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!"
A song without bass is like a glass without water or something like that
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.
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)...
And then there was Paul McCartney.
Geddy Lee is the GOAT who kinda looks like one
Don't be fooled, they just want to mooch a lunch off you cuz they spent their allowance on instruments!
We are just accepting donations for our divine presence 😇
As a bassist, can confirm.
I've only recently really started to appreciate notcing the bass in music. It's an underdog no one seems to respect :(
Thundercat is a master at the base who really opened my eyes to their unappreciated percussive role in music.
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