@@Riddle99-v7q yeah, you have to do your own homework. Black Tongue and Hanzel Und Gretyl Ministry and NIN Are my favorites. Although, This shit is my Alltime favorite NOW
i saw a guy play a bass on stage that was literally a broom handle and a metal wash tub with a weed wacker string. the stick wasnt even attached to it. he just braced the broom handle with his foot, held the tub down with his chair and pulled back the broom handle till the plastic string tied in a knot to either piece of junk was tight. he played it by pulling back and notes by pure tension and feel. the guy played a set of maybe 8 songs, normal sounding bass lines. it sounded good. as a bassist, i asked him afterward how the hell does he know where the notes are without a fretboard or a mark or a single solid anchor to reference from and he just said. "no idea. I've been doing this a long-ass time and it sounded bad for a long time until it started sounding good."
*Just FYI the average string tension on a guitar is about 200lbs so I don't think that would work no. You should mount bridge, pickups and tuners on something else though. Like your desk. Make it a 100 string guitar.*
The only person who could challange davie's 36 string bass maybe? 🤔 edit: ok at this point, just turn a piano into a guitar/bass, it'd probably be easier.
Last month as part of Noisevember I wrote a series of 30 instruction based music and performance scores, one of which requires a guitar or bass with no body, where you would hang it up by the headstock and holding the pickups and other electronics in one hand play the string with the other and continually add weights to the strings to tune them, with the performance ending when so much weight has been added that all the strings have broken.
@@generalsmiddy5948 complete set will be published in the new year and several will be performed, one already has been (though an easier less complicated one than this) so hopefully at some point they will all be done.
@@lisiak1166 at the moment 8 don't know for sure, but the final score is literally an instruction to type out 30 copies of them on an old typewriter, so I guess if I can find a place that will let me do that as a performance for as long as it will take then that will be the first place to get them.
Some of the sounds when you used the pedals as a neck reminded me of Craig Huxley's instrument, the blaster beam. It's a 15 foot long aluminum fret board with movable guitar pickups that he played with mallets and artillery casings among other things. It's quite a cool sound. Jerry Goldsmith used it in his score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which then caused James Horner to use it in II and III as well as Wolfen. Leonard Rosenman used it in his score for Prophecy as well. If you don't know of it, maybe it could offer more inspiration? There are videos on this very site!
The way you should set that thing up for play is to mount a clamp in the handle and clamp it to a table or something. This will allow the player to make all kinds of movements with it, like stepping toward or away from the table, or twisting his body.
Simon looking all 'One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest' with socks and sandals tortures another bass. This series must never end and must continue as long as I have mental health problems and epilepsy and I've had those since f*** knows... let's say 30 years minimum... So let's torture more basses.
Now what can you do with the headstock, strings and body? (separately) ex. slap a piezo on a headstock and play with the tuners to make the worlds first bodyless guitar
I have the dumbest idea- a bass that is protruding from a wall. Like the neck sticks out and can be played by walking up to it but it's just lodged in a fucking wall.
This makes me wonder what might happen if you had like some sort of frame neck,where the strings were still left to float,but the head was attached to the body!
Bucket, upsidedown, broom handle stabbed in the bucket. Tie the string to the bucket and the top of the broom handle. Pull the stick back to tighten the string and hear the time change. Plot twist, he did it this way.
Starting at 8:30 Geezer Butler ( bassist from Black Sabbath ) likes to play with these types of effects at times. Just listen to E5150 off of the Sabbath album Mob Rules. ruclips.net/video/Z-NaGuyM5Wo/видео.html
im too sober for this shit...but on the bright side, now i can see how Pete Namlook made such trippy noises on the "Dreamfish" album he did while on acid...it makes much more sense now, just seeing floppy bass strings plugged into an infinite number of synths/effects xD
U guys r nuts! Subscribed! My friend, I have a few ideas for u. Like, can u make a washtub bass with more than 1 string?.. n can u then add bass pickups?
