Thread 128389690

I'll start:
>Roger Waters was so bad at bass guitar that Dave Gilmour played most of the bass section on Pink Floyds "Dark Side of the Moon" album.

>>128389690 (OP)
he's pretty badass on Live at Pompeii but the bar isn't very high. it's like saying Keith Moon is badass. Yes he is, but he just bashes away and doesn't burned himself with anything too complex. Same with RW. He's sufficient, not proficient.

Dave had to play bass on Hey You as well because Rodge can't play a fretless.

https://voca.ro/1kMJSmSsTQ6L

Madonna playing lead guitar. just stop

>>128389690 (OP)
Roger has no problem admiting it and has freely stated that he is a shitty player and only went for bass because it was the easiest instrument

>>128389795
also his songwriting and vocal skills went from like 2 to 10 in like 4 years. anybody manage to read Gilmour's lyrics without shitting their pants? no. literally no recorded instance of someone ever listening to Gilmour's lyrics and not shitting their own pants.

Billy and Jimmy playing everything on Smashing Pumpkins records because Darcy and James were just hired to look pretty

The Beatles were so bad playing live they just quit, while lying that it was so they could focus on studio albums more hahaha
https://youtu.be/7nmxyYqNDp4?si=XEUWNClXZwtS8vBA

>>128389795
I laughed when he said the reason why all Pink Floyd songs are slow is because they cant play fast ones

>>128389915
but their ed sullivan performance was flawless ;)

>>128389690 (OP)
Roger is not a virtuoso but that doesn't mean he can't play instruments
The reason David played most of bass on albums was because Roger was focused on songwriting and production

>>128390162
plus let's be önnest, a studio album is a different animal (no pun intendy) than a live performance. chops and passion alone aren't enough to achieve perfection that is recorded and archived and will live forever.

>>128389915
They couldn't hear themselves anymore. Especially at the time they quit. They were trying to play Shea stadium on older Vox amps and shit. Jim Marshall was called the "father of loud" for a reason. But he only really hit off with bands after the Beatles. And that point, the Beatles just said fuck it and stayed in studio.