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Barking Spiders

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  1. What about the balding bloke with a tache in Saxon playing open notes with one hand while punching the air with his fretting hand or errm non-fretting hand ? Marc S - dunno about you but I generally lost interest in The Stranglers once JJ switched over to a more conventional tone about 5 albums or so in when the band started getting older and softer Other albums for me where the bass tone makes them are New Gold Dream by Simple Minds, Sulk by The Associates, Lexicon of Love by ABC and No Parlez by Paul Young. Imagine Wherever I Lay My Hat played with the bass relegated to the background. It might've been long forgotten . Everyone remembers the bass rather than the vocal
  2. Check out my thread here on online bass tutors. I've listed several I really rate as being excellent . Top players, a methodical approach, clear explanations, good delivery with a lightness of touch and some humour. Tune into their lessons on YT or via their websites and you'll get back on track
  3. As a music listener tone is #1 for me whatever the instrument. I got into bass after hearing JJ Burnel on Rattus Norvegicus . It wasn't the notes he played but the tone that grabbed me. On the other hand I hate Steve Harris' tone, one of several things that puts me off Iron Maiden. My ladee and non-playing friends of mine into music are very much aware of the bass tone. They may not know what's making the noise but they notice it.
  4. I've only ever played in funk, hip hop oriented and other types of dance music bands so I've never come across any snotty attitude from other players as they know it's the rhythm section wot drives the tunes
  5. Scott's Bass Lessons often gets namechecked on here but what about some others that you might use. Others I tend to use a fair bit are John Fossgreen's Bass Lessons for Humans Mark Smith at Talking Bass and a couple of newer ones to me Davey Pollitt at Cambridge bass lessons and Remco Hendriks at Remco's Groove Lab - he does some really nice funky fretless stuff Then again mebbe you avoid online bass tutors like the plague, who knows?. As for m'self I'm looking to improve every day and I can't find much better way of doing it than learning from these guys
  6. While I'm here has anyone come across this fella called Davey Pollitt who goes under the name of cambridgebasslessons. Just been checking out his guide to Mark King basslines. excellent stuff IMO
  7. You're probably right though if the speed was slowed down to give a bit of swing then it could work. I'm no fan of jazz fusion or solo instrumentation but I think there's room for double thumbing in a group context
  8. Best use for a Vauxhall though I think you've taken the easy route there. For a better finish -though it takes longer - dry lentils or failing that any other type of legume Back to the geezer in the vid. Seems I'm in the minority here and I muchly like what he's doing though this double thumbing technique is probably heard best within a funk combo rather than playing jazzy type stuff with just a drummist.
  9. especially around 9.28. Geezer makes it look so effortless
  10. other bass heavens and hells heaven - basslines loaded with 16ths played fingerstyle a la Rocco Prestia hell - solo bass stuff when whatever's being played might as well have been done on a guitar
  11. What is low budget as opposed to regular budget? We talking about Stagg , Chord etc. i.e under £200? All my basses (and electric guitars) cost me less than £500 new; Aria Pro II IGB Integra, Sub Ray 4, Cort GB 74 and B4FL, Peavey Cirrus BXP 4 and a Vintage V940 fretless. All for keeps and I've nowt negative to say about any of them
  12. Yea big fan of Two Tone here though not of ska proper as such and esp like the bass in The Specials and The Beat. Not a big fan of reggae except for 70s Dub, mainly King Tubby productions
  13. Bass heaven - bass sounds, techniques, lines, specific players whatever that make you go aaaahhhh!!! Bass hell - ditto the above that make you go aaaarrrrgh !!! But just one nom for each .For starters... heaven - the whole of the bass line on Forget Me Nots. It's all there for me; tone, phrasing, feel, the whole kit n' caboodle hell - trebly galloping basslines
  14. I'm 100% in Scandinavian electronica at the moment mainly Lindstroem, Biosphere, The Field, Trentemoeller and Ugress. Some cracking basslines on the Ugress albums though I suspect they weren't done on the bass guitar. Nevermind, they still pulsate
  15. Yep, I actually prefer it to Headhunters and for my money def one of the top 5 jazz funk albums I've heard and that's many. On the subject of jazz funk one of the best combos from the 70s here with this mighty, monolithic slab of bonecrunching funk
  16. I play drums too and Mike Clark is def among my top 10, muchly to do with his incredibly funky playing on this cracker
  17. News today that the company that owns mine is merging with another which means several hundred redundancies are likely. So the talk in the office has been which parts of the biz might be for the chop. This then came down to us asking if in fact how good or bad are any of us at what we do. This got me thinking about other stuff I do like playing bass, guitar, drums, speaking foreign languages etc. Where am I on the spectrum? Viz bass you could say that highly technical session players are maybe 10s and use them as the standard but if they lack qualities such as feel etc then maybe they're not 10s. Or you could say you have a repertoire of several hundred great lines off pat which might give yourself a high rating but if you can't improvise then maybe you're lower down the spectrum. So without being modest/self-effacing what do you do to try and get a true picture of your own skill level?
  18. Still got my Aria Pro II Integra IGB, passive, 1989/90. No complaints at all . In fact I like it's fairly small body, light weight and thinnish neck.
  19. Yep, probably the all time #1 producer in all hip hop, possibly hitting his peak on Snoop's Doggystyle Also just gonna give a big up for Naughty by Nature, one of the best from the late 80s-early 90s..
  20. This is a big fave funk track of mine by the not well known Rhythm Makers. Has a very insistent and catchy bass line
  21. 'kin love funk me, the proper stuff from the 70s going into the Washington DC Go-Go scene of the early 80s. I cant get into the retro copyist stuff like Uptown Funk etc. For my money no one did it harder and heavier and funkier than Trouble Funk
  22. Speaking as a quadroon I see nowt offensive in this lyric at all
  23. Methinks you can apply this to actors, directors, authors, sportspeeps etc. If you find someone highly personable and good humoured you're much more likely to have an open mind viz what they do. The opposite is true, if someone comes across as an utter bellend you're more likely to go out of your way to find fault in what they do and so not enjoy the whole. Fr'instance I can't abide Mel Gibson, for his racism and general weirdness. This has made me much of aware of his terrible acting and stupid mullet in films like the Lethal Weapon series. I quite enjoyed the first two when I was young and ignorant of Gibson's personality. Now it's straight to changing channels if any come on the box
  24. One of those bands I liked the idea of but not much that they put out
  25. I've been dragged along twice to see him and a more sullen, obnoxious person it would be hard to meet. I therefore actively did not want to like his music and in doing now actually more than just dislike it. I suspect your mind can sub-consciously alter your perception of someone's work based on whether you like them or not. Viz the proggers I felt bad about not liking their music and made more effort to appreciate it and in doing so ended up finding something to like about bits here and there. As for James Blunt he's a right good laff who has far more things of interest to say than most of the more 'cool' or acceptable names. Because he's a good bloke I don't mind his music even though it's not really my bag. Conversely, I used to be a fan of Echo ATB but Ian McCulloch's personality put me off to such an extent the band's music irks me
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