bass players: how do guitarists play bass wrong?

[warwick.hoy]

Uh,..Steely Dan?

[Mudfuzz]

The Who
The Velvet underground
The Ramones
The Buzzcocks
The Sex Pistols
The Dead Boys
The Germs
The Minutemen
The Clash

[Gearmond]

also note that most of these classic rock bands are sifted through the sands of time, and are often part of other genres. classic rock isn't an era. its just a catchall for any band still remembered 20-30 years later, regardless of quality or actual style.

to make a point:

Classic rock is the shit. Let's review:
Sabbath
Cream
The Stooges
Blue Cheer
MC5
Groundhogs
King Crimson
Zappa
Thin Lizzy
Mountain
Hendrix
Led Zep
the Beatles
The Kinks
need I go on?

metal
blues
punk
psychadelic rock
punk
who the fuck are they?
progressive rock
everything
hard rock
southern rock
psychadelic rock
blues
pop
garage rock

[unownunown]

i was just about to ask what classified classic rock too

[bigchiefbc]

I'll take a stab at a definition. Classic rock generally refers to a agglomeration of all rock styles that occurred with a specific time range, generally considered to be 1960-1979 (although you can certainly carve out the late 70s punk movement from this). I don't think anything in the 80s is usually referred to as classic rock, even though that is 30 years ago now. There seemed to be a distinct stylistic shift in mainstream rock around 1980.

As an aside, I heard a classic rock station playing U2 last year and I almost went on a kill-crazy rampage. Instead I just called in and complained. And I even like U2. But classic rock, they ain't.

[Derelict78]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hon7o8nV7s4[/youtube]

One of my all time favorite bass lines
Every band I have been in I try to get to cover this.
Not many people are into 20+ min. songs...pussys

[Derelict78]

I don't think anything in the 80s is usually referred to as classic rock, even though that is 30 years ago now. There seemed to be a distinct stylistic shift in mainstream rock around 1980.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBXmcN8uuaU[/youtube]

This is totally classic rock

[bigchiefbc]

I don't think anything in the 80s is usually referred to as classic rock, even though that is 30 years ago now. There seemed to be a distinct stylistic shift in mainstream rock around 1980.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBXmcN8uuaU[/youtube]

This is totally classic rock

Ok well all of the bands that originally were in the classic rock genre get to have all of their later songs included then

[Gearmond]

the closest thing i can gather classic rock to be is just rock from the 70's.

that generic sorta sound that was too boring to be psychadelic rock, but not musically adventerous to be jam band. just plain rock.

but calling it CLASSIC rock is like saying classic bebop. its not called "classic bebop" its straight ahead jazz. why? because its the idiom that has been established as the basic/generic sound of the genre. the most vanilla thing in the genre.

i always thought its kinda dumb to put genre borders on dates. because theres guys like guns and roses that while outside of the era, still make rock that same way.

[Mudfuzz]

the closest thing i can gather classic rock to be is just rock from the 70's.

that generic sorta sound that was too boring to be psychadelic rock, but not musically adventerous to be jam band. just plain rock.

but calling it CLASSIC rock is like saying classic bebop. its not called "classic bebop" its straight ahead jazz. why? because its the idiom that has been established as the basic/generic sound of the genre. the most vanilla thing in the genre.

i always thought its kinda dumb to put genre borders on dates. because theres guys like guns and roses that while outside of the era, still make rock that same way.

How about when your original band is referred to as "classic rock"? what the fuck

[Gearmond]

[bigchiefbc]

hehehehehehehehe

[warwick.hoy]

I hear Pearl Jam and G'N'R regularly on the Clear Channel (satan) Classic Rock station here.

B1,...We're Not Classic Rock
B2,....I know.

[Junk]

guitarists play bass
and that's wrong

[Bassus Sanguinis]

oh it still goes on...

Slap bass, thumb style, tapping, finger picking and using pics and playing chords are all simply bass playing techniques. It's supposed to have an angled approach to the bass FTW. It's not different from playing a fretless bass or a multi string bass guitars/ instruments with bass strings on it. Nor is it different from playing with a fuzz box or an OD or a distortion, which I've heard, during the past two decades for more than a few times is NOT what a bass player should be doing in a band, save for more than a few bars in a song, and all that stupid crap.

Whatever the style, whatever the technique, whatever the chosen instrument to do the bass parts with... they all come to the same point, THEY ALL APPLY one notion: guitarists make perfectly fine bass players - and vice versa - if they've got talent for it.

One name to end the whole discussion about it:
L E M M Y

...just so that people will know when they're flogging a dead thread.