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Old 01-04-2014, 10:48
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Fixed that for you. I really don't think Nicky plays any bass on record at all.
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With all due respect and all the love in the world mate, fuck off. I'm tired of this stupid joke. Nicky is a good musician and a very talented bass player. Sure, he can't sing for crap and he's a gobshite at the best of times but the way people continually put down his playing is just ludicrous.
Agree with Mr Richey, and if you don't agree with us, try and disagree with Tony Visconti:

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With all due respect and all the love in the world mate, fuck off. I'm tired of this stupid joke. Nicky is a good musician and a very talented bass player. Sure, he can't sing for crap and he's a gobshite at the best of times but the way people continually put down his playing is just ludicrous.
It is fairly common knowledge that James has done the bass on a fair few album tracks since the very early days. However, Nicky is a very good bass player live and has come into his own in recent years. If it wasn't for Nicky penning the majority of the lead singles in the last few years the Manics wouldn't be seeing the resurgance they have done. Considering James and Sean were the key musicians of the band for composing songs it is a testament to how good an ear Nicky does have for music at times. However, INWJTEOL is still an abhorrent abortive godawful anal dwelling stink nugget of a song.
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Old 01-04-2014, 15:28
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Old 01-04-2014, 15:30
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Old 01-04-2014, 15:38
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They should do a one album per night thing and add in a few b-sides each night. That'll keep the punters happy.
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Old 01-04-2014, 15:45
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They should do a one album per night thing and add in a few b-sides each night. That'll keep the punters happy.
There are only four albums I'd be happy to hear in full if I'm honest though, five max!
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Old 01-04-2014, 15:53
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There are only four albums I'd be happy to hear in full if I'm honest though, five max!
I'd only want to hear GATS, THB, JFPL, TIMTTMY, KYE & EMG.
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Yeah my four, possibly five, are in there.
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With all due respect and all the love in the world mate, fuck off. I'm tired of this stupid joke. Nicky is a good musician and a very talented bass player. Sure, he can't sing for crap and he's a gobshite at the best of times but the way people continually put down his playing is just ludicrous.
Actually, I don't think he's such a bad singer either. Technically he might be far from James the musical genius, but art is more than that.
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Actually, I don't think he's such a bad singer either. Technically he might be far from James the musical genius, but art is more than that.
Just because he doesn't 'sings' in the usual range of a singer doesn't means that he is a bad one. I just like his style in small doses and from time to time.
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Old 02-04-2014, 22:37
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Just because he doesn't 'sings' in the usual range of a singer doesn't means that he is a bad one. I just like his style in small doses and from time to time.
In fact, that was almost what I was saying.
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his singing has improved a lot
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It is fairly common knowledge that James has done the bass on a fair few album tracks since the very early days. However, Nicky is a very good bass player live and has come into his own in recent years. If it wasn't for Nicky penning the majority of the lead singles in the last few years the Manics wouldn't be seeing the resurgance they have done. Considering James and Sean were the key musicians of the band for composing songs it is a testament to how good an ear Nicky does have for music at times.
Totally agree. James may get the lions share of praise as far as the musicianship goes but without Sean and Nick the band would be incomplete. It works so well because they all do what they do. Nick's definitely got better as a bass player and musician as time has gone on.
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Old 03-04-2014, 17:51
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Nicky feeds the myth that he still can't play to be fair.. 2006 on Sports AM (i think) he just blurted out when asked why there were no solo gigs for his album *I can't play* .. at one of the roundhouse gigs in 2009 when he could barely move with his back, he said he was making a very good impression of Johnny greenwood …… *without the talent* and on that dvd with the Postcards album deluxe he yells *yeah i know i'm (its?) crap* at the camera when he's working something out on the piano..

I remember him saying he regrets not learning to play other instruments properly and that he just stuck to the bass… he's a good musician… he's had 20 odd years to practice for god's sake… if you don't become decent in all that time you never will.
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Old 03-04-2014, 18:25
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I remember him saying he regrets not learning to play other instruments properly and that he just stuck to the bass… he's a good musician… he's had 20 odd years to practice for god's sake… if you don't become decent in all that time you never will.
But he can play guitar very decently(at least in the JFPL DVD is very good with chord changes), unless he wanted to be like James type of guitar hero...
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