Author Topic: Who wants to play 8 strings bass ...??? (Read 201 times)

j_gary · « **Reply #15 on:** January 13, 2007, 04:38:52 AM »

Kevin, are you talking primarily bass solos?

I agree when they go on a bit long. I would think that this fella pushed hard but give one some food for thought. I like to see new ideas presented on how a bass can be used.

While I tend to lean toward the Jamerson grove school of bass playing, I am entranced by the percussive attack mode of some of the young guns.

What would have happened to Motown if they had hired this guy back in the 60's?

cozmik_cowboy · « **Reply #16 on:** January 13, 2007, 06:24:35 AM »

I don't know what put me off more - his raised eyebrows, incredulous grin, spread hands and slight shrug, seeming to ask the audience I stopped and it's still going - aren't I brilliant to be able hit a button on a phrase sampler? or the audience's apparent concurrance. I think he has really fast fingers, really fast feet, a really fast smile, and he bored me really fast. He should sit down and watch that Victor Wooten solo that was linked a while back - now THAT'S how you show off.

Peter

hb3 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 13, 2007, 02:24:48 PM »

It's true -- put that video and the Wooten video side by side, and most people will take the raised eyebrows and incredulous grin. Believe it!!!!

bigredbass · « **Reply #18 on:** January 13, 2007, 10:31:34 PM »

Over the top doesn't begin to cover it, but I got to give him his props.

I love TUNE basses. I missed out on them when they were imported in the 80s, and the latter day Korean examples that Sam Ash sells are the unfortunate result of TUNE losing their marketing in all other parts of the world save for Japan itself. The NTB/TWB basses were brimming with uncommon ideas for their day that have since spread across a lot of other basses. I just love the little pointed headstocks and the reversed keys where you still get a straight pull without the paddle headstock. They are very compact, almost tiny. Ibanez really modeled the SoundGear shape after these. TUNE's no-longer-in-production WoodBass was the first thin, hollowbody, piezo-only bass, stunningly beautiful, a full 20 years ago.

Brilliant little basses, one more example of that 80s Japanes bass explosion that resulted in the BB Yamahas, the Aria SBs, the Ibanez Musicians, and the Daions. Twenty years later, the TRBs and Soundgears and BTBs are much 'safer' instruments, and Aria after the loss of Matsumoku and H. Noble (gone to run his own Atlansia), it's just not the same level of creativity that arrived in that bubble.

Although . . . for those of you who still have a latent Matsumoku lust, the Godlyke axes, built by Bacchus in Japan, are some of the rare Japanese basses available on this side of the pond.

J o e y