[Rusty the Scoob]

What does this term mean to you? Sometimes I feel like everybody has their own definition.

[Crazy 9.5 Fingers]

I like to think of it as a a bass player laying down a long-note thump at such a frequency and tenacity it causes the listener to uncontrollably defecate themselves. We call this the "brown note".

The Phil Bomb at the end of the crescendo in Truckin' from 9-20-90 MSG is one such brown note.

[Emoto]

EXPLODING FISH!!!

[Billbbill]

Here's a thread from a while back discussing this.


http://www.rukind.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... +phil+bomb+


I link to a Wharf Rat in a post here that is my quintessential phil bomb.

[b weird]

"Brown notes" are just a myth, MythBusters busted them.

[tigerstrat]

hey b,

Here's a thread from a while back discussing this.

http://www.rukind.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... +phil+bomb+

[bodiddley]

Piss off with your ads you scumbucket.

[Mandoborg]

The Phil Bomb at the 4:00 mark in Dew, Providence 4.26.84 is a just right. Perfectly placed if you listen from the begining. Score the matrix for maximum effect.

Solo wise, Phil dropped a devastating bomb at the end of the Boston Orpheum run with the 'Q'
I'd have to dig through my masters for the exact date.

[Rusty the Scoob]

That Dew bomb is an interesting example.... I'd been thinking of his 6-string/Modulus days as pretty much the end of the Bombs, but that one could certainly qualify. For me when I decide "I think I'll drop a bomb here" I usually make it one of those mid 70's big, obvious, slightly-ahead-of-the-beat power chords.... but this kind of input helps, I can think of bombs this way, too...

[tigerstrat]

That is pretty interesting; I always thought of the 6-string as just a... a heavier payload; or at the least, more room in which to add chord notes. Most of the profound bombs that come to my mind when I think of a "bass bomb" are in the 80's, from various Dews, Berthas, Jack Straws, Truckin's, O1's, Sugar Mags, I Need a Miracle, Shakedown...

[b weird]

Did I miss something? Who's the scumbucket?

[tigerstrat]

Did I miss something? Who's the scumbucket?

Spammer came by a couple weeks ago and posted some incoherent, poorly translated ad to several threads. Six kicked him out and removed his posts. But not the responses generated.

[Rusty the Scoob]

That is pretty interesting; I always thought of the 6-string as just a... a heavier payload; or at the least, more room in which to add chord notes. Most of the profound bombs that come to my mind when I think of a "bass bomb" are in the 80's, from various Dews, Berthas, Jack Straws, Truckin's, O1's, Sugar Mags, I Need a Miracle, Shakedown...

The Modulus Q 6 itself is exactly those things... more overall range, more accessible range from a given position, and a tighter, cleaner, more focused sound.... I was referring to his playing, which became gradually more subtle and a little more conventional from the late 70s through the 90s. But now that I think about it, the two things are probably related.

I've been experimenting with adding some tube grind to the Pigpen tunes, and I found that it allows me to throw in those big early 70's bombastic offbeat powerchords and the tube just breaks up and compresses the sound so the whole thing blends in with the rest of the music.... if I tried that on a Modulus with a modern, clean, hi-wattage amp, it'd probably hurt somebody. With that kind of 80's/90's gear you can achieve a good bomb just with one note and a subtle touch. I'm just thinking out loud here. Thanks for the thought-provoking post!