Music videos that feature EB0 to EB4 and SG variant basses...

[westen44]

Ric Ocasek certainly gave the world some music which is still relevant and admirable even today.  A unique figure in music. 

[Dave W]

A press release from the family  earlier today said that he had been resting comfortably after surgery but didn't say what kind of surgery.

Now this, from a  CNN article: Ocasek died of hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, according to a press release Monday from the medical examiner's office. There was a contributing condition of pulmonary emphysema. The manner of death was natural.

RIP Ric.

[Rob]

RIP Ric

[westen44]

A suggested You Tube video which came across my path.  I probably wouldn't have paid much attention if it hadn't been for the lead singer and the unexpected Gibson. 

[4stringer77]

[gearHed289]

A suggested You Tube video which came across my path.  I probably wouldn't have paid much attention if it hadn't been for the lead singer and the unexpected Gibson. 

What a weird mashup of styles. 21st century diva pop meets modern hard rock. Two styles I can't stand. 

[westen44]

What a weird mashup of styles. 21st century diva pop meets modern hard rock. Two styles I can't stand. 

I'm not too familiar with it.  I keep getting video suggestions like that on You Tube.  It's mostly Scandinavian bands, but a few from Western Europe, too.  It isn't something which interests me, either. I do, however, sometimes like to listen to a female-fronted band such as Garbage, but they don't come out with new music often enough. 

[Basvarken]

Not for the music per sé
😉


It may be Greco. I'm not sure.

[westen44]

Not for the music per sé
😉

A disclaimer that I should have probably also put on the video I posted.  It's necessary to really stretch the boundaries in looking for EB-0/EB-3 & SG variant basses. 

[Basvarken]

Not entirely my cup of tea, but the lady sure can play the bass!




EDIT: The EB-3L is a Greco by the way. And it's bolt on.

[uwe]

A cute chick playing bass and doing it well, what's not to like?

She's from Poland. I invaded bought her first album.

[gearHed289]

A cute chick playing bass and doing it well, what's not to like?

She's from Poland. I invaded bought her first album.

Great groove! I feel like I've seen her here before. Perhaps Uwe has posted something in the past?

[uwe]

Yeah, I did, when she played an instrumental of Eric C's Tears in Heaven (an unlikely choice for an instrumental cover given its emotional lyrics).

I understand the gripes people have with bass playing like that - for all (or perhaps because of) its virtuosity, she sounds like a lot of other people playing equally virtuoso. I guess that has to do with the fact that people like her are over-educated bass-wise: In an effort to play as many styles as possible as well as possible, they end up sounding like they all went to the same bass school. A lot of people relish sounding like Marcus Miller.

[gearHed289]

Yeah, I did, when she played an instrumental of Eric C's Tears in Heaven (an unlikely choice for an instrumental cover given its emotional lyrics).

I understand the gripes people have with bass playing like that - for all (or perhaps because of) its virtuosity, she sounds like a lot of other people playing equally virtuoso. I guess that has to do with the fact that people like her are over-educated bass-wise: In an effort to play as many styles as possible as well as possible, they end up sounding like they all went to the same bass school. A lot of people relish sounding like Marcus Miller.

You know, I agree 100%. I've been thinking the same thing. "they all went to the same bass school" They certainly blow ME away as players, but it ends up being a lot of the same arpeggios and Jaco-isms. I think most of us here grew up on "stylists". Players you could identify just by hearing.

[uwe]

My style was more defined by the things I could not do than the ones I could do! I realized quickly that I had to be different because I wasn't good enough to be like all the others. When you have your own little niche, comparisons are few and far between.