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


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> ----- 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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