How to sound like Joey DeMaio of Manowar - Bass Habits - Ep 26

[@PaulDelBelloYT]

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[@rodjames5771]

I Love this series thank you so much Paul. I have learnt so much from the way you break everything down!

[@archangel5627]

Joey DeMaio’s bass playing, bass tone, complete bass rig and his general style definitely is a massive part of what makes Manowar. I can’t think of any other famous bass players who sound like him or play a rig quite like his. This was an excellent video and I look forward to seeing more of your content! Cheers!🤘🏻😎

[@trentzuberi]

Absolutely one of the most unique bass styles, tones, and approach out there. Love it.

[@rjc7289]

A CD copy of Louder Than Hell was my introduction to this band. I was very impressed by the virtuosity of this band and how they flawlessly played every note. This was especially so for Joey and the flurry of noes he played on the bass.

[@elizabethessex7238]

That was great! Speaking of metal bassists with distinctive tones, I'd really like to see one on DD Verni from Overkill.

[@TwinMoonwing]

Yes! D.D. Verni is a thrash titan and a monster on the bass. Unjustly underrated

[@JoaoLucioNeto]

Up!

[@macamcelaka89]

The inventor of clank sound

[@citykids9555]

Yes please!

[@timbrown6629]

It isn't just the bass. Joey also has at least one amplifier that the late Dawk Stillwell custom built for him. I do know at one point Joey was using a rack-mounted Marshall JMP-1 MIDI guitar preamp with at least one huge rack full of Power Amplifiers. He is definitely my favorite bass player.

[@SDRockman]

Stripes on a tiger don't wash away....Manowars made of steeel not clay!! 🎸✊🏻🔊💥

[@xriswolf78]

One of the most unique styles

[@guero_mocoso]

Long live Joey! Long live the mighty MANOWAR!!!! Great video Paul!

[@gabrielesquaratti5709]

joey often records 2 basses in his records. a piccolo panned left or right and a conventional bass in the center

[@brian-michaelmedina5472]

Dude I don’t think you have, but you should totally do a video on Frankie Bello from anthrax man! Defiantly an underrated bassist that deserves an analysis!

[@ChristiandeMesones]

Love this! I've seen Joey in the early days of Manowar many times and immediately appreciated his vision.

[@themadmattster9647]

I bought piccolo strings for my bass, love how it sounds. In listening to Manowar over the years, I hear regular bass on some songs as well but the mix with piccolo is often what gives them that unique sound of course.

[@trentzuberi]

Dude where did you find them? I can’t anywhere for the life of me.

[@arborinfelix]

Other metal albums you can recognize by the bass tone are: Every Overkill album, thanks to the Great DD Verni And Justice For All, thanks to the ego of Lars Ulrich

[@iTxip]

I think you can add master of puppets to that list for the opposite reasons as ajfa

[@ElderScrolls7]

Joey Demaio gets a lot of hate. Good to see people who appreciate his talent. Though I think his composing is at least as good as his bass playing. Hail from Turkey.

[@ertugrulakgun7086]

Oo kardeşim

[@veglord_the_profane]

I feel like some of the hate he gets is from the fact that he plays piccolo. People hear something that sounds guitar-ish and get tribal about it, which is sad.

[@ElderScrolls7]

@@ertugrulakgun7086 :)

[@devlintaylor9520]

@@veglord_the_profane I think the main hate is that he plays with guitar string spacing, and chopped up a rickenbacker bass to do so

[@aarondavis4341]

That neck on that bass is nuts, I recognize ALL music by the sound of the bass,I'm so tuned to hearing bass,I hardly even hear the guitar

[@bullerboy22]

That was class !!!!Excellent vid mate - Well Done :)

[@arissp4950]

Whoever has saw Manowar live can feel the bass in their chest demolishing it. For the first time in any live show that ive been I thought that I will get hearing damage lol

[@eduardoribeiroucv9630]

Bro that is absolutely one of the sensations that I dream to have one day. Too bad I dont know if I will be able to have, since they are quite old now and I live in Brazil :/

[@metalfreitas2905]

@@eduardoribeiroucv9630 they will play in Brazil in September 2023

[@palix5925]

Manowar exists to proclaim the power of heavy metal, what's to hate? (louder than hell is a masterpiece)

[@benrechakiewicz3594]

I love has tone on the Louder than hell. Especially the power chords like the track in Number 1. For example.

