General Music Chat

I identify with your music preferences.
How about popping over to my place after supper, tonight, and playing for a few hours?

Sure, just let me start driving... well... sometime yesterday...

I love to listen to Black metal, Power Metal and Progressive metal solosists ( Theodore Ziras mainly), Folk Metal, some death metal, funk, old school rap, disco (anything thats upbeat and funky really) videogame music mainly Sega Genesis, some radio mainly classic rock like CCR, neil young, etc


I play black metal, power metal and power metal soloing, blues with old school metal influences (venom mainly), videogame music, alot of accoustic (neck pickup used only in accoustic)

descendants, chemical brothers, john hiatt, govt. mule, bob dylan, harry connick jr, simon and garfunkel, george jones, tribal tech, TOM WAITS, brian setzer, phish, primus, sex pistols, garth brooks, REV. HORTON HEATH, g-love and the special sauce, rhcp, icp, iron maiden, hellecasters, etc, etc.

Most of the time I prefer listening to instrumental stuff. Sometimes it more hard edged (for me) like very early Yngwie, some Satch, Vai's Passion and Warfare, Vinnie Moore 's Time Oddyssey, Chris Polands Return To Metalopolis and Blues Scaraceno.

Sometimes some of the numetal is appealing to me when they do a cool odd time groove but when the singers start doing that screech/scream thing or the drummer launches into what I call the super fast polka or ompha beat then they lose me.

Other times it's more polished stuff like Dave Weckl, Triabal Tech (Scott Henderson RULES!), Bill Bruford, Holdsworth, Mike Stern, Chad Wackerman, Greg Bissonette, Al di Meola, Mclaughlin, The Dregs and of course any of the bass mastas (Victa, Marcus, Jaco, Stanly, Jeff Berlin, Gary Willis, Chris Bailey, Otiel, Hamm and the man Micheal Manring).

Of course none of the above is on the radio so it's the iPod for me.

Sometimes I get off on the more rock sounding stuff with vocals like Kings X, and old prog. I'm talking the early stuff(Genesis, YES, ELP, Crimson, not what they call prog today which is anything that has more than two note chords. =/

If it's done tastefully (has a bass player) I can listen to rap but most likely I wouldn't buy it. Except for the Peppers, Blood Sugar rules for great grooves.

Every once in a while I bust out some old tower of Power or Stevie Wonder

For the most part I like to listen to music in the same way I judge guitarists. If the guitarist is only doing bar chords forcing the roots on me then....boring. If they are staying away from the root notes and playing the higher parts of the chords/inversions then thats interesting because the bass player gets to do his thing.

thrash, death, punk, hardcore, industrial, classic rock, blues, electronica, ICP and Kottonmouth Kings

check us out if you wanna hear something new and devastatingly refreshing

i've noticed that pretty much everyone that has posted something here only talks about the people that are easy to find out about (radio, MTV, VH1, the "bigger" maggazines, ect.)

lately i've been listening to stoner rock and dron/doom metal. the Melvins are great of course.Sleep is AWSOME! if you like Black Sabbath you'll love Sleep. Earth andSUNN O))) are really good too. Boris is great.

i mostly listen to noise/noise rock these days. check out:
Lightning Bolt
Wolf Eyes
Melt-Banana
Sightings
Merzbow

if you play bass and like progy music then check out Lightning Bolt and Ruins. they are both bass/drum duos. LB is from the US and Ruins is from Japan.

I listen to a little bit of everything. I have my moods. I have always said that 95/100 people can open up my itunes (now will have to connect my eternal hard drive) and find something that they can identify with.
I tend to listen to Country and Alternative Rock the most.

i've noticed that pretty much everyone that has posted something here only talks about the people that are easy to find out about (radio, MTV, VH1, the "bigger" maggazines, ect.)

