... is a tutorial by Joey, the one man who plays with even more distortion than some members here (not giving away names, I might catch some thunder!), assless chaps are gratuity of course ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX1XRpA8EnI
Wait for it, Joey and Michael playing with themselves and each other! Death to false (or slow) major scales!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mMlmcGc2ZU
I now feel better about playing slow again. :mrgreen:
You want an encore? Voilà, real man(owar)ly bass playing live, he's really coming to grips with the thing at 04:49:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5G9OKrDI6g
Eat your heart out, James Jamerson, this is how it's done!
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And now for the completely other extreme. After Joey shredding on a four-string guitar, we have this guy with a 42" scale sub-low bass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UesU6FvHBJ0
Theories abound among respected zoologists according to which some rare reptile species may actually hear what he does from 04:49 onwards.
(https://i.gifer.com/7BeS.gif)
It's bass, but not as we know it.
One of my former bands had Battio come up and join us on stage a couple of times. Interesting character. He can play real fast. :-X
It's an ability for sure and not everyone can do it, but it sounds awfully mechanical. Music is sometimes about notes being hidden in places you don't expect, not incessant and overt.
Quote from: uwe on September 28, 2023, 10:41:50 AM
It's an ability for sure and not everyone can do it, but it sounds awfully mechanical. Music is sometimes about notes being hidden in places you don't expect, not incessant and overt.
The point you have just made is lost on many, many people in the world today. And they could not be more clueless about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kaGwuGwsZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4BuziKGMy4
Ringo's drumming on that is once again immaculate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGtftJvoDsU
It captures the essence!
Quote from: uwe on September 28, 2023, 05:09:28 PM
Ringo's drumming on that is once again immaculate.
I've mentioned before that the Revolver album came out when the Beatles were at their peak. They were still working as a team. There was a unified creativity. By the time of Sgt. Pepper, the next album, that was already gone. Both Ringo and George have been quoted as saying they didn't even like Sgt. Pepper. I do have to say, though, that "Tomorrow Never Knows" is kind of a weird song. Of course I do like it. I like everything on Revolver. If they could have kept the attitude they had on Revolver, there is no telling what would have happened with their music. Of course, pressure can have a positive effect, too, sometimes. It did on Abbey Road. But it did not on the Let It Be album.
Quote from: uwe on September 28, 2023, 10:41:50 AM
It's an ability for sure and not everyone can do it, but it sounds awfully mechanical. Music is sometimes about notes being hidden in places you don't expect, not incessant and overt.
Bass in particular is often defined better by when you don't play and by playing with restraint rather than by pile-driving the listener into submission.
See also: The Duck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_%22Duck%22_Dunn
There is an audience for the barrage of notes stuff, but I like a guitarist who thinks as part of the rhythm section, even if they are the main soloist as well.
I wish I could shred like this. Really. I'm not saying I'll actually play in his style, I mean I do have my standards, but it would be nice to have the option at my disposal. When Billy Sheehan doubled Steve Vai's solos note for note he wasn't ridiculed in the bass community. It was impressive.
But Michael can play with himself, he doesn't need Joey!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDn9mceIxgM
I'm nor sure but I feel I'm being summoned. ;D 8)
You really think so, Scott?
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Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Quote from: uwe on October 01, 2023, 03:31:30 PM
But Michael can play with himself, he doesn't need Joey!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDn9mceIxgM
Well, anyone can do that, company can help but it is not 100% necessary... ;D
You innuendo-drenched lecherous lout! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
I call that "a badge of honor", thank you.
Have you applied citizenship yet, you Söder-subject?
Citizenship? That step in the deepest ocean of true german bureaucracy? Well of course I have, since last year, and I dragged my poor kids along...
I'm extremely happy to hear that (once it's done, hopefully it won't take too long), we've always perceived us (wrongly) as natural descendants of Ancient Greece (the civilization, not the musical), once you and your family join, we've come full circle/achieved closure!
