Lead Guitarist Wanted
My Demos:
Demo 1
NikosOnBass
Reading, Berkshire
36-45 yr old Male
Standard:Excellent
Practice Place:At Home
My Genres:
Hard Rock
Rock
RocknRoll
I play:
Bass Guitar
I'm looking for people who play:
Lead Guitar
Drums
Lead Vocals
About me: Contact me at: 
Contact Me
Hiya, 40 year old dad here who started playing electric bass guitar rather late in life as it was my dream since I was little but never had the chance to learn, apart from some systematic keyboard piano lessons (people would call it midlife crisis…). Currently active member of some music groups and acts. Practicing on a daily basis, I know around 100 full songs from various artists, expanding constantly with new ones. I can learn a reasonably difficult new bassline within the hour with typically a few days to perfect it. Basic knowledge of music theory, but enough to improvise and jam with other musicians and create new music. Favourite genre is modern/ alternative/ classic rock, and I use a variety of effects and overdrive/fuzz pedals to dial in the right tone, often rockier than the original recording. Favourite bassist is Chris Wolstenholme from Muse, of whom I can play the majority of their hits with a good approximation of Chris's legendary thunderous tone (including “Hysteria”). I also play selected songs of Arctic Monkeys, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Green Day, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, U2, ZZ Top, The Clash, The Heavy, Black Keys, Blur, Daughtry, Linkin’ Park, Incubus, Evanescence, Audioslave, Tool, Marilyn Manson, Gun, The Guess Who, Ferdinand, Lenny Kravitz, The Beatles, The Black Keys, The Kinks, Cream, Pink Floyd, Credence Clearwater Revival, George Thorogood, Ted Nugent, Bill Withers, Motörhead, Linkin Park, Jimmy Hendrix, Brian Adams, Portishead, Eurythmics, The Animals, T-Rex, Depeche Mode, … . I can slap as required, but I mostly enjoy experimenting with creating unique tones (or recreating the tones of original recordings), and playing finger-style with effects and distortion, from light crunchy overdrive to heavy punchy fuzz. I own various basses (and guitars) and can play in various tunings. Willing to experiment with other genres too like pop, pop-rock and art-rock. Looking to join an active originals/covers band, as my current musical ventures with other musicians are not frequent enough, or at least find other likeminded musicians to play with, hopefully evolving to play live at pubs and other gigs. I have a flexible full time job, but keen to make my music passion a part time employment.
The demos are recorded straight from the amp's DI out into the audio interface, no processing, no editing, no GarageBand virtual effects, real "live" sound in one take, using real pedals (and some string noise!). Backing track is synth-generated, pretty horrible but complies with copyright laws. (Audio files EQed for audible poorly represented bass on midrange-y speakers like mobile phones / laptops, if you have a woofer turn down its volume to hear the backing track! Overall looses many low frequencies though, so the bass tone sounds more distorted with high frequency sizzle that it actually is.)
Demo 1: Boulevard of broken dreams by Greenday. Unlike the original bass tone, some mild overdrive with high mids is blended in to slice more easily through the mix without being completely swallowed by the guitars. I usually play it with even more fuzz, this is a lighter version not too dissimilar from the original.
Demo 2: Supermassive black hole by Muse. Overdriven bass tone with fuzz/clean blend, matched to the studio isolated bass track, but when laid over the synth-generated backing track sounds quite different and much more harsh/distorted.
Demo 3: Time is running out by Muse. The studio version is pure sawtooth from synth for the intro, switching to overdriven bass for the prechoruses, as the sawtooth tone would sound pretty horrible there (I've tried). Instead, I used a blended fuzzy/clean tone throughout which matches pretty close the sawtooth, and also how CW has occasionally played it live if not using a keyboard synth (or a touring musician on keyboards or a midi sequence).
I have plenty of other recordings and covers with original backing tracks available on request ( Contact Me). A YouTube channel is coming soon!
Contact me at: Contact Me
Contact MeHiya, 40 year old dad here who started playing electric bass guitar rather late in life as it was my dream since I was little but never had the chance to learn, apart from some systematic keyboard piano lessons (people would call it midlife crisis…). Currently active member of some music groups and acts. Practicing on a daily basis, I know around 100 full songs from various artists, expanding constantly with new ones. I can learn a reasonably difficult new bassline within the hour with typically a few days to perfect it. Basic knowledge of music theory, but enough to improvise and jam with other musicians and create new music. Favourite genre is modern/ alternative/ classic rock, and I use a variety of effects and overdrive/fuzz pedals to dial in the right tone, often rockier than the original recording. Favourite bassist is Chris Wolstenholme from Muse, of whom I can play the majority of their hits with a good approximation of Chris's legendary thunderous tone (including “Hysteria”). I also play selected songs of Arctic Monkeys, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Green Day, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, U2, ZZ Top, The Clash, The Heavy, Black Keys, Blur, Daughtry, Linkin’ Park, Incubus, Evanescence, Audioslave, Tool, Marilyn Manson, Gun, The Guess Who, Ferdinand, Lenny Kravitz, The Beatles, The Black Keys, The Kinks, Cream, Pink Floyd, Credence Clearwater Revival, George Thorogood, Ted Nugent, Bill Withers, Motörhead, Linkin Park, Jimmy Hendrix, Brian Adams, Portishead, Eurythmics, The Animals, T-Rex, Depeche Mode, … . I can slap as required, but I mostly enjoy experimenting with creating unique tones (or recreating the tones of original recordings), and playing finger-style with effects and distortion, from light crunchy overdrive to heavy punchy fuzz. I own various basses (and guitars) and can play in various tunings. Willing to experiment with other genres too like pop, pop-rock and art-rock. Looking to join an active originals/covers band, as my current musical ventures with other musicians are not frequent enough, or at least find other likeminded musicians to play with, hopefully evolving to play live at pubs and other gigs. I have a flexible full time job, but keen to make my music passion a part time employment.
The demos are recorded straight from the amp's DI out into the audio interface, no processing, no editing, no GarageBand virtual effects, real "live" sound in one take, using real pedals (and some string noise!). Backing track is synth-generated, pretty horrible but complies with copyright laws. (Audio files EQed for audible poorly represented bass on midrange-y speakers like mobile phones / laptops, if you have a woofer turn down its volume to hear the backing track! Overall looses many low frequencies though, so the bass tone sounds more distorted with high frequency sizzle that it actually is.)
Demo 1: Boulevard of broken dreams by Greenday. Unlike the original bass tone, some mild overdrive with high mids is blended in to slice more easily through the mix without being completely swallowed by the guitars. I usually play it with even more fuzz, this is a lighter version not too dissimilar from the original.
Demo 2: Supermassive black hole by Muse. Overdriven bass tone with fuzz/clean blend, matched to the studio isolated bass track, but when laid over the synth-generated backing track sounds quite different and much more harsh/distorted.
Demo 3: Time is running out by Muse. The studio version is pure sawtooth from synth for the intro, switching to overdriven bass for the prechoruses, as the sawtooth tone would sound pretty horrible there (I've tried). Instead, I used a blended fuzzy/clean tone throughout which matches pretty close the sawtooth, and also how CW has occasionally played it live if not using a keyboard synth (or a touring musician on keyboards or a midi sequence).
I have plenty of other recordings and covers with original backing tracks available on request (
Contact Me). A YouTube channel is coming soon!Contact me at:
Contact Me