Check out his latest stuff. Jagged and Crazier are really frickin' good.

Happy 50th, Gary.

Best song of the '80's. Oh, and Voices by Russ Balard.

Thanks subby, way to remind me that I don't own a turntable anymore so I can't get this album out and play it.

stjohn:

Check out his latest stuff. Jagged and Crazier are really frickin' good.


Feel free to throw up some links to that new stuff. I went for the obvious when I posted this; between the typo (as... as an... as...) and the "no-embedding," didn't think it would go green. Another one of those "why didn't I see him when I had the chance" acts from back in the day...

IT KEEPS ME STABLE FOR DAYS IN CARS!

That was quite wretched.

Ironic because there are MANY superb Gary Numan vids all over youtube.

The one of them doing "Are Friends Electric" live is savage. The drums,bass and guitar sounds awesome.

Wow!--I found it in exactly one second.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Uu6MDdxBork
sorry-too primitive for basic html.

I know there are many bass players at fark.
What effect is that on the electric bass?
Phaser?
Flanger?

I need that sound for my band.

craigdamage:

I know there are many bass players at fark.
What effect is that on the electric bass?
Phaser?
Flanger?

I need that sound for my band.


Sounds like a P-bass played through a phase shifter to my ears.

Why did I think of Randy Newman when I read the headline?

Cool, and I always liked Down in the Park too.

Gary is fine, but he's no Thomas Dolby.

Tom_Slick:

Why did I think of Randy Newman when I read the headline?


Not sure which would be stranger, Randy Newman playing a Gary Numan song, or Gary Numan doing a Randy Newman song...? Either way, that's a lot of weirdness.

DrBenway: Tom_Slick:

Why did I think of Randy Newman when I read the headline?


Not sure which would be stranger, Randy Newman playing a Gary Numan song, or Gary Numan doing a Randy Newman song...? Either way, that's a lot of weirdness.

this could be the greatest idea in the history of fark. i'd totally buydownload that collaboration disc.

His later stuff is excellent. The classics are good, but the new stuff is great.

I had to live through that crap the first time.

Major suck, but certainly a progenitor of the lifeless synth-twiddling morons making music today.

Numan's new stuff, at least what I've heard, is derivative of the Industrial bands who derived their stuff from his early stuff. Not my cup of tea at all.

(Telekon FTW, by the way.)

Phase shifter on the bass?


From 1979 I would assume that means the very old Mutron Bi-Phase.
Or,maybe an Electro Harmonix "Small Stone" Phaser which would be great because those are still made and less than 100 bucks.

I recall "Sheep" from Animals that has Roger Waters using the same effect. I need that sound.

Already got a USA Fender P-Bass.

mrEdude: Major suck, but certainly a progenitor of the lifeless synth-twiddling morons making music today.

You prefer piece-of-wood-humping morans?

craigdamage:

Phase shifter on the bass?

From 1979 I would assume that means the very old Mutron Bi-Phase.
Or,maybe an Electro Harmonix "Small Stone" Phaser which would be great because those are still made and less than 100 bucks.


Or maybe an EH Bass Balls box? I remember the effect, but can't recall exactly what all it did... but yeah, sounds like phase to me -- not heavy enough for a flanger, I'm thinking.

I have an EH Bass Balls.(reissue,not 70s original)

It is a sweet and greasy ass envelope filter.
Very chunky-funky filter-wah effect.
Of the many MANY bass type envelope filters I have tried it is head and shoulders above superior...and way cheaper than everything else.

....yeah,check this out:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eUOhxI53uJs

Other bass filters only sound good with fast percussive "wakka-wakka-wakka" style playing.

The Bass Balls sounds awesome with sustained notes that decay slowly and on harmonics. Other filters don't sound good that way with bass.

i hate to ask, but are friends electric?

DarKrow: Numan's new stuff, at least what I've heard, is derivative of the Industrial bands who derived their stuff from his early stuff. Not my cup of tea at all.

That's been my take on it, too.

I saw him during his heyday in New Orleans on the Riverboat. He sang most of one set holding a Coke can and sipping from it between lyrics.

Happy 50th, groundbreaker. I'm right behind you...

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His duet with Fear Factory, gives the song some more pep.

/Never realized how much he looks like John Cryer

Gary Numan is alright in my book. The Pleasure Principle is a mint album.


NIN covering Numan's "Metal"

craigdamage: ....yeah,check this out:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eUOhxI53uJs

Other bass filters only sound good with fast percussive "wakka-wakka-wakka" style playing.

The Bass Balls sounds awesome with sustained notes that decay slowly and on harmonics. Other filters don't sound good that way with bass.

Eventide Harmonizer- battery devices couldn't handle bass very well back in the day.

Eventide Harmonizer?

I think that is maybe what Chris Squire used on "Silent Wings of Freedom" and also there is a Brian Eno song called "Everything Merges With the Night" that has that sound on the bass.

I love Gary Numan, but this was definitely not one of his better performances.

craigdamage:

Definitely get the ring mod sound from that Bass Balls clip you put up. Not at all what the guy with Numan is using. Would the Eventide give that phasey sound? That's not what I think of for those things, but I never used one so I don't know... I never much used effects with the bass beyond running it through an old analog synth and messing with it that way.

Ghastly: Gary is fine, but he's no Thomas Dolby.

Correct. Numan is far superior.

Yes his new albums do rock. pretty much his last 4 albums.
saw him on his last US tour. Rocked hard.
met him afterward and he was nice.