You could make it into a suspension bass. Adding a support to the BACK of the headstock & body so all the strings are floating and can be tensioned? Just a thought 👍
it actually would have been really cool if you had built some contraption that held the body and headstock the precise length of the neck apart and tuned it regularly.
this is what your bass player brings out when he tells you about his epic NNN bass... No Neck November. also a saw if it's november cuz he wan't to remove your neck for the month.
I came here with very low expectations after all of these other bass videos....This has honestly been my favorite bass installment yet; dope sounds and a solid fuck you to everyone talking shit about ruining a bass. Fuckin' love it bud
Coolt som alltid. Kan du göra något med en gryta med vatten? Du vet man klinkar på den och håller grytan så vattnet gör vågor och ändrar tonerna. Lite vibrato effekt över det.
I wouldn’t be mad if ya added a hinge and broom handle. One or two strings, hold it normally and flex it against your stomach. I bet you could play a simple but trippy bass line with it then.
Turns out the neck is important.
Who could have guessed??
- charles manson, upon pleading not guilty to murder and claiming manslaughter
@@peasant502 charles manson was innocent
@@dankhill6851 idk bout that lmaooooo
@@dankhill6851 wut lmaoo
You should make a creepy noise album with all your favorite weird instruments and shit..I’d listen
It would be better than 99% of the shat that gets released nowadays .
@@Dad-Gad There's plenty of amazing music.
That's a great Idea.
I started something like that some years back, never finished it. Your comment has inspired me to move forward.
@@Dad-Gad yeah, i really hate the corporation shit released today.
@@Riddle99-v7q yeah, you have to do your own homework.
Black Tongue
and
Hanzel Und Gretyl
Ministry
and
NIN
Are my favorites.
Although,
This shit is my Alltime favorite
NOW
i saw a guy play a bass on stage that was literally a broom handle and a metal wash tub with a weed wacker string. the stick wasnt even attached to it. he just braced the broom handle with his foot, held the tub down with his chair and pulled back the broom handle till the plastic string tied in a knot to either piece of junk was tight. he played it by pulling back and notes by pure tension and feel. the guy played a set of maybe 8 songs, normal sounding bass lines. it sounded good. as a bassist, i asked him afterward how the hell does he know where the notes are without a fretboard or a mark or a single solid anchor to reference from and he just said. "no idea. I've been doing this a long-ass time and it sounded bad for a long time until it started sounding good."
aka gutbucket
seasick steve _ i think thats his name
made his own guitar from a beer can
hub cap
hoe handle
and a spatula
"It sounded bad for a long time until it started sounding good."
Life lesson.
Also known as a "gutbucket".
You continuously challenge my concept of what music can be. Thank you.
a greed
After working for years in a guitar store setting up guitars, this abuse is refreshing :P
*Just FYI the average string tension on a guitar is about 200lbs so I don't think that would work no. You should mount bridge, pickups and tuners on something else though. Like your desk. Make it a 100 string guitar.*
The only person who could challange davie's 36 string bass maybe? 🤔
edit: ok at this point, just turn a piano into a guitar/bass, it'd probably be easier.
@@NuclearTopSpot well at that point all you gotta do is play a piano with a pick. There's not really any modification needed
@@grahamgould2732 but thats illegal
@@ojcmaboloc2658 no picks, only epics.
Jimmy Kennedy Experience He Did it
Next up: No Bass bass
*slaps air*
It’s called a Chapman’s Stick
Midi?
Last month as part of Noisevember I wrote a series of 30 instruction based music and performance scores, one of which requires a guitar or bass with no body, where you would hang it up by the headstock and holding the pickups and other electronics in one hand play the string with the other and continually add weights to the strings to tune them, with the performance ending when so much weight has been added that all the strings have broken.
This is actually brilliant. Would love to see someone perform this
@@generalsmiddy5948 complete set will be published in the new year and several will be performed, one already has been (though an easier less complicated one than this) so hopefully at some point they will all be done.
@@PhillipRaymondGoodman That's great!
Man! Where can we find these when they're out!?
