Bass player mag April fool

[arthurhenry]

I think it was last year when for the first time I can recall, Bass player didn't run an April fool story. I thought they were making up for it with the current issue's cover, but I'm not sure. Is this Dethklok thing real? Then there's a new gear feature on an Ibanez with extra D and G strings on a fretless section of fingerboard. April fool alarm bells ring, but I can't imagine Ibanez wanting to be in on this. Then in the metal feature there's a player who claims to have come up with a 12 tone per whole step microtonal system, but his names not Alrip Folo. Hmmm confusing.

Edited April 6, 2010 by arthurhenry

[velvetkevorkian]

Dethklok and the Ibanez are real. Dunno about the last one but there are microtonal players out there, although I've only seen guitarists using it so far in metal.

[Doddy]

The Dethklok thing is real. On the tour,Bryan Beller is the live bass player while the cartoon
band is playing on a big screen. Check them out- the live band is seriously good.
The Ibanez is also for real-I started a thread on it a month or so ago.

[Steve Woodcock]

[quote name='arthurhenry' post='798060' date='Apr 6 2010, 08:25 PM']Then in the metal feature there's a player who claims to have come up with a 12 tone per whole step microtonal system[/quote]

If this is Jeroen Paul Thesseling then this is also true.

[url="http://www.jeroenthesseling.com/"]http://www.jeroenthesseling.com/[/url]

[geoffbassist]

The ibanez bass is insane! What a weird idea. Maybe I'm a bit old school ... imagine if u sat in at a jam session and borrowed that! Agghhh
:-)

[Doddy]

[quote name='geoffbassist' post='798638' date='Apr 7 2010, 01:13 PM']The ibanez bass is insane! What a weird idea. Maybe I'm a bit old school ... imagine if u sat in at a jam session and borrowed that! Agghhh
:-)[/quote]

It's not that weird.Doug Wilkes was making basses similar to that in the '80's-only his were 4
strings(fretted E and A,fretless D and G).

[geoffbassist]

[quote name='Doddy' post='798668' date='Apr 7 2010, 01:38 PM']It's not that weird.Doug Wilkes was making basses similar to that in the '80's-only his were 4
strings(fretted E and A,fretless D and G).[/quote]

it's not the fretted/fretless bit, Ive owned a bass fretted until the 12th fret before. It's having the tuning: EADGDG : too much for me. .

[OutToPlayJazz]

I'd string the fretted/fretless Ibanez as a standard six-string personally. Having a fretless G & C would be quite interesting. There's a luthier in Ripon who did something similar a few years ago.

[Paul_C]

I modded a friend's bass a few years ago

[url="http://www.arrowheadguitars.co.uk/bass%20gallery.html"]http://www.arrowheadguitars.co.uk/bass%20gallery.html[/url]