Barking Spiders

Hi Langy. Love the bass playing on Lexicon of Love, definitely one of my top 5 bass-centric albums. I used to have Save Us but never knew who played bass on it. Great bit 2.30-2.45. Is that you in the vid?

Once a month is enough for us...and no doubt the punters too

I like listening to soul, funk, disco, New Romantic and House and also playing the basslines.  In the distant past I played in covers bands and covered Chic, KC & TSB, Beegees, Stevie W, stuff from the Solar label like Shalamar and The Whispers and 80s bass heavy pop like Too Shy, Rio, It's My Life and Visions of China by Japan. That last one is great for fretless antics but tricky to get Mick Karn's tone. Loads of great House basslines that aren't played on a B/G e.g. Can't Get Enough by Soulsearcher.

Don't get the prog comparison at all. I guess they were relatively progressive compared to the Ramones but their misanthropic attitude, tendency to get into punch-ups plus the aggressive nature of their early recordings were far removed from prog as most people understand it. Not sure you'd have seen strippers on stage with Yes!

when people give up their seat for you on the train

I used to play in a function band covering Solar artists like Shalamar and The Whispers, the Philly Sounds e.g. O Jays, Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes plus KC & The Sunshine Bad, Sat Night Fever and stuff from the Chic stable. Tracks that used to be really popular were And The Beat Goes On (Whispers), There It Is (Shalamar), Disco Inferno (Trammps), Jive Talkin' and Lost in Music (Sister Sledge). Great stuff for the bass player and not a single slap in sight ...or sound. Only hassle is finding singers with good enough chops.

Just had a look at that lovely EB Stingray. That would be a keeper for me. Unfortunately it's outside my budget but best of luck 👍

3 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

Snobbery?

yeah probably. seems to me journos in the metal community are the ones most likely to come up with sub-sub-sub-genre names. To non-metal fans it's all just metal but i think followers of say speed metal like to distance themselves from 'cheesier' stuff like hair metal

Rock is music primarily played by guitar bands, as is metal. Why then is metal considered not to be a sub-genre of rock but something separate?

9 hours ago, Bolo said:

If by 'rock music' you mean anything with a guitar, ok.  But it isn't. Metal is not rock. Stoner, Sludge, Doom and Hardcore are variants of Metal.

 

(there's also hardcore House which is electronic dance music)

so when did metal stop being a genre of rock?

41 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

 

It's only the brothers who are being talked about. No-one seems to care about the rest of the band.

does anyone even know anything about the other three other than one's called Bone'ead? As much as they might be a pair of arrogant gobsh1t3$ at least nobody could ever accuse N & L of being dull and bland interviewees. Both have a knack for a pithy amusing insult especially for eachother. With trad guitar based rock being in such a moribund state maybe it could do with a reformed Oasis to kick some life back into it

12 hours ago, tegs07 said:

Is there a lot of hate or is there just a lot of apathy and indifference? People on BC genuinely seem to hate rap but for me NWA, Public enemy, Snoop, Tupac etc did something new and exciting. All the bands you mention are inoffensive and pretty decent at what they do but are just a bit vanilla and insipid. I’m not surprised guitar based music is in decline. It needs something radical and different to give it a boost

Agreed. Public Enemy and NWA rocked harder than any guitar band in the 90s. As for Noel and Liam they've always been good value as rent-a-gobs and Noel hates System of a Down so he's not all bad.  

This is a very interesting vid where CB tells of how he got to where he is now. He's certainly put in some serious hours and literal mileage since starting out so he deserves all the success coming his way

6 hours ago, Russ said:

The whole Yorkshire “behs” schtick got painfully old after about 10 seconds. And I cringe at his YT shorts. But his proper videos have some decent bass content. 

 yeah I've not gone any further than his pretty pointless video shorts ' boot can she plehh behss'.

There are a helluva lot of bass and guitar channels on YT that are as dry as chaff. I even find Rick Beato's stuff somewhat hard going a lot of the time. CB has a light touch, doesn't take himself seriously and his gimmicks are way more entertaining than most I've come across.

2 hours ago, Supernaut said:

Please lock this thread, mods. OP has a history of distasteful rants. 

hmm I'd say no. Freedom of speech and all that jazz. Distasteful? Controversial? Better than anodyne or tone woods

No one other than bass players cares about or even knows about bass guitars. If nowt else at least CB, Davie etc are trying to raise the profile of the bass and show that there's more to it than 8th notes on the root, even if they only make a handful of converts 

I'm ok with Charles Berthoud and Davie 123 whatever. They've cornered a niche market on YT/Insta and good luck to them. Problem is there are loads of hyper technical guitar-bass- drum - ists spanking their planks on YT and Insta but the number of people who really give a FF about how great someone is at this is diminishing.

4 hours ago, Wolverinebass said:

I think it's just time moves on. The players who were revered say in the 70s or even 80s have now been surpassed technically. Whether one likes that or not is another thing.

 

I have no problem with him. He's excellent. He does well out of it all and as far as I'm seeing he's not harming anyone from doing so. If someone hired him for their band instead of me, I'd probably be more surprised that I'd got to a level where I'd actually be considered with someone like that.

 

It's all individually calibrated as to what we like or not. We are all the best at being ourselves and nobody will ever play exactly like us. I enjoy watching people who are better than me as I feel I might learn something and quite often do. I feel it's kind of inspiring to make oneself a better player.

 

Don't like the content? Don't watch it. Just as I don't watch clickbait tossers like Danny Sapko.

Danny Sapko! Now he is one annoying 🤐🤬

pretty much non-stop Justice since the last time I put summat up. 

I have several guitars including an Epiphone Sheraton but if I had the money my #1 choice would be...

On 22/06/2024 at 10:48, lowdown said:

I heard some EW&F this morning. I had forgotten how groovy they really were. Great playing, tight horn arrangements and terrific vocals.

 

 

How about this fantastic version by The Salsoul Orchestra, which might even top the classic original

Caning Justice's Hyperdrama non-stop, especially this track, from Glastonbury last weekend. 

On 06/07/2024 at 09:55, BigRedX said:

The lyrics are great but now Idles need some better tunes to back them up and an image that isn't homeless heroin addicts from the 70s.

Sorry Idles fans but to my ears they sounded like a messy version of Wire, Pink Flag period. Ha ha 100% agree with the 70s heroin addicts comment 

17 hours ago, bassbiscuits said:

I really enjoyed watching/listening to a band called Justice - a French electropop/techno duo who headlined on the Sunday evening at West Holts stage. Immediately got online and bought some. Our house has been ringing with the sounds of it ever since. Excellent work. 

Their debut Cross is the widely regarded by fans as the best of their 4 studio albums though I actually prefer their latest. Hyperdrama. Still, all of their stuff is great IMO