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Post by grayn on Oct 24, 2013 17:06:08 GMT
I have always thought that the really low guitar guys are complete berks. I guess if you have no skill at all, like Mr Hook, then it doesn't really matter. I would actually argue that Peter Hook is quite a unique, interesting bassist, regardless of how low he wears his bass. Not a "proper musician" maybe, and he certainly doesn't play bass like a bass but sometimes interesting music comes from people who aren't musos. Just my opinion of course. I'm glad you enjoy his style. I see him as someone who didn't have enough talent to play lead guitar, so thought he'd try and play lead on bass, hoping it would seem different. Well he made loads of cash, so someone obviously liked it. The bands he was in, did some good stuff but were really bands that only sounded decent, recorded. Live, they couldn't really hack it. Vive le difference, I guess.
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Post by stringdriventhing on Oct 24, 2013 17:45:07 GMT
Live, they couldn't really hack it. I sort of agree with you there. Never saw Joy Division, but saw New Order in 86 and they were pretty rotten live. Hookie was actually ok that night, but Barney Summer was all over the place.
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Post by Mike Floorstand on Oct 25, 2013 22:36:08 GMT
I never saw them live, but my memory says Joy Division topped John Peel's Festive Fifty for most of the 80s, and that's good enough for me.
(Wikipedia suggests that my memory may have been embroidered, but I don't care!)
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