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| From | "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Bass Players |
| Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:48:30 -0500 |
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The Killers, too.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: Bass Players
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com>
>> If you can't *hear* the bass in the song then it's been deliberately
>> mixed that way. My complaint about modern producers is that bass
>> parts are now relegated to merely a sonic tone on recordings. You
>> can only hear the parts if you're listening to the CDs on stereo
>> systems with booming sub-woofers. Gone are the days when the bass
>> line carried the song ("Day Tripper" by the Beatles, "Money" by Pink
>> Floyd.....or, gasp, "With Or Without You" by u2). Bass players have
>> become kick drum enhancers....and not melody line creators. This may
>> not be true of a lot of the power pop we listen to, but out there in
>> the commercial world of knock-off major label production it is the
>> norm.
>
> Depends on the genre: ever since contemporary alt-rock bands
> discovered Joy Division a few years ago, you get a lot of bass-forward
> songs there these days. Interpol's big hit from a couple years ago,
> "Evil" -- I don't think the guitar even comes in until the first
> chorus. See also Franz Ferdinand, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, that sort of
> thing.
>
> S
>
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