Bass

AbbeyLee

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I’m tired but restless. That’s the opposite of how I like to be really. Twitter is boring as hell right now.. I hate it when all the trends are sport or braindead reality shows. I very rarely even turn my TV on.

So I thought I’d put something here. I was online before and YouTube was on auto-play. I’d been watching a clip of this guy playing the bass guitar. Another clip came on and it rocked. It was this Slap Bass Battle. I love the bass because my brother played it. He died in 2014 at 33yo from a heroin OD. Here’s the thing I’m talking about and then I’ll find some good bass songs.




Ha.. I didn’t even realise that guy was changing instruments because I wasn’t looking at it the first time.


I like this guy too.





Now I’m vaguely rockin. So here are my bro’s influences. Number one was Les Claypool from Primus, when he was about 13 (my brother not Les).





Damn I wish I’d learnt an instrument. I started a few but never had the discipline. Plus my parents pushed me too much and I always resented them. My brother got pushed into it too, but not as hard because he was seven years younger and they were more easy going with him. He did stick with it and played for twenty years before he died.

I can’t go past this when it comes to Les playing. It’s one of my go-to’s when I’m depressed or just flat.





Ok, other Primus.. They’re pretty weird heh. I like Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver but everyone knows that. Shake Hands With Beef lol. That name always amuses me and the clip is funny too.





I’ve never seen this one. There’s a rumour Les Claypool auditioned for Metallica but didn’t get the job because he was “too good”. Les denies it and the Metallica guy says it’s true, so who knows.

 
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This is just psychotic. Bands like RHCP used to come to Australia fairly regularly and all play at the same music festivals. Those festivals have been mostly stopped by our wonderful government. Touring is just too difficult for bands I think, and our idiotic laws put them off even more. So seeing a band like RHCP is a big deal and I never have. I watched them play live at the pyramids (!) last year which was awesome.

 
Last one. This is such a cool clip and the lyrics are great. Anthony Kiedis has gotten up to a lot of shenanigans but apparently he was a straight-A student at school and he’s a lot different to his stage persona. Ok go ;)





What I've got you've got to give it to your mama
What I've got you've got to give it to your pappa
What I've got you've got to give it to your daughter
You do a little dance and then you drink a little water

What I've got you've got to get it put it in you
What I've got you've got to get it put it in you
What I've got you've got to get it put it in you
Reeling with the feeling don't stop continue

Realize I don't want to be a miser
Confide with sly you'll be the wiser
Young blood is the lovin' upriser
How come everybody want to keep it like the kaiser

Give it away give it away give it away now
Give it away give it away give it away now
Give it away give it away give it away now
I can't tell if I'm a kingpin or a pauper

Greedy little people in a sea of distress
Keep your more to receive your less
Unimpressed by material excess
Love is free love me say hell yes

I'm a low brow but I rock a little know how
No time for the piggies or the hoosegow
Get smart get down with the pow wow
Never been a better time than right now

Bob Marley poet and a prophet
Bob Marley taught me how to off it
Bob Marley walkin' like he talk it
Goodness me can't you see I'm gonna cough it
Give it away give it away give it away now

Give it away give it away give it away now
Give it away give it away give it away now

Lucky me swimmin' in my ability
Dancin' down on life with agility
Come and drink it up from my fertility
Blessed with a bucket of lucky mobility

My mom I love her 'cause she love me
Long gone are the times when she scrub me
Feelin' good my brother gonna hug me
Drink my juice young love chug-a-lug me

There's a river born to be a giver
Keep you warm won't let you shiver
His heart is never gonna wither
Come on everybody time to deliver

Give it away give it away give it away now
Give it away give it away give it away now
Give it away give it away give it away now

What I've got you've got to give it to your mama
What I've got you've got to give it to your pappa
What I've got you've got to give it to your daughter
You do a little dance and then you drink a little water

Songwriters: Anthony Kiedis / Chad Smith / Michael 'Flea' Balzary / John Frusciante
 
Well goodness me.. This just appeared on YT. Someone here told me Primus was touring and putting out new stuff. But this is Claypool in something to support Ukraine 😯



 
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