Hair? Metal? Bass Solo? Check!

gregmcnichol · Post by **gregmcnichol** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 3:44 am

MrYellow wrote:
now, all i can say is: listen to cliff burton's anesthesia/pulling teetha bass
solo on metallica's kill 'em all album. so much more musical.
I respect Cliff a great deal, it was really cool what he was doing "at the
time". However if you listen to it with fresh ears I'm sure you will agree
that the bass solo is VERY VERY boring. All he does is go around and
around on a few notes of the pentatonic scale with distrotion on waving his
hair. It's nothing dood.

Checkout Jaca Pastorius. End of story.

-Ben

"Jaco"

MrYellow · Post by **MrYellow** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 3:51 am

opps

ta

-Ben

Flowbee · Post by **Flowbee** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:12 am

icedsushi wrote:Needless to say, a couple years ago I finally dumped some old CD's from my collection and the Billy Sheehan stuff was the first to go.

I had some Stu Hamm CD's on the pile I got rid of too.

I work with Stu Hamm... and I'm gonna tell him you said that.

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:19 am

atmofunk wrote:thats sick!

however, i see your bass solo and raise you a double guitar

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/603/

lol!

I see your puny efforts with a double guitar and i raise it with two different TRIPLE neck guitars!!

I've seen him play the second one (heart shaped) live and he ripped with it.

The drummer in his band was the old drummer from Extreme .. did a one handed snare roll for about 10 minutes..

MrYellow · Post by **MrYellow** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:37 am

I've seen a video of Michael Manring doing a bass tap solo.

He has a double-neck bass, with a guy holding another bass infront of
him.... 3 basses being tapped.... Needless to say I think from there he
moved onto playing Chapman Stick for awhile.

-Ben

fsk · Post by **fsk** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:48 am

its just all too gimicky for me this 2 and 3 necked guitar and bass crap, and sounds completely shit and boring after a minute into it.

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:55 am

fsk wrote:its just all too gimicky for me this 2 and 3 necked guitar and bass crap, and sounds completely shit and boring after a minute into it.

I would make an exception for Vai.

He is a musical genius having been taught by Joe Satriani and refined by his career with Frank Zappa.

The rest do it for the show, but this guy does it for the musical possibilities first and foremost.

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:38 am

I'm sorry but despite the obvious technical skills involved there's just no place for this type of playing in my world, and I'm a child of the 60s and a guitar player, so I don't have a problem with heavy music at all. Same goes for guitar playing really, I never had time for that style. Give me something tasty, funky, jazzy, solid and understated.

mosca · Post by **mosca** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:02 am

thats 8 minutes of my life i'll never get back

mo

icedsushi · Post by **icedsushi** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 2:57 pm

Flowbee wrote: I work with Stu Hamm... and I'm gonna tell him you said that.

Really, well send him my love when you tell him about me. Now I'm feeling my duty to help out a fellow bass player.

It was awhile ago, but I'd be glad to send him the proceeds from the CD sale as a token of my appreciation for bass soloing inspiration during my youth. There were 3 used CD's...I think I got $3 for them, so not too bad. Just let me know where to send the check.

MrYellow · Post by **MrYellow** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:30 pm

I still use Stu Hamm thumb slap thumb pop slap thumb up-down triplet things

-Ben

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 6:36 pm

Sales Dude McBoob wrote:That was my first taste of Google Video. That's a great feature. Go to the main page and check out the popular clips. There is one called Everything Is Gay that was pretty funny.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... ing+Is+Gay

Is that a young Stephen Merit? Now that kid has some chops!

BDS · Post by **BDS** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:02 pm

i just listened to....

several Bach fugues

.....sweet!

rraaawwwwwkk!

BDS