Top 5 Bass Players Ever
I’ve always wanted to write a post like this. I have been a student of the Bass Guitar for around 15 years and have always fought the “apparent unimportance” of bass players in contemporary music. Through this post I hope to once and for all assert the position of bassists everywhere in the highest echelons of cool.
What’s Your Music Personality?
According to a new music personality test from Signal Patterns, they can codify your taste in music, give you music options to listen to and even connect you to people with similar music tastes by taking a five-dynamic music taste test from their Website. Signal Patterns is a team of scientists that are “developing a technology that gives people new ways to explore their personality, their preferences, and their relationships with the people around them.” They are the folks behind some cool Facebook personality tests (if you dig that sort of fare).
My Signal Pattern
My music personality is: Aggressive, Loud, and Percussive. Here’s what my FUSES model says:
FUSES stands for Forceful, Urban, Sophisticated, Earthy and Smooth. Your music traits cross music genres. For example. if one of your traits is “forceful”, you might like AC/DC’s “Back in Black,” Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, and Puff Daddy’s “Victory.” Our research team has carefully chosen a small number of musical prototypes or “probes” that research has shown can help to better understand a given individual’s musical tastes. The prototypes are the result of more than 10 years of research using tens of thousands of respondents, both on the internet and in laboratory settings.
My Take: Clips were cheesy, but the technology has promise
They played 40 different 15 second clips which I had to rate each one on a scale. The scale was from “I really dislike” to “I really love”. Many of the clips were cheesy, Muzak sounding tracks, which could account for why I scored so “aggro-ly”. This test is supposed to look beyond tastes and get results from deeper in the brain. I don’t totally agree with it, but the test was a fun way to spend 4 minutes and if enough people take it, could lead to some interesting data that bands and labels can use to launch new music. Check it out for yourself.
Take the Test:http://www.signalpatterns.com/music_survey
Please comment on what your results are.
Enjoy. Share.
Ivan
Honeycut 6.5×14 Custom Snare Drum For Sale on eBay
I found a Honeycut snare drum for sale on eBay. The description reads:
“You are bidding on a one of a kind drum. A Honeycut 6.5×14 snare drum. Equipped with 10 lugs, S-Hoops, Dunnett throw off with butt plate, new Evans G2 coated over 300 hazy, and Fat Cat snare wires. It has a custom ‘hot rod blue’ paint finish. This drum is nicknamed ‘The Caddy’. If you don’t know anything about Honeycut Drums you should find out (http://www.myspace.com/honeycutdrums). As you can see the shell is about 1/2″ thick and totally seamless akin to a solid wood shell. Honeycut uses a high density polyethylene which is a industrial plastic of the highest quality. No one makes drums out of this stuff. It is quite amazing. I have a lot of custom drums and this drum ranks up there with the best of them: Bradys, Dunnetts, Tempus, Ludwig, DW, you name it! Honeycuts give you added frequencies and sensitivity comparing it to wood. And you get plenty of volume from this 1/2″ thick shell–the rim shots will cut through any loud music for sure. But this snare does it all in the studio to the live stage.”
Go to eBay to see this Honeycut snare drum ››
GulfStream.TV Online Television Network Launches
Remember when MTV used to play new music videos and cool live performances? GulfStream.TV does and takes their place. Mohawk Bomb Records artist Soulfound has a 24/7 music stream and video feed through which fans can watch recent live performances.
Ricky Gervais’ Brilliant Rant on Pop Culture
I love this scene from the Extras series finale:
49 Songs from North of the 49th Parallel
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is compiling a list of 49 Canadian-made songs to demonstrate to our new President-elect what Canada is all about. That’s pretty neat. Here’s a re-post of what they aim to accomplish:
“Beginning Monday, January 5, CBC Radio 2 invites Canadians to help select the top ‘49 songs from north of the 49th parallel’ that would best define our country to the incoming U.S. President Barack Obama. His playlist could definitely benefit from some Canadian content, especially given the depth of our musical offerings – spanning a wide variety of genres and representing our culture from coast to coast.”
Honeycut Drums Releases New Nano Series Snare Drum
Florida-based custom drum manufacturer Honeycut Drums announces the release of a new line of snare drums made from metal shells. The “Nano” line is lightweight, powerful and can be used both on stage or in the studio. To place a custom order, go to www.myspace.com/honeycutdrums.
