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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:43 pm
by Mike
Kim Deal and Jaff from the Futureheads are laughing at you, MaMo.
Kim is pointing at your cock and making that little finger wiggling gesture.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:47 pm
by serfx
Mike wrote:Kim Deal and Jaff from the Futureheads are laughing at you, MaMo.
Kim is pointing at your cock and making that little finger wiggling gesture.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:45 pm
by MaMo
serfx wrote:Mike wrote:Kim Deal and Jaff from the Futureheads are laughing at you, MaMo.
Kim is pointing at your cock and making that little finger wiggling gesture.
Man, this is what I wake up to on a Monday morning. Guess I can't complain, I knew damn well what forum I was making a pissant comment in.
I'll recant for LEMMY, but I still think a jazz bass sounds best when played with one's fingers.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:46 pm
by Mike
Recant more or we'll never speak to you again.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:52 pm
by MaMo
Mike wrote:Recant more or we'll never speak to you again.
I'll have to take my chances. I'm friendly but I'm not a pansy
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:53 pm
by Mike
No, you're just completely fucking wrong.
No pick on a bass? Whatever.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:54 pm
by Bacchus
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:06 pm
by James
Although it's not a jazz bass, I'll offer this in defence of Mamo -
To go back to the subject of the bass at the start, is that daphne? I was over 90% sure that I am going to paint my rob(og) guitar in daphne and now I'm sold.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:50 pm
by Mike
James wrote:Although it's not a jazz bass, I'll offer this in defence of Mamo -
To go back to the subject of the bass at the start, is that daphne? I was over 90% sure that I am going to paint my rob(og) guitar in daphne and now I'm sold.
The point isn't that there should be one or another. Fingers are fine on bass, picks are fine on bass too. It's texture. It's like turning around and saying YOU MUST PLAY IN STANDARD, that's just a stupid convention.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:04 pm
by astro
Does anybody still play bass with their thumb? I don't mean in the "slap & pop" fashion, but actually pluck the strings with their thumb? I've never even seen anyone do that, but I figure it must have been popular back in the day, what with all the older Fender basses having the finger rest on the treble side of the strings.
What kind of picks do bassists who use them usually use? I've only ever tried regular ones, maybe that's why I've been a failure in that department?
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:15 pm
by ekwatts
I always use a pick on bass. For the sort of music my band plays, we'd look like pretentious pricks if played with my fingers. And it would sound shit. Nothing against it, but it would be pretty stupid.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:35 pm
by MaMo
astro wrote:Does anybody still play bass with their thumb? I don't mean in the "slap & pop" fashion, but actually pluck the strings with their thumb? I've never even seen anyone do that, but I figure it must have been popular back in the day, what with all the older Fender basses having the finger rest on the treble side of the strings.
Sting still does it, as does McCartney. It is a lost style, that's for sure.
ekwatts wrote:we'd look like pretentious pricks if played with my fingers.
I have no idea what kind of music you would have to play to look pretentious if you used your fingers. Enlighten me, please.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:15 pm
by superfuzz
astro wrote:Does anybody still play bass with their thumb? I don't mean in the "slap & pop" fashion, but actually pluck the strings with their thumb? I've never even seen anyone do that, but I figure it must have been popular back in the day, what with all the older Fender basses having the finger rest on the treble side of the strings.
What kind of picks do bassists who use them usually use? I've only ever tried regular ones, maybe that's why I've been a failure in that department?
Id just use a fairly heavy pick. I liked to use a 1.75mm pick when I played a friends bass.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:28 pm
by Sublimedo
ultratwin wrote:Ah ug yer um....I guess that was the Armenian in me, as I used to play OUD years back before I had to sell it for teh monies. The PLECTRUM used is a funky flat quill of sorts.
haha, yea, they're plectrums. Pickins was sort of a silly inside joke we had at Shortscale Boarding house during the time everyone was here.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:40 pm
by Billy3000
That jazz bass is hot as hell! I want one like that... except with a p bass and j bass pickup! What band is this?
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:38 pm
by paul_
If you don't see the upside of both using your fingers and using a pick on a bass guitar for different applications, you're missing out on all sorts of fun.
What we're calling "basses" a large amount of the time are actually specialized electric guitars, I'm sure picks were considered when they were designed.
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:02 am
by william
+1 plain guards over pearl (you paying attention, SRB?)
+1 playing bass with a pick, or fingers, whatever
-1 playing with thumb (wtf?)
-1 fairy music
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:03 am
by Ty
william wrote:+1 plain guards over pearl (you paying attention, SRB?)
+1 playing bass with a pick, or fingers, whatever
-1 playing with thumb (wtf?)
-1 fairy music
Taking notes.
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:17 am
by william
silly_rabbit_band wrote:william wrote:+1 plain guards over pearl (you paying attention, SRB?)
+1 playing bass with a pick, or fingers, whatever
-1 playing with thumb (wtf?)
-1 fairy music
Taking notes.
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:48 am
by Ty
william wrote:silly_rabbit_band wrote:william wrote:+1 plain guards over pearl (you paying attention, SRB?)
+1 playing bass with a pick, or fingers, whatever
-1 playing with thumb (wtf?)
-1 fairy music
Taking notes.
(just had to add this)
