THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING THE HUMAN RACE

Well the blonde braincell shoots him looks, and whispers in his ear, and he's even dared to ask the audience (we have no evidence if he's also used 50-50 and phone a friend)

So, let NOOL speak!

I was going to phrase the answers like this..... Yes, I am a singer/guitarist/other-idiot, please forward my name for sterilization lest i pollute the genepool with my heresy. No, he is the one true Norse God of Bass and must be praised. They can turn DOWN? (I'm a bassplayer)

but felt I may be accused of trying to predjudice the poll.

Look I know it's silly. But on top of my recently described annoyances, i've got a seriously annoying toothache and have had a brilliant piece of post-fu stolen from me by this feckin forum package. So I'm figuring when I look at this in the morning it might just stop me sticking my dead in a bucket of water for 3 hours to see if it improves my mood :-P

I have absolutely NO idea what the hell that post was about, and I have the gift of the Ulster-bullshitting as well (just look at most of posts) from my ancestry...

Dude, you know it's the goddamned drummer who always starts the volume war; then guitar hero has to turn up to be heard over the drums, and since guitar hero's instrument is perfectly tuned to the human pain frequency, the bass player has to turn it up not to escalate the conflict but to mask the debilitating shrillness of goddamned drummer and guitar hero.

Peace through bass.

Again, your wisdom shines.

An engineer I once worked with SHREDDED this guitarist one day, by pointing out that the Vox Ac-30 is in fact a weapon, capable of cutting clean accross a 10K public address unaided.guess what Barney has. At college, our head of dept was an aged hippie drummer. One day he cracked with heavymetaldrummerchild, handed him a pair of brushes and said "use those, they'll do wonders for your technique and give all our heads peace". The guy took them, closed the brushes down into the handle, stuffed a drum stick down after them, slapped the rod to open them again, grinned as all the wires caught on the inside and buckled under the load, and proudly handed somethng resembling a carton lightning struck umbrella, but with more spokes, back. Hateful creatures. Gimme a coupla chips and a lump of ABS casing any day.

Had a major argument the other week with a mate regarding hookys bass. basically he said that he was "sick" of hearing the same hooky bassline in nearly every no song. what do you lot think? Are you tired of hookys bass or is it the quintessential new order sound? gotta admit sometimes it can grate,but then you play a song like age of consent and you realise why hooky plays his bass that way! Plus many other have tried to copy hookys bass sound,the cure,etc,etc and it just doesnt work the same!!

post his address, we'll send a deputation round to "talk" to him.

na, I laugh at the "same bassline" thing. What they mean is, "not like others". Cos if you think all hooky's basslines sound the same, that pretty much puts all other bassplayers into another box, where they all sound like each other.

I play like Hooky whenever I can. don't hang the bass on the strap, and I don't fight with it, actually I usually site down. And I don't write lines that sound like his. I just play high up and tunefully, because I absolutely believe he has invented a new valid style of playing, as valid as slap or tap or any other way of approaching a bass. I hate the thought that when he stops recording, that the bass with vanish back into obscurity and go back to going "boomb dum dum". SO I'M gonna keep at it and I hope others do.