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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Gives me an excuse to post some Dead Letter Circus. Love the bass work in this band
I think my context is always bad too...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
But today in Dublin I listened to a duo cover Hallelujah. Electrified acoustic guitar and electric bass. The bass player was all over the neck, played roots too and it sounded great. Amazing in fact, he also managed to look so cool and collected....
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
is that wank speak? i'm ok with that. i'm an arts grad so it's what i'm trained to do.
& when recorded a very busy bottom end in a mix can drown out the upper ranges, unless you mix them down, in which case they get lost & it doesn't matter how busy they were.
& especially live, bass isn't just the audible stuff but the vibrations that you feel through you. if that is very busy it can create sort of antsy nervy feelings. maybe that's an autistic persons way of experiencing it, but it makes me feel a bit edgy to be in the same space as a lot of very busy low frequencies that i can feel through me.
my true bass gods are severin & hooky. & couple of others but they are my core. & while hooky can be considered a guitary bassist, that's still a long way from being a guitarist in the showy widdly style. he works the length of his neck & takes liberties, but he's still essentially deeply bass.
but then occasionally a busy bassist will catch my attention.
jon entwhistles bass solo in my generation. a perfect contrast solid & complex double. all in there.
& some of those early 1980s busy funky-synthy-flangey-chorusy basslines. john taylor's rio for example. mostly that style really annoys me, but when i like it i like it. & rio is a good one.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Also New Model Army is great - amazing bass playing for a political northern folk punk rock band, or however they’re classified.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
E.G.
Norman Watt-Roy for the Blockheads.
Ryhthm Stick - lots of notes, moves around. Pretty technical.
Clever Trevor - fewer notes but hits "dirty" on the groove 'o' meter
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Even includes a brief quotation from a Jaco Pastorius composition. Therefore, will be dismissed out of hand by some.