Lord Sausage

I think the whole less is more/ restraint argument is a load of old bollocks. It completely depends on what you are playing. Sometimes stuff needs more not less and if you don't play it you are compromising the music. Conversely, if you are shredding over a piece that doesn't need it you are a tosser and ruining the music! obvious i know, but when people say less is more its like a mantra but it don't apply to everything!

I like listening to the sound of cats in wheelie bins!

I cannot believe people would think AVH is a bad drummer. He's regarded as one of the best. All ya gotta do is listen to VH1 and 2 to know that. Their music was unique at the time. 1 and 2 are perfect rock albums. Granted sammy hagar period was bollocks but with David Lee they were legendary. MA playes perfect basslines for the songs on all there stuff. definitely JPJ inspired. I read an interview years ago where he said it. he also said he spent ages learning The Lemon Song note perfect. Anyone who can play that note perfect has to be pretty handy.

Oh yeah, how could i forgot the big one. I sing in a ridiculous piss take band (hence the avatar and username), that writes songs about bizarre or disgusting themes. One of them is about masturbation that includes a line about walking in on your parents having sex. My mother turned up to a gig we were playing and cme to the front whilst i sang the song. That w
as quite embarrasing. Here it is if your interested

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[quote name='the_skezz' post='932044' date='Aug 21 2010, 05:23 PM']I always thought he got overlooked next to Slash, and really liked some of the playing he did with the Ju-Ju Hounds after G n' R.[/quote]
Plus, he wrote GNR's best tunes

Fell over cut my hand open on a pint glass.
Smashed my bass up and split and bent the headstock with two tunes left.
Played Jump and Living on a prayer in a covers band
insulted other bands by hitting on their girlfriends (didn't Know)
Had to propped up against a wall to play a gig has had been on 48hr bender (not so legal). God knows how i did!

Drums- Terry Bozzio

Bass- Jaco Pastorius

Guitars- Jimmy Page/Steve Vai

Organ/Keyboards- Jon Lord

Vocals- Freddie Mercury

Think this band would Rock and be a little extravagant, but smart enough to find ther own place. Oh yeah and extremely powerful but with good tunes.

[quote name='the_skezz' post='932007' date='Aug 21 2010, 04:55 PM']Klaus Meine - Vocals

Izzy Stradlin - Guitar

JJ Burnel - Bass

Keith Moon - Drums


Probably wouldn't go all that well together, but I love all their styles. Plus it'd be great to see a resurrected, zombie Keith Moon play the drums [/quote]
Izzy bit is genius

[quote name='steve-soar' post='931418' date='Aug 20 2010, 09:57 PM']Hak, hak, hak, bluewwww. I haven't ate carrots for days....and there they are![/quote]
You'd think he'd be able to play in time after all these years

I think Chickenfoot are horrific. This may be due to being a massive Van Halen fan of which Hagar ruined. It just sounds like them trying to outdo VH, it seems false.
I've only heard Vultures once. It sounded alright!

Get Stoned! Absorb more music! By osmosis!

Smooth and bad ass

Its genius! no matter how many times you see it.

Its mad how this place buggers off on tangents. this thread is about pictures and somehow how gets to Homophobia. There are some hormones exploding round here!

[quote name='endorka' post='924416' date='Aug 13 2010, 09:38 PM']Hooky was, and remains, a HUGE influence on me. His work on Joy Division's "Atmosphere", for example, is simply definitive. I can't imagine a better line for that song.

I had to work out the bassline for U2's "All I Want Is You" last week - and pretty damn decent it is too. Some nice improvised bits, nothing overstated. Just right I would say.

I think many understimate the talent of bass players like those I mention above; to survive in a group for so long in a very tough business they must be doing something right.

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"I tell you folks
It's harder than it looks
It's a long way to the top
If you wanna rock 'n' roll"[/indent]

Some of my proudest moments in bass playing have also been the simplest.

Jennifer[/quote]
i agree with that (about Clayton). Tho Clayton ain't the best i think some of his basslines are pretty cool. 'New Years day', Mysterious ways, Bullet the blue sky. also with The Edge tossing it off with all is 'clever guitar bits. He had to keep the bass simple. Like Mike Anthony in Van Halen, he didn't have much choice but to pedal

[quote name='dood' post='924398' date='Aug 13 2010, 09:18 PM']Not even the music [/quote]
Exactly

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='924042' date='Aug 13 2010, 03:36 PM']He has shagged a lot of women, to be fair. They're obviously not interested in his playing.[/quote]
Not one aspect of kiss was about the music

[quote name='crez5150' post='923986' date='Aug 13 2010, 03:09 PM']+ 1

I can't stand Hooky.... he'd be my choice[/quote]
I agree hooky. what a nob! Why didn't he just buy a guitar

I Think Gibson and Fender have more class than other guitars as they are original. They are like The Beatles and The Stones. Everything that came after was because of them. I don't think we'll ever get to the point where say an old vintage Ibanez or Jackson, whatever, will be viewed with the nostalgia and awe that is given to Fender or Gibson.

Come on Come over-Jaco Pastorius

I know its well expensive, but no-one has said Pro tools. Its awesome. Kicks the others ass. I used logic at Uni, Cubase at college and in various studios. They were essentially the same thing. Used Pro tools the last year or so in studio's. Infinitely better

[quote name='Stingray5' post='911188' date='Jul 31 2010, 01:08 PM']Continuing one of the best threads on Basschat, here's a funky groove for Saturday afternoon.
Featuring M King on bass and the ridiculously tight Charlie Morgan on drums (...well, he never bought [i]me[/i] a drink, anyway!! )
I always liked how the chord sequence works in this one too.

[b]Nik Kershaw - Easy[/b]
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Wasn't kershaw a proper jazz fusion musician before becoming a pop star. That would explain chords. Think he was also a touring guitarist for Elton John at one point. Top tune this tho

[quote name='TimR' post='915757' date='Aug 5 2010, 11:32 AM']That depends on if you are in a pro-band or a band of mates doing it for fun. Sacking a mate is a difficult thing to do. There have been several threads here asking how to do it. Do we - Disband and form again - sent a text - etc...

This sort of thead doesn't seem to come up in the more 'american' Bassplayer forum. It's definitely an English thing. In general we're more reserved and afraid of upsetting people's feelings. (Unless you're from Yorkshire that is )[/quote]
That must be it. Whilst reading your post i thought 'bollocks, it makes no odds if someone is a friend or not. If they don't cut it then get someone who will'. I've sacked friends from bands and in the past i used to run pubs for a couple of years and and sacked friends from that to. Then i read the unless your from Yorkshire bit....which i am!

Some fantastic handbags on here!

I currently have a Marshall head, Peavey speakers Bass rig. However, just joined a covers band doing pub circuit. Don't need anything that loud or cumbersome to lug about. So i'm in the market for a combo that will have enough power to sound strong in that setting. I have about £300 to spend. Anyone know of anything decent new or second hand. Cheers!