White Wedding Bass Cover 

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Would anyone care to guess what album was released on this date in 1982?
If you guessed Billy Idol's self-titled debut album, you would have guessed correctly. This song, "White Wedding" was the second single released off the album.
The bass was played by Phil Feit who lent a nice, steady, solid feel to Billy Idol's material. I remember reading an interview with the engineer who recorded the album who described Feits playing as very "even...requiring very little compression." At the time I wasn't really sure what the function of compression was, so I took that statement to mean that, "If you played unevenly, you needed compression." By that time, I was already pretty focused on getting "even" output (volume and tone) from of both my plucking fingers. And I was a firm believer in using alternating fingers - always. Over the years I've relaxed that rule as, sometimes, pawing the bass with one finger just feels right. However, my trusty middle finger is always there, waiting on the bench to be called into play. You may have heard me mention before that I'm not a real "endurance" player, meaning, I can play quickly in short bursts but seem to tire quickly when playing extended passages...even a song like this. Not that it's super fast or anything, but those 8th notes...
edit 1:(I've just been informed that these are 16th notes but I'll leave this here anyway as testimony as to how little I actually know about music)
edit 2:(there is a battle being waged as to whether they are actually 8th or 16th notes)
edit 3:(my buddy Jim Trice, guitar teacher to the stars, has determined that they are, indeed, 8th notes)
...can just wear a brother down. Anyway, if you happened to be paying attention to such things, you would notice me bouncing around from single-finger, alternating fingers, and a combination of those two techniques throughout the song. At this point, I don't even think about it. My fingers just do what they need to do to keep going.
I'm playing the formerly-fretless Guild B-302A (the "A" stands for Ash).