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[โ€“] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Don't be fooled, they just want to mooch a lunch off you cuz they spent their allowance on instruments!

[โ€“] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

We are just accepting donations for our divine presence ๐Ÿ˜‡

[โ€“] eltimablo@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

Look, if the frontman would just loosen the purse strings a little bit, I could afford to buy a much better bass while I continue to starve.

[โ€“] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Me at 14 trying to recreate my favorite palm-muted metal strumming patterns from songs I know: "what the hell why does their shit sound so good and thumping and my shit sounds like AM radio static in a tin can?"

Me, many many years later: "BASS! IT WAS ALL MISSING THE FUCKING BASS!"

[โ€“] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A song without bass is like a glass without water or something like that

[โ€“] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

It took a while as a guitarist/keyboard player just learning and starting out to realize how fundamental it is. I kept trying to turn up the low end of things in the mixer in my software to compensate without realizing what I was missing.

[โ€“] symthetics@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a bassist, can confirm.

[โ€“] Caesium@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've only recently really started to appreciate notcing the bass in music. It's an underdog no one seems to respect :(

[โ€“] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I didn't listen to bass untill I become one

Now 99% of the reason why I like certain songs is because of the bass

[โ€“] FlawedSyntax@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I am become bass, destroyer of riffs

[โ€“] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

How did you become bass?

[โ€“] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 years ago

Bassists are based

[โ€“] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thundercat is a master at the base who really opened my eyes to their unappreciated percussive role in music.

[โ€“] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

OMG yes!!! ...And now I have to go listen to some Thundercat.

[โ€“] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

And the OG les claypool. Both are incredible in their own right

[โ€“] eltimablo@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

But doctor, I am ~~Pagliacci~~ the bassist.

[โ€“] Zozano@lemy.lol 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Why don't you make like a bass and be inaudible"

"BASS IS THE FOUNDATION OF THE BAND!"

[โ€“] ReeferPirate@lemy.lol 9 points 2 years ago

Geddy Lee is the GOAT who kinda looks like one

[โ€“] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you don't mind me asking What show is this from?

[โ€“] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Bocchi the rock

[โ€“] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Hitori Bocchi

[โ€“] Noodle07@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As a metalhead I'm very ashamed that I can't make the difference between the guitar and the bass, please don't tease me

[โ€“] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Hmm, is there supposed to be much of a difference? I recon, if it was physically possible to make a trumpet sound like a tuba, that would be very popular. And as I understand, that is possible with e-guitar and e-bass, because electronics...

[โ€“] debil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

No shame in that. You could start accustoming your ears by searching YT for "bass and drums isolated" and listen to those versions and then the originals and see if you separate the bass better.

[โ€“] Rooskie91@discuss.online 6 points 2 years ago

Les Claypool would like a word.

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] Zekas@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

It's why I want to start playing it at 27 years old

[โ€“] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Geddy Lee (Rush), Les Claypool (Primus, others), Dominick "Forest" LePointe (First Fragment, others), Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Chris Squire (Yes), Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead), Sting (The Police), John Deacon (Queen), Maurice Gibb (Bee Gees)...

[โ€“] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] rotopenguin 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There is also a Bocchi lemmy ... thing. Thread, board, magazine, whichever.

https://sopuli.xyz/c/bocchitherock

[โ€“] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Man, I just think about the opening for "Would?" by Alice in Chains. People who underappreciate the bass haven't heard that song.

[โ€“] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

The bassline is front and center in nutshell

John Paul Jones

[โ€“] Skkorm@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I mean I don't feel underappreciated. I've never once had a problem finding a group to play with.

[โ€“] ULS@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

What's a bassist?

[โ€“] doofy77@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] JPJones@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Steve DiGiorgio

[โ€“] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] ramble81@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

And then there was Paul McCartney.

I'd rather not