[@LongLiveRockAnRoll]

I've just bought a bass and playing along to a lot of Manowar stuff. Also remember he uses a pick and varying amounts of distortion. Having seen them live he seems to have a regular tuned bass for most songs then piccolo for shredding.

[@timbrown6629]

He has that short-scale Gibson SG bass..I think it is called an EB-1. Anyway. DAWK installed a Kahler Bass Tremolo in it.

[@TheAndrewPlayz]

Thank you so much Paul, i was waiting for this liκe crazy, good job!

[@niallsbasstones9713]

Ah YES, another brilliant episode. I’m really enjoying this series, absolutely fantastic. Hoping you might do an episode on Adam Clayton some time. Thanks for all your brilliant work 🎸

[@sandraruijs5172]

Nice to hear this,and especially about Joey s bass playing.I am a female bassplayer from Amsterdam and I love this guy to death

[@Hornkronte]

Yeah i love manowar 🤘 thanks for this video

[@degeest5571]

Love this series, very informative 👍🏻

[@manucmoimanu]

Thank you :)

[@loverdeadly6128]

This is great. I’m gonna bring these techniques to the next jam sesh.

[@ninoninov6044]

It is funny how when the whimps and loosers have nothing to say, they are bashing someones personality or cherry-pick a word or a phrase and try to make fun with that. Great video man. Manowar are really very tight band, and being in ot is very demanding. Eric is an outstanding singer, who can easyly pull staff he had sung 30 years ago. This says DISCIPLINE and healthy habbits. And I am pretty sure Joey stands behind all that discipline. All other is an act, which they make only for the "ones that really matter" - the fans. The fact that Karl was lost and forgotten, after the charges speaks a lot what kind of a person Joey is.

[@flonkplonk1649]

Whimps and Posers didn't find the door to leave the hall..

[@pavolridrich3434]

My Kings of Metal for many years. Never disappointed. My top song period in metal history "Achilles Agony And Ecstasy In Eight Parts" sits on the throne and most likely will never be taken down (right next to it is Iced Earth and their Dante's Inferno) on one side and on the other (Nightwish and their Poet And The Pendulum). Arjen Lucasson and Snowy Shaw as VIP around

[@СемёнСемёнов-ы1ь]

Amen, brother in metal! Right now I am mounting vynil-clock on my wall, what is lazer-cut alike Triumph of Steel cover, and yes, Achilles Agony ans Ecstasy it their opus-magnum.

[@pavolridrich3434]

@@СемёнСемёнов-ы1ь amazing. I have original t-shirt "triumph of steel" signed by Eric, RIP Scott, Karl and Joey on front side and big signature from Joey at the back alone :)

[@СемёнСемёнов-ы1ь]

​@@pavolridrich3434 Ah, you lucky son of a gun! That is a real treasure! Now you can rightfully retell this legend to your grandchildren: - Grandfather? - Yes? - Who were those four men? - Who were they? *THEY WERE THE METAL KINGS!!!!!!* Also: vinyllab.ru/product/manowar/

[@pavolridrich3434]

@@СемёнСемёнов-ы1ь thx. It was great experience and they were really friendly, it was after show, we stayed in the hotel over night and we went to bar and maybe 1 hour after show someone tapped me on shoulder, I turned and (I am not joking now) it was Eric and he said "I remember you from the show" ... Insane! I was in first row that was the reason. Then Joey came and then later Scott ans Karl, they sit with us there for almost 2 hours. It was the night when they recorded "I Believe" video. i can see myself there and on the Hell on Part 3, 2 times as well. That weekend I didn't 60 hours but after coming back home from Czech Republic to Slovakia we said in the bus "we can die now" :) Now I am trying to get my daughter to metal but so far little luck lol, she is 5 and she likes that "dancing" radio atrocities lol. But I will "carry on".

