hey guys.
since music is one of the biggest pleasures in life for so many of us, i thought that it would be nice to throw some names around.
the idea behind THIS thread, (since we have a "what are you listening to now" one already), is to give a bit of well deserved limelight to music that well deserves attention, but is for some reason not well known/forgotten.
lets prove that fame does not equal quality
i suggest, that since the things we'll talk about will not be well known, we try and give a short expose' - genre, when/where, what makes it so cool to us and so on.
Talus, Minus, Mike Moose - join in. something tells me that you have a few names that aren't thrown about as much as they should be.
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sheeesh that was a long rant.
anyway. i don't know how obscure this is, but there we go
Michael Manring is an American electric bassist, that played with quite abit of different bands/musicians.
from Wikipedia:
Manring has a solid musical knowledge and uses the bass as a solo instrument usually in alternate tunings, with additional possibilities and patterns invoked on the fly with lever-activated de-tuners and bridges, somewhat like a pedal steel guitar. He wants to show that the electric bass can be used in a musically rich and expressive way.[3] Manring occasionally plays on two (or even three or four) basses at the same time during live performances. Manring is also a composer of experimental music, mixing technology and fretless bass with the sounds of kitchen implements and cardboard boxes, evidenced on his "Book of Flame" solo album.
He is a technical virtuoso, generally using his bass in very different ways and more like a guitar. Mostly he plays a fretless bass, which gives him ample possibilities to change tone and pitch just like on acoustic bass. Manring is rhythmically very versatile and often uses polyrhythms.[3] He's said to do "... things on the electric bass that haven’t been done before, are nearly impossible, and (are) illegal in most states."[7]. A very special technique used by Manring is the tuning change of single or several strings in the course of playing a piece.
[youtube]6eTBc7aWBGw[/youtube]
Hollow Ground are a NWOBHM band, that only released 6 songs, (one EP) in i think 1980, and disbanded, only reuniting on stage once since then, (to the best of my knowledge) in a german concert in 2007.
[youtube]dnXiWRiafcY[/youtube]
the stage is yours
since music is one of the biggest pleasures in life for so many of us, i thought that it would be nice to throw some names around.
the idea behind THIS thread, (since we have a "what are you listening to now" one already), is to give a bit of well deserved limelight to music that well deserves attention, but is for some reason not well known/forgotten.
lets prove that fame does not equal quality
i suggest, that since the things we'll talk about will not be well known, we try and give a short expose' - genre, when/where, what makes it so cool to us and so on.
Talus, Minus, Mike Moose - join in. something tells me that you have a few names that aren't thrown about as much as they should be.
___
sheeesh that was a long rant.
anyway. i don't know how obscure this is, but there we go
Michael Manring is an American electric bassist, that played with quite abit of different bands/musicians.
from Wikipedia:
Manring has a solid musical knowledge and uses the bass as a solo instrument usually in alternate tunings, with additional possibilities and patterns invoked on the fly with lever-activated de-tuners and bridges, somewhat like a pedal steel guitar. He wants to show that the electric bass can be used in a musically rich and expressive way.[3] Manring occasionally plays on two (or even three or four) basses at the same time during live performances. Manring is also a composer of experimental music, mixing technology and fretless bass with the sounds of kitchen implements and cardboard boxes, evidenced on his "Book of Flame" solo album.
He is a technical virtuoso, generally using his bass in very different ways and more like a guitar. Mostly he plays a fretless bass, which gives him ample possibilities to change tone and pitch just like on acoustic bass. Manring is rhythmically very versatile and often uses polyrhythms.[3] He's said to do "... things on the electric bass that haven’t been done before, are nearly impossible, and (are) illegal in most states."[7]. A very special technique used by Manring is the tuning change of single or several strings in the course of playing a piece.
[youtube]6eTBc7aWBGw[/youtube]
Hollow Ground are a NWOBHM band, that only released 6 songs, (one EP) in i think 1980, and disbanded, only reuniting on stage once since then, (to the best of my knowledge) in a german concert in 2007.
[youtube]dnXiWRiafcY[/youtube]
the stage is yours