@@lisiak1166 at the moment 8 don't know for sure, but the final score is literally an instruction to type out 30 copies of them on an old typewriter, so I guess if I can find a place that will let me do that as a performance for as long as it will take then that will be the first place to get them.
You put more effort into getting sounds out of that thing than I would ever have imagined. Well done, and thanks for the twisted inspiration!!
can I get UUUUUUHHHHHHHH B O N E L E S S B A S S
it's basically like a huge whammybar that also tightens
If making music is about creativity, this project was a success.
4:47 - A bass monster comes up from the depths.. my soul is warmed!
Some of the sounds when you used the pedals as a neck reminded me of Craig Huxley's instrument, the blaster beam. It's a 15 foot long aluminum fret board with movable guitar pickups that he played with mallets and artillery casings among other things. It's quite a cool sound.
Jerry Goldsmith used it in his score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which then caused James Horner to use it in II and III as well as Wolfen. Leonard Rosenman used it in his score for Prophecy as well.
If you don't know of it, maybe it could offer more inspiration? There are videos on this very site!
Action seems a bit high....
Oh wait
The way you should set that thing up for play is to mount a clamp in the handle and clamp it to a table or something. This will allow the player to make all kinds of movements with it, like stepping toward or away from the table, or twisting his body.
Here’s an idea, stings from the sealing, to the floor, and you could call it the room harp/ bass thing...
Ahaha I love this one, it sounds so wicked! Good stuff.
Perfect mix between Lo-fi and Sci-fi lol... Now maybe you could try to build a combo-amp-neck bass!
The Mars Volta would love this bass.
9:26 this is a good synth. Mount all that stuff to the table, a hinge for the headstock, a little fine-tuning, done.
Simon looking all 'One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest' with socks and sandals tortures another bass.
This series must never end and must continue as long as I have mental health problems and epilepsy and I've had those since f*** knows... let's say 30 years minimum... So let's torture more basses.
You got a good thing going here I believe , probably make the neck out of stiff pull springs or something, or just do what your doing.
Dudes with no neck: my time has come...
I love how you he bass inexplicably lost strings as the video went
Could a servo be controlled by the output from a guitar? If it can it could be used to play the guitar.
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And tune it at the same time using another servo
This one actually sounds awesome! Keep up the good work! 😁
I have an idea Simon, Cigar box bass ? ^o.+^
Some fantastic sounds, dystopian film soundtrack 😎🎸✅
I'm convinced by this channel that you could hook a cheese sandwich to a delay and bit crusher pedal and make all sorts of usable sounds.
this feels like bladerunner
Thanks for the sample pack
@Hainbach would love these sounds.
Now what can you do with the headstock, strings and body? (separately) ex. slap a piezo on a headstock and play with the tuners to make the worlds first bodyless guitar
around 5:30 it sounds like a trippy cat purring lmao
It sounds like what you hear in the dream sequence of a video game.
My child also didn't had neck when I ate it
I have the dumbest idea- a bass that is protruding from a wall. Like the neck sticks out and can be played by walking up to it but it's just lodged in a fucking wall.
It might not seem like it but these dudes are going to make something innovating
Apparently, there's a reason basses have necks.
This makes me wonder what might happen if you had like some sort of frame neck,where the strings were still left to float,but the head was attached to the body!
Connect a really long wire to the bass bridge and tie the other end to a tree or something outside. Would work kind of like a wind harp.
Bass but its disattached from social dogmas
Only you could get a 12 minute video out of this atrocity. 😂
6:16 reminds me of the beginning to MGMT's Time To Pretend.
Awesome tones. Great experiment!
Bucket, upsidedown, broom handle stabbed in the bucket. Tie the string to the bucket and the top of the broom handle. Pull the stick back to tighten the string and hear the time change. Plot twist, he did it this way.