[@flonkplonk1649]

@@СемёнСемёнов-ы1ь DA DA DA DA DA DA DAAA DAA (screeeaaam) (screeeaam) *Blood of the Kings*

[@savageplanet5788]

Next episode: Al Cisneros of Sleep / Om or Billy Gould of Faith No More.

[@soulbrother5435]

Yeah Al Cisneros is coolest

[@snakemont]

Bro soooooo cool! Thanks!

[@MikeGiallo]

i genuinly would love to know the story behind how to choose to play a piccolo bass ( dont know if it existed or not before), because is a strange selection, you can tune down or anything but how you come to change the strings and modify it to sound different, it could be really interesting ( never find the story behind it)

[@СемёнСемёнов-ы1ь]

How many bands can you recognize instantly by single bass tone alone? *MAGMA!* De Futura as an ultimate bass achievement.

[@Profitikosministry5761]

Manowar, sounds and looks,more Gothic,than any American Metal band. Greetings from the Fiji Islands 2022,17th September.

[@HellboysGreaserGarag]

Your information is wrong, ManOwaR is from the United States actually from New York. The album hail to england was made to honor the fans from england cause they took in the group as one of their own.

[@superchargedcars]

Yep, Auburn NY

[@Destin937]

But they were formed in England when Dio introduced demaio to Ross the Boss

[@superchargedcars]

@@Destin937 Dio was also from Cortland NY. About 2 hours away from Auburn NY. Sorry, but I'm right close to these guys...

[@Destin937]

@@superchargedcars Yes that's correct, they're all from NY, as am I. But in the video he only states that they were formed in England. Which they were. Demaio was a tech on tour with Black Sabbath and Ross was in their opening band, and Dio introduced the two.

[@superchargedcars]

@@Destin937 ah, gotcha. I actually didn't know that part. I appreciate it brother.

[@christophernorth755]

Good overview. Love Man-O-War, too. I’ve got a 4001, but I’d like to see the amp, settings, cabinet, speakers, pedals, etc.

[@metashadow3924]

Great video! Hail Manowar!

[@Yourweakminds]

Crom smiles from his mountain.

[@vladconstantin6312]

Make a video about Ryan Martinie

[@leonardomattarmonteiro2824]

THANK YOU SENSEI Paul DEL BELLO for this comprehensive analysis on SENSEI JOEY DeMAIO's sound,techniques,pick Axes,influence. Inasmuch as manowar's attitude as a Band is admittedly exaggerated&pathetic,this unique&very talented MUSICIAN is responsible,alongside CHRIS SQUIRE,STEVE HARRIS&MICHAEL ANTHONY,for my endless passion for the Greatest Instrument on Earth:THE ALMIGHTY BASS! ✊🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🔥

[@Gee-no]

Great vid. But how do they get the low end if he's playing one octave up? I can see an 8 or 12 string bass but only the high octave? You need that low end. Especially for metal. Am I missing something?

[@HeadlessTony]

plus he also uses standard tuned bass

[@juhos30000]

Awesome video again! We need a video about Mike Mills of R.E.M

[@Tigermaster1986]

Or, you know, be Mike LePond and incorporate freaking flamenco guitar techniques in your bass playing so that you can match DeMaio's speed when covering Manowar songs. LePond plays in Ross the Boss' band. I saw them live a few years ago, and seeing LePond do rasgueados on the bass actually blew my mind. I didn't know that was possible. By the way, I was at that five hour show in Kavarna. It was my second metal concert, and I loved every second of it, but there were so many technical goofs... They had to stop playing "Defender" and start anew, because the backing track didn't start on time.

[@HawkEye40]

Man you're going to love Carles Benavent. He was bass player for Paco de Lucía. Plays a 5 string with a pick, and his skills are otherworldly. He has a Pastorius tribute called Bluestorius. This and Monasterio de sal (a duet with Paco) are incredible examples of this man's bass approach. Check them out! :)

[@lorenwoirhaye4687]

You don't need protruding nails to play rasqueado, only to do other flamenco techniques which sound much better with nails.

