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Originally Posted by ShellyCrash
For bass I enjoy playing songs that have alot of range. I get bored with alot of standard punk songs. Joy Division is great, bass at points takes the lead. Interpol is another band tha uses bass like that, kind of a Joy Division rip off actually.
I love listening to the Minute Men and I really appreciate a good fast moving walking bass line, but my hands aren't that strong so it takes alot of practice for me to bang that kind of shit out. Mike Watt is fuckng amazing. Self taught bassists are always the most interesting.
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Mike Watt is kicking ass. Saw him w. the Stooges in 2008.
Listened to Joy Division for a bit, too much of a legend to talk about it, interesting I lately read something about Jane's Addiction they mentioned them as an early inspiration. So maybe Jane's are what would become of Joy if they lived in surfin LA and mixed all those interesting drugs with sex as Jane's.
I got my first bass at the age of 16, it was the most crappy bass ever, local build, like 25 years old with rusty strings.
I intensely practiced for about one and a half year and when I switched to more of a regular instrument I was regarded as a superbly technical bass player cause I always had to fight the rusty strings that were like half an inch far from the neck
Technique means shit anyway, I'm always more interested in the song as a whole, and in the right groove,drive and timing.
Great days as we played in the garage my last year of high school around 2000 or so, lots of booze, some early marijuana which I didn't smoke, cause I always had the scariest out of earth experiences ever.
A buddy of mine that played with me now twice won the country's best guitarist contest and runs a jazz / soul combo named Apoache
http://www.apoache.com/category/cd-flyaway/
The drummer is doing web design now and is washed out of weed.
I had a line up for a new band last year, but it felt apart, everybody is stuck with their jobs and crap and there's no decent drummer around.