#miro would write 53rd and 3rd. just saying. no further comment on that in this moment

[starscelly]

“cel, you said you referenced dee dee ramone a lot for miro in the flying stars au just so you could make a joke about miro having a dee dee king era and recording shit like mash potato time. what from dee dee actually inspired stuff with miro!” i know you are all DYING to know (nobody asked). EVERYBODY is asking me this (not one person)

i suppose i can share the knowledge of miro’s bass playing style if i must. all coming from a non bass player so. peace and love grain of salt etc

there’s a couple of reasons i chose dee dee for miro’s reference. basically i’m gonna be talking about the: casual style. speed. stamina. and also drawing lengthy comparisons between skating style and bass playing below. beware.

the biggest factor was how fucking insanely low he held his bass? like i watched a lot of videos and sought out a lot of photos and am also just an avid ramones enjoyer lol . that shit was to his Knees. and that like casualness i guess of hanging ur bass ridiculously low felt miro esque to me?

and then i watched a video or two abt it and learned that he basically fucking did that so he could play faster because all the movements would then just be in his wrists?? speediness is very miro core!!! it fits so well. he would be the fastest bass player ever while not only maintaining a casual stance, but having this style be like How he is so speedy.

this from my basic understanding is also rlly similar to how his skating style works!! i’m not an expert and people have written longer better explanations of this (this blog is rlly helpful with stuff like this. shoutout) but. some guys you watch skate and they look like they’re moving a lot and working hard and they are. getting nowhere. smthn smthn u lose speed the more u lift ur foot and push down and if u don’t have the push off speed down similar to like. what mcdavid does . it’s not gonna work for u. its all explained really well in that post and others of theirs idk. i’m not a professional

miro as a skater is particularly Phenomenal at speed when gliding along (he is good with like speed straight off the push off but a lot of my favorite shit to watch is him not lifting a foot once and maintaining insane speed) looking like he’s floating down the ice. ALL OF THIS TO SAY LMAO. him gaining/maintaining speed in long strides rather than lifting his skates a lot and almost looking like he’s running on ice feels. fundamentally. similar to dee dee hanging his bass low so he can have the repetitive fast wrist movements to maintain rather than trying to move his whole forearm at that speed.

and obviously this style of playing doesn’t just automatically make playing bass at that speed easy as hell. you need INSANE amounts of stamina even with how short ramones songs are. i know this because dee dee’s successor - cj ramone - said himself he could not do what dee dee did! even when hanging his bass the same way the stamina is insane and unique. and miro and stamina go hand in hand baby!!! not to glorify it because it’s horrific but we all know the absurd amount of minutes he’s able to play.

but yeah!!! those are the main reasons why dee dee felt like the right inspiration to choose for miro.

stream too tough to die and brain drain and pleasant dreams and all the other ramones albums and also all the imaginary flying stars albums xoxo