[@josephscalone5402]

cool you talked about his basses but what about his rig?, love joey, one of the reasons why i play bass \m/

[@JPTyler]

I second your reguest!

[@BarethBates]

I hope for this information too, but I fear it may be a lost art. That knowledge probably died in 2015 when John “Dawk” Stillwell passed.

[@mikerivera7509]

He is a really interesting player. Unique

[@GillesLartigot]

EXCELLENT !

[@phillkeegan9116]

Please do one on Paul Del Bello.

[@czipendejs]

great episode as always, but what is this huge, red knob for?

[@TheAndrewPlayz]

Its a built in distortion button, just another modification:)

[@depa988]

please video on les claypool !!!

[@danieleacerbi-3dmotiondesi309]

La puntata più epica di sempre! 😆

[@kenvorland]

Awesome video billy sheehan has his own style steve harris and lemmy the list goes on and on stay safe rock on forever

[@marciobrat2740]

The other one and unique is a Steve Harris from Iron Maiden, lots of power chords as well 😊

[@MikeGiallo]

you want to play guitar and the band wants you to play the bass, everyone: ill learn to play bass di maio:...

[@eugeniosimoes7078]

Great bassist \mm/

[@lorpal1]

left out his incredible use of harmonics - check out Mountains...

[@jaschul]

I know he's very far from the hard rock and metal bassists you usually profile, but how about Norman Watt-Roy of Ian Dury and the Blockheads? He kicks much ass.

[@masbucket3083]

Yooo that bass I want to learn to make and modify basses so I can have a custom sound

[@fossostv]

🤘

[@stevenrios339]

How to sound like Greg Lake of King Crimson/ELP please

[@skybluemarshall]

Basses and scale lengths: 1. Fender Mustang PJ, 30". 2. Pedulla Pentabuzz, 34". 3. Squier Mustang, 30". 4. Alembic Stanley Clarke signature model 30.75". 5. Rickenbacker 4001(heavily modified) 33.25". 6. Hofner Club, 30". 7. Ibanez Artcore, 30.3" You're welcome.

[@MetalGodOfLegend]

when we're in town, speakers explode!

[@AnaCristina-pg8dd]

paul, how to sound felipe andreoli basist of angra ?

[@Nobody2879]

study

[@jamesross9724]

is it just me , or does the bass intro to Defender sound a lot like the opening to Skynards Simple Man? the guitar parts mostly with a bit of the piano part mixed in?

[@Dan_Metalhead]

Good video! I think Jack Bruce needs a How To Sound like video

[@witnessthewrath8061]

I need another bass now for this sound

[@franco4322]

please how to sound like paul simmonon or jerry only

[@tormentor502]

How to sound like Nameless Ghoul Water of Ghost please

[@elcomberro123]

Fender Precission bass or pj or other p/pj construction + Sansamp bass driver DI or SansAmp Character Series VT or Darkglass Vintage pedals

[@Wuerfelhusten1510]

Did I just miss it, or doesn't this video include any information on how to configure the tone of your bass setup to actually sound like Joey DeMaio?

[@timbrown6629]

That's easy. Tube overdrive. Roll off the low end a little, and.l9ts of volume. Combine that with piccolo strings

[@Wuerfelhusten1510]

@@timbrown6629 I'll try that, thx!

[@Assamita5187]

Otimo

[@waynegram8907]

Joey Demaio is using what type of bass guitar strings? because his neck is very thin so this much give him that high pitch thin sound?

[@Facu_Roldan]

Piccolo strings

[@waynegram8907]

@@Facu_Roldan Piccolo Bass is tuned to a Higher Pitch. Are the Piccolo Strings a higher octave bass strings?

[@Facu_Roldan]

@@waynegram8907 yep, almost as thin as the lower 4 strings of an electric guitar

[@ggaaron5481]

Manowar fucking rules. Hail brother

[@dakotadodson4014]

Could you look over Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith ?

