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Post subject: Re: Can I make my P bass sound like this?
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 2:46 pm
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sounds like somebody pooped in your potato salad.


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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:02 pm
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stroker vance wrote:
sounds like somebody pooped in your potato salad.



nah, just saying that you can't see how someone could appreciate hard rock, punk, or metal without appreciating another band seems a tad silly. Bands like The Ramones have more in common with the Chess and Sun Studios works then they do with things like Zepplin. Most of the reason the early punk bands existed musically were an act of rebellion against an industry that had given to over indulging itself. Don't get me wrong. There are bands that fall into that category that I love. Maiden, The Eagles, ect. However, to claim that someone has to appreciate Zepplin to love punk is a bit much. It's ignorant of why punk as a musical movement happened, and attributes all the music and scenes that evolved from punk. (Goth, post-punk, and new wave) to a band like Led Zepplin. Sure they all tie back to blues, as punk owes it's lineage to bands like the New York Dolls, The Stooges, and The MC5 who took their inspiration from The Stones. Then again, most people think Goth is a "metal or techno" thing.

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Post subject: Re: Can I make my P bass sound like this?
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:23 pm
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Personally and this is just me sayin''-- and I'm not down on anybody for what they like or don't like or how they feel about music or any genre of it-- but -- I just don't care about that stuff anymore. I know what I like and don't like and I'll comment on stuff like a list with punk bands in it and then... Led Zep appears in that list. It's like on Sesame Street ( I think) where they show the pictures and ask "what doesn't belong here". Zep looked out of place on the list to me. That's all the farther that goes from where I'm at. I understand all the junk about different styles and where they came from and how hard it seems to classify all the hundreds of bands. Been there. I guess now that I'm getting close to the edge I really just let go of allot of things that don't make a difference to me EVEN if I write stuff that doesn't always confirm that. I think music is for everyone and it all comes from the same place..... on the lighter side >>>>> I think basses are not for everyone and only come from one place.


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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:32 am
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stroker vance wrote:
Personally and this is just me sayin''-- and I'm not down on anybody for what they like or don't like or how they feel about music or any genre of it-- but -- I just don't care about that stuff anymore. I know what I like and don't like and I'll comment on stuff like a list with punk bands in it and then... Led Zep appears in that list. It's like on Sesame Street ( I think) where they show the pictures and ask "what doesn't belong here". Zep looked out of place on the list to me. That's all the farther that goes from where I'm at. I understand all the junk about different styles and where they came from and how hard it seems to classify all the hundreds of bands. Been there. I guess now that I'm getting close to the edge I really just let go of allot of things that don't make a difference to me EVEN if I write stuff that doesn't always confirm that. I think music is for everyone and it all comes from the same place..... on the lighter side >>>>> I think basses are not for everyone and only come from one place.



You're probably right. I was a little to harsh, and it struck a chord with me. I apologize Aceysboy.

It's funny when you think about how and why I dislike Zepplin so. It's like a scene out of a crappy Seth Rogen film or something. Some obnoxious flash back. Don't get me wrong. I love music of all genres.

However, I guess I just remember the summers as a kid in Upstate NY. Our local radio station played Stairway constantly. Literally. Every. Hour. On. The. Hour. All. Summer. Long. Do you have any idea how much of my summers were spent listening to that damn song? HATED it. Still hate it. The sound of it makes my skin crawl. I think that's why I gravitated toward punk as a little kid when my older cousins were into it. The songs were fast, tight, no nonsense. I was the kid on his way to school in the fall humming Misfits tunes while everyone else was singing Sesame Street or whatever Disco tune their mom was listening to in the car. (Don't get me wrong, I've really nothing against disco.)

Back then there was always a radio on somewhere. No walkmans yet. In the office in school. The cafeteria. In the janitors closet. The garage. In the car. By the pool. Somewhere. Everywhere. All tuned to that damn station. Playing that damn song. We don't have many stations around here. Still don't to be honest. That station is still on. Still playing effin' Stairway. Still acting like you're out of your mind if you call up and request a Ramones tune.

This area is a blackhole. Saddest thing? In the 90's someone started a "Modern Rock" station. It got big, and then got bought out. Want to know what bands they play now? Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and Pearl Jam. I'm not lying. It's like once they find something even remotely successful they beat it into the ground, dig it up, and beat it some more. It's madness. It's enough to make a musician go out of his mind.

There. That's my rant. :mrgreen:

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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 3:12 pm
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Stairway to Heaven was absolutely completely overplayed, run into the ground and grinded into the brain ridiculous. I can agree to that. Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb was another. Stairway I would say beat CNumb by tenfold I'm sure. I can't stand it either. I love Zep but I don't listen to it anymore. I grew up on Beatles, then Trapeze, Humble Pie, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Pink Floyd. Led Zep, The Who, Rolling Stones. I was a Uriah Heep Nazi for a long time. I didn't like other music too much except for the bands I listed. As I got older and became my real self I started liking all kinds of music. I saw the Ramones in concert from stage right. OMG ! I think they all died didn't they? I'm into all kinds of stuff now. I like the dude from the White Stripes. He made a documentary with Jimmy Page and the Edge which I believe could be the best modern music documentary ever made. You can't really take anything from a player who is doing his thing making music. Well that band that did the Final Countdown is a different story. I also get into bass player Jazz. Jazz is the ultimate musician music I think. Some of that grunt gutteral tuned to ground flat is pretty bad though, especially that junk I call Devil music. But all in all I don't care and that's all I know.


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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 8:11 pm
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In the 60's, the Top 40 radio stations killed all the good songs, by having to play them once, or twice an hour for their allotted play time to sell the records. The songs were mostly good. Radio sucked.

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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 10:15 pm
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I posotootly loved radio in the 60's! OH MAN !!! It was the best where I lived near Chicago. WLS played rock-n-roll in 63 when I started listening. I'd plug in an old radio , tune the dial and I'd sit on my front porch and watch cars going up and down Lincoln Ave . I'd do that and then do things like take a leaky boat out into the Fox river. I'd ride my bike downtown and watch baseball games thru the TV store window on the display sets. Got kicked out of the Cub Scouts. I was an 8 year old wildman! I heard "Oh Pretty Women", "Liar Liar", The Four Seasons,all the great old songs---then around 64 it was the Beatles and the Dave Clark Five and British Invasion bands. All on WLS . I was hooked and begged for a guitar for my birthday and got one!! I didn't know it then but I started my bass playing at that time.


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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 6:50 pm
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The radio stations in that time were ok. It was the program director that in some cases was a PITA. In south Florida at that time, there were two stations that battled each other. The music was great between the two AM stations. When The Beatles came to Miami, they jumped on that big time. WQAM, and WFUN were the combatants. WQAM was the top station. They lasted till FM stations went stereo, an were able to be picked up in stereo in car radios. Album Rock replaced the 2:30 minute songs on the 45 RPM's.

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