old chillie peppers song

cliffcronie · Post by **cliffcronie** » Friday May 04, 2007

i wanna learn an old chilie peppers song on bass but i dont know what song to do................ as in old stuff i mean like the time of mothers milk

CMOR · Post by **CMOR** » Friday May 04, 2007

Why settle on one? Learn the whole album. Personally, I think it's the best Chili Peppers' album. Not the stuff they're putting out now.

cliffcronie · Post by **cliffcronie** » Friday May 04, 2007

me i love chili peppers so i like almost all the stuff i heard which is almost everything through mothers milk till present stadium arcadium.

J Michaels · Post by **J Michaels** » Friday May 04, 2007

Well.... I agree with CMOR - learn the whole thing. BUT - if you gotta learn just one - and you don't wanna learn the usual "Higher Ground", I'd say "Stone Cold Bush" or "Knock Me Down".

Aw, hell - any of 'em would be good!

Eldorado · Post by **Eldorado** » Saturday May 05, 2007

True Men Don't Kill Coyotes.

CMOR · Post by **CMOR** » Saturday May 05, 2007

If we're going to list good Peppers' albums: Uplift Mofo Party Plan. Knock Me Down is actually my favorite song on Mother's Milk just because it is so different from the rest of the album. Everybody take a moment to remember Hillel...

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Saturday May 05, 2007

I use to know Walkabout. It's one of their lesser known songs off of One Hot Minute. While OHM wasn't their best-recieved album, I thought that it contained some of Flea's best work. I consider Aeroplane to be one of the best modern funk basslines ever.

From what I understand, old sKool use to do Suck My Kiss back when Bad Daze use to be known as Core, long before Rob, Randy, and I came around. I'm trying to talk everyone into doing it.

Knock Me Down is a cool song. I think that Flea was playing a Spector then, which is kind of funny, because his tone is so much more hifi than what he has going on now with the Modulus. I think that he was still using Mesa amps then. If I'm not mistaken, he switched to Gallien-Krueger right around BSSM, but I could be wrong about that.

MeYatch · Post by **MeYatch** » Saturday May 05, 2007

bassist_25 wrote:I think that Flea was playing a Spector then, which is kind of funny, because his tone is so much more hifi than what he has going on now with the Modulus. I think that he was still using Mesa amps then. If I'm not mistaken, he switched to Gallien-Krueger right around Mother's Milke, but I could be wrong about that.

You're probably aware but the last album was recorded on a 1960 - 1962 Jazz bass, with flatwound strings. The bass is actually pink, even though it always looks white. But thats definately not the bass I'd use if I was looking for a hi-fi tone.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Saturday May 05, 2007

Actually, I didn't know that. So that accounts for the lack of hifiness on the new album. LOL I thought that he was using one of his Moduluses (Would that be Moduli? What do you think, Captain G?). That's pretty wild that he can get such a good slap attack on Tell Me Baby with flatwounds.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Saturday May 05, 2007

Taken from Wikipedia:

Flea's main basses have almost always been ones with active electronics. His signature live bass up until Californication was the Music Man StingRay, which he also used to record the album Freaky Styley. In the studios for The Uplift Mofo Party Plan and Mother's Milk Flea used a Spector bass. Blood Sugar Sex Magik was recorded with a Wal Mach II, Stingray 5 string and One Hot Minute with an Alembic Epic. From Californication onwards, he received a signature model from Modulus Guitars, which is based on the StingRay. For Stadium Arcadium, he used a '62 Fender Jazz bass. The Jazz bass was initially used during the subsequent Stadium Arcadium tour, but Flea later decided that he wasn't cutting through enough, and stopped using the Jazz bass in favor of his Modulus signature. Flea can be heard using several different effects pedals throughout his career, most notably an envelope follower ("The Power of Equality", "21st Century"), and an overdrive pedal ("Around the World", "So Much I").

Flea's Gallien-Krueger amp rig equates to three 2001RB heads, three 410RBH cabinets and three 115RBH cabinets.

Pretty interesting stuff. I never knew that he used a Wal. I guess it really doesn't matter what he plays. Fleas one of those cats who could make a Johnson or a $150 Samick sound good.

witchhunt · Post by **witchhunt** » Sunday May 06, 2007

I think it's been a common misconception that one can't get "bright" with flats. Rotosound flats are the only thing I'll use. I can get the highs on my Fenders or Yamahas. Friendly to the frets and the fingers, too.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Sunday May 06, 2007

Interesting about the the flats. Steve Harris uses flats and he has a pretty bright tone. I use Fender nylon-coated wounds on my fretless. I always liked the brightness I got with with rounds, but they always sounded a bit thin on the fretless. I tried a set of the nylons, and I was knocked out. They help save the fingerboard too.

It's kind of funny. A few weeks ago, I had to learn some older classic rock and blues stuff, and one thing I noticed right away on some of the older recordings is that the bass lacked a lot of the note definition that's almost a given in modern bass sound. It was actually a challenge trying to figure out exactly what notes were being played. God bless Sunn for coming along back in the day and making a bass amp that actually produced note definition. LOL Sir Paul McCartney is one of my favorite bass players, but I'll take his crisp, defined Rickenbacker sound over his muddy, thumpy Hofner sound any day of the week.