"Freedom of expression is important, but I have learned that people want to know how much you care before they care how much you know." The only time a bass player gets noticed is when he stops playing.
Lol, Jeff. I need to learn some of their stuff. The bass is very interesting. I'm going to try and make my drummer friend learn "Pharaohs".
Also it's pretty damn hard to sing like King Diamond. Not the falsetto. I can do that. It's the 4 different voices in one line kind of thing. Like his demon growl, his falsetto, his yodel and a whisper. Such as a lot of the stuff on "Them".
You guys know that when King knows he's gonna suck he signals the sound guys to hit his backing track? I think that's what happens in "Evil".
1976 Rickenbacker 4001
2011/05 Fender Standard Fretless Jazz Bass
2005/11 Fender Standard Jazz Bass
If you are just getting into Fate, I'd suggest the demo CD (The Beginning?). It has the Brats stuff (which was rewritten to be more 'evil" later) - Death Kiss is a favorite, but those early versions of Pharoahs, Burning the Cross, Return Of The Vampire (Wampire) and A Corpse Without Soul are great. The production was much heavier than that flangy guitar sound they got on the first couple of albums, and King's falsetto was more powerful.
I got into these guys back in the early 1980s, but most of the demos were chopped or missing tracks. The whole black metal thing just got too silly after a while, although the first couple of Venom albums pretty much encapsulated the genre (and were enough as far as I was concerned).
