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Old 06-24-2003, 12:24 PM
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I don't mean to be so down on Squire, I like him with Yes but he plays too much like a guitar player. I see lots of licks following Howes but he just lacks style too me. Not to mention THE PICK Using a pick limits the sounds you get out of your instument and the touch and it really comes out in Squires ratt-a-tatt- tatt style. In fact Bass players don't call it a pick, they call it a crutch.
As a bass player, I will assert that a good bassist knows how to use both a pick and his fingers. Levin uses both, Squire uses both. He prefers a pick, but that doesn't mean he can't uses his fingers. Watch the Don't Kill the Whale video. Fingers. The only thing on the bass I've never seen Squire do is slap and pop. He knows his bass chords and uses them (average bassist: "You can play chords on a bass?!!"). As for getting different sound from a pick, you're right - it's a different sound. But if it's a good one, who cares?



I'm through with the Howe/Hackett thing. Alan White is underrated. His only "crime" was replacing Bruford. Moraz is the best keyboardist Yes ever had. Yesspaz out.
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