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What bands have copped the Peter Hook bass style?

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And why don't more of them do it? All that spring to mind are Simon Gallup and gthe Cocteau Twins dude. High notes with effects and rhythmic emphasis.

― wanko ergo sum, Saturday, 25 August 2007 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

I guess one of the two Ned's Atomic Dustbin bassists, kinda?

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 25 August 2007 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

Curtis has turned me on to this French band called Asylum Party, and there are some tracks where they sound Hooky-ish.

― Bimble, Saturday, 25 August 2007 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

Lowlife maybe?

― Trayce, Saturday, 25 August 2007 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

Cheating, because it is Hook on both:
Monaco - everthing
Smashing Pumpkins - "Raindrops + Sunshowers"

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 25 August 2007 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

Does Simon Gallup play on the Glove album? Cos if not, whoever that is.

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 25 August 2007 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and Bell Hollow!

― Trayce, Saturday, 25 August 2007 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

High notes with effects and rhythmic emphasis.

Don't forget the chorus pedal.

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 25 August 2007 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

Mahogany

― leavethecapital, Saturday, 25 August 2007 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

galaxie 500

― saxomophone, Saturday, 25 August 2007 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

Cut Copy

― djmartian, Saturday, 25 August 2007 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Does Simon Gallup play on the Glove album?

nope. possibly a mix of Severin and Smith though (the latter, at least through the early 90s, did his songwriting on six-string bass.)

― energy flash gordon, Saturday, 25 August 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

The Minutemen copied(?) it a bit on "Three-way Tie for Last".

― PhilK, Saturday, 25 August 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Wire, but that isn't really "copping" because it was more the other way round

― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 25 August 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Weird nobody mentioned The Cure yet. "In-Between Days" is sooo New Order.

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 25 August 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

Weird that you didn't read THE FIRST FUCKING NAME IN THE FIRST FUCKING POST. Oh wait no, that's just sooo Geir Hongro.

― energy flash gordon, Sunday, 26 August 2007 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

Don't think I agree w/Galaxie 500, since Naomi's thing lacks rhythm and really is kind of different.

But the Luna track "Astronaut" steals it blatantly, and it works nicely.

― dlp9001, Sunday, 26 August 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I almost posted Galaxie 500, as I once read an interview with Naomi in which she tells a story about giving bass guitar lessons a try; in brief, she played a recording of some Joy Division song in order to give the instructor an idea of what kind of music she enjoyed or wanted to play, whereupon the instructor laughed and said something to the effect of "that's not real bass-playing"...if I recall correctly, that constituted her first and only lesson.

The interview appears in some "women in rock"-themed book which came out circa mid to late-'90's...maybe somebody here knows what I am referring to and can relate the anecdote in a more precise fashion than I did.

But, you're right, her thing is different. For the most part she played more of a floating melodic thing, rather than being anchored in Hook-style grooves.

― dell, Sunday, 26 August 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

ha, my cousin had a similar guitar-lesson thing back in the late eighties.

guitar teacher: "so, what do you want to play like?"
[cousin puts on "psychocandy"]
[guitar teacher leaves, for ever]

anyway ... the mkI beloved are the most obvious example of the slavish new order-copying thing (seek out the awesome "where it is" compilation for myriad goodness). depeche mode's "enjoy the silence" deserves a mention (it's not a bass, but hey) ... and one day i'll have to play some of you the stuff i was doing about seven years ago. heh.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sure i've had this discussion round these parts before, but i can't find any trace of it. i did find this thread, though, which is quite interesting in parts.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Theres a song by college-rock lovers the Oxford Collapse that has a pretty mighty chorused bassline that fans of Peter Hook should enjoy, you can download it from their website:

http://www.oxfordcollapse.com/songs/oxford%20collapse%20-%20back%20in%20com%20again.mp3

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

The Aloof circa "Seeking Pleasure".

― My Morning Jakey, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Majesty Crush

― inhibitionist, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 06:41 (nineteen years ago)


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