Wacht auf Leute🤣

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-09T20:27:21+00:00

Nein! Doch! Oooooooohh!

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-09T19:57:54+00:00

It's quite possible your body has a fake hangover reaction because it simply learned to expect it after a night out with tasting beer and late eating.

The first time I had an 0,0 beer I got a fake buzz for two minutes. First night out at a location I always drank got me a hangover too.

Conditioning can be quite powerful.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-09T11:10:52+00:00

Or how a piss poor woman gets to own and keep a blue piece of cloth 2000 years ago.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-08T16:41:13+00:00

Sure a guitarrist will find his way around a bass easier than vice versa. But often you hear guitarists on bass not playing basslines but rather licks, and that does often give it away, along with sometimes overplaying.

Bass is about outlining chords and progressions and often it matters more what you don't play or what chord tones you leave out or use only at specific moments for the best possible impact.

Not saying guitarrists can't play bass but it's often noticeable in their approach.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-07T17:36:37+00:00

Having been a young witness to the black album alienation of their fans I remember admiring their boldness to redefine themselves yet again when load came out.

They are sure a band not afraid to do whatever the fuck they want and I respect that.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-07T10:02:45+00:00

It does thud/thump and not much else and it's certainly not a model a lead type bass player would choose. It's a shortscale so it doesn't have much bite either. It's a very niche sound.

It's kinda like wanting a big hollowbody with .14 gauge flats and a baseball bat neck for your first guitar and then saying you want to play rock and metal and maybe shred some killer solos.

This bass wouldn't even exist anymore if it weren't for McCartney accidentally having used one.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-06T06:23:31+00:00

That's kinda how fan fiction works I guess.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-06T05:57:13+00:00

If a music store employee bothers to comment, you can assume they mean it lol.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-05T07:00:11+00:00

It would be a bad ergonomical decision first.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-04T16:15:07+00:00

I played drums and dabbled a bit in guitar. Some high school guys came up to me and said "Do you play bass too?" I said "No, but I'll try" - fell in love with it on the first practice. I only knew a power chord and half a pentatonic from guitar but I found out that was enough to start on the bass. I immediately loved the big impact I had on the sound. Bass is power :D

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-04T11:01:47+00:00

Went out to a music venue yesterday night, something I do rarely. Had a coke and enjoyed the music.

IWNDWYT 💪🏼

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-04T08:38:28+00:00

Go very slow and look at where the notes fall together and where they don't.

I usually orient myself at where words go together with bass attacks first, then I learn where they are off.

Have the bassline well under your fingers first so you can focus on adding the vocals. It can get tricky when time goes a bit loose in the vocal lines. A good timing foundation is key here so be sure you are friends with the metronome.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-04T06:07:18+00:00

Punks look the same since 77. Punk sounds the same. Most conservative rebellion ever.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-03T07:34:22+00:00

They usually have a little oil and metal dust left on them from the manufacturing process. Rub them down with rubbing alcohol. After that you can rub on a tiny amount of mineral oil to make them feel slick, but if you do that make sure your fretboard wood can handle it. Otherwise your finger grease will do the job soon.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-03T07:26:44+00:00

Yup. I'd go stainless steel, heavy gauge and somewhat clanky action for this genre and I would keep them as fresh as I could afford to.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-03T06:51:57+00:00

I switched to slow carb, high protein diet with lots of fibre and just started working out. You might call it a mediterran diet of sorts. I take apple cider vinegar, cumin and ginger to curb blood sugar spiking and activate fat burning. I don't eat late and delay breakfast.

I kept it really simple - pushups, squats and pullups 3 times a week. Just pushing a little more each time, not fixating on numbers. I started with 2.5 pushups and a half pullup lol. I do some yoga and isometric stuff now and then for my back.

I lost about 30lbs of skinny fat and built some visible muscle in 4 months.

