sossego said:
More artists and their songs.
You'll have to look up the youtube and mp3's yourself.
DJ Cheb i Sabbah "Gunga Din" Try the Shri Durga remix
Charlie Brown Jr "O Futuro"
Aterciopelados "Bolero falaz"
Louis Armstrong "St. James Infirmary Blues"
Otis Redding "Old Man Trouble."
Maria Bethania "A forca que nunca seca" (I don't have the character set on this machine yet, so, the c should have a cedilha on it.)
Earth, Wind, and Fire "Kalimba story"
Carlinhos Brown "Busy Man"
Doubt anyone her will take the time to listen to any of these.
Being that I'm "One of those Bass Players" who takes his craft seriously, I know most of those songs. And for the Guitar players and Drummers and people who don't make music, Bass players are different; We don't listen to any one style of music, and those of us who take it seriously, ALL like at least some Blues, Jazz, Soul, and other forms of music, because, just as an example, the list of music I quoted, the Bass players who did those lines, are incredibly talented people.
You can tell a real Bass player from a wannabee very easily; A Wannabee thinks Flea, from RHCP, is the best out there. The rest of us know that he's good, but no where near that. Another popukar "favorite" is Les from Primus. Again, VERY talented. Amazing in fact, but neither one of them, could hold a note to either Alex Webster, from Cannibal Corpse, or, Cliff, the original from Metallica. Before they sucked.
Cliff played a 4 string with his Fingers, no pick, and did a solo that at the time hadn't been done, and used FX pedals to make it that much cooler, and Alex from Cannibal Corpse, has not only pulled off some of the fastest Bass solos, but he's done some of the most complex lines I've personally seen.
Sometimes if I'm watching The Blues Brothers, I'll play along with the whole movie. It's great. One thing I'm very proud of, is the fact that I managed to figure out a way to make a 300 dollar Electric Bass, sound like a 3,000 dollar Stand up / Double Bass (Depending on the Style of music the player plays, and the country they are from, the "Classical Bass" has like 30 names) So I can play Rock-A-Billy with an Electric, and it sounds like a Stand up.
(The secret was me accidentally sliding a finger UNDER one string while playing a fast piece very down tuned. When I plucked it, my finger slid under the string by accident, and when I did that, it sounded like a Stan Up Bass, so I toyed with it and got it right, and now I can play Rock-A-Billy and Psychobilly).
Lol, anyway, that probably sounds like I think I'm amazing, which isn't true, but I'm pretty happy about my playing ability for the most part. I sometimes use a pick, sometimes don't, and in a song I did, I was doing both, which is pretty hard to do at the same time, but the sound is amazing. The amp was crap though.
Anyway, sorry about the long post, but it is a music thread, so, I didn't think that talking about playing styles was off topic.
I currently have no amp, and I can't afford one, so I play slap and pop when I do now, and mostly make music with LMMS.
I guess it's funny my play list right now has everything from Slayer and Acid Bath, and Black Flag, to The Ramones, GWAR, BILE, KMFDM, Hank Williams III, Johnny Cash, and then a dose of Rock-A-Billy, Psychobilly, Punk, Industrial, Metal, and some Techno.
That's just one play list.
