JOLLY
Super Simonologist
Just a little riff that popped in my head. It reminded me of something The Kinks would have done.....hence, the name.
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14567437
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14567437
Kinky
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beaubrummels
Well-known member
Sounds excellent. And if you say you used a Kemper, we're coming for your kitchen. ;-)
JOLLY
Super Simonologist
Thanks!! Yeah, it's my Kemper... lol. It's just so easy to record with. Honestly, I don't even think that I've played through any of my stacks in about 8 years or so.
JOLLY
Super Simonologist
Thanks, man. I appreciate it!!
JOLLY
Super Simonologist
Thank you very much!! I really liked that bass tone too. It's actually what I'm the happiest about in that whole recording....lol. That's actually my Line 6 Bass POD that I think I bought back in 1999 or whenever they first came out. I used the Brit Class A which is modeled after a 1965 Vox AC-100. I used my Spector Legend 4 Classic, and just dimed the bass, mid, and treble. I put the built in compressor at about 2 o'clock and the drive at about 11. Other than that, I used my Waves CLA bass plugin to add just a little more grit, high end, and some sub frequencies. I think I'm going to stick with that bass tone for a while on my recordings....lol.
Here's just a bass mix:
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14568796
Gtrjunior
New member
Wow…. That bass sounds KILLER!!
In the part where the bass is playing the staccato lines, the silence is deafening. If that makes sense. The difference in hearing it vs not hearing it is just tremendous. It’s very powerful. I love it.
JOLLY
Super Simonologist
Yeah, when it kicks in and drives it really makes a difference. Now that you've pointed that out to me, It kind of reminds me of how a lot of the bass playing is on the Electric album by The Cult.
Gtrjunior
New member
Yeah, that’s true now that you mention it.
That whole album if full of those type of riffs. One of my favorites from them.
They use space (silence) masterfully on that album.
El Dunco
Sock Supplier to RHCP
That is Kinky! I’m so dumb, it took me until now to realise this because I just never thought far into it enough to connect the dots that it goes “girl, you really got me going” because they’re The Kinks! Their name is literal. “All day and all of the night”, all their songs literally are literally about their kinks….
beaubrummels
Well-known member
My understanding is The Kinks name came from a salacious gossip report back in the mid-sixties that a member of the royal family or lords had a 'dungeon' in their estate for bondage and discipline play. A bunch of media/entertainment capitalized on it at the time; like Emma Peel's black leather outfit in the Avengers, skits in various comedy shows, the slang "slap and tickle" was coined from it, and The Kinks naming themselves after it.
El Dunco
Sock Supplier to RHCP
Hah! Thanks for cluing me in. That’s wild hahaha
JOLLY
Super Simonologist
Ha!! That would probably be a lot of fun to do.
JOLLY
Super Simonologist
El Dunco
Sock Supplier to RHCP
Right? It’s legendary! If you did make full songs and did an EP or album or something, that would be awesome. Or another SDUGF collab CD could be really cool now! Or a soundcloud or we could all chip in to have it put on streaming platforms?
Speaking of The Kinks, I can’t believe what I’m reading online and hearing from YouTubers… they actually think You Really Got Me and All Day and All Of the Night are the same song! Literally, not similar but they think the latter is an alternative title to the former! What??
There’s no excuse not to look it up and know the difference. Even I knew pre-wikipedia, pre internet knowledge because All Day was on a compilation soundtrack album of a popula british TV show we had on the air called Heartbeat.
To me, those Kinks songs are timeless. There’s no mistaking that’s a whole band in a room giving it what for. I especially love the way you can hear just how hard he gives those two chords on ‘Got Me what for!
