guitar players are the worst

[Urinal Cake]

Went down a bit of a rabbit hole with this channel the other week and found this video where her dad, Bald, announces Ellen's exciting move to home-schooling:

No red flags there, no sir.

I presume following the example of Mohini Dey who seems quite good natured and well adjusted here

[Video Game Fan 2000]

I've said this before but the saddsest thing about his premature death is that I reckon he would have done some *fantastic* stuff in the 80s that rock dads would disavow

my big hendrix what if is ... what if he'd heard early dub?

[PlanktonSideburns]

Mohini Dey is fucking brilliant, her album from last year should start with her shouting, Right Watch This Nerds

[Pink Gregory]

my big hendrix what if is ... what if he'd heard early dub?

well we already know he was big into guitar effects, not a huge leap to make

[dontpaintyourteeth]

he was running out of ideas before he carked it

[Video Game Fan 2000]

he was running out of ideas before he carked it

not much like Machine Gun or 1983 on his first two records is there?

[purlieu]

I don't mind a solo if it's hummable - James Dean Bradfield can usually knock out a decent one - but on the whole I'm really not arsed about anything virtuosic. Would rather they just make some sloppy noise if anything. Might be why I struggle with most jazz.

Fave guitarist is Graham Coxon. Very skilled player but prefers to do solos that sound like this (skip to 2:41):

[jamiefairlie]

he was running out of ideas before he carked it

Yeah if he'd made the 80s he'd have been a doped out husk doing whatever 'the man' advised to make a few bucks and wearing Miami Vice baggy pastel suits alongside Jagger and Bowie. The 80s were not kind to 60s survivors.

[DJ Bob Hoskins]

Bassists > Guitarists.

Not true. The bassist in the first band I ever played with used to insist on taping fireworks to the headstock of his bass before each gig, which he would set alight during his one solo, foot up on the monitor with all sparks shooting out the end of his instrument.

I have played with many more guitarists than I have bassists over the years, and not one six-string slinger has behaved like they were in a Bon Jovi video in 1985.

[kngen]

And slap bass is the fret wankery of the four-stringed persuasion. Or five if you're a total cunt.

[Maurice Yeatman]

And slap bass is the fret wankery of the four-stringed persuasion. Or five if you're a total cunt.

Fourteen's fine though.

[Ferris]

Ferris Top Tip: simply play several instruments badly so that you become a "multi-instrumentalist" rather than a mere guitar player.

"Guitarist? No mate here's an C-minor on the piano, see? So you must be after someone else."

[famethrowa]

Are Ferris Top Tips covered by any reputable guarantee or surety?

[Ferris]

They sure are: every single one is backed by the Ferris Guarantee of Excellence^TM!

[jamiefairlie]

They sure are: every single one is backed by the Ferris Guarantee of Excellence^TM!

Not worth the pixels it's displayed on

[shoulders]

Hooks > Solos

Woth the exception of Peter*



*Peter Solo


And Han**

**Han Hook

[Agent Dunham]

he was running out of ideas before he carked it

No he wasn't. He had plenty of new projects ahead that we've found out about.

[The Mollusk]

And slap bass is the fret wankery of the four-stringed persuasion. Or five if you're a total cunt.

Here's my somewhat-related possibly-hot take:

Bass solos in jazz are shit and boring, literally the most uninteresting thing about jazz

[dontpaintyourteeth]

No he wasn't. He had plenty of new projects ahead that we've found out about.

okay, he was running out of good ideas. none of the posthumously released stuff is good

[Terence Bowl]

Traditionally three teenage guitarists and a drummer form a band and then after about a week the worst of the three guitarists is told if they want to remain in the band then they have to go and buy a bass.

And that's how bass players are born.

[Agent Dunham]

okay, he was running out of good ideas. none of the posthumously released stuff is good

That's disingenuous, as he had recorded none of the major projects planned. The posthumous stuff was either pre-Experience or shitty bodge-ups from Alan Douglas of a band essentially rehearsing, or live recordings where no-one producing has listened to whether all of the band was "on" for the performance. Remember that Hendrix had debuted a larger extended band, seen at Woodstock, and shortly after that had been escorted away from the house where this band were rehearsing, by a couple of Mike Jeffery's henchmen, never to return. Sounds more like management issues.

Meanwhile he had been talking with Miles Davis and Gil Evans about future projects together. It came out in a recent interview with Rick Beato that he was also in contact with Keith Jarrett.

[Cleveland Steamer]

5-string headless slap bass with the strap tightened up so it's almost under your chin, bobbing your head like a pigeon and gurning for england

[idunnosomename]

Ferris Top Tip: simply play several instruments badly so that you become a "multi-instrumentalist" rather than a mere guitar player.

"Guitarist? No mate here's an C-minor on the piano, see? So you must be after someone else."

you crafty git, i can only manage an A minor

[dontpaintyourteeth]

I bet you fucking can

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[Kankurette]

Keyboard players > guitarists

[Maurice Yeatman]

Keytar players > people who play the spoons

[idunnosomename]

I bet you fucking can

_{this doesn't really work shh}

theyve all got diminished fifths by the time ive finished with them

[Icehaven]

Traditionally three teenage guitarists and a drummer form a band and then after about a week the worst of the three guitarists is told if they want to remain in the band then they have to go and buy a bass.

And that's how bass players are born.

Or teenager wants to be in a band with their mates and the band needs a bass player so that's what they do. That's how I came to it anyway, I mean I do enjoy playing but the whole point for me is being in a band, I find practicing alone a chore, playing along to backing tracks boring and when I've been in between bands in the past I went years without even picking one up. Fair play to anyone who enjoys playing it for it's own sake but I don't derive much pleasure from that and actually think it sounds bit shit unaccompanied anyway.

[Pink Gregory]

people deserve a medal for picking a rhythm instrument

I knew a guy as a teenager who was all into shredding and 'hot lixx' but didn't understand how to count in

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

Traditionally three teenage guitarists and a drummer form a band and then after about a week the worst of the three guitarists is told if they want to remain in the band then they have to go and buy a bass.

And that's how bass players are born.

This is only true for shit bands