Crowded House live at Sydney Oprah House 2016 Gibson Midtown

[pjm]

This is streaming right now, sure it'll come up on youtube soon. Bassist Nick Seymour played a Gibson midtown in sunburst for the whole concert and it sounds bloody glorious.

[veebass]

This is streaming right now, sure it'll come up on youtube soon. Bassist Nick Seymour played a Gibson midtown in sunburst for the whole concert and it sounds bloody glorious.

Yes it does- I have been using my LP Double Cut or an ES 335 Bass for the Crowded House songs we do- in fact those basses are getting a lot of use for everything.

[leftybass]

This is streaming right now, sure it'll come up on youtube soon. Bassist Nick Seymour played a Gibson midtown in sunburst for the whole concert and it sounds bloody glorious.

That's awewsome.
I love mine!

[pjm]

[Basvarken]

Nice!

[westen44]

Wow, that's the way I like to hear a bass sound. 

[OldManC]

Are Midtowns that small or is he just that big? That whole clip was great.

[uwe]

Nuthin' small about them and they are long scale, remember? They have a nice full sound, but it is mellow, not assertive. No problem with a band like Crowded House which essentially play electric guitars as if they were acoustic ones (not knocking them, Neil Finn has come a long way since playing in his big brothers proggy/wavy outfit Split Enz, but look at the audience, it's girls "rock"), but in harder-edged bands you run into issues cutting through. A bass to take along to unplugged events and everybody will compliment you on your warm, round sound.

[westen44]

It sounds like the kind of bass I'd love the sound of until I got into a band with two loud guitars and maybe a loud drummer, too.  But a 3-piece blues rock band might work. 

[uwe]

It occurred to me today: They sound like Gretsch hollow-bodies do - great in the privacy of your living room, but don't take them to the rehearsal of your Judas Priest tribute. 

[lowend1]

Oprah House?

[Pilgrim]

I love the music in that number, although I find the lyrics obscure in meaning and impossible to hear and understand. Everyone who sang along must have looked it up online to learn the words....none of which are memorable to me.

In other words, very like much like a lot of music in the 70's. Rawk out, don't worry about the lyrics.

[uwe]

Crowded House have a good sense of melody - their genre is maudlin-teary-eyed "the sun shines, yet I'm still sad"-pop with a folky slant plus a few weird chords thrown in so people don't forget that their frontman was in Split Enz too. Emasculated music for a feminine audience. But they're ok unless you overdose. If R.E.M. it too rock for you. 

[uwe]

Oprah House?

Aussie spelling, no doubt. 

To their credit, Crowded House are Kiwis.

[Dave W]

Oprah House?

Everybody in the audience gets a house!