Originally posted by educatedfilm
heheh... lol.. nice to know you have a sense of humour..
which reminds me... Is tuning a bass to D.E.A.D feasable? just that i picked up this superfurrie animals cd in town today... and that song caught my eye...

Dumb, but feasable.

As for dropped tuning bands... Well, it seems that most tune down extreamly low to sound heavier. Soundgarden is one of the darkest sounding bands I can think of (take "Like Suicide" or "Fourth of July" for instance), and they at the lowest tuned to D. Maybe C# (if they happend to be down half a step allready). The only other band I listen to that detunes a lot is Scisorfight; they're down to A, but end up sounding kinda funky and grooving... still heavy, but it's not the tuning that does it, it's the riff.

I myself tend to stick to standard. EADG or BEADG dependin on which bass I'm using.