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RE: The Truth About Bass Players - 3/23/2008 3:38:19 PM
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DaveW
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While I enjoy my share of "bass shredders", it all means nothing if you can't groove. A lot of great bassists go unnoticed because they do their job so well that they are taken for granted. Nobody pays them any attention until they don't show up for a gig.
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RE: The Truth About Bass Players - 3/24/2008 12:11:15 PM
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I can only think of one: the Doors, and that was only because they had an inhuman keyboard player that played a bass line on a special keyboard with his left hand while his right did the stuff most key players did with both hands....
Funny thing was my favourite Doors album was "LA Woman". ; )
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RE: The Truth About Bass Players - 3/25/2008 1:12:40 PM
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I give up. You know what? I'm tired of these petty arguments, low-blow insults(Thank you, freakofnature, my ever present foil), and impossible challenges(try naming a hundred bands that do have bassists off the top of your head, mapachito13). I had a full retort read for the both of you, but my internet cut out in the middle and I do not wish to spend the time or energy to redo it. So instead, I take my leave of this topic. Freakofnature, I do wish the best to you, despite the fact that you have no tact(junior?) and cannot spell the letter 'I'. But from now on, I plan to ignore you, no matter how stupid/uninformed/hateful/etc. your comments are, so long as they are directed at me. If you attack someone else in this way, however, I will not hesitate to defend them as needed. If you wish to continue trolling in a simple argument over some minor points, then I leave you to that. No one likes personal attacks, least of all myself, so please refrain if possible. Unless it's something I haven't realized (such as the possibility that mapachito is a bass player and I insinuated that he is in any way worthless; he is not), I have done my best to keep my comments related to the argument and nothing less. I would expect the same of you, if you are so much more mature than I am. It's called "basic forum etiquette." And before you celebrate over my "defeat," it is nothing of the sort. I simply don't have the time to respond to such a ridiculous thing as your post; I have scholarship applications I need to work on.
OK. How about 20 rock or punk bands? 10? Is that a more doable challenge? As far as naming 100 band with a bass player, just go to any music website like i-tunes or Napster look at a list of bands under the rock and/or alternative genres and there you have it! 99.9% of the bands listed have a bass player.
Telling bass players they are unnecessary is insulting. I would never suggest a guitar player was unnecessary. They are very necessary! I just wish that certain guitar players would return the courtesy!
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RE: The Truth About Bass Players - 3/25/2008 3:09:48 PM
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DaveW
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I can only think of one: the Doors, and that was only because they had an inhuman keyboard player that played a bass line on a special keyboard with his left hand while his right did the stuff most key players did with both hands....
Funny thing was my favourite Doors album was "LA Woman". ; ) Yeah, I love "Riders on the Storm." I loved the bass line for that song as much as anything, a great laid-back walking groove. It was years later I found out the keyboard guy did all that.
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RE: The Truth About Bass Players - 3/31/2008 6:33:03 PM
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eden512
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I disagree, if you can't hear the bass in a song it is arrangement, mixing, or just a not so great bass player.
Some of my musical Heroes are great bass players.
Tommy Simms (listen to White Heart's "Let the kingdom come")
Abaham Loboriel (Bass elite)
Rick Cua (The Bass Master)
Phil Joel (He has a unique style)
Leland Skylar - Phil Collins, Steve Camp etc.
Jimmy Lee Sloas (He plays a nice fretless)
Patrick Andrew - (PFR need i say more)
Mike Brignardello (Listen to the "Giant" albums!)
Tommy Cathey (Degarmo & Key)
Garry Lunn (session bassist)
maybe i'm old school but listen to these guys work they are amazing! I'm sure there are more but this off the top of my head. Nice humor in the toon though.
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RE: The Truth About Bass Players - 4/1/2008 1:07:50 PM
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uncabeeil
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Leland Skylar One of the greatest session musicians ever!
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RE: The Truth About Bass Players - 4/5/2008 5:26:59 AM
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Cliff Burton was great. Very nice too, according to my husband.
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