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jojo25 - Posted - 08/15/2008: 11:30:59
I was going to post this in the "do all OT bands sound the same?" thread...but I thought it might merit its own thread
several folks commented in that thread about how they, apparently, do not like a bass in an OT band
from what I can garner from those comments...they prefer a good guitarist and no bass
I too highly value a good guitar slave 
But I do know that many times, at festivals, I've been in sessions w/o a bass...and then a bass player joins in in mid-tune and the whole energy level of the sesson raises a notch or 3...IMHO
I suppose the "no bass" folks would say that's cause the guitar player/s at those sessions weren't up to snuff...maybe so
I have experienced the same "whole energy level of the sesson raises a notch or 3" when a good guitarist joins in where we didn't have one before
this topic is quite apropo for me, as one of the regular sessions I go to has just recently added a bass player...and its a session where the guitarist is not your prototypical OT guitar player...he doesn't get it or just doesn't want to get it...though he knows what should, IMHO, be done
in the final analyis I would say that I greatly appreciate a good bass player and I don't quite get the exclusionary tendencies of those who don't...with all due respect
your thoughts?
Drop thumbs, not bombs
Joe
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