dumpsterbassist's forum posts 615

hi Jim, i feel you

hey, my name's mikey and I like punk, pop punk, and emo. :)

been playing for five years, love gear. I don't own much, but I'm fascinated by it.

some favorite artists are black flag, the buzzcocks, the descendents, the ramones, early green day, blink-182, mcr, and pretty much any other band.

cool cool, i'm a fender man through and through. primarily a bassist, learning guitar.

also i sing. i'm a tenor.

ayyy, thanks. it was eluding me all day.

https://goo.gl/images/Ey0vdO

i'm listening to a Descendents performance from 1987 and wow.

Edit: Here's another one.

https://goo.gl/images/5ySPp4

https://goo.gl/images/6rzYXN

what on earth is that red jag bass?

nope

submission deletion?

fucking hell, that needs to go in the joke thread

assholes, assholes, assholes....

i dont even. know. i can list the not-assholes!

-kurt cobain -vedder -trent reznor -the entire band PUP (they are a punk band from Canada, look them up. they stop their live shows when ppl get hurt) -me

The Revstar was another plan. Fender has done their job on me, but I really liked the $150 Epi SG

that's a really good song.

I'm buying one right the fuck now.

that really does suck. i hope that was cathartic for you. i really have no words, being unmarried and never having lost someone exceedingly close to me when I was old enough to realize it.

no, i'm just sympathetic. i know it really doesnt ean anything coming from a stranger on the internet.

yeah, i feel. sorry about that.

my town has TONS of hood-ish kids and places, and I personally am not from the rich area of town. so there are plenty of rich-as-fuck people. I am not rich-as-fuck, but i am not poor by any means, so...

wow, that's rough. i do live in a more fortunate area, so i really count myself as lucky that we have those opportunities. that said, there ARE full pat downs every once in a while.

thanks! :) i've actually recorded at the local high school in their recording studio.

that's cool. home recording is fun, and my band is looking for a cheaper studio to work on a new EP.

i think it's a bass thing. my guitarist takes ten takes and picks his favorite, my rhythm guitarist records a few bars and loops them himself. i just do my thing and then produce the entire record on an aging MacBook.

yeah I do. I take quite a bit of inspiration from them in terms of riff writing.

XD yeah when I record it's pretty straightforward, I just go in there dry as a bone and do the whole thing in three takes.

... holy fucking shit i didn't think all gearheads were this hilarious

... ... ... ... ... hot

is this a jab? #triggererded

it was my internet, but that's fnnier XD

wow youre tall

wow youre tall

Okay, imo there's different kinds of pop-punk.

There's:

-Good Charlotte Pop Punk

more pop than punk, most mainstream

-Green Day Pop Punk

reminiscent of the Buzzcocks, anything they've made in the 21st century is NOT this, lyrically similar to NOFX in that they're humorous, but different in that they're less political

-Blink-182 Pop Punk

closest instrumentally to punk, I'd best classify it as skate-punk

-Every Mislabeled Post-Hardcore Band That Tried to Sell Out to Teens Ever

super emo, fast drums that remind me very specifically of NOFX

-Indie Punk Influenced By The Buzzcocks That Is Really Catchy But Will Never Be Popular Because It Sounds Too Much Like Real Punk

the best variation imo fast, uncompromising, aggressive, gang vocals, introspective lyrics (so not lyrically punk)

And there you go. I think really that the Indie Punk variation is probably the closest variation of pop-punk to real punk, and I think that the undeniably worst version is the post-hardcore "punk" music.

Of course, real punk bands do still exist. NOFX, the Misfits, etc.

fair point.

weird. XD

i dunno because it doesn't even resemble daphne to me. also, the mint green pickguard really doesn't go with anything except Olympic White.

yeah, tony is really good. i didn't even know about his fingers until i'd been listening to sabbath for 10 years.

UPDATE

Haven't tried it yet, but saw it in person. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE GET THE SONIC BLUE FINISH. It looks terrible. In my personal opinion the Olympic White looks best. The Sonic Blue doesn't even look like Fender Sonic Blue, it just looks whitish-blue and weird.

okay there's a couple of things i'd like to say.

Q: Why did the guitarist get arrested? A: He fingered A Minor.

1. i'm a bassist, singer and the songwriter for my band, so I read every rock band instrument and the cello (because that was my first ever instrument)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k1w_bchDxM

How exactly would you want to recreate the tones made by Steve Sladkowski or Stefan Babcock on this song? Sounds like a DS1 job to me.

true. unless you play it, there's no point in owning it.

those are large hands. i'm on the younger side and i'm only 5'4"

For me it really wasn't just the Epi, it was the LP shape. It felt uncomfortable on my leg and weighed almost as much as my already-way-too-heavy Ibanez full scale bass.

i also find that with some od, a short-scale can sound full-scale. idk. especially through a jazz bass pup.

yeah my Ibanez full scale has a weird dead spot at the ninth fret, I can't fix it, the guitar center techs couldn't fix it... dunno. just personal experience i guess. I like full scale basses a lot on tone alone, its the 1 to 3 frets that bother me.