KevyCanavan said:
just remember it's mikael who writes the whole bass lines.
Besides.....why did they actually kick Johan ?
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just remember it's mikael who writes the whole bass lines.
Besides.....why did they actually kick Johan ?
Benzine said:9 strings are the way forward:
or you buy a stick and kick all the rest of the band*g
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TheFourthHorseman
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Netheral said:
Did you mean that he wrote them? I mean, he doesn't write them these days does he?
I think Johan's musical interests were somewhere else than where Opeth was going. You can read it straight from Mikael in the biography though.
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Ermz
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TheFourthHorseman
In The Twilight World
mikael was showing hium a riff on the documentory, i seriously doubt he writes mendez's bass lines. If so what is the point of him being there at all? i swear sometimes ppl on this board say stuff cause it sounds good. and BTW martin is not fluent at the bass line on advent according to anytime i have seen him play it. sorry. hes good but it takes a bass player of a different calibur to execute property on a fretless. The Johan's intonation was perfect. tone amazing. give him his due please
Thorns of Sorrow
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Johan only played live for Opeth. All bass lines on Morningrise were written and recorded by Akerfeldt, this is common knowledge folks.
The Moor
Still Life
Thorns of Sorrow said:
to my knowledge, mayh bass tracks were played by mikael on a fretless. i wasn't aware mikael played and wrote the bass for morningrise, where exactly would find information on this? i've read the sites info and it doesn't say that.
The Moor
Still Life
on the subject of bass, peter originaly joined opeth as a bassist. mikael said this in an interview.
The Moor
Still Life
Thorns of Sorrow said:
"We recorded Orchid in 1994 with Johan as a session bassplayer"
http://opeth.com/biography/chapter3.html
The Poona of Peshwa
Blood Glutton
Pwned.
By the way I'm so fvkin kvlt that I only have one string on my bass. And it's the fuckin d string.
By the way I'm so fvkin kvlt that I only have one string on my bass. And it's the fuckin d string.
wankerness
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No. Period. Listen to the parts at 2:50 and 4:04, and if you think those are played on the second fret of the a string, you're tone deaf. Unless he used an octave pedal.Mr. Niel said:
Also, I have a bootleg video of them playing that song live with the old lineup, and it's very clear from the video that he's hitting low B's in those parts.
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IN ADDITION: another blatantly obvious part is at like 5:55...he goes lower than E. If you listen/see opeth live now, Mendez plays the e, then plays that D up an octave.
TheFourthHorseman
In The Twilight World
KevyCanavan said:
I thought of this too. I know Mikael writes all the basics for the songs but writing another member's parts? Sounds very weird...
Benzine said:9 strings are the way forward:
Man, what is the tuning on that beast? Jonas Hellborg has a 10 string bass that looks like a lute there's so many damn strings on it!
Basses (and all musical instruments) are merely tools. You use whatever tool you need to do the job at hand.
