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- From: pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Philip Wang)
- Subject: Re: Best Bassist
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.224443.1023@news.columbia.edu>
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- Reply-To: pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Philip Wang)
- Organization: Columbia University
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:44:43 GMT
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- >>
- >>Shows what you know about bassists. Venom's reputation was built on
- >>musican ineptitude.
- >
- >What's wrong w/ VENOM? He used to play bass really col and neat. One of the
- >best bassist. And I don't give much fuck abt PRIMUS maybe they are good musicia
- >ns (sure cuz Larry is from incredible death metallers POSSESSED) but it's
- >fucking NOT metal.
- >
- Leonid, he's got a point. Cronos wasn't always really good. I wouldn't say they
- had no clue what to do with their instruments at all, but they weren't the
- best of the bunch either. Compare to Dave Murray or Kevin Heybourne on guitar,
- Stef Prockopczuk (Gaskin) and Chris Troy (Praying Mantis) on bass or Clive
- Burr (then with Praying Mantis), Thunderstick and Dave Hogg on drums. The
- vocals of that sort were probably the best of the lot, though, in my opinion,
- when you compare to Motorhead or Tank, but that's probably because Lant
- doesn't smoke as much as Lemmy does.
-
- Anyway, Venom has improved greatly since their first single as far as
- musicianship. Unfortunately, their compositions are missing some of the
- energy that they used to have. I like their new stuff, but something about
- the old stuff seems to keep the albums in my CD changer a bit more often.
-
- philip
- Philip Wang E-mail at pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
- "Washington Boulevard...Thirty three...Can I get a transfer, man? Ninety five
- cents?! Fuck you, I'll skate to the beach, and I'll look better gettin' there!"
- -Chuck Mosley, "Death March"
-