[@maxcarr6266]

That would be cool!! A bud and me had a debate going in what kind of bass he uses.. I said Music Man Sabre ( or another MM model that escapes me). Hevsaud Rickenbacker

[@oskarjonsson9117]

Do jason newsted

[@ivanrr3678]

I hope to see a how to sound like Ryan Martinie!

[@ericv7720]

DeMaio's soundbis every bit as distinctive as that of Steve Harris or Lemmy, making it a lead instrument.

[@tormentor502]

Make a bass cover of Afraid by Mötley Crue

[@mateoito8266]

Do Mars Volta’s juan

[@radiozelaza]

Manowar is much more inspired by Black Sabbath than by NWOBHM, because the band was founded before NWOBHM became a thing.

[@Rosamarketr]

Steve digiorgio!!

[@wesleywarsmith1113]

☇💪☇

[@chrissandoval7675]

how to sound like joey demaio: play an acoustic guitar. got it.

[@DannyBoi2112]

Chris Squire for episode 27

[@Simpleburger1968]

I'll be honest, as much as I've liked and followed Manowar since the early '80s I have to say I prefer bass to sound like a bass ie bassy ! . Tuning things up ....naturally makes it less so. William's Tale sounds pretty weak and Black Arrows is a/ rather a mess and b/ nothing whatsoever resembling a bass. Until I started watching KZbin videos I didn't realise intros such as Gates of Valhalla, Bridge of Death, Battle Hymns etc were on the bass ! It sounds like a bassist "encroaching" on the guitarist's territory. That said, I like 'em and respect 'em . (Props to Adams' for having and retaining one of the best voices in metal/rock ! ) . My favourite ever bass solo/soloing : Billy Sheehan's NV43345 piece.

[@Xavyer13]

Con razón, ya todo tiene sentido #idtzo

[@meanguitar]

Now it works to use the bass strings on an 8 string guitar

[@alainbrasseur7083]

absolutely not my cup of tea but I like people who mod their instruments to reach a unique sound...althought I think about Cronos of Venom (I had half defretted a short scale bass ) and Cheap Trick Tom Petersson, the creator of the 12 string bass!

[@toro5280]

I listened to Manowar basically until after the Triumph of steel, when metal fell into some stupor for a while and I basically moved away since I knew most of the old stuff and the new stuff was mostly shit. I loved their sound, awesome lyrics, awesome melodies, riffs, solos, drumming. Then whn I started lsitening to metal again some years ago I checked their newer albums, but didn't like htem much, nothing memorable. I often listen to their older songs though. "Each dawn I die", "Blood of my enemies" and "Bridge of death" are my favorites. "Hatred" is underrated, in fact the whole "Into glory ride" album is great too. Eric Adams is one of the greatest singers in metal. They have a few goofy songs about "real metal" but 95% is dragons, demons, swords, bloodshed, glory, carnege, so great power metal vibe, their music is very immersing experience to me. You close your eyes and you can see the story and feel the battle and hear the cries of the wounded and the clashing of the swords. Really one of the great metal bands.

[@toralm6974]

Dragons? They have ONE , "ride the dragon" I think it is about how to manage a problem.

[@toro5280]

@@toralm6974 Ok, scratch the dragons then. Double the swords.

[@toralm6974]

@@toro5280 ok 👍

[@dinos9607]

Cut the cap. Pleasure slave is your favorite, you are just embarrassed of admitting so.

[@oulosvie]

That's piccolo bass and the neck is very thin and narrow. I bet it's very easy to play chords!

[@onerandombruh]

Also, if you're not used to it, it's really easy to fuck up constantly over the melody changes...

[@air1217]

Roger Glover please !

[@Dirge4july]

A bass up one octave is a guitar lol 😅😂

[@elcomberro123]

It's a mistake here. Yes he's tunning one octave higher but olny for his solos. With full band it's standard tunning his strings has very light gauge 45 50 60 70. Check Warriors of the World is this sound like guitar? :D

[@squid-boy4178]

actually a Bass is two octaves lower not one

[@joshjohnson749]

@@squid-boy4178 Standard bass tuning is one octave lower than guitar

[@squid-boy4178]

@@joshjohnson749 there are two Es on a Bass before the E on a Guitar that makes it two octaves lower

[@joshjohnson749]

@@squid-boy4178 The low E on a bass is one octave lower than the low E on a guitar it would be two octaves lower from the 12th fret and three octaves lower from the 24th fret

[@reneboenki988]

okay, you can play

[@Mhassar]

Does it REALLY count as bass?

