SR XXI: Title Change

Epignosis wrote: JJLehto wrote: Finally! The all bass band!  Could call it "Basses Loaded."

zing

edit: corny/silly enough that I could live with it


Edited by JJLehto - August 30 2010 at 16:10

Zing reminds me of Xing Sa.

I really need to hear their album soon.  Mmm.

I also need to buy it, to make my Soleil Zeuhl collection more complete.

Eww.

I could have easily have changed that but left it as it was. 

e.g.

though I played with my neighbor's and he likes the action to be really rough, while I usually play with mine really low and on my own

Epignosis wrote: SaltyJon wrote: Epignosis wrote: SaltyJon wrote: Back for a bit.  Two of my neighbors also play bass, I just found out.  We'll need to get an all-bass band going a-la Spinal Tap playing Big Bottom.  I am sucking at bass today.  My timing is all off.  I'm blaming the loud ass kids though. I was sucking at bass today too, though I played my neighbor's and he likes the action to be really high, while I usually play with mine really low, so that played a part in it.  Oh man, I had a bass guitar set up at some shop up the road and the tech had the action so high I couldn't play it (I was later told that that's how this particular tech likes bass.  Well f**k him I guess).  I had someone else there do it. As for me, I am injecting more interesting bass goings-on into my music.  All that fancy business wreaks hell on actually keeping time though.

Yeah, it can make time-keeping a bit trickier, but once you've got it down it's so nice. 

As far as high/low action goes, have you heard about James Jamerson?  Apparently his bass's action was so high that nobody else could really play it, he wanted it to be similar to his upright.  Supposedly the neck was horribly, horribly warped over time.

I really do like the old bass sound of the later 1960s and the 1970s a lot.  I wish more bassists would play like that.

Examples: early Black Sabbath, Keef Hartley Band (Gary Thain was also with Uriah Heap, so I presume they also have the same sound) and many others.

It's also to do with the way it's mixed too, of course.  It's not just played to keep rhythm.  I like that style.  I call it a "walking bass" style.

The Sleepwalker wrote: Wow. I just listened Toby Drivers solo album in my room with all the lights out.  Don't think I ever felt this uncomfortable sitting in my chair.

I'm not sure why,  but my mind went into James' gutter after reading this post.

rushfan4 wrote: The Sleepwalker wrote: Wow. I just listened Toby Drivers solo album in my room with all the lights out.  Don't think I ever felt this uncomfortable sitting in my chair.  I'm not sure why,  but my mind went into James' gutter after reading this post.

The Shred is a gutter.

It also makes you listen to the bass playing, rather than just the guitar solos and drumming.  Mmm.

Oh and VdGG also use that style on The Aerosol Grey Machine and that's another reason I enjoy that album a lot.

Learn your Motown bassists, Rob:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jamerson