Peter Hook's Bass....

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....brightens up my day instantly upon hearing it. Just threw on "True Faith" and hearing the estimable Mr.Hook hammer out those melodic lines gave my mood a shot of buoyant adrenalin like no pharmaceutical could ever manage! Bless his beardy little heart.

http://www.enkiri.com/joy/pics/ph_manchester79_fac1.jpg

Does this happen for everyone, or is it just me?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

It is a sound of love.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

most of the time.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Absolutely. Almost every day! I'm listening to "Thieves Like Us" at the moment ...

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

New Order really do make strikingly beautiful music, and I mean that in all sincerity.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

**insert bad joke concerning said artist's last name and his musical ability**

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Hook has his own style on the bass, which not many can say. The bassline on "The Perfect Kiss" is one of my favorites.

― earlnash, Friday, 5 December 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I like "Digital".

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Every single time I hear those sweet tones; he's the bassist I measure all others by. Even a fairly crappy band like Elefant can coast on a beautiful high melodic bass.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

He even saved Hybrid's "True To Form" from utter boredom.

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

His only real peer in my book is JJ Burnell of the Stranglers.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I play bass and Peter Hook really changed my view of the instrument around from the Guitar magazine Geddy-Lee-worshipping school to the minimalist school. He's brilliant and tuneful. Was really the lead instrument in Joy Division.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

a lot of the people who ripped off his style-and their were tons and tons-just couldn't do it cuz they weren't nearly as pissed off as he was. what would joy division have sounded like without that sound? i'm listening to the band The Sound right now. they ripped him off pretty good.

― scott seward, Friday, 5 December 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know the Stranglers well enough to say, but there are a lot of great bassists that I'd put on par with Hook....Bruce Foxton from the Jam, Mike Watt, James Jamerson from the Motown studios, Larry Graham from Sly, I always really like the bass player from Lynryd Skynyrd, but I don't know his name!, John Paul Jones, Entwisle.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I cited JJ Burnell not to suggest that he's a technically proficient bassist in the same league as ---- wait for it ---- Geddy Lee or some other muso, but rather that like Hook, he displays such a singular style that is inimitably his own.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

PEACE PEACE
WE ALWAYS LIVE IN PEACE
WE LIVE IN PEACE, PEACE
ALWAYS ALWAYS

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

His BASS not his VOICE. Asspunk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

hehe, asspunk.

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

OH! I thought the the thread was "Peter Hook's Ass...". Sorry.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure he has a very manly ass indeed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

something about his sound is so hard to put into words....sort of a natural compression...no, um did he use extra heavy strings? anyways yeah CLASSIC

― kephm, Friday, 5 December 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Post-ASSPUNK!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Have to say, I'm having a beautific early-Winter afternoon here...while the snow piles up outisde, I'm sitting here at my computer cranking "Run 2" by New Order while my preggy wife naps in the other room. Life can be nice sometimes.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

NOTHING EVER LASTS FOREVER
IT'S THE SAME FOR YOU I'M SURE
ALL THE THINGS WE DID TOGETHER
THEY JUST HURT ME MORE AND MORE

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to hurt you now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I CAN'T BELIEVE THE WORDS YOU'RE SAYING

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

uh oh snow already in NYC? but i plan to head to providence , RI tonight!

― kephm, Friday, 5 December 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Get movin', man. It's been snowing since about 9:30 am, and it's stickin'.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

( if i wasn't chained to the cubicle for another 60minutes )

― kephm, Friday, 5 December 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

WE'RE SINGING FOR ENGLAND....! etc.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I am beginning to think I am being tested.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.worldinmotion.net/revenge/lyrics.htm

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I KNOW WHERE THE WORDS ARE FROM, thank you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Will anybody give me what I need?
Put all my faith in God above.
This time I'm falling just for you.
I guess I'm hungry for that love.

― Peter Hook luvs U! And God. (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

what's wrong with Revenge? is everyone getting the Revenge compendium LTM are reissuing?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned hates Revenge. I like Revenge just fine.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Hate is perhaps a strong word, and yet.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

My downstairs neighbor played me "Atmosphere" last night. I don't have Substance so I hadn't heard it. I can't begin to explain why Peter et. al sound so great to me either. I really need to make the bass player in my band listen to this guy some more.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

at least half of what makes galaxie 500 so great was Naomi Yang's shameless Peter Hook style-biting

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

He does that track with Hybrid right now. Breakbeat Pop.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 6 December 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

http://mpetesch.free.fr/pics/phook.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 6 December 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"sort of a natural compression...no, um did he use extra heavy strings?"

Hook uses a chorus effect on many of those New Order basslines, which gives it that thick sound when playing high up the neck.

― earlnash, Saturday, 6 December 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Recently I was playing around with a friend's amp and discovered for the first time that a chorus effect transforms your guitar tone into something that Ivo Watts-Russell (or Peter Hook) would approve of. I had no idea that's what did it! Chorus effects should be mandatory on every damn amp.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 6 December 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Chorus effects should be mandatory on every damn amp.

You should look at Rolands.

― J (Jay), Sunday, 7 December 2003 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

are they using Mum's cabinets?

(I don't like Peter Hook's stage presence)

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 7 December 2003 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)

God bless Hooky, he's the man as far as I'm concerned... my single biggest influence and inspiration as a bassplayer.

Hooky uses chorus, but I've also read his trademark sound is from using an Electro Harmonix Clone Theory... I haven't put this to the test, but this was from an interview with the man himself.

― heligolander, Sunday, 7 December 2003 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The Clone Theory is the same chorus pedal that Cobain used on "Eighties (Come as You Are)".

― earlnash, Sunday, 7 December 2003 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought Cobain was a Small Clone (as opposed to Clone Theory) user? Very similar pedals though.

― heligolander, Sunday, 7 December 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I just knew it was that Harmonix Clone something chorus pedal, didn't realize there was two different ones.

― earlnash, Sunday, 7 December 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I asked a friend of mine and apparently there's not much difference between the two. The Clone Theory has an extra knob...

― heligolander, Sunday, 7 December 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

fourteen years pass...

http://www.omegaauctions.co.uk/news-media/news/the-peter-hook-signature-collection/And now you can buy (a couple of) them ">=http://www.omegaauctions.co.uk/news-media/news/the-peter-hook-signature-collection/And now you can buy (a couple of) them ...and a load of other stuff including the Factory table.

― Ned Trifle X, Sunday, 11 November 2018 08:37 (seven years ago)

Well, I fucked that up...

Here's the link anyway...

http://www.omegaauctions.co.uk/news-media/news/the-peter-hook-signature-collection/

― Ned Trifle X, Sunday, 11 November 2018 08:38 (seven years ago)

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