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[quote name='Pete Academy' timestamp='1319741818' post='1418095']
Have you seen Billy Sheehan soloing?
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Not until just now... sounds like a very, very big wasp.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5omFFeLEXFE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5omFFeLEXFE[/url]

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[quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1319734962' post='1417974']
I dig it for what it is.....entertainment.
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im with Doddy.. entertaining for its thing... cant stand the enthusiasm from the one guy.... i would never buy anything they recorded... but they are enjoying themselves... thats what its all about

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I like Fusion and enjoyed what they were playing - they looked like they were having a laugh too, which is always nice to see. I'd be made up to see a live bass battle on stage!

I'd rather watch people showing off on stage and looking like they were enjoying it than someone just plodding along and looking like they wanted to be elsewhere. I'm under no doubt that either of those chaps could carry out a traditional bass role too.

That, good folk, is how bass 'vs' threads should be resolved, rather than regurgitating the stats/specs of an instrument. :)

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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1319741983' post='1418101']
Not until just now... sounds like a very, very big wasp.
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Amazing! :)

Yeh the OP's video was bad. It's not that people like that are giving bass players a bad name, just they certainly are fueling a stereotype that seems to wind a lot of us up... you know, the one that we're all frustrated guitar players :)

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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1319741983' post='1418101']
Not until just now... sounds like a very, very big wasp.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5omFFeLEXFE[/media]
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This is one of the 2 prototypes for the Attitude LTD (1) I believe.
Only 150 red ones and 150 blue ones (like that) were made, between 1990/1992 (sold 91/93)
I currently have one of the blue ones.
Bit wasted on Summer of 69 :) .
Karl.

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Not the worst thing I've ever seen, but not really my cuppa. Does give me an excuse to post this though. I absolutely love Akira Jimbo's (drummer in Casiopea) playing....and his improbable name! I think that how he uses the clave is simply phenomenal, and he is so musical for a drummer. He overplays a bit in this, but it's stil cool imo

[url="http://youtu.be/wY2Jj1KOCP0"]http://youtu.be/wY2Jj1KOCP0[/url]

I love the obvious joy he takes in his performances as well. I can't help but admire it.

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[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1319745956' post='1418195']It's certainly far more enjoyable than watching some boring c*** standing in the background playing root notes on a precision - IMO of course.....[/quote]


Well if people will insist on buying U2 records, this is what will come of it..

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It wasn't terrible at first... bit cheesy but not offensive.
But it dragged on and on and on... and no particular interesting idea or anything. Just... :) B O R I N G

At least THEY had fun, eh? :)

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[quote name='Mokl' timestamp='1319744208' post='1418161']Not the worst thing I've ever seen, but not really my cuppa. Does give me an excuse to post this though. I absolutely love Akira Jimbo's (drummer in Casiopea) playing....and his improbable name! I think that how he uses the clave is simply phenomenal, and he is so musical for a drummer. He overplays a bit in this, but it's stil cool imo

[url="http://youtu.be/wY2Jj1KOCP0"]http://youtu.be/wY2Jj1KOCP0[/url]

I love the obvious joy he takes in his performances as well. I can't help but admire it.[/quote]

Akira Jimbo is a monster player...I saw him on his first UK clinic tour a few years ago. There weren't that
many people there but he blew everyone away.

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[quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1319750626' post='1418300']
Akira Jimbo is a monster player...I saw him on his first UK clinic tour a few years ago. There weren't that
many people there but he blew everyone away.
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I think I called akira jimbo for my 'dream band' on a thread a few months back...

I love Casiopea, despite the phenomenal flamboyant camp cheesiness. Oh and I don't play bass anything like that. Their kind of music is a very particular Japanese thing, I think they were an official yamaha 'demo' band at one point! Saying they don't groove though, I don't understand - maybe it's just a different groove. That clutterbuck stuff is all over the place (and fairly awful IMO) but these guys are always in control, and clearly having a great time. Unlike bands where they just w**k off in solos doing their own thing, a lot of the casiopea/t square thing is based around musical exchanges between players. Oh and also, unlike the clutterbuck stuff, their more extended solos have musical structure.

I do wonder if the people slating this just don't share the same quirky sense of humour as these guys, the track's called eccentric games after all! Check out this earlier line up with tetsuo sakurai on bass... hilarious but kind of brilliant at the same time (hint: it's meant to be FUN)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMWQo9DQ0cU&feature=related

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