Barry Beatmaster - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I've played bass with various bands including;
Justin Dempsey (1995-96)
Instant Flight (1996-99)
F a us to (2002-04)
T h e N o w ( 1 997-03) Hear "Real" played by Claire Sturgess on XFM Unsigned in 2001
The Juice (2005)
Ian De S y lv a (2005-07)and currently rock/pop covers band Last Orders. Available for deps and recording work, also any ideas for collaborations, remixes, mashups etc. send me a message. got a diploma in sound engineering, music technology and music business studies at Gateway school of recording . I've done a few mashups under the Barry Beatmaster name too- see reviews on the left for appraisals of my 2 most well-known efforts in this field.about the 6 tracks on the player ; MTR is an unaccompanied bass solo piece, played on a 4-string Precision-style bass I built from Warmoth parts.
Cheeky cockney gangsters is multitracked basses and voices done by me.
The Network is down is a fretless bass piece.
Red L.E.D. and Fluxivity are multitracked basses.
Cities fall to dust (17 minute instrumental!) was by The Now- Neil Lawrence guitar, Tim Gatland drums, me on bass.go to the soundclick page for mp3s for free download and to buy.BTW, yes, it is a stupid name, but it stuck. read the "where for art thou Beatmaster?" blog entry for how it came about.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/6/2006
Band Website: soundclick.com/barrybeatmaster
Band Members: me on f r e t t e d and fret less bas ses , occasional guitar, vocals, spo ken wo rd , production. Basses;
Warmoth parts custom precision
Hohner B2A headless
Yamaha RBX270F fretless
Fender precision plus
Hohner TWP600B fretless acoustic Rotosound strings
EMG select & Kent Armstrong pickups
Hipshot machineheads
Badass , Schaller and Gotoh bridges Guitars;
Dean EvoXM
Ovation pinnacle electro acoustic
Influences: Brian Eno, Doug Wimbish, The Cure, The Stranglers, De La Soul, Kraftwerk, The Orb, pre-1985 Simple Minds, Barry Adamson, Magazine, Dalis Car, Osymyso, John Shuttleworth, Harry Hill, The Fast Show, Stella Street, Monkey Dust, The Day Today.Bass influences;
Simon Gallup, JJ Burnel, Bernard Edwards, Colin Moulding, Mick Karn, Derek Forbes, Steve Harris, Billy Sheehan, David Ellefson, Tony Butler, Geddy Lee, John Entwistle, Paul Webb, Michael Anthony, Bruce Thomas, Graham Maby, Tim Butler, Doug Wimbish, Roscoe Beck, Muzz Skillings, Norman Watt-Roy, Barry Adamson.
and loads of others.
Sounds Like: Beavis & Butthead tag-team wrestling Statler & Waldorf while Bart Simpson referees and Ron Manager, Daffy Duck and Dennis Pennis commentate.
on lemsip/helium/aspirin/water/air. reviews; "barry beatmaster - daft eminem
daft punk - da funk vs without me
best played loud. barry beatmaster has done 4 diferent without me bootlegs, and this has to be the best. a while ago i suggesting doing billie jean vs without me and this is the nearest i have heard. the great thudding bassline and riff of 'da funk' supplements em's drawl pretty damn well. an excellent, well structured bootleg. i can't stop playing it." - Boomselection . " BENNY'S GAY BAR - BARRY BEATMASTER
The most inspired of the many bootlegs to borrow Benny's immortal theme tune."- Big Songs For Little Attention Spans compilation.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

"Cities fall to dust" explained

I suppose a 17 minute instrumental needs some explaining.....it came out of The Now guitarist Neil having a heavy guitar instrumental, and me having lots of unrelated bass riffs/short pieces that i'd ...
Posted by Barry Beatmaster on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:14:00 PST

whatever happened to The Darkness? - the predictably short-lived hard rock revival

the other day I was watching the video for "dirty love" by Thunder, the UK late-80's/early 90's unashamedly 70's-derived hard-rock revival band-I bought the album that it came from- 1990's Backstreet ...
Posted by Barry Beatmaster on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:51:00 PST

"Cheeky cockney gangsters" explained

I thought i'd write an explanation of this track, as several people said they didn't understand it- it's a pleasant surprise when someone's said they got all the jokes in it;I guess it depends on your...
Posted by Barry Beatmaster on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:09:00 PST

Results in for Radiohead tip jar album experiment; 3 out 5 paid nothing

Times article on the stats for maudlin misery merchants Radiohead's "In Rainbows" name-your-price download album."Of the 1.2 million people who have downloaded In Rainbows since it was released last m...
Posted by Barry Beatmaster on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:36:00 PST

Who killed the electric car?

educating children about technology and predictions for the future can be a dangerous thing. especially if when they grow up they wonder what happened to all the developments they were promised, but w...
Posted by Barry Beatmaster on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:50:00 PST

Vinyldisc - hope for saving sales of music as a physical product?

I've got a couple of CDs where a picture of a record is printed on it- a nice nostalgic touch, and this looks like the logical progression from that;A CD with a vinyl-style track cut into its flipside...
Posted by Barry Beatmaster on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:59:00 PST

The worthlessness of status symbols - watch a brand-new Porsche 911 getting crushed

this was an odd, puzzling find on youtube- footage of someone having his new Porsche 911, in perfect condition, compacted into a cube of scrap metalI particularly like the irony of how it was carefull...
Posted by Barry Beatmaster on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:50:00 PST

Thoughts on the state of the music industry, new business models etc.

so, this new Radiohead "name your price" download experiment, then. personally, they'd have to pay me to listen to anymore of Thom Yorke's miserable, self-obsessed, humourless whining. it was bad enou...
Posted by Barry Beatmaster on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:22:00 PST

Van Halen parodies- the gift that keeps on giving/Glittering prizes and endless compromises

I suppose it's predictable that a band that always had a strong sense of humour (you can't beat hiring stunt doubles to parachute into a stadium before the band took to the stage) would inspire so man...
Posted by Barry Beatmaster on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:48:00 PST

Who cares about "Cookiegate"- whens the BBC going to come clean about the WTC7 9/11 coverage?

I don't give a shit about the naming of the Blue Peter cat being faked, and the fake competitions were pretty trivial stuff, yet the press are having a field day and everyone's bricking it at the BBC...
Posted by Barry Beatmaster on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:34:00 PST