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Frances The Mute
sp2:
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--- Quote from: sp2 ---Do you even play a musical instrument?
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I play saxophone, and I'm learning bass.
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So you don't play drums or guitar or keyboard and don't have much experience on the bass. Well, as someone who has several years of experience on the bass, and who plays with folks who've been playing guitar for over a decade, and decently talented drummers, I can tell you that the stuff Volta does is not easy introductory level stuff. They have some amazing basslines (mostly on their earlier stuff, given), they have some technical guitar riffs, and they have some very very very technical drum beats. They are much more technical than most of the bands you probably listen to and think are hot shit on a stick.
You're learning the bass, so I suggest finding their song "Eunoch Provocateur" and sitting down with it and learning the bassline. Come back to me when you're finished and tell me they're still shitty musicians.
marenpoop:
The talent is there, but they have used it for evil. EVIL I SAY. they've gone and made utterly pretencious songs and attempted to pass it off as some work of concept genius about some kid they knew who looked like frankenstein.
mAlice aforeThought:
but utterly pretentious songs are the best kind!
(yes, i'm quite fond ov the mars volta. but i do wish someöne would explain to me exactly where the hell the song 'frances the mute' is to be found. outside ov overpriced import vinyl, i mean.)
Outshined:
--- Quote from: marenpoop ---The talent is there, but they have used it for evil. EVIL I SAY. they've gone and made utterly pretencious songs and attempted to pass it off as some work of concept genius about some kid they knew who looked like frankenstein.
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Pfft... you act like you have never heard a pretentious band before. Some of these indie acts are the most pretentious shmucks I've ever heard and you practically worship them for it. It's practically a requirement to be in the music industry anyway.
Marslo:
Here we have an expresion.
''I hope that they wont try to pull off a Frances the Mute.''
Meaning 10 minutes of live static in the name of art.
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