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The SBL Podcast

161 - Is Toxicity costing you the gig?

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

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4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

If you’re in any sort of environment that’s become toxic, chances are you’ve been bending and flexing for a while to try to make it work. It’s no different in a band. While the audience might not always see it, the band always feels it. In this video, Sharon and Ian talk through some of the common pitfalls to avoid.

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0:00.0

The toxicity.

0:02.5

I heard that song in the radio just like yesterday.

0:08.2

And I cannot believe.

0:09.7

Yeah.

0:10.4

It was like rock station, right?

0:12.7

And I cannot believe that that, like I love System of a Down so much, but I still sometimes can't believe that they got as famous. It's so quirky. It is. His weird. Yeah. And hearing him go, the toxicity of our city. And I'm like, God, this is like mainstream. And some of it feel like that, like wake up. Take it, taka, taka, taka, taka,a, make up. Oh my God, I love that song. I know. I do too. I love it. But it's still, I'm still baffled by it. I feel that same way about Primus, actually, how they got so huge. Too. I know. You're not a huge Primus fan, huh, Jess? No, it's not necessarily the music as much as it is the bass tone.

0:58.7

I love it, yeah.

1:00.1

His bass tone is very obtuse.

1:02.0

It's very...

1:02.6

It's a very...

1:03.6

It's a very...

1:04.6

It's a strong flavor.

1:06.0

And, like, I made that real once with American life, what's it called?

1:10.6

Yeah, Primus. And I learned it, and it was not as hard... made that real once with the American life what's it called yeah

1:10.8

primus and I learned it and it was not as hard to learn as it was to then dial back

1:19.8

the cleanness of the base so I had to make it dirtier because I mean it's

1:25.0

Instagram people are going to be like oh you're not playing it right and it's like no no I'm actually playing it too right there's like it mean, it's Instagram. People are going to be like, oh, you're not playing it right. And it's like, no, no, no, I'm actually playing it too right.

1:45.4

There's like, it's like, there's too much position when there should be more clank and more stuff. And it just, it's so counterintuitive to me when I have to play primus. That it's just like, yeah. Like it's almost like it needs to be dirty and then bridge pickup.

1:45.9

Yes. Yes.

1:46.0

Which is so like.

1:47.1

Weird. primus that it's just like yeah like it's almost like it needs to be dirty and then

1:44.6

yeah yes yes which is so weird perfect and it's you're like wait I thought that was the

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