(https://www.planet-wissen.de/geschichte/antike/das_klassische_athen/tempxantikparthgjpg100~_v-gseapremiumxl.jpg)
Bureaucracy, as you may have learned by now, belongs to Germany like the River Rhine and the Black Forest. There is no beauty in a process (and no bliss in its ultimate conclusion) unless it has been obfuscated by a sufficient amount of paper or online forms. Alles ordentlich!
And I won't be the sole German here anymore ... today ze LBÖ, tomorrow ze wörld !!!
Quote from: uwe on November 09, 2023, 07:45:45 AM
we've always perceived us (wrongly) as natural descendants of Ancient Greece (the civilization, not the musical)
I know what you mean, never understood what a bunch of barbaric forest tribes have to do with the pinnacle of human intellect :P
Quote from: uwe on November 09, 2023, 07:45:45 AM
Bureaucracy, as you may have learned by now, belongs to Germany like the River Rhine and the Black Forest. There is no beauty in a process (and no bliss in its ultimate conclusion) unless it has been obfuscated by a sufficient amount of paper or online forms. Alles ordentlich!
The whole process took me almost 18 months, because of that Corona human malware, and also those dorks in the Rathaus managed to lose my papers TWO times, so I had to reapply.
Quote from: uwe on November 09, 2023, 07:45:45 AM
And I won't be the sole German here anymore ... today ze LBÖ, tomorrow ze wörld !!!
Now I am half greek-half german, I want everything to be perfect, but maybe tomorrow.
I know what you mean, never understood what a bunch of barbaric forest tribes have to do with the pinnacle of human intellect :P
:rimshot:
(https://novoscriptorium.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/rgw2.gif)
:mrgreen: https://youtu.be/7twSjRSG6fE?si=lPhqNNYBhW4Gt1Q2
Quote from: uwe on November 09, 2023, 09:35:20 AM
I know what you mean, never understood what a bunch of barbaric forest tribes have to do with the pinnacle of human intellect :P
:rimshot:
(https://novoscriptorium.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/rgw2.gif)
Well. . . they have tags on their dogs. Isn't that saying something?
One of my favorite quotes of Nietzsche is about the ancient Greeks. It probably sounds more poetic in the original language. But here it is in English:
"What suffering this race must have endured in order to create such beauty."
This is a paraphrase, but the first English translation that I read was one I like better. It's the one which has stuck with me through the years:
"What suffering the Greeks must have endured to have become so beautiful."
Quote from: godofthunder on December 13, 2023, 05:47:42 AM
:mrgreen: https://youtu.be/7twSjRSG6fE?si=lPhqNNYBhW4Gt1Q2
It's good to be brought back on a thread to what's really important: bass guitar. And in a personal way, too.
Quote from: westen44 on December 14, 2023, 12:41:34 AM
One of my favorite quotes of Nietzsche is about the ancient Greeks. It probably sounds more poetic in the original language. But here it is in English:
"What suffering this race must have endured in order to create such beauty."
This is a paraphrase, but the first English translation that I read was one I like better. It's the one which has stuck with me through the years:
"What suffering the Greeks must have endured to have become so beautiful."
Mind you, that most of this suffering is self-induced. I mean, when we don't fight against persians, ottomans or nazis, our favourite activity is civil war and murdering people like Socrates or Kapodistrias...
Executing probably the greatest philosopher who ever lived is pretty bad. But wars resulting from invasion were not Greece's fault.
Quote from: Rob on December 13, 2023, 12:26:47 PM
Well. . . they have tags on their dogs. Isn't that saying something?
Indeed. Alles ordentlich. :rimshot:
Quote from: godofthunder on December 13, 2023, 05:47:42 AM
:mrgreen: https://youtu.be/7twSjRSG6fE?si=lPhqNNYBhW4Gt1Q2
Those Germanic tribes would have immediately laid down their arms and surrendered to you, Scott, proclaiming you their
Donnergott!
Surrender, Barbarians, or my Legions will bring out the Jet Phaser !!!(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Siege-alesia-vercingetorix-jules-cesar.jpg/1920px-Siege-alesia-vercingetorix-jules-cesar.jpg)