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Cryptic Excretions
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Cryptic Excretions
Attorney at Law
Joined: 01/31/04
Posts: 3,055
05/02/2005 1:41 pm
This certainly did get in depth over the weekend. But music wouldn't be the same without a bass. Well... maybe Slayer's music would still be the same (notice that I covered my ass with a "maybe"), but to say that bass doesn't express anything in music. Guitar is the top end that bass can't reach and bass fills in that deep gap that guitar can't get to. They scratch each other's back. To argue over bass' expression is to say that guitar is more important. But without the bass the guitar would be lonely, empty and less moving. To say I've never heard an expressionless bass though, that's pure and simple BS. I hear them all the time, especially in lesser quality metal bands where all they do is follow the guitar's movements. But take a higher quality one with an actual, talented bassist and you'll find worlds of exploration within those 4 to 6 strings. Take Primus for example, you remove the bass from that and what do you have? You've got nothing. Most importantly, you no longer have the weird expression that is Les Claypool's bass.
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