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[quote name='Spoombung' post='895802' date='Jul 15 2010, 05:23 PM']I prefer contextually necessary undergrooving with a hint of minimal UN-sanctioned plod[/quote]Unfortuanately, I nailled my groove to the floor back in 1994 and have been unable to move it since. Government guidelines suggest the recommended daily intake of Groove is no more than 12.5%, or 1/8th if you will. Feel is 25%, taste has a R.D.A. of 10% and influences vary from 30% to a staggering level, 42% in some cases. The other remaining 10.5-22.5% of a modern bass players breakfast, comes from a mixture of PLOD and "what was that I just played?".

For me, he is the source of modern bass composition. All of my formative influences cite him as the master. He is the master. Motown is the birthstone of modern pop.

[quote name='lowdown' post='901255' date='Jul 21 2010, 08:24 PM']Was that 'Too late for Goodbyes' ? Has to be him. Garry[/quote]You know this to be true.

Send me your address, I've got some Elites with not much use, you can have them if you like.

Love him, or loathe him, Marcus has one of the most recognizable tones of any bassist. Listened to Julian Lennon on the car radio the other day, BAM, there's Marcus.

You bast.... What does the "tayste" switch do?

Heel be a star someday.

Wicks £9.99, some as thin as hairs. The other 20,000 will come in handy one day....I hope.

0.05" or 1/20"

Excellent.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='891526' date='Jul 10 2010, 07:09 PM']Er, is this an episode from the Mighty Boosh? [/quote]Sounds like a bad acid trip to me.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='891368' date='Jul 10 2010, 03:57 PM']Hi mate. I knocked up a few quick samples just now. It's my Squier Jazz strung with LaBella flats and direct into my soundcard (post-effects obviously!). Each clip starts "clean", then the Bugcrusher goes to 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. [url="http://teop.org/media/clean_jazz_w_flats.mp3"]Clean bass, front pup soloed, tone up -> Bugcrusher[/url] [url="http://teop.org/media/oc2_soloed_octminus1.mp3"]OC-2 with the -1 Oct voice soloed -> Bugcrusher[/url] [url="http://teop.org/media/chunk_os_fuzz.mp3"]A fairly heavy fuzz setting from my Chunk OS -> Bugcrusher[/url] [url="http://teop.org/media/chunk_os_filt_fuzz.mp3"]A low-pass filtered gated fuzz patch from my Chunk OS -> Bugcrusher[/url] No other effects were involved, no compression, no EQ, etc.[/quote]Sick.

Errrrrrmmmmmm?

[quote name='Doddy' post='891309' date='Jul 10 2010, 02:43 PM']Exactly the same way that other people feel when they hear The Beatles or Tom Waits or whoever it is that they really like.Just because it is possibly more technical and predominantly instrumental doesn't make any difference,it still has the same effect. 'Riffing over B major and F' does sound good,but then again so does playing over a more complex set of changes. There was a reference to all these guys making the same kind of music over and over again. Maybe that is kind of true to a point,but then again that's the same with any genre. The Blues has stayed mostly the same for ever.Hip Hop has a large number of artists that sound exactly the same,as does pop. There are a million bands that sound like Oasis or Arctic Monkeys or whoever. The modern Jazz scene is no different. As with any style,if you go back you can hear the roots and how it has evolved,but the 'groovy chops' thing is kind of where things are at right now.[/quote]I like this reply.

Riffing over B major and F sounds good.

What is this cleaning of basses you talk of?

I think Spoombung articulated his response enough to strike a chord with me. You cannot argue over any of the artistic points, because it will always be a subjective criticism. Objectively, you could maybe develope some empirical range of bass playing, to make it scientific, speed, chordal knowledge, timing but then, it won't ever be music. Music takes me to places inside my mind and soul, I get as far as duty free with some music.

Why do you dig this kind of music, what does it make you feel?

[quote name='Spoombung' post='890462' date='Jul 9 2010, 02:43 PM']They're obviously very flashy players, but that kind of [i]easy grove/jazzy jamming music[/i] never seems to change much over the years. The music exists in a vacuum and worryingly, the players and participants seem devoid of self criticism. No one tells them that mini moog solos sound naff and dated and high-pitched bass solos with chorus sound wretched. I never seek out this kind of music or care about it much.[/quote]What e sed.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='889802' date='Jul 8 2010, 07:59 PM']I'm an amazing singer...in my head. From there to my mouth, something goes extremely wrong.[/quote]

Petral?