Dave's bass lines are identical to the guitar and other melodies in nearly all of their songs so you can't hear it at all, the only slightly interesting bass line I can think of from a Linkin Park song is from the second verse of In My Remains, WFTE has decent enough bass as well. but both of those are nothing spectacular. I love some good bass lines and I wish Dave would play more interesting rhythms and bass lines that stand out can be heard among the rest of the music.
In the documentaries, you can see him doing some sample manipulation using turntables and trigger pads; a good number of the samples in the songs are scratched in. As for turntable solos, I think the last time we got to hear one of those on an album was the bridge in "Echo". Hahn also does some of the production in his home studio, and you can see a bit of that in the "New Divide" making-of and the "A Thousand Suns" documentary. I would assume that he brings in a good amount of seeds for the band to work off as well when they begin the process of creating an album.
One of the components of that more nu-metal sound was prominent and almost tokenistic turntable scratching. Like with Shinoda's rapping (for a time), the band later decided to look carefully for the right time and place for Hahn's scratching rather than just throwing it over everything. This was to get away from what they used to do, and also to get away from what other nu-metal bands did. So, while you rarely get to hear it, when they do use it, I think that it hits home and they manage to make it more tasteful than they used to.
Agreed, but you forgot Wake, which also features a fairly nice and notable bass-line. So yeah, more bass-work reminiscent of that would be very, very appreciated.
It seems that LP's older songs are more likely to have prominent bass lines. If I remember correctly, I believe And One has a pretty catchy bass line, though it may be a low-tuned riff from the lead guitar (not really sure). Forgotten may also have a more prominent bass line, too. After listening to enough Rammstein, I really want to hear LP push the bass much more in their songs, given it's potential for adding that extra "oomph" in many cases.
I agree, but I think there's not many places for it in THP. As I've said before, I hope the next album gives us more stuff like WFTE. I'd like them to continue pushing instrumental complexity, like they did on THP, but go for a much softer sound.
Tell me something I don't know. And then stop leaving Easier to Run out of these lists of basslines that don't just follow the guitar. It's more complex than Given Up.
lol @ people saying "prominent". Prominent does not equate to interesting. Agree with Chris above me. ETR is probably his best work (even if it isn't the most advanced out there). There's not many songs where Phoenix's basslines stray from just root notes... Off the top of my heard, I think only ETR, Wake, and Roads Untraveled feature some different work. I don't think we'll ever see a bassline a la Muse, but we can definitely see some better background work from Phoenix.
Actually, Dave is pretty prominent on all of Minutes to Midnight. But like Dylan said, that doesn't mean they are very interesting parts.
Really, Phoenix's basslines aren't as much a cause for concern (for me as a fan) as the band's lyrics