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Eddie's Booze

10-31-2007, 06:44 PM

Dave Should have made the Van Heineken Brothers hire this guys 25 years ago....

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Yeppers!

:D

Eddie's Booze

10-31-2007, 06:45 PM

Yah, I know Dave hired him eventually.

bluemustard

10-31-2007, 07:49 PM

I have great respect for his speed and maybe he's a nice guy but I find it boring as hell...Also at the steve vai astoria dvd.

Jaco Pastorious till the grave.

Wolfie is doing fine..LOL
They just gotta get a keyboard player who plays 44hrtz.

dave_is_vh

10-31-2007, 08:09 PM

Doesn't do anything for me. That is not what the bass guitar is for.

dave_is_vh

10-31-2007, 08:10 PM

Real bass players enhance the song rather than trying to show off in a solo.

Real bass players: Geddy Lee, Steve Harris, Peter Hook.

Tiki-Tom

10-31-2007, 10:13 PM

Very good dexterity, but so much wasted talent. Where's the groove, the melody? No sir, thats a great guitarist on a bass.
If I want gymnastics on bass I'll listen to Jaco. He could out play Billy any day, and it still sounded like a bass. That's because he understood the bass' place in the music and excelled at stretching those bounds, not destroying them.

Listen, learn, this is how its done............."Slang"
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Jurak

10-31-2007, 10:22 PM

now theres some talent...... nice vid

Tiki-Tom

10-31-2007, 10:27 PM

Watch this clip all the way through. You will soon see just how little Billy knows about his own chosen instrument

Jaco Pastorius "Modern Electric Bass" - Part 5

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ELVIS

10-31-2007, 10:39 PM

There's more than one forum here at the Army...

Ya know...

:elvis:

VAiN

10-31-2007, 10:40 PM

Ugh... sitting through that was painfully boring... Maybe 20-30 seconds, but that was waaaaaaaaay too long.

Diamondjimi

10-31-2007, 10:57 PM

Jaco is the master. R.I.P.

Billy is a frustrated guitarist.

naturochem

10-31-2007, 11:03 PM

http://www.bowco.com/images/notecards/archives/first-yawn.jpg

bueno bob

11-01-2007, 01:15 AM

That was a complete waste of time. diamondjimi is exactly right, Sheehan is a frustrated guitarist. I'd rather listen to 10 consecutive Michael Anthony bass solos than listen to that horse shit wankoff again.

If you got into bass to melt steel, you got into the wrong instrument. I've said it before and I'll say it again, John Alderete is the PREMIERE bassist to back a guitarist for any kind of bass theatrics, simply because he can outshred the best of them BUT manages to do it with class, style, tact and more than a slight tip of the hat to Jaco Pastorius. Alderete essentially IS a metal Pastorius, perfected.

Sheehan may as well be playing guitar, honestly. At the very least, he'd sound like any other jackoff in the bar on Friday night.

I'm more impressed with somebody who actually knows what the bass is FOR and brings it forth with precission and technical expertise while being interesting. "Yngwie on Bass" does nothing for me either for entertainment or education.

Nitro Express

11-01-2007, 04:02 AM

Wanking. Talented wanking but wanking.

I think the bass should add some excitement to a song. I always liked players like John Paul Jones, Jack Bruce, Chris Squire, Jack Casady, and Geddy Lee.

You hear the bass and it's being played up front as an instrument and not just keeping rythum with the drummer. Great tones. But it's all incorporated into a song. That's how you do it.

Heck. I even liked John Taylor of Duran Duran. His bass lines on Rio still hold up and he had some great tone going.

Diamondjimi

11-01-2007, 09:52 AM

Allan Woody (Govt. Mule) R.I.P. was no slouch either!

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Hyman Roth

11-01-2007, 10:28 AM

smaz

11-01-2007, 11:24 AM

cdwillis

11-01-2007, 05:58 PM

I dig Billy's playing. I also like Jaco and a lot of other bassists. All the guys in this thread have their own personal style and that's why they are popular. Sure Billy uses guitar techniques on the bass but that doesn't make him a frustrated guitarist as far as I'm concerned. Besides that was just a solo plus the intro to Colorado Bulldog. I like the way the bass jumps out at you in the intro but goes back into more traditional bass territory in the song.

Nitro Express

11-01-2007, 06:43 PM

I hate bass solos. I preffer the guitar to go into rythum and the bass player showing off a big then jump back into the song. That can be very cool.

thome

11-01-2007, 08:14 PM

BOOTSY BITCHEZZ!!!!!

Do you have the need to be filled .

Do you have the need !!!! Fill it up!!!!

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Wich way was Bootsy here........... was he there!!!

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Innovative !!!Or just how it should be..?

lead... bass..... lead ......he is all that.

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I could go on forever .

DrMaddVibe

11-01-2007, 09:38 PM

A few that haven't been put up...

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Seshmeister

11-04-2007, 10:02 PM

http://pencilsatdawn.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/intersection-phil.jpg

DeadOrAlive

11-05-2007, 12:14 AM

Even though it's not what bass guitar is for, it's still pretty cool to watch for a while. The harmonics and such. I think the Dueling guitar and bass guitar would be a good intro for a song during a live performance.

DrMaddVibe

11-05-2007, 07:33 AM

Sesh, thanks for the laugh!

jhale667

11-05-2007, 10:03 PM

Originally posted by Seshmeister
http://pencilsatdawn.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/intersection-phil.jpg

:lol: :lol: :lol: That is some funny shit. :baaa:

jhale667

11-05-2007, 10:30 PM

Originally posted by Tiki-Tom
"Slang"
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Nice one. I hadn't seen that for a while, thanks for that. :baaa: That is so bad ass. That's from the Joni Mitchell @ the Montreaux Jazz Festival DVD, isn't it?

The "frustrated guitarist" crap layed on Billy Sheehan is kind of lame, IMO (and btw, from what I've heard and read, he's a huge Jaco fan as well). The shred thing is not ALL he does, but that's what everyone harps on. :rolleyes:
Gymnastics aside, he's still an amazing bassist, who lays down a groove of doom... Listen to the early Greg Howe stuff, the first Tony MacAlpine CD...he's a monster all-around, and does not get the respect he deserves.