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Feline_Heart posted...

Have you ever listened to royal blood? The bass player uses a bunch of pedals to make it sound like there's an electric guitar in their band and it sounds awesome

Yeah those guys are pretty great. Jack White does the same thing, using pedals to make his guitar sound like a bass. Lemmy from Motorhead sounded like two guitars and a bass sometimes. I think that's a different thing though. Augmenting the sound of an instrument to achieve a specific sound is one thing. But trying to play all the parts on one instrument and losing the sound that makes those instruments useful I can't get behind. It just seems to me like fashion over function.

So yeah, I think it's fine to use an instrument in an unconventional way but I just don't have any taste for these guys who try to simultaneously play a drum beat and bass line and rhythm section and melody all on an acoustic guitar and end up just playing something that sounds pretty flat and dull, like Andy McKee up there.
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