Hey no way man /me points up to my last post

Other times it's more polished stuff like Dave Weckl, Triabal Tech (Scott Henderson RULES!), Bill Bruford, Holdsworth, Mike Stern, Chad Wackerman, Greg Bissonette, Al di Meola, Mclaughlin, The Dregs and of course any of the bass mastas (Victa, Marcus, Jaco, Stanly, Jeff Berlin, Gary Willis, Chris Bailey, Otiel, Hamm and the man Micheal Manring).

I've yet to hear Michael Manring on the radio.

i also wrote "bigger" maggazines, which i asumed you would somehow figure out that i meant Guitar World, Guitar ONE, Bass Guitar, Bass Player, Modern Drummer, etc.

i've heard Micheal Manring's name mentioned manny times throughout Bass mags, as well as everyone else you've listed.

ever heard of Brian Gibson? Mike Watt? Clint Connely? Joe Lally?

the article in the new Bass Player about Squarepusher was great. i was surprised that BP actually new he existed. Bass Guitar did an article on Boris and the new one is a Punk issue featuring Mike Watt, Richard Hell and some other cool bands, but really, how many times do bassists have to mention Jaco?[/quote]

i also wrote "bigger" maggazines, which i asumed you would somehow figure out that i meant Guitar World, Guitar ONE, Bass Guitar, Bass Player, Modern Drummer, etc.

i've heard Micheal Manring's name mentioned manny times throughout Bass mags, as well as everyone else you've listed.

ever heard of Brian Gibson? Mike Watt? Clint Connely? Joe Lally?

the article in the new Bass Player about Squarepusher was great. i was surprised that BP actually new he existed. Bass Guitar did an article on Boris and the new one is a Punk issue featuring Mike Watt, Richard Hell and some other cool bands, but really, how many times do bassists have to mention Jaco?

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Yea I missed the mag ref sorry.

how many times do bassists have to mention Jaco?

So I'm mixed on that. On one hand thats like saying how many times do guitarists have to mention Hendrix or "insert guitarist here" and I get bored with that but on the other hand when there was no one like that around and someone comes along and turns you on your ear with sheer technique, writing and style so that hordes of other people copy their stuff for years and years. Then I sorta think that person is quite influential and does deserve mention. It's just that the mags do overplay it a bit. Thats the nature of the mag biz.

I have however actually checked out some of the people they have suggested and enjoyed them immensely. A lot of times I would hear something they would play up an then say eh whatever but then when I get around to trying to learn it dam if those songs were hard. Case in point Tower of Power. Living in the SF bay area everyone raved about them and Jeff Berlin worshiped Rocco. They seemed a bit dated for me but when I got what is hip it was not easy tune to get down. It ended up being afun tune to play and took some time to master. Anyway I"m not familiar with the dudes you mention. Abut tthe closest I get to punk nowadays is the peppers and they not even punk, maybe at one time but..

i understand what you mean about Guitarists always mentioning Hendrix and Bassists with Jaco. in the 60'-70's there wasn't anyone like Hendrix or Jaco. it's just that no one is giving any credit to newer musicians, or at least newer musicians that don't suck, that have been influnced by Hendrix, Jaco, etc. i mean, it's cool for amy bassist to be influenced by Jaco, but if someone is influenced by Jaco and they are playing hit-radio pop-punk, it's like they never got it.

i just don't like most of what the maggazines say because it allways seems cliche'. you know, "check out the new jazz bassist!" or "check out the way this guy can shred!".

OK I have to share this new (for me) musical find....his music is just AMAZING: Zbigniew Priesner. Check out the film "The Double Life of Veronique" for a great intriduction to this gifted composer.

Booyahhhh!!!

If you could inject music into your veins I would.

I love all styles of music and I mean Love. The main course of music is dynamics and when you break it down into genres it quatify's itself.

However I must state that I love R&B, SOul, Funk, Blues, Hip Hop, Jazz and Rock and those who can blend those styles effortlessly. See Ozomatli!

Ozomatli. i've only heard them once. i saw them playing on TV. they were pretty good.
if you like Funk and Soul and R&B then check out Troublefunk! they were from D.C. in the late 70's and man they were rockin!

or, funkin, i guess.

check out the Minutemen too. real funky stuff.