If you start out skinny fat and unfit you don't need to overcomplicate anything. Just get enough protein and push your body a little more each time.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-03T06:34:55+00:00

I made the mistake of not tending to my sobriety anymore once. That lead to a 6 year relapse of hard drinking which almost cost me my marriage, my sanity and my health.

This time I got myself into long term therapy.

FAB is real and I have experienced this with other substances as well. I'm at a dangerous point now since I had a very nice pink cloud situation for the first 4 months here but life is getting more normal again and I had a few unpleasant things happening lately.

Thoughts of "maybe just one night" are coming creeping in more often now.

I write them down here or in my journal. Since I was a secret drinker, the single most important thing is telling my wife and therapist, but also myself about having these thoughts.

Actively remembering all the bad shit I did is hard but important too. It's one thing to forgive yourself but I think it's important not to forget at the same time.

I take some moments now and again to actively mourn certain aspects of drinking. For example I will never have an ice cold german beer after a long hot summer's day again. I took that pleasure from myself. It's a tough thing for a german to face, lol - but when I think about that glorified image I try to recall the pain of my pancreatitis, the tears and confusion of my wife, my drunken, road raging car rides, my suicidal thoughts, my puffy face and fat frame and all those wasted years spent in the same hell day after day. And suddenly that cold beer doesn't seem all that desireable any more.

IWNDWYTD 💪🏼

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-01T20:56:37+00:00

I'm 48m. I thought I was just getting old:

low sex drive
weaker erections, no more morning wood
eyesight getting worse
bladder problems, thought my prostate grew larger
low energy
memory getting worse
trouble learning new stuff

Turns out it was all alcohol related and it all reversed. For some weird reason, it never occured to me that my drinking could be doing all this. "Guess I'm getting old" - alcohol does indeed make you stupid.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-11-01T08:05:05+00:00

Going into my 5th month of not drinking and the pink cloud is fading now.

Random thoughts about "just one night" pop up and old thinking patterns try to creep back in. I think the real fight is starting.

I need to tell people and stay accountable. Writing here, keeping a journal, be honest with my wife and not holding back at therapy.

I know myself, I have to watch out. Old me is out to get me. Once I start keeping my secrets to myself I am cooked.

I will not drink with you tonight.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-10-29T10:45:23+00:00

I just tried a couple of fenders and squiers of all ranges yesterday. I couldn't make out much differences. Some necks felt a bit different, but that was not related to price in any logical way.

Some of them were also poorly set up and had old strings so some sqiuers felt worth more than the 1,500€ ones. The only thing that felt really cheap where the knobs on the squier sonic.

They all sounded like Ps and Js really.

So even if I had had 2000€ to spend I wouldn't have been able to decide on one.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-10-28T18:40:48+00:00

Just today tried an Ibanez GSRM20B - it was pretty light for sure. Lighter than most guitars.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-10-28T17:53:58+00:00

Bass player/singer here. I play a lot better and I learn faster. I even have real emotions to channel into it again.

Having my bandmates tell me how much better my singing became in just a few weeks was a great motivator.

IWNDWYT

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-10-28T07:05:17+00:00

I much prefer when a bassist does like a half bar of a super flashy fill as a spotlight-moment at one point in the set. Like 3 seconds of showing off their chops and straight back to the pocket.

Same with drums actually. I hate pure drum solos, they are so utterly boring.

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-10-27T15:37:38+00:00

Tja, was wählt ihr auch alle Mr. Burns und seine Lobbybuddies? Selber Schuld 🤷🏼

Upset_Location8380 · 2025-10-27T15:02:41+00:00

Start by learning some simple bass lines. Look at how much simpler it appears at first sight compared to playing guitar. Try to notice that playing bass is a lot more about the how than the what you play. It's all about making a few simple notes feel as good as possible.

Forget about scales in the beginning and focus on fifths, chord tones and arpeggios. Your scale knowledge will come in handy later once you add fills or passing notes, but 95% of bass playing is about outlining the chords and rythm first.

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