Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:02:16 Kerry wrote:
>
> Wow -- suddenly Jaimie's getting all technique on us.
> The poles are melting! Quick, grab your "Yngwie
> Malmsteen Best Of" CD (an oxymoron if ever there was a
> wiz there was). :)

And anyone suggesting Steve Vai or Satriani or any other wank artist is missing my point. It isn't about how many notes....it's about the right, tasteful ones. If Clayton could muster a few 8th or even 16th notes tucked into otherwise staid arrangements or maybe a short walk-up or walk-down run occasionally when passing the 48th bar of D, G & A I'd kindly take back everything. 

> I'd be interested in hearing Jaimie's new bass line
> for "With or Without You" -- admittedly, I cannot
> STAND that song (like Jaimie said, it's a cliched,
> simplistic chord progression), but I wonder how it'd
> sound with some busy-bass (ala Geddy Lee? BWAHAHAHA!)
> instead of the steady, tension-building, repetitive
> root notes that Clayton executed?

Well, my version isn't "busy". It pushes twice on the 1 and I do a fill from the A back up to the D to start the rotation all over again. I discovered this, believe it or not, while tinkering with the ending to the Rembrandts "Just The Way It Is" live one time....and from that tune we all simultaneously moved right into "With Or Without You". The crowd thought we'd planned it. We'd never done the U2 song before....we were able to wing it.

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