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|  #21 Posted on 26.7.02 1134.18 | I like this new group of bands. I probably like Stroke & The Hives the best. Guitar World and MTV are calling it "nu-garage" which is just stupid. I dont think it'll kill new metal, though. Nu-metal, hopefully, will choke on it's on vomit, not be killed off by a newer trend. The White Stripes I havent been able to make myself like though. Mabye it's their lack of bass. The Doors did without bass fine, but that's because they had Jim Morrision. The White Stripes DO NOT. Nor do they have a similar frontman. Bass supports the entire band people. Without it, your just not the same.
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| #22 Posted on 26.7.02 1456.29 | Instant Rating: 2.09 | | Enh...there are a lot of bands that have bass players that suck. Might as well be a few good ones who don't have a bass. | Slestak
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| #23 Posted on 26.7.02 1635.03 | Originally posted by witeoutaddict
The Doors did without bass fine, but that's because they had Jim Morrision. The White Stripes DO NOT. Nor do they have a similar frontman. Bass supports the entire band people. Without it, your just not the same.
Ray Manzarek played bass for The Doors.
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|  #24 Posted on 26.7.02 1720.44 | Along the minimalist 'garage style' bands, the Hives probably stand out the most, due mainly to their look/style - even though they sound almost exactly like the Stooges.
John Spencer Blues Explosion are kinda cool, but BRMC sound too like the Jesus and Mary Chain for my tastes.
I also thoroughly recommend Danko Jones,the song 'Sound of Love' fits in with the stripped down sound, and has a gloriously sleazy quality to it as well.
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| #25 Posted on 26.7.02 2008.21 | Originally posted by Slestak
Originally posted by witeoutaddict
The Doors did without bass fine, but that's because they had Jim Morrision. The White Stripes DO NOT. Nor do they have a similar frontman. Bass supports the entire band people. Without it, your just not the same.
Ray Manzarek played bass for The Doors.
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Well, shit. My bad. Yeah there are a lot of bands with shitty bass players. But really, when you get a fantastic bass player (Flea, Les Claypool, Roger Waters) you notice it even more. I just dont like White Stripes. It may be the lack of bass, it may be that they suck. I dont know. I just know I prefere The Strokes, hands down.
Justin Chancellor should probably also be on that list, as Tool improved greatly when he joined. Those 8 minute long songs are just so much more interesting with him.
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| #26 Posted on 27.7.02 1746.19 | Ray Manzarek played keyboards for the Doors by the way, as they didn't have a regular bassist. Actually, they didn't have a bassist period, did they?
In either case, I sort of like this genre, but it wears really thin really quickly. Bands, no matter how talented, need to vary the sounds on a given album, and not just use the same 4 or 5 chords over and over again.
Plus, fantastic bands like Kill Hannah and Movies With Heroes are still getting ignored. When/if they become popular, wake me back up to pop music.
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| #27 Posted on 28.7.02 1325.46 | The Doors never had a bassist. Maybe Krieger's guitar had bass pickups, but they never had an official bassist. Which might explain why I never gave a shit about them. I'd have to agree with witeout, except I'd take it a step further and say you can't hide a shitty drummer, either.
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| #28 Posted on 28.7.02 1416.40 | I didnt think The Doors had a bassist. No, you cant hide a shitty anything in a band. Not even in a punk band.
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| #29 Posted on 29.7.02 0121.52 | What I've heard of all these bands is in the okay-ish range (but my brother swears by the Stripes, and an old roomate with great taste really digs the Hives). None of them can hold a candle to their counterparts from the mid-90s: New Bomb Turks, the Rip-Offs, Teengenerate, the Didjits, and the Devil Dogs. And none of them were as good as the Lyres, the Real Kids, or Cheap Trick. Who weren't as good as the Stooges, MC5, New York Dolls, Ramones, Flamin Groovies, or Modern Lovers. And really, they were just riding on the coattails of the Sonics, Seeds, Remains, Standells, Shadows of Knight, Velvet Underground and Thirteenth Floor Elevators.
So I guess it's a good thing for rock and roll, for no other reason than the fact it pushes some the crap off the air. But really, it's all been diminishing returns since about 1966 anyway, with occasional spikes (1976-9, 1984-6, 1991-3).
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| #30 Posted on 29.7.02 0451.33 |
Originally posted by Saruman
Bands, no matter how talented, need to vary the sounds on a given album, and not just use the same 4 or 5 chords over and over again.
That could be a problem. I'm not sure the musicians actually know any more chords. Hell, even the Stone Temple Pilots used odd chord structures that were fun to play. I even remember when guitarists on the radio were better than me (I was a small tyke at the time)! Now I hear this stuff and think, "Didn't I play that as I was tuning my guitar? Where's the song?"
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| #31 Posted on 29.7.02 0934.35 | My statement was:
"Ray Manzarek played bass for The Doors."
This is true. Manarek played bass on his keyboard. The Doors did not have a bass guitarist.
witeoutaddict's statement was:
" The White Stripes I havent been able to make myself like though. Mabye it's their lack of bass. The Doors did without bass fine, but that's because they had Jim Morrision.
The Doors did not "do without bass". There are easily distinguishable bass lines in most Doors tunes.
Not having a bass guitarist doesn't mean you don't have bass. The Dandy Warhols use a similar set-up, but with two guitarists.
Most rap artists don't have bass guitarists backing them. Would you say that Eminem or Jay Z "do without bass"?
There are many other bass instruments besides guitars, and the Doors utilized one of them. The White Stripes have no bass instruments in their songs, at least not in the ones I've heard. That was the point I was trying to make.
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| #32 Posted on 30.7.02 0337.36 |
It's all absolute crap. Another weak-ass trend.
Best album of the year: Down II.
It's a new sound, not some bullshit bubblegum rock.
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