BassBus Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 What a powerhouse he is with Muse and what a phenomenal bass line he plays on Hysteria. That is all. Quote
AndyTravis Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 Great bass player. Can't cope with the band. Quote
ahpook Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 (edited) You'd need to be hale and hearty to keep up with his playing - his stamina is quite something. Edited May 23, 2015 by ahpook Quote
molan Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 [quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1432421043' post='2781391'] You'd need to be hale and hearty to keep up with his playing - his stamina is quite something. [/quote] I also wish him to remain free from defect, disease, or infirmity. . . . Quote
Funky Dunky Posted May 24, 2015 Posted May 24, 2015 Guy is a beast. Killer lines, great sounds/tones. Quote
Bassjon Posted May 24, 2015 Posted May 24, 2015 Muse are not so good these days but this guy is amazing! Quote
Muzz Posted May 24, 2015 Posted May 24, 2015 I quite like the music, more the bass than anything, but as soon as whathisface opens his mouth...nope... We do Hysteria sometimes, it's a good line: very...busy... Quote
BassBus Posted May 24, 2015 Author Posted May 24, 2015 (edited) [quote name='Bassjon' timestamp='1432468544' post='2781699'] Muse are not so good these days but this guy is amazing! [/quote] I would agree with that. Anything after Blackholes and Revelations hasn't really done it for me. All the old stuff they played last night still had that magic. Edited May 24, 2015 by BassBus Quote
anaxcrosswords Posted May 24, 2015 Posted May 24, 2015 Am I right in thinking that, before Muse, CW had never played bass? Sure I read it somewhere. [b][i]Hysteria [/i][/b]is one of those must-have-in-the-repertoire basslines, although it's not too difficult if you can get your hammer-on timing right. There's a sequence of 3 or 4 semitones - the first climbdown in the main riff - that I still haven't got right in terms of the actual notes, but I'm hoping to get there one day. Out of interest, I wonder if the FX unit he uses on that is of a sort that plays each note at a set volume as long as you hit the fret position accurately enough? That's not to detract from a brilliant bassline, but one problem I have (not using FX) is keeping the volume constant as I play, as it's very easy to not quite hit a note properly. Quote
LayDownThaFunk Posted May 24, 2015 Posted May 24, 2015 Yeah but Muse did start 20 years ago... Bliss was mega last night. Quote
Deep Thought Posted May 24, 2015 Posted May 24, 2015 A few years ago we did some recording at Sawmills Studios, where Muse recorded a lot of their early stuff. The chap who engineered for us had worked with them, he said they were the best rhythm section he ever had in there. Quote
ordep Posted May 25, 2015 Posted May 25, 2015 The guy's awesome. Hysteria is my go to bassline whenever I am checking a bass out. Quote
Annoying Twit Posted May 25, 2015 Posted May 25, 2015 [quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1432421043' post='2781391'] You'd need to be hale and hearty to keep up with his playing - his stamina is quite something. [/quote] Here here. (sic) (BTW: It's "All hail", and "hear hear" in reality.) Quote
wishface Posted May 25, 2015 Posted May 25, 2015 [quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1432420224' post='2781384'] Great bass player. Can't cope with the band. [/quote] I can't stand the way the singer inhales loudly when he sings, like he's having breathing trouble! Quote
JTUK Posted May 25, 2015 Posted May 25, 2015 [quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1432420224' post='2781384'] Great bass player. Can't cope with the band. [/quote] He is great in Muse... depends what he could play outside of that band. Many many bass players ( and other players, come to that ) that find their perfect niche in a successful band may be pretty one dimensional outside it. Maybe they wont care as they have more money than they could ever spend but their skill may not transfer at all... just sayin' Quote
Maude Posted May 25, 2015 Posted May 25, 2015 ^^ this is true, but I'll happily give up my job and settle on only being in Muse for the rest of my career. Quote
