good evening gentelmen.. i was thinking about the new album that is bieng written and it would be cool if somehow they can incorprate a nice jazzy walking bass line into one of their more mellow accoustic passages? it would be cool to see martin pull something cool off like that.. what do u guys think?
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Nuk3m
AKA Porn-Fingers
when opeth play live martin's bass is all over the place, very tastefully done as well. its too bad that they don't do more of that on the studio albums.
MasterOLightning
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terrible? i really dont think it would be taht bad if used in the correct context.. you never know what that freak MIKEAL IS THINKG 
Eternal_Frost
Member
nah , it would be cool if martin added in some jazz fusion/death metal bass lines , along the lines of Athiest or Cynic.
I've allways wondered how good Martin Mendez is as its hard to tell what he writes himself and what he has writen for him. I've tryed to chat to him after gigs but either miss him as he's gone onto the tour bus first or just given one word answers to my questions and walked off, onto the tour bus.
Another question that i've allways wanted to ask him is why dose he play a Marcus Miller signiture and not a Jaco Pastorius or standard fretless as it worked will on Still life, Morningrise and Orchid. Some walking fretless lines would work well.
Another question that i've allways wanted to ask him is why dose he play a Marcus Miller signiture and not a Jaco Pastorius or standard fretless as it worked will on Still life, Morningrise and Orchid. Some walking fretless lines would work well.
The Grimace
New Metal Member
The_Human_Abstract said:
Yeah, uhhh... I'm about 99.9% sure that he writes all his own bass lines, since they're all amazing, and contrary to what most guitarists think, a bass line and a guitar riff aren't even sorta the same concept. Mikael is God and all, but I don't see him writing that stuff.
Nuk3m
AKA Porn-Fingers
Seeing that the next album will be going Black Metal, then i see no place for a walking bassline.Mendez already has some latin rythms and jazz fusion influences in his basslines.
Bass is the lynch pin between the drums and guitars, and Mendez seems to do well while also adding in flavour.
Still Life only had a frettless in one track. And a Marcus Miller sig is better as its an active/passive guitar and relys on it accoustics for tone because of the wood choice which is a good thing. Also a fretted bass gives you the option of slapping and being able to vary the tone alot more. Slapping on a fretless just seems so empty.
The guitar and his current style are best for Opeth.
Bass is the lynch pin between the drums and guitars, and Mendez seems to do well while also adding in flavour.
Still Life only had a frettless in one track. And a Marcus Miller sig is better as its an active/passive guitar and relys on it accoustics for tone because of the wood choice which is a good thing. Also a fretted bass gives you the option of slapping and being able to vary the tone alot more. Slapping on a fretless just seems so empty.
The guitar and his current style are best for Opeth.
The Grimace
New Metal Member
Nuk3m
AKA Porn-Fingers
Les Claypool is known for having weird stuff going on in his music and playing, seems to be one of his characteristics. The marcus miller is a sick bass lots on punch espeacialll when you take into account fenders have alot of punch. The axe is best for what mendez does. He already has a fretless but not a jazz bass.
deliverance
ecnareviled
Jinn
Saint
I want a bass solo in the next album!
Mendez usually only follows the guitars... STOP DOING THAT. I wanna see how good you can get Mendez!
Mendez usually only follows the guitars... STOP DOING THAT. I wanna see how good you can get Mendez!
The Grimace
New Metal Member
Nuk3m said:
Naw, really?
You missed what I was saying, apparantely. You say 'slapping on fretless seems empty', so I say 'What about Les Claypool?'. And then you confuse the hell out of me.
Never mind.
deliverance
ecnareviled
Jinn said:
haha as if following the complex riffs isn't hard enough? a lot of bass players just go: THUD...THUD....THUD...THUD. mendez actually has talent. possibly a short solo bass part within a song would be good, but not like burton's "pulling teeth"
Nuk3m
AKA Porn-Fingers
The Grimace said:
...OK you do that
A bass solo would be nice and more slapping. Been listening to this band Vehemence, the bassist slaps quite alot for a death metal band and it works well. Im sure Martin could cook up something nice.
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