[@adambidas9425]

Need to do one of these videos for Roger Waters, Chris Squire, or Jack Bruce.

[@MrFoka9]

I’m sory but this is NOT a bass.. He took a rickenbacker bass and mutated it to a 4 string rickensomething guitar……. I know that he is the band and without him the band would be totally different but i cannot recognize him as a bass player…..

[@elcomberro123]

You can say the same on Lemmy or John Entwistle (they were inspiration for Joey) or even on Cliff Burton when James and Lars heard him for a first time live playing one of his solos time they were like "Dude that guitarist is crazy. DUDE IT'S BASS!!". You also can say salpers are more like drums than a bass. But in the end of a day It's just your vision and your way. You can sound/play like everyone or like you want.

[@alex.ann_der]

@@elcomberro123 You don't get it. Cliff Burton, John Entwistle, and everyone plays regular bass with regular bass strings. This guy doesn't play a bass, he plays a 4 strings guitar. No matter how you look at it, it's no bass, it's a guitar.

[@elcomberro123]

@@alex.ann_der John Entwistle used to say about it "bass guitarist".But You are talking olny how it looks what about sound and rythm section? Lemmy played through guitar amp (yes marshall superbass is guitar amp) with Bass:0, Mid 10, treble:0 with presence on 8 what gave him that dirty iconic sound and he even played more like rytmh guitar than bass and he was describe as a "bass" player. Doug Pinnick from King X simillar. And Joey to the early 90s played on Rick with standard neck and string space. And again did you heard his bass on Warrios of the World? :D

[@MrFoka9]

@@alex.ann_der thanks!!!

[@MrFoka9]

@@elcomberro123 I understand that he is a legend for manowar fans and I respect this. But he is just a guitar player with a guitar with four string that he wants to sound like a bass guitar.

[@fs3684]

👏👍🤪 !

[@gerardspringer8576]

Man o war= 🧀🧀🧀

[@jonathanaraujo6453]

Bass guitarrist guitar

[@daveciccone3319]

Joey had a bass modified into a half assed guitar. He is basically trying to be a guitar player.

[@imienazvvisko]

Calling Joey virtuoso is em... little bit over the top. But he is unique as hell.

[@МихаилЛесков-я9с]

He betrayed the bass. He plays some kind of electric-balalayka or electro-banjo: thin strings, placed at the bottom of thin and long neck; guitar sound because of guitar's humbuckers. You can see what could happen if Joey plays in Metallica at this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/onPCg6mpjdpoj5I Mtallica should hire second bass-player if the first was DeMaio)) Cliff Burton did things like Joey, but he remembers that he plays bass. He combined guitar and bass pickups under the strings, thin strings too. These two bass-players tried to sit on the two chairs at the same time: plays bass and soloing like guitarists.

[@dinos9607]

And why should he care? Why is bass something that should be respected? He wants to make music, not just play what people think a bass must be. Frankly, his sound is far superior to what the vast majority of bassists produce. Just take for example Berthoud who is very possibly the best bassist of all times - what does he do if not re-creating to quite an extensive degree what De Maio was playing back in the 80s, of course in a much more evolved way, higher in difficulty and with lots of tapping and additions. But the base of it was already played by De Maio, long before anyone else. If he bass had not lows, ask yourself : did Manowar's music need them? There are forms of music that just do not need such lows. Some forms of music don't need drums really - and I am not referring to classical but rather traditional music meant to have rhythm and to be danced. Take for example Greek popular songs, played with bouzouki - bouzouki plays the role of both the guitar and the bass and it only has 4 double metal strings kind of like the 4 upper guitar strings tuned one tone down than the guitar. An exquisite sound that needs not much more. Likewise Manowar music needed not those lows because the piccolo strings did the job especially as De Maio was playing fifths.