meshuggah soul burn- fredrik playing bass omgwtf!

[seedoeldhopaul]

awesome!

[MadKetz]

OMG MESHUGGAH on MTV!!!!1

[stefander777]

Meshultura : D

[clarkshapedbox]

I think meshuggah should do an album (or at least ep) of just tasty groovey distorted bass and no guitar. instead of a low tuned guitar, it would just be highly tuned bass, AND IT SHALL RULE.

[thenameiwantedwasnta]

At the point meshuggah didnt have any bassist and therefore fredrik played bass at a few concerts :)

[pepekong]

Kidman sounds like cavalera D:

[gearsofhalo2]

where can i see the complete interview?

[dablacksolja]

hahah amazing Fredrik played this song with solos..

[aeanominae]

They started with 7 strings drop tuned to b-flat, the super-low tuning stuff didn't start until after Chaosphere...

[Japhet86]

i heard somewhere that they tried to all use basses at one point. the sound ended up being to muddy, thus the 8 string saga is born.

[Fleshgorod]

@Japhet86 That's not true.

[funknotik]

Awesome.

[devilsystem]

fredrik is a very BIG person...he can do anything for the music

[waldur]

omfg I have the same Jackson Concert V pro bass! :D

[skezness]

nice!

[basshred]

their guitars are part basses anyway

but why was he playing bass here?

[skezness]

it was before the 8 strings and their bassist (peter nordin) was sick

[wallacemosh]

@skezness

You´re right man. This is the final of DEI tour and Peter Nordin was sick (still nowadays) of Tinitus,,....a serious problem in his ears. Peter was back in Sweden, then Fredrik was obligated to play bass even, play part of his solo guitar on the bass guitar!.

Greetings man

[NeuroHead]

And Mårten was stand in guitarist in Machinehead a couple of gigs when their regular was injured .

[skezness]

didn't know that, awesome.

I read that machinehead bassist offered to take peter's place but mesh said no haha, hence fred playing bass

[kaino1990]

anyone got the full clip of this video? soul burn sounds better than on album imo great song/album/band

[p3945u5]

Thansk for the vid, altough I don't get what you try to say with: "fredrik playing bass omgwtf!" All members of Meshuggah can play any instrument the band utilizes, moreover catch33 drumparts are written and programmed by all members. Marten also used to play bass very early on, and Jens was the first Guitar player in the band that developed their guitar sound. It just shows that they are true musicians and they don't have certain "roles".

[skezness]

oh i know, "omgwtf" means more like: oh my god a video of fred playing bass, because it's rare...it's not that I didn't know he was a killer bassplayer as well. I do know they're all incredible musicians and cover not just their typical instrument and role. thanks for pointing that out, anyways. i'm always happy to read from a fellow meshuggah-freak

[Apothis]

wait so, Jens would be able to drum all the songs too?

[plopenstien]

haha that would be awesome but no. they all write each others parts but tomas is like the only one who could ever actually play it all on stage.

[b0ttomzone]

the prospect of fredrik thordendal on bass can't really get any more awesome than it is i think

[delicatedeath]

Actually first part yes :)

[8stringerr]

well they went to seven strings before 8 strings

[marduk111]

they actually started with detuned 6 strings

[milleralive]

jen's voice will never be that good again.

[laondatripleoh]

yeah thats the first thing i realised when i heard this video, but yeah bass is awesome too.

[underscoreisnotvalid]

holy crap yeah the vocals sound so awesome on this video

[MusicianPooper]

Meh, I think his vocals are better now. It's matured and become stronger.

[WATCHSONICS]

ok, thought I heard Marten say it in an interview once but might have got it wrong. in any case I recall him describing it as a brief experiment ...

[DimeCrisBag]

thats what u'd call a band comitted to the fans, INDEED.

[33vai33]

nice (3)oca-(3)ola light shirt

[fistard]

Nice t-shirt coca cola light, couldn´t be further from Meshuggah, ha ha ha

[Oracurax]

Meshuggah on MTV? I thought they only played music without anyone actually playing the instruments...

