Bandoneon > Accordion
(For those unaware, Astor Piazzolla is one of the greatest virtuosos of any instrument since the invention of audio recording.)
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Looks just like a concertina, or a small button accordion. That said, allow me to retort:
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Astor Piazzolla revolutionized tango music. He basically created a new genre of nuevo tango by combining it with elements of jazz and classical music. Like Ray Charles.
The bandoneon is a type of concertina. Unlike the accordion, the keys play different pitches based on if the bellows are being expanded or contracted.
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I listened so much to Piazzolla growing up.
It was my grandmother’s favourite musician…
Band practice last night. Our drummer was politely berating our rhythm guitarist for being late on the chord changes.
“Just follow Barney, I mean he knows nothing about music but he can stay in time”
Damn skippy 
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A rhythm player who can’t play in time needs to remove the word “rhythm” from his title. 
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Sounds like a little jab wrapped in a nice compliment 
Bassplayer accolades for sure!!
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It’s a running joke, that I don’t know anything.
It’s not entirely true, but I smile and nod because I definitely won’t be the next one to get fired from the band 
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Piazzolla is brilliant!
Love his music and his compositions and his playing!
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Dang… that was awesome!
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I’m not bothered at all. I’m more laughing than anything. It was a spicy take, and he is free to play that game but should also to expect to have to take it as well as dishing it out.
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Here’s some tasty replies from the “Four string moron” gang
- I have more strings than you have brain cells
- Without me, it just sounds like you’re screaming into a bucket
- Four strings, one job - Making you sound less like trash
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^^^^
This!!
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This is actually an interesting point. There’s a whole lot of blackmetal bands that don’t have a bass player - it’s sort of a thing for the genre. And they are kind of on the edge of that style.
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I live a sheltered life, I have no idea what “blackmetal” is!!
The reality is that we all have a role … in my band, we play our version of Seven Nation Army. We had a go at it a couple of rehearsals ago, when the drummer was unavailable, so we play ‘acoustically’. Wow, it sounded awful!! That opening line (I know it was originally played on a guitar, with an octave pedal), played on my bass just sounded so empty. I got the guitarist to also play along … it still sounded empty. We gave up.
At our last rehearsal, the drummer was back. Add the kick drum in, and bosh! My bass, Al (that’s Al, not A.I. 
) on the kick drum and that line just comes alive!
I only play bass. Am I a musician? In my head, when I’m playing in the band, abso-bloody-lutely yes!
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Just a genre of metal. One of the darker ones.
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This is an all time great joke:
How do you get a guitar player to stop noodling?
Stick a piece of sheet music in front of them.
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The pithy and short extreme metal genre identification guide is if you’re listening to a song with double kick drum and distorted guitars and it sounds like they hired Peter Jackson’s Nazgul to sing, that’s probably black metal.
If you’re listening to a song with double kick drum and distorted guitars and it sounds like they hired cookie monster to sing, that’s probably death metal.
If you’re listening to a song with double kick drum and distorted guitars, they’re playing chord extensions like they’ve studied jazz, and it sounds like they hired cookie monster to sing, that’s probably technical death metal.
If the time signature keeps changing add progressive in front of the other descriptions above.
I’ve never consciously thought about that but I wonder if it’s a lot of why black is my least favorite subgenre of metal.
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For me it’s dodging the (literal) nazis that makes it problematic.
On the other hand, blackgaze is probably my second favorite metal genre, behind (of course) industrial.
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