Is Joe DiBiase Dustins long lost bro?

[MFTE Cam]

Dustin:

I just listened to Fates No Exit and Kat5's last album back to back. And now I have to ask a curious question: how much of an musical influence was Joe DiBiase? Don't take this the wrong way, but your bass playing and style greatly reminds me of Joe - all in a good way, of course.

Eh, just curious.


-Cam

 

[Dustin]

Hey Cam!

Actually, I'd take it as a HUGE compliment!

Joe DiBiase is in my top 5 most (actaully... More like top 3!) influencial bassists of all time, and is probably the most underated bass player in metal.
There are several albums/bass players that opened my eyes to a whole realm of endless posibilites concerning the insturment. I remember my dad buying Perfect Symmetry, along with two other albums (on cassette back then) for getting good grades. I believe I was in the 8th grade at the time. Me and him had a deal that if I pulled over a 3.0 average for the simester he'd get me a few albums for being such a good kid. We'll, after seeing the video for "Through Different Eyes", and wathcing Joe walk through the song with such precision and grace, I knew right then that I wanted to play bass, and put that on my list of about 20 album for my dad to pick from. I scored big with that one, and wore that album out!

Too keep it short; even before I began playing bass, I always was fasinated with how Joe would play off of Zonders odd-meter synchopations and polyrhythms, instead of playing along with the the guitars or just holding out half or whole notes like most bassists. He'd have these very melodic bass lines that hit hard with the beat, this would cause a lot of the bass parts to stand out as both a rhythm and lead insturment. A lot of his parts brought out stronger elements in the music which made it much more interesting across the board. To this day, I love Fates Warning, but I feel after Joe left, a lot of creative soul and integrity left with him, leaving a lot of their later material to be a bit lifeless. No offense to Joey Vera of course, who is a brilliant bassist as well.

In my opininon, the only real resemblence our music holds to FW, is in the rhythm section of the band, and how me and Matt put things together during songwritting. And I'll be the first to admit it's pretty much my fault, I've always wanted to play bass like DiBiase, and I'm finally in a band that allows me the room to do so!


\m/
Dustin

 

[MFTE Cam]

Very cool, Dustin! Thank you for satisfying my curiosity

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go spin New Breed again...and again...and again.

-Cam

 

[JazzMX5]

Totally unrelated Fates Warning question - is there a connection between the band and Iron Maiden's song of the same name on the No Prayer For The Dying album, or is it a strange coincidence? (Hell, maybe Maiden just liked the name - which, incidentally, doesn't appear in the song's lyrics anywhere. And to save anyone looking it up, it was a Murray/Harris composition.) I've always wondered but never found out.

One of the album's more underrated songs, I think, too.

 

[Dustin]

Totally unrelated Fates Warning question - is there a connection between the band and Iron Maiden's song of the same name on the No Prayer For The Dying album, or is it a strange coincidence? (Hell, maybe Maiden just liked the name - which, incidentally, doesn't appear in the song's lyrics anywhere. And to save anyone looking it up, it was a Murray/Harris composition.) I've always wondered but never found out.

One of the album's more underrated songs, I think, too.

It's ironic actually, because the early 80's Fates Warning material is VERY Maiden-esque, Only much mor eprinmal and raw in a sense.

although, you do bring up an interesting point.

\m/
Dustin

 

[JazzMX5]

Sounds like this bears further investigation. Mr Toast perhaps? He's a huge FW fan too, if memory serves.