Plus waving the "
Don't be mean to Adam Clayton!"-flag, of course.
I actually stumbled across the Dudepit in 2003 via my then burgeoning interest for Gibson basses as well. Was that really almost 20 years ago? How many hours of my life did I waste there and here?
I remember getting flamed at the Dudepit early on via daring to innocently question the musical necessity/wisdom of multi-string basses in Kings X' and Cheap Trick's, well really
anybody's work/output and pointing out that the amount of Top Twenty hits featuring multi-string basses is miniscule (naming myself ELP's
Fanfare For The Common Man as a rare exception). The term "shitstorm" didn't exist yet, but I sure walked into a real face-slammin' feces monsoon, endearing myself to Dug Pinnick and Tom Petersson fans.
Yet two decades later, the amount of further 8- or 12-string-bass hit songs still remains, uhum, manageable.
I invite your submissions to the contrary ...
And doesn't everyone agree that Adam Clayton plays kinda simplistic even on just four strings?