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Are basses allowed? (thelemmy.club)
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• Ibanez Portamento SRF700 • ESP B-205 (with modified Bartolinin pre-amp)

• Agular Tone Hammer 500 • Agular SL 4x10 cab (one of two)

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[–] 13 points 18 hours ago* (14 children)

OPs a phony! Those aren’t guitars! The one on the left doesn’t even have frets!

I love the sound of fretless bass. I’ve never played one but it’s been on my “I should learn that” list for about as long as I’ve played guitar (almost 30 years… fuck i’m old). I’m already a hack when it comes to playing bass, which makes the idea of learning fretless that much more intimidating.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 18 hours ago* (7 children)

    I think maybe I’m a dying breed. A true bassist. Never really played guitar at all aside from noodling around on the guitars of band members. I might know three chords if I even remember them.

    And the fretless is my main. It’s amazing! I only ever use the ESP for tapping and percussive playing.

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  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

    A gold star bassist, nice!

    I played quite a bit of bass in my early days. I wasn’t good, but at least I could get in the groove and play. For the last 15+ years I’ve played acoustic guitar almost exclusively.

    I’ve learned that playing bass is nothing like riding a bike—whenever I do pick it back up it, I feel like a total beginner. It’s shown me just how different bass is from six string. The instruments are extremely similar but played so differently.

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  • [+] 2 points 17 hours ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

    If I send you a genuine-imitation-platinum-star bassist pin, will you promise to wear it whenever you play?

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  • [–] 3 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

    The trick is to listen to tech death with fretless basses, then you can't avoid buying one.

    The song that pushed me over the edge was the outro to mortification of the vulgar sun

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  • [–] 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    Alright, you got me out of my comfy bed to grab my headphones :)

    …

    I don’t really listen to metal, but am always impressed with the talent I see when I do. Cool outro; thanks for sharing.

    Here’s one in the complete opposite direction: Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes (Alternate Version) from Graceland by Paul Simon’s. The song is just fretless bass and vocals. The rendition is simple and absolutely gorgeous. Bakithi Kumalo is the bassist on the album and he is incredible throughout. Give ‘You Can Call Me Al’ a listen if you want to hear him do some mind bending shit.

    The Graceland album brings me right back to my childhood every time I hear it… and it is the origin of my love for the sound of fretless bass.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    thanks for sharing something I wouldn't have considered before; while pop music finds its audience by being prolific and well advertised, it usually gets passed over by people like me due to its overexposure. *

    I quite enjoyed the bassline in the Diamonds song when it kicked in. Thanks for sharing it with us.

    * Kinda like the time I was in a pub with my friends and I got amazed by this awesome funk throwback song. "Wow, what's this" "Have you seriously never heard Amy Winehouse?"

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