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posted on 2003-5-24 at 06:38
Stuart Hamm
Um, I was just wondering if anyone else here listened to Stu Hamm, none of my friends do, or anyone else I know for that matter. SO I was just curious
to know if anyone else liked his style of playing (I personally love it, and wish I could play as good as he does).
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posted on 2003-5-24 at 14:20
I got to meet Stu at the Steve Vai show a little while back. He's a great guy and a fuckin' awesome bass player.
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posted on 2003-5-24 at 16:17
Woah, if I ever met him I'd get him to sign my bass (never getting rid of it, eventually it'll have the signatures of every great bass
player in the World, except Pastorius, may he rest in peace).
But yeah, I know the first few bars of every one of his songs, unfortunately that's about all I know, as soon as they get the least bit tricky
I'm screwed (although I know I can play Sleigh Ride, because I've played it in parts, but I always screw up when I play it as a whole, and
also keep forgetting sections, so I guess I can't play it).
Ever since I got G3 and saw him and Satriani doing their little duel thing at the start of Summer Song I was hooked. Then on Satriani live at San Fran
his solo was awesome pity 75% of it is shown from behind
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posted on 2003-5-24 at 17:15
so who is he?
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posted on 2003-5-24 at 17:20
He is Joe Satriani's bassist, and an absolute God on the instrument. He does a lot of double tapping, tap (artificial) harmonics and insanely
fast slap stuff.
He's also the only bassist I've ever heard who's played a bassline, rhythm and lead on a four string (albeit the lead isn't
very complex, i.e. it's no Classical Gas, but you've got to remember he has two less strings).
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posted on 2003-5-24 at 17:23
i see.
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posted on 2003-5-24 at 17:26
I do hope you know who Joe Satriani is.
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posted on 2003-5-24 at 22:17
Stu Ham is good, but Victor Wooten takes the cake as best contemporary bassist.
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posted on 2003-5-24 at 22:30
Joe Satriani put on the biggest show I've ever seen
It was huge !
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I didnt go .. I saw it on video
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posted on 2003-5-25 at 01:11
Yeah, Wooten is good, incredibly fast.
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posted on 2003-5-30 at 00:01
Whenever the Joe Satriani announced his name, it's sounds like the crowd are saying "Booo" instead of "Stu". It gets
confusing.
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posted on 2004-3-29 at 08:22
I agree Stu Hamm is very very awsome, almost brain damaging to try and comprehend whats all going on during his solo's.....check out his Penuts
solo(Charlie Brown Theme) Sorry, I cant spell worth a damn....
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posted on 2004-3-29 at 14:19
Rob, you have great taste. Hey, maybe you can bust out some funky bass solo in the new Livid stuff.
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posted on 2004-3-29 at 18:46
Speaking of stu, I was downloading a bunch of his powertabs on powertabs.net. Sin, you should check them out. There is a couple new ones added in the
last couple days. They don't look too hard to play, but they sound superb.
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posted on 2004-3-29 at 22:32
Yeah, I have Moonlight Sonata which I'm sorta halfway through, but stopped learning because I've decided to start focusing on one song to
learn, instead of about 5 at a time. I also have Country Music, Kings of Sleep, Terminal Beach and Sleigh Ride (which I can play except for the bit I
need a five string for, I just play it an octave higher for now).
