Scott Devines new record

[ezbass]

1 hour ago, ossyrocks said:

As an aside, what's that orange bass he's playing?

It’s an F bass and it was in an SBL giveaway they just did.

[SteveXFR]

9 hours ago, Rayman said:

Wow…. what a great thread. It absolutely didn’t take the direction I thought it would.

 

Much like Scott’s album 

 

Did you not expect the death metal comparisons?

[Richard R]

9 hours ago, ezbass said:

It’s an F bass and it was in an SBL giveaway they just did.

 

Which to my ears sounds fabulous. In one of the videos on SBL he talks about the choice of bass. He really wanted to play fretless,  but decided that would just be too much stress to get the intonation right as  well as play the music and worry about everything else that had to happen in four days. And  another fretted bass had a slightly better tone for what he wanted, but the F felt much better to play this material on. 

 

I am so glad I don't have such worries: I only have two basses,  they are very different to each other and I can't play either.

Edited October 25, 2023 by Richard R
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[Richard R]

25 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Did you not expect the death metal comparisons?

Nobody expects the Death Metal Comparison.

It's like the Spanish Inquisition. 

[Leonard Smalls]

1 hour ago, Richard R said:

It's like the Spanish Inquisition.

Apart from, everybody expected the Spanish Inquisition... Firstly Pope Lucious 111 declared the first inquisition in 1184, nearly 300 years before the actual Spanish one started, so they had time to get ready. And if 300 years notice wasn't enough, the Inquisition actually gave thirty days' notice. This was a thirty-day grace period during which heretics could voluntarily confess and avoid serious punishment. And these "Edicts of Grace" were read publicly after Sunday mass, so everybody expected the Spanish Inquisition. However, with time, these edicts were phased out, anonymous denunciations became more common, and more people were detained without warning, in a more Python-esque manner. Of course, by that time, the Inquisition had become of the most powerful, infamous, and universally known forces in Spanish life, so I'm not sure it could truly be said to be unexpected then either. 

But nobody expects the Death Metal Comparison!

[Rayman]

Have they done the bass giveaway?

[Richard R]

If they have then I didn't win 😪

[Rayman]

3 hours ago, Richard R said:

If they have then I didn't win 😪

Me neither…… never won anything in my life!

[NickA]

old thread ..but I only just found this.   I was just musing whether Scott D was actually any good ( as a bass player in a band ) and actually, having listened to " the devine king project" on band camp, my opinion of him has shot up. not super flashy but solidly competent with some nice touches ( I do like Jazz and fusion, mind).  I mean, he's not exactly Hadrien Feraud or Victor Wooton but not so far from, say, Janek Guizdala.

 

Many great technicians, it's said, "know all the words but have nothing to say".  Scott does have a bit to say I think ...and top marks for effort ( his mate Simon could play fewer notes tho ).

[Owen]

6 hours ago, NickA said:

.....Jazz and fusion..........could play fewer notes tho 

I think you can have one or the other......

[Beer of the Bass]

12 hours ago, Owen said:

I think you can have one or the other......

 

It can be done - in jazz, Charlie Haden was capable of being downright economical, and in fusion, think of someone like Rick Laird on the Mahavishnu Orchestra stuff.

[NickA]

I don't think Scott is overplaying, but guitarists do seem to have huge egos. 

 

Case in point is a Jason Sadites album called brief eclipse, featuring Jason Henrie on bass ( fellow wal owner) who plays some great tight and melodic bass lines whilst Jason totally milks his Line 6 helix all over the top of it.  I like it mostly for the bass playing but it's evidently the guitarist's "thing".

Edited Sunday at 19:45 by NickA

[Richard R]

The album was completely composed -  "through composed" whatever that means-  by Simon King, so Scott and the others are playing what was written for them.

 

[TimR]

13 minutes ago, Richard R said:

The album was completely composed -  "through composed" whatever that means-  by Simon King, so Scott and the others are playing what was written for them.

 

 

I seem to remember they were given the scores and some recordings so that they could 'compose' their own solos pre recording.  

[TimR]

"The making of..." documentary. 

 

 

 

[Terry M.]

Only stumbled on this thread today and glad I did,but then I'm really into jazz-fusion. I really enjoyed this album. 

 

Track 9 🤤

Edited Sunday at 18:45 by Terry M.

[Jo.gwillim]

On 20/10/2023 at 22:39, ahpook said:

When fusion bands play live, are they on torus ?

 

That is such a good joke! 

[TimR]

@devinebass does pop in every now and again. Hopefully he's seen or will see this thread at some point.