Blastero wrote:It's hard to compare Mark Hoppus and Cone, since their bass playing is more about rhythm than being particularly innovative with basslines and such. Neither of them have struck me as being virtuosos at their instruments. Not that that's a bad thing, since they can definitely play their stuff. They aren't like Flea or someone, though, who make a point of being "out there" with their playing.
I have to say Cone strikes me as being more, I don't really know, "serious" I guess about his instrument, since Mark just sort of "strums" his bass while on stage, and Cone actually tries to hit his notes clean and precise.
Yeah its true, i mean, its like comparing Deryck as a guitarist to such guitarists as Slash or Jimi Hendrix or Ritchie Blackmoore and such, i mean, Deryck isn't doing anything innovative on special on the guitar, he's just playing it for rhythm or when he did like all the guitars in the studio for UH and still, he didn't do anything special, just plays what he has too.
Tom DeLonge for example would be an equal comparison to Deryck as a guitar player, since Tom isn't that special at all too as guitarist.