pete.young Posted May 25, 2015 Posted May 25, 2015 [quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1432558359' post='2782610'] He is great in Muse... depends what he could play outside of that band. Many many bass players ( and other players, come to that ) that find their perfect niche in a successful band may be pretty one dimensional outside it. Maybe they wont care as they have more money than they could ever spend but their skill may not transfer at all... just sayin' [/quote] You're not being very consistent here JTUK. Chris is a great player and a top top professional at the height of his powers, there's no evidence to suggest that he is one-dimensional. It's hard to reconcile your criticism in this thread with your fawning over Vailbass elsewhere. I'm not a fan of Muse's more recent stuff, but the performance on Saturday night was exactly what the event needed from a bona-fide headliner, and they made all the other Saturday acts look third-rate. Quote
Woodinblack Posted May 25, 2015 Posted May 25, 2015 I like a lot of their stuff. Always struck me as a bass player like Steve Harris. I can play all their bass lines, but there is no way I could do a whole set of them. Quote
cameltoe Posted May 25, 2015 Posted May 25, 2015 [quote name='Deep Thought' timestamp='1432506155' post='2782219'] A few years ago we did some recording at Sawmills Studios, where Muse recorded a lot of their early stuff. The chap who engineered for us had worked with them, he said they were the best rhythm section he ever had in there. [/quote] Was that Tom? We've just recorded a couple of tracks there. He alluded to the same thing when talking about the bands he'd had in there. Nice guy. Quote
jonnythenotes Posted May 25, 2015 Posted May 25, 2015 When I first had a go at playing this, having never seen how it was done, my natural way was to use the open A for the first two notes, but then jump to the G..fifth fret... on the D string for the third note, back to the open A for the fourth, G fifth fret D string for the fifth note, then to the A seventh fret on D string for the sixth note. If you carry on with this method, you end up playing the whole song, chorus included, never going above the 7th fret on any string. So instead of playing the whole first part of the riff on the A string, covering quite a lot of the fret board, you use the open A for the drone notes and all the other notes are played on the D string from the seventh fret down. Then when the move to the E string comes in, you do the same again using the open E as the drone note and the other notes on the A string from fret seven down...then the same process when you get to the D section. The chorus is then played in the normal place. I find this much more comfortable and accurate than the whole neck method, and the notes sound much stronger as you are using far more string length. Anybody else do it this way, or am I just wierd.. Quote
MarkG3 Posted May 25, 2015 Posted May 25, 2015 I love Muse, seen them live 4/5 Times from the Absolution tour until now. Brilliant live and on CD. Chris is simply a beast on bass Quote
JTUK Posted May 25, 2015 Posted May 25, 2015 [quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1432563016' post='2782670'] You're not being very consistent here JTUK. Chris is a great player and a top top professional at the height of his powers, there's no evidence to suggest that he is one-dimensional. It's hard to reconcile your criticism in this thread with your fawning over Vailbass elsewhere. I'm not a fan of Muse's more recent stuff, but the performance on Saturday night was exactly what the event needed from a bona-fide headliner, and they made all the other Saturday acts look third-rate. [/quote] I think I'm being totally consistant... what you see is one player in one scenario doing a great job. My point is can he play in any other setting...does he have a grounding for it, does he has the ear for it, etc etc .. We'll probably never know as he'll never need to work again anyway.... but these niche players may or may not have much of a grounding elsewhere. Who else would employ them... ?? not so very many as you don't hear what else they can do.. I've been on a few auditions and a whole bunch of proggy guys don't know a soul/RnB set... so they sound like fishes out of water. The biggest surprise there is that they didn't realise they needed empathy and needed to know a few stylistic things,...and of course, they never got the job Quote
interpol52 Posted May 25, 2015 Posted May 25, 2015 [quote name='wishface' timestamp='1432543053' post='2782363'] I can't stand the way the singer inhales loudly when he sings, like he's having breathing trouble! [/quote] It sounds like he has got hiccups! Quote
Guest bassman7755 Posted May 25, 2015 Posted May 25, 2015 He also has very good taste in bases. Quote
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.