steve-bbb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Forgot I wasn't in OT, where no thread ends where it started. F'sure. the original list was about proper stuff that's worked its way into the mainstream, as BigRedX most eloquently puts it. Myself, I've always loved these odd little noises and sound-effects that add sparkle to the musical experience. Like the shotgun blast at the start of - er - 'Shotgun' by Junior Walker. Overly-literal, perhaps, but it gets the listener's attention. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMs9NudasVI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMs9NudasVI[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzneck Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Aha! The Bonzos - Thanks Steve -bbb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveK Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 [i]'the root and the fifth of the chord played at substantial volume on guitar and distorted to taste.'[/i] [i]'as demonstrated by thousands of amateur guitarists hacking out the opening bars of Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water'[/i] Who, by playing 5ths, would all be playing it incorrectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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