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Terrainasaur wrote:The term "multi-instrumentalist": CRAP

What the hell else would you call it?
dude-got-mad-skills-on-lots-a-gear?

alex maiolo wrote:Steve V. -

Don't write off being a good bass player and good guitarist as being the same thing - you're selling yourself short.

I've been a guitarist for 2/3rds of my life.
I had played bass before, of course.
However, it took quite a few months of me playing bass in a band before I really understood it. Something clicked and I went from a guy who could play bass to a bass player.

Playing bass in a band is harder than it looks. You can screw up a note on guitar and be okay. Screwing up a note on bass makes the whole thing sound like shit.

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:

Terrainasaur wrote:The term "multi-instrumentalist": CRAP

What the hell else would you call it?
dude-got-mad-skills-on-lots-a-gear?

"like a polyglot but with music"

lemur68 wrote:I don't see how being a multi-instrumentalist can be considered Crap. Oh yeah--because it's not "punk rock" to be competent at even one instrument, let alone many.

I'd say that the proclamation of being a 'multi-instrumentalist' if one is really quite inept at the secondary (and even primary) instruments is arguably CRAP. There's nothing CRAP about playing a bunch of instruments to whatever standard, but to proclaim oneself a 'multi-instrumentalist' because one knows a few chords on the piano and can play 'When the levee breaks' on drums is (I reckon) CRAP.

I read a hilarious interview a few years ago with the woman from the band 'Faithless' (I can't be arsed to look her name up, probably 'Missy Aerial' or something). She had released a solo record and the interviewer asked her if there was any particular motivating factor behind every single song on the record being in C major.

She replied that it suited the mood of the songs.

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:

Terrainasaur wrote:The term "multi-instrumentalist": CRAP

What the hell else would you call it?
dude-got-mad-skills-on-lots-a-gear?

I know it's a necessary evil, given lack of alternative, but it's most often used for the dark side, IE the more ego-centric type "I'm a multi-instrumentalist" stuff. Like the dude plays this



and this



and this

Adam CR wrote:
I read a hilarious interview a few years ago with the woman from the band 'Faithless' (I can't be arsed to look her name up, probably 'Missy Aerial' or something). She had released a solo record and the interviewer asked her if there was any particular motivating factor behind every single song on the record being in C major.

She replied that it suited the mood of the songs.

my first 'album' (some home made electronic stuff) was all in C major and A minor. that was because i didnt know shit about theory, i only knew that if you used only the white keys it will be all relatively 'in tune' so i played only those keys. didnt even know how to make a normal 'chord' so i experimented just combining keys. it was interesting.

one good example of Multi-I is elliott smith. He played everything on his recordings right? Was an excellent piano player and guitar player, and i like his simple drumming. J. Mascis, as far as i know, also play drums with certain skill.

That asshole Sufjan Stevens plays about 13 instruments in each recording, but he doesnt counts.

Jose Luis Perales wrote:

Adam CR wrote:
I read a hilarious interview a few years ago with the woman from the band 'Faithless' (I can't be arsed to look her name up, probably 'Missy Aerial' or something). She had released a solo record and the interviewer asked her if there was any particular motivating factor behind every single song on the record being in C major.

She replied that it suited the mood of the songs.

my first 'album' (some home made electronic stuff) was all in C major and A minor. that was because i didnt know shit about theory, i only knew that if you used only the white keys it will be all relatively 'in tune' so i played only those keys. didnt even know how to make a normal 'chord' so i experimented just combining keys. it was interesting.

one good example of Multi-I is elliott smith. He played everything on his recordings right? Was an excellent piano player and guitar player, and i like his simple drumming.

Other people played on his records, like, appropriately, Jon Brion, whom I mentioned earlier as being a pretty impressive guy.
That's probably because he was producing though. Smith *could* have done the whole thing, but he did bring in other people, including people from old bands of his.

And that's the thing. Jason Falkner records could do with having some outside ideas on them, you know?

-A

Terrainasaur wrote:

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:

Terrainasaur wrote:The term "multi-instrumentalist": CRAP

What the hell else would you call it?
dude-got-mad-skills-on-lots-a-gear?

I know it's a necessary evil, given lack of alternative, but it's most often used for the dark side, IE the more ego-centric type "I'm a multi-instrumentalist" stuff. Like the dude plays this

and this

and this

Now I would totally play that black & white deal there.

Terrainasaur wrote:

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:

Terrainasaur wrote:The term "multi-instrumentalist": CRAP

What the hell else would you call it?
dude-got-mad-skills-on-lots-a-gear?

I know it's a necessary evil, given lack of alternative, but it's most often used for the dark side, IE the more ego-centric type "I'm a multi-instrumentalist" stuff. Like the dude plays this

and this

and this

This has never happened to me before, and five minutes ago I wouldn't have thought it possible, but those pictures gave me a huge headache. Fuck that guy with the tie dye. Anyone want to bet that its going into some kind of rack with chorus?

the dream: not crap.

being a jack of all trades, master of none: crap.

be a master of all of them.

mick harvey's pretty fuckin' solid on whatever he's playing.