[Ballsak23]

yeah the bassist got really sick so he played bass yeah there the best band ever

[Aberusugi]

That's why I don't like playing bass with a pick, I wouldn't want to be able to be replaced by a guitarist so easily.

[skezness]

well fredrik is not JUST a guitarist, he's God so he can replace anyone he wants to...Tomas gets sick? Fredrik can sit on them drums! lolZen

[menteencoma]

LOL...no

[Venomguitar]

lol

[plopenstien]

frederik actually comes up with the bass parts and records them. but no-one could play what tomas does. no-one

[oszillatormusic]

I think Morgan Agren can... and Bobby Jarzombek... But apart from them you are surely right.

[plopenstien]

iv never heard of the second one but morgan sounds farmiliar... but yeah tomas is God

[EMG33]

*hivez*

[WATCHSONICS]

apparently in their earlier days Meshuggah tried to play as 3 bass players, this aim for deeper tones I understand led them to be attracted to the 8 string guitars they use. I did also hear that there was one tour where the bass player was really ill.

[Mellotronen]

FREDRIK THORDENDAL will perform with the Mats/Morgan All Star Team on the MELLOBOAT 8-9 March 2008. It´s shaping up to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The band incl.: Mats & Morgan Gustaf Hielm Fredrik Thordendal Meshuggah Mattias Ia Eklundh Freak Kitchen Lasse Hollmer Samla Mammas Manna The party will take place over 40 hours on a ferry at the Baltic Sea. Questions & tickets: info at mellotronen dot com Info: myspace dot com slash melloboat This is going to be the party of a lifetime!

[FirstSplitter]

It`s a Jackson 5 String Bass

[DannibalTheCannibal]

what kind of bass is that?

[FierceDeity33]

it's not the 8 string guitar, otherwise you'd count 8 strings, i count 5 so it's not even a guitar at all. the bassist story's the reason, was on their hp as well, nordin had to leave and fred did the bass.

[MunkyCZ]

It's the 8 string guitar

[persistantlife]

man the guitars arnt downtuned all that much i mean they play fuckng 7 and 8 string guitars, and they sound nice and clearer than bass guitars

[prelan]

that was when their bassist left half way through the tour or something

[mikenik85]

It's cuz Peter Nordin got vertigo. It was so bad that when he would try to stand up he would puke (due to airplane flight over here). Airplanes really don't have the best air quality, and if you think they change the filters on the pumps after every take off and landing, your sadly mistaken :-)

[plangentmusic]

That kinda sucked.

[PerfectWrong]

Totally, except the exact opposite.

[EnragedSephiroth]

Isn't that just his standard black Ibanez, the same one he uses in the Sol Niger Within medley with Morgan?

[Inkawgneegrow]

the guitar in that video has 7 strings man...

[sickboy04]

coca cola heavy hahahahahaha xD

[Meshuggah]

fucking sweet. its funny they get mtv notice when theyre band is in fucked mode.

p.s.

coca cola light is metal as fuck. teddy bears owe fredrik money.

[MrYukawa]

What teddy bears?

[ForetNoire]

hahaha thats hilarious

there guitars are so downtuned they basicly sound like bass anyways

[persistantlife]

man the guitars arnt downtuned all that much i mean they play fuckng 7 and 8 string guitars, and they sound nice and clearer than bass guitars

[BlueGrot]

It's from when Peter Nordin had to quit mid-tour, they finished the tour with Thordendal on bass.

[eyehatevenus]

weird

[emptyspaces]

is he doin solo's on the bass? rockin.

[ZeeKat]

Should be Coca Cola HEAVY.

[EnragedSephiroth]

I lol'ed a little...

[Catch33]

its a shirt mate, it has nothing to do with metal. Great up, short - but worth a squirt.

[ZeeKat]

Coca Cola LIGHT? That's sooo unmetal.