http://home.eyesonff.com/blog.php/13171-Shoden The Eyes on Final Fantasy Forums are the premier place for Final Fantasy fans to meet and discuss this classic video game series. Join our community today. en Sat, 09 May 2026 23:50:14 GMT vBulletin 60 http://home.eyesonff.com/images/images_neoclassic/misc/rss.jpg http://home.eyesonff.com/blog.php/13171-Shoden http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1059-A-Bass-cover-of-Caramelldansen-I-did Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:16:02 GMT

I thought I'd put it up in a blog as self pimping songs and covers in threads with no reason or subject other than "Look at this!" isn't really what I want to do with this... Ironic kinda that back in the hey day I was a notorious spamming dickbutt. XP

Anyways here's a cover I did as a request from some friends of one of the most jumpy and overtly happy songs I've ever heard. I got a backing track from guitar pro and fiddled with the RSE instruments to make it sound a bit less er, boring to play to. As a bassist, I like to go crazy. Hell I even whipped on my overdrive pedal for this!

I'm using a Rickenbacker 4003 and the pedal is a Marshall Guv'nor overdrive pedal. I just plugged the bass into the pedal and the pedal into the PC and was good to go!

Oh and yes, I (regrettable) had all my hair cut off in July... X( ]]> Shoden http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1059-A-Bass-cover-of-Caramelldansen-I-did http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/917-Sleep-NO! Mon, 20 Aug 2012 04:37:52 GMT No really. I've been on and off bass all evening and night and morning. I've been playing with guitar pro and recording a bass track to a request... I was asked to cover Caramelldansen after the last anime con I went to. I have done this and feel I have crossed the point of no return.

I CAN FEEL THE LAST SHREDS OF MY HUMANITY FADING AWAY LIKE THE REMNANTS OF A PERSISTENT FART.

Also... My hair's growing back, ish... I REGRET IT! I asked for a trim and the mother got the clippers on me. Back in July. I FEEL I AM LOSING MY IDENTITY, MYSELF, COME BACK HAIR. I MISS YOU. I'M SORRY. ]]> Shoden http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/917-Sleep-NO! http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/727-A-Little-Something-About-My-Band-Culloden Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:29:31 GMT I write, I play bass and I sing for a band, a Heavy Metal band and it is called Culloden. Originally it was because no one else could do the job properly or would bother that I started singing and I've never been a good bass player, I've been inspired by bassists who play the bass like the guitar for crying out loud!
I've been plucking, bashing, shouting, screaming, chanting, forcing my way through the ranks of skill, you can say I've been grinding, a lot to reach a level I can face the next boss, the world of music itself!

With there being only 3 of us our sound is limited, our range is limited only to what I can sing and play, for covering songs its the same but I bite my tongue and change it, modify both elements and bend them to my will so I can. What has spawned from our unison though regardless of these limitations is a force so odd, yet entirely awesome and above the blackened seas of self pity.

Ladies and Gentlemen let me show you, the power of Culloden!!

Our first original is a fully recorded and mixed demo, it is called "The Void" originally the lyrics were inspired by how I felt when I was dumped 2, 2 and half years ago maybes and there are still remnants of the originally lyrical elements in the first section before the fast part kicks in but as time went on I worked on the lyrics more and it slowly became a story of its own, a story of a being trapped in a vast, empty, dark and cold prison between dimensions, The Void, for ten thousand years, cursing his fate, his sorrow and remorse became pure vengeance pure fury and madness and when he broke free, the world would burn by his hands and that is the story behind it, cliche but metal lyrics are full of cliches everywhere tbh.
We recorded this in D standard as at the time I was just starting to sing again after we booted a singer we had in because she just couldn't do the job. Now we play in Eb tuning and plan to redo the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawsI...-1sHtITDIxm1TQ

It was recorded live in one take.
We also recorded a Judas Priest cover of their most famous song, Breaking the Law, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5GVBuSyAFw

A Motorhead cover of The Ace of Spades http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9DKVXpZQuo
and a Manowar cover of Kings of Metal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pwAK14vMIM

This was back in September and since we've began 2 more songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOGE7BqkR6Y The Fall of Culloden (also called The Lost Children)

And March on the Somme http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYY8DRb8dj8


Worth linking too is a video of a really good, heavy, slow, grungy, groovy, crunchy and dark jam. Me and the drummer are adamant to use this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRqadj9BecE

So there you have it! This is what I do, this is me, making and playing music with my friends and we hope to level up again and again and storm the barricades! This is Culloden, this is I Shoden. ]]> Shoden http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/727-A-Little-Something-About-My-Band-Culloden http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/221-Some-Bassic-Twaddle Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:08:51 GMT So, less than a week ago I got my new bass. A Rickenbacker 4003 Fireglo and by the gods is it awesome. With a punching trebly tone that any bass player who doesn't like being at the back and being unheard would kill for. This thing is a beast. A destroyer of worlds that when let loose amongst the backline of any band in any genre of music it will dominate and it will ravage, reap and conquer just like bass damn right should!

With bass players such Cliff Burton, Geezer Butler, Geddy Lee, Lemmy Kilmister and John Entwhistle amongst some of the titanic bassists to name to have picked up this beauty of a bass in its old 4001 incarnation (The 4003 is a modern day reissue of the 4001 model) it is a force to be reckoned with.
A test drive of the thing is seeable here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvwfdx7gm4

I also have ANOTHER Rickenbacker which I got last year but its a different model, the 4004. In comparison the 4003 is a lot brighter, trebly with a slightly thinner neck but on the other hand the 4004 sounds better tuned down and for more evil sounding songs. I will definitely be honing both in the future. ]]> Shoden http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/221-Some-Bassic-Twaddle