Great as always Magpie. Big thanks
Next video: bass with just the electrictronicts
what's an electrictronict
@@powerusage787 an eletrictiove thing
WirSindZuGeil what does that even mean
WirSindZuGeil ok I spelt electronics wrong
oh
Starting at 8:30 Geezer Butler ( bassist from Black Sabbath ) likes to play with these types of effects at times. Just listen to E5150 off of the Sabbath album Mob Rules. ruclips.net/video/Z-NaGuyM5Wo/видео.html
fucking insane, truly unique sounds, a keen partner to tangerine dream and klaus schulze
im too sober for this shit...but on the bright side, now i can see how Pete Namlook made such trippy noises on the "Dreamfish" album he did while on acid...it makes much more sense now, just seeing floppy bass strings plugged into an infinite number of synths/effects xD
A steel pipe could be used to hold the headstock and body together to keep tension while still not having a fretboard.
U guys r nuts! Subscribed! My friend, I have a few ideas for u. Like, can u make a washtub bass with more than 1 string?.. n can u then add bass pickups?
Yes Simon! Do this!
You could make it into a suspension bass. Adding a support to the BACK of the headstock & body so all the strings are floating and can be tensioned?
Just a thought 👍
it actually would have been really cool if you had built some contraption that held the body and headstock the precise length of the neck apart and tuned it regularly.
This is how they made the sound for the movie Anhiliation for the final scene
Best "bass" episode so far; and the pedal board neck is genius!
im excited for the next episode of this series: The Negative Neck Bass
Check out Les Claypools Whamola it has the same idea of changing the tension of the strings but with a lever
We would get along well. Your area looks very similar to mine lol. I have the urge to draw on everything too.
That's like some next level classical instrument
Now its time for a bass with no body!!
That bass had gone through lots of experiment ..lol
FUCKIN' LOVE YA MAN! YOUR TRIPPY METHODS HELP ME STAY SOBER 😁👌
This channel puts lead in my pencil 👏👏👏👏👏
This just made me want to hear a washtub bass through an effects pedal
Now I know how tool gets all their weird ambient sounds
Congrats on 111k subs
Maybe it's me being stoned right now but that was definitely some trippy music. This is exactly what I needed.
I can't fucking stop laughing.
You guys need to have your own reality show. On HBO.
i actually love that psycho sound, imagine that on live gig, perfect noise performers :D
Sound creation at its extreme finest
I lost track of myself as I watched this. Thank you.
9:24 perfect image for a "bass nowadays" meme
Davie is looking down at him with pride
Envy*
mad genius
Music in the 60s: The Beatles
Music in 2020: *Bass with no neck*
Noise artists: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
Reminds me of the "horror machine" super cool samples to be had here for sure
this is what your bass player brings out when he tells you about his epic NNN bass... No Neck November. also a saw if it's november cuz he wan't to remove your neck for the month.
Oh yeah I love Throbbing Gristle
Davie also has done this.but instead of string,he just use a rubberband.
Next video, infinite wormhole neck bass
I came here with very low expectations after all of these other bass videos....This has honestly been my favorite bass installment yet; dope sounds and a solid fuck you to everyone talking shit about ruining a bass. Fuckin' love it bud
Sounds like something out of a tool music video with pedals and effects added.
Wouldnt a bass harp be a sight to behold?
Does it have a neck dive?
next up: playing the awesome no bass neck. what's left of it anyways.
These sound effects remind me of the sounds Hawkwind pull off in their music, real damn trippy
Holy fucking shit these noises created by this neckless bass fills my imagination with visions of eldritch abominations and alien ecosystems.
Could someone tell me what the name of the red pedal is, and where I could find it?
Its called Glou-Glou Pralines
This video proves you don't need a neck on your bass guitar if you want to make music from the 666th dimension.
dig it
Making '60s Sci-Fi sound effects with a fundamentally broken instrument
And they somehow worked their way to an '80s horror movie soundtrack
Coolt som alltid. Kan du göra något med en gryta med vatten? Du vet man klinkar på den och håller grytan så vattnet gör vågor och ändrar tonerna. Lite vibrato effekt över det.
Best experiment yet
I wouldn’t be mad if ya added a hinge and broom handle. One or two strings, hold it normally and flex it against your stomach. I bet you could play a simple but trippy bass line with it then.
I love these experiments...
Last time I did something similar I sliced my hand on some strings