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Post by Kapitan on Jul 18, 2020 21:11:05 GMT
(no treble)
The Joe Satriani clip I shared in the instrumental thread had me thinking about Stu Hamm's brilliance. Which made me think we needed a bass-focused thread. (If we already have one, whoops.) I wanted to share this, his solo bass version of Zeppelin's "Going to California."
And how about his take on Moonlight Sonata?
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Post by jk on Jul 18, 2020 22:08:58 GMT
Thanks for resurrecting this old PSF topic, Cap'n. Not that I need an excuse to post this sublime outing by Jeff Beck featuring the extraordinary Tal Wilkenfeld on bass:
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Post by jk on Jul 20, 2020 19:40:30 GMT
There doesn't seem to be a disco topic here, which gives me free rein to link these two bass-heavy disco classics here. First, "Ready" Freddie Washington knocks out one heck of a groove on Patrice Rushen's "Forget Me Nots" (1982):
And then there's "I Shoulda Loved Ya" sung by ace drummer Narada Michael Walden (saw him with Mahavishnu in '75), with T.M. Stevens strutting his stupendous low-end stuff:
I dedicate both of these to someone I was extremely close to a couple of years back.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 20, 2020 20:00:31 GMT
That second one is really good. What's more, you've just brought us right back to ... Steve Vai. T.M. Stevens played bass in his short-lived 1993 band, Vai. Here they are on Jay Leno's show (with a somewhat, uh, unorthodox 21-year-old Devin Townsend singing). The album's drummer was Terry Bozzio, but I can't tell whether he's at this gig. As is Vai's wont with his (few) appearances on these shows, he charts it all out so the house band can participate. Naturally.
(Sadly not a tune that really highlights Stevens. Actually the whole album is somewhat unkind to him, burying his parts beneath layers of guitars and other sound.)
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Post by jk on Jul 21, 2020 19:43:49 GMT
One of the most original pop/rock bassists in the UK in the late '60s, early '70s in my view was Free's Andy Fraser. Although the studio take is definitive, here he is in a live version of what to me is Free's finest outing, "Mr. Big": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Fraser
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Post by B.E. on Jul 21, 2020 23:19:55 GMT
Strong performance all-around. I was waiting quite a while for some variation from the bassist - the patience paid off when they essentially transitioned from a guitar solo to a bass solo. Nicely done. Andy wasn't using a pick, which is my preference. He was also wise to fatten the sound, considering their setup and style, by plucking two or three strings simultaneously. He sure dug climbing the neck in this song!
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 22, 2020 0:13:22 GMT
jk mentions the song "Mr Big," which means I have to follow that reference to the band Mr Big and its brilliant bassist, Billy Sheehan. Here is a solo and song from San Francisco, 1992. Every bit the showman you'd expect considering he'd won the gig with David Lee Roth a few years prior, but his virtuosity is unquestionable. And that he manages tapping, harmonics, pinch harmonics, bends, etc., all on the bass with such ease is pretty amazing.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 29, 2020 2:43:27 GMT
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Post by jk on Aug 28, 2020 10:22:52 GMT
Frank Zappa could pick 'em. Here are bassists Arthur Barrow and Patrick O'Hearn rocking out during an extended "Village of The Sun" outro in Passaic, NJ on 13 October 1978:
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 29, 2020 13:36:03 GMT
One of my favorite bassists is Jean-Jacques Burnel of The Stranglers:
Jean-Jacques Burnel names his five favorite bass albums:
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Post by jk on Aug 29, 2020 19:05:55 GMT
One of my favorite bassists is Jean-Jacque Burnel of The Stranglers: I love his work on their Doorsian take on "Walk On By". Sheer heaven!
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 29, 2020 22:49:41 GMT
, the late Dave