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this is [i]why[/i] Travis Barker needs to [b]die[/b]

I was just listening to Nuclear Burn before I came on here, weird. Percy Jones has subconsciously influenced my playing and writing quite a bit...

P-basses

[quote name='ironside1966' post='949933' date='Sep 8 2010, 09:38 PM']There is a down side to improvising and that is it allows you to keep in you comfort zone it can be a mask to hide flaws in you playing or it can take your playing and the tune or song to new heights. To learn a tune note for note you could learn so much more. Once you have mastered the original part then you have earned the right to improvise. The skill of a musician is knowing when to and when not to improvise having the ability to make an informed choice for the good of the music because he or she as the ability to do both. You are part of a musical arrangement the fact that it is working well with the other elements is what’s important . The amount of people I have met who bang on about musical integrity when really their only concern is to show off their musical talents and I use the term loosely with no concept of the rest of tune or arrangement. There is no right or wrong answers to whether you should improvise it are just the right or wrong reasons to do so.[/quote] I hope I'm not contradicting myself when I say I agree with this entirely. I should have just said that the ability to improvise well, to add to a song and not take from it, is what I strive for personally as a musician.

[quote name='silddx' post='949860' date='Sep 8 2010, 08:49 PM']I simply can not agree with that. You can play the same notes time and again and put across entirely different levels of passion and commitment, mood and involvement. You are saying repetition of notes has ever decreasing power in a live situation. It's just not true.[/quote] I should mention that most of the gigs I've done have been where I've had to learn songs in their entirety, I understand the buzz you get from playing different venues, the different levels of passion and commitment, but I simply don't care for it much. I get the biggest buzz when the drums and guitar quieten down and I realise that I have about a minute to say something to the audience with my bass. On the other hand, you could just argue that we are bass players, and no ones even paying any attention anyway. [quote name='silddx' post='949860' date='Sep 8 2010, 08:49 PM']You can have an immense amount of fun and passion with the same notes every time.[/quote] You can, I can't. And what does it matter at the end of the day...

[quote name='silddx' post='948783' date='Sep 7 2010, 08:50 PM']For me, improvisation on a bass is for jazz and pompous tits who convince themselves it's entertaining. I wish they would realise NO-ONE GIVES A sh*t.[/quote] [size=7]IMO[/size] bass improv is wicked. I care. learning and playing a song note for note live is like having nothing to say, well you might have [i]had[/i] something to say, but please let's just move on, it's tiring... I have all the time in the world for a bassist improvising with a decent drummer who locks in, it's magic. quick edit* and of course, it's all about a structured improv. if the bassist is twiddling and soloing for the sake of it, then I'm probably not even at the gig in the first place.

my very first live performance was on guitar, the first song we played and my favourite from the set was Orange Juice - Rip It Up. I was 16, and later that year I did an open mic sorta thing with my mum, playing bass on man who sold the world by Bowie. did them both drunk as hell and was still nervous.

King Crimson - eleKtriK other music just seems totally irrelevant right now.

[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='946812' date='Sep 6 2010, 12:10 AM'] Om nom nom nom.[/quote] this is the one I had in mind, but they're constantly changing them...

[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='946261' date='Sep 5 2010, 03:39 PM']I'd love to (I really want one of the 8 string guitars they do!) but the lack of warranty for sales outside North America puts me right off, unfortunately.[/quote] I was considering buying one of their 8 strings when I had money, and after talking to some brits on youtube that have actually bought from there, they have all been okay. Next time I have money to waste I'm definitely buying one.

all the good old stuff, but most recently, buckethead's new(ish) album: takes me back to COLMA and Electric Tears, but not as melancholy.

usually handshakes with drunk people, once got a compliment from a bassist from one of the other bands that played. at the end of the day, it's enough for me.

P-basses... I don't know why I don't like them, they just don't push any buttons. They're versatile as hell, which is why I want to love them. At the end of the day, I'm just drawn to something that sounds unique and amazing to my ears (ie most jazzes and some warwicks). I would tap this, though. If anyone wants to buy it for me, go ahead... pretty please

[quote name='risingson' post='936611' date='Aug 25 2010, 11:51 PM']Sting and Jaco Pastorius are completely different players and writers, alike in no way I can think of in particular apart from some of their vague jazz sensibilities. Sting is a massively talented writer, by the same logic you could probably argue that Jaco could have never written 'Seven Days'. If you're a jazz fan then you should listen closer to Stings solo stuff... Vinnie Colaiuta, Darryl Jones, Kenny Kirkland, Omar Hakim, Branford Marsalis, Christian McBride... some of the best jazz musicians to ever live all under 3 or 4 albums.[/quote] I'm a fan of almost anything (with a shred of integrity, of course), and grew up listening to more Sting than Jaco. I have nothing but respect for the dude, but I was just trying to put across the point that I think Jaco was just as good a song writer. not better or worse, that's impossible to define, but I just don't agree with notion that Jaco was merely an "instrument operator". that's the only thing I took issue with... moving on though... I will give his solo albums a listen and no doubt I'll probably like the f*** out of them.