Hello

[cris the man]

Hi , im chris and ive been playing bass for 3 or 4 years now.

I started off playing metal music and i really enjoyed it because i love playing complex bass lines ( who doesn't? ).

My bass teacher recommended me for grade 8 bass which ill be taking in november/december time. He told me about solo bassists such as Jeff Schmidt, Victor Wooten and Jaco Pastorius. I was amazed at their talent and im trying to mimic their styles but getting nowhere. ill get there eventually.

Right now im playing a Dean Edge Q6 bass. Its really powerful and the preamp is incredible. The EMG-HZs really do make the bass sound huge. I blew my ashown 180 combo. The cone just disintergrated, im sure of it. I took a chainsaw to it and stole the head from it and use that now with my hartke 410 tp. The cones on that are alluminium so they wont break (hopefully). I want another 410tp to make a fullstack.

[neepheid]

A chainsaw? Rock and roll \m/

Welcome to the forum.

[Telebass]

Howdy!

[cris the man]

Thanks!

[paul, the]

Welcome Chris.

A chainsaw, peh. Now a spoon, that would have earnt some respect.

Grade 8 - fwar

I'm grade 9 and a half

Edited October 13, 2007 by paul, the

[Dread Bass]

i bet that was fun there is just something thats right about chainsaws.

what metal bands do you like? there is a growing community of us metal heads in these waters.

\m/

andrew

[cris the man]

[quote name='metaltime' post='74258' date='Oct 14 2007, 07:23 PM']i bet that was fun there is just something thats right about chainsaws.

what metal bands do you like? there is a growing community of us metal heads in these waters.

\m/

andrew[/quote]

well , i started off at like 3 years old going to sleep listening to motorhead - that explains a few things

now i'm listening to any kind of metal , i love the whole scaly approach it has and its much more fun than playing root notes when u can just go crazy. I like pantera , metallica ( but only in the early albums , now they're too mainstream ) , disturbed , cannibal corpse , necrophagists , iron maiden , led zepplin , motorhead , rage against the machine and dream theatre.

Those ones are probably my favourites , they all have good technical riffs on bass. complexity is good =)