The WICKED bass riff in this new Queens of the Stone Age song..

[@nicorepetto5781]

I wish more bass players mentioned Michael Schuman. His basslines are among my absolute favorite and I've not heard anyone like him. I like Nick Oliveri's playing but it was suited for early QOTSA and Kyuss. I dont think it works as well for mordern QOTSA. I love early QOTSA and Blues for the Red Sun by Kyuss but I'm sick of people discrediting Schuman when he really doesn't deserve it. Dude is incredible

[@boomiron]

I've never heard anyone discredit Mikey, but if I ever do...they'll be waking up looking like a dipshit with missing teeth and a migraine.

[@duhlike]

Disagree. I always heard him more as a hired gun rather than a fixture in the band. Oliveri, for example, was a prominent figure and personality in the group. It made for more interesting and engaging records and songs. Michael Shuman is in the background just obeying what Josh wants. His parts are too busy and rarely serve the songs. Less is more a lot when playing bass. He clearly doesn't understand that concept and leaves no room for suspense or climax in his playing. For sure.

[@CharlesWillisBonsai]

​@@duhlikehe's a good bass player, but seems more like one of Joshs cronies rather than an equal like Oliveri. I liked the punk edge Oliveri brought as well as his vocals. I like new Queens, but it's been the Josh Homme experience for a while.

[@CCDaDon15]

@@CharlesWillisBonsai Mikey has more writing credits than Nick does. I Appear Missing was mostly Mikey, Dean, and Troy. Actually most of the last album was Mikey and Dean writing the music. Josh always writes lyrics of course. But. I don’t know how you can act like he’s not making decisions when songs like The Evil Has Landed and Obscenery are majority about the bass lines. He also absolutely does not play like Josh so it’s not like Josh is writing the parts in the demo. You guys really need to get over Nick not being in the band anymore because I really don’t understand how you can come away with that. Sure, Nick said that around Era Vulgaris came out. He was saying that about Alain and Troy. Mikey wasn’t in the band yet.

[@CCDaDon15]

@@duhlikehow do you reconcile saying he’s in the background but his parts are too busy and flashy? Nick played a ton of flash too. Better Living is a ridiculous bass song, In the Fade too. Lost Art. Leg of Lamb?? Headache??? Deaf is pretty busy too. Mikey is also never in the background on stage. He’s always thrashing around. If he was in a different band they would be calling him a spotlight hog. Mikey also has most of the say in the setlists these days with Josh. Most of the song writing has been a collaboration between Mikey Troy and Dean the last few albums too. You guys are delusional lol

[@superduperj1202]

Such a great album. Negative Space is currently stuck in my head all the time.

[@Gubgubgoober]

I love his use of space in this song (pun intended)

[@patrickhunter]

SAME! At first I thought there'd be way more fills between the little breaks in the verse, but it makes so much sense when you take the name of the song into play

[@rome8180]

I love Queens of the Stone Age. My favorite album is Like Clockwork.

[@ols-c6410]

Ma che è una sentenza scusi

[@NickoDim]

Dude, you should put up some tabs. love this song and you did some great playing there. I usually don't play with a pick but this felt so intuitive in this song.

[@Lightgrenadez7777]

Dude you not wrong. i just saw QOTSA, two days in a row. back to back. Ive just started playing bass in the last 3ish months. hes fucking unreal dude, I could not take my eyes off him. dude the energy that motherfucker brings to the stage is palpable. And those basslines, they are fucking even better live. Carnevouyer live. that bassline rocked my world never heard anything like it

[@Cash_Lovell]

I’m a bigger fan of the older QOTSA Records but the bass lines on the trilogy are some of the best musicianship from their entire discography

[@bennyjetsonmontreal6113]

What trilogy?

[@duhlike]

@@bennyjetsonmontreal6113 Like Clockwork Villains and In Times New Roman are supposed to be a trilogy. Although, I don't really see any correlation other than that they were all designed artistically from BoneFace. I think maybe they started calling them a trilogy. Just as an easy out. In case people criticize too heavily on the new stuff. They can always say, 'oh well, they're all part of the same trilogy, so it's to be expected.' 'you can expect different material moving forward'. etc. But yeah, they rode that Like Clockwork train for a long time. Highly doubt we'll get anymore cool and surprising records out of them.

[@Cash_Lovell]

@@bennyjetsonmontreal6113 like Clockwork Villains In Times New Roman

[@TrustMeImAnUzi]

I knew it! I didn’t know Villains was included in it, but In times new Roman sounds exactly what I think a like clockwork part 2 would sound like.

[@susragejr477]

@@duhlikeyou’re lame dude

[@adriancrabb6345]

Great cover ❤️. Saw them live in Cardiff last week.. Such a great entertaining live band. Mickey Shoes was on top form, sounded awesome..

[@rjbrando9616]

Love this Bassline. Gibson Rippers sound so damn good. Red Muck for the win. Very close tone!

[@andrewpappas9311]

I've been listening to the album on repeat after it came to and it's so damn good, definitely one of their best and this song is funky as hell and it's dope... QOTSA is back, baby

[@AgilDogsVideo]

Michael Schuman is one of my favorite bass players (with Chris Wolstenholme) and he’s a great musician (plays drums, keys and sings) ❤️‍🔥

[@joshcuster5219]

Nice lil lick at the end there!

[@milocabral7428]

One of the things I love about this album is it really feels like a culmination of their other albums in a unique way without sounding derivative. Negative space gives the same energy as “I say by the ocean”, Paper machete is a lot like “little sister”, made to parade like “domesticated animals” so on and so forth.

[@funkingitup1805]

How do you figure out how to play a song so quickly after release? Do you find tabs? Do you just sound it out? Do you run it through a program that tells you the notes? Did you watch a video of this being played?

[@alice_ffs1115]

I literally knew what riff you are talking about as soon as I saw title 😂 album is crazy good, but this song is definitely one of their best ever and I always have bass goosies listening to it

[@kunaikai]

Love the Mikey appreciation

[@LukeBass1000]

Yep, this is a banger of a song and a load of fun to play

[@XMirrorJoe]

Mikey Shoes is so great on bass! I absolutely love the bass lines on Era Vulgaris, Clockwork, Villains and ITNR. I feel like every line can be danced, The Evil Has Landed must be a basic for bass players. Every bass line is funky and fit every song so damn well 😎

[@chaddevlin8545]

He didn't play on Era Vulgaris.

[@XMirrorJoe]

@@chaddevlin8545 I meant on live shows lol

[@CCDaDon15]

Yeah Josh, Alain, and Troy did bass on that album but yeah he’s nuts. The Evil Has Landed is really nuts. Busy but serves the song perfectly

[@marcelo36208]

Massa👏🏽

[@bjoernz9073]

Hey Patrick, this is so cool. Buuuuut: When do we get your crazy cool basslines as tabs or notes. Sometimes when you present some pedals or whatever its just mindblowing, and its hard to get some cool metal/rock bass lines in the web in my oppinion. I would definetly support you on patreon for that. Great job anyway, thanks for all . you are definetly my rock bass line hero

[@sheridanwands439]

Great cover.I personally have been digging Time&Place a lot.

[@cbfpropertyservices]

Mikey and John in The Evil Has Landed gives me happy pants.

[@scott_blighttown]

What fuzz are you using mate?

[@haitchkay]

Nice playing. Have you made a tab for it? I am also hooked on this track. Ive worked it out on guitar but i think a couple of bits aren't perfect. It sounds like the main verse riff has variations which is hard to pin down because the multiple guitars and bassline are harmonising so i cant decide exactly what to play for each repeat. Also I tuned to drop C#. Are you in C# standard?

[@patrickhunter]

Nope, I played it in E standard!

[@PRESTIGEworldwide32]

how did you get the ibanez ehb to hang on the wall?

[@Waggel86]

Not 100% on this but these look like Ortega wall mounts. I know the Hercules AutoGrip works as well

[@patrickhunter]

​@@Waggel86 Just regular String Swing hangers, actually!

[@drewkerns8760]

they need to revive the band them crooked vultures

[@funkingitup1805]

More Mantra too. Also more Kyuss. Josh Homme might be an asshole of a person, but whatever he touches turns gold.

[@eucesarmachado]

the groove from What the peephole say >>>>>

[@jim_moonz9848]

Whats the tuning for this song?

[@xavierarroyoferrin]

E Standard

[@jamesryanhodges]

Call me bias if you must, but when it comes to QOTSA, the songs 3’s & 7’s, and Little Sister, are absolute bangers! I never took the time to dive deep into this band, so maybe that’s why I feel biased about those two songs.

[@pattonPwr]

Nothing beats their debut album and the Nick Oliveri era

[@ZombiePenguinStudios]

i wished i liked this band like everyone 😅😭

[@Deserterker]

whats the freaking song name

[@CCDaDon15]

Negative Space

[@DiamondLifer]

I still miss Nicks playing.

[@nicorepetto5781]

I like his paying in early QOTSA and Kyuss but in my opinion his style wouldn't fit modern QOTSA. Michael schuman is an incredibly underrated bassist and I love what he's brought to QOTSA

[@funkingitup1805]

Agreed.

[@DiamondLifer]

@@nicorepetto5781 I’ve been told Josh writes and records the bass. Not sure about this album. But the previous albums after Nick.

[@nicorepetto5781]

@@DiamondLifer Josh only wrote and recorded the bass on their debut album and Lullabies. Everything post 2007 is Schuman writing and recording bass. All the members of QOTSA are multi instrumentalists and provide input on each other's parts from what I've heard but Schuman is undoubtedly the mind behind bass in QOTSA post 2007. The basslines in Like Clockwork are unmistakably Schumann's style of bass playing and very distinct from Homme's basslines. Also Bass Magazine just did an interview with Schuman where he talked about his creative process for writing the basslines on this album so yeah it is Schuman in this album too.

[@ivanbabic8135]

Micheal shuman is amzing

[@MrTumnus1987]

Mikey Shoes > Nick Oliveri…………there I said it.

[@miguelfernandes333]

The band is great, so is the song. Too bad the bass sounds so poor.

[@sanick4864]

Why? His tone ia really good

[@bartwitek9526]

New QOTSA … meh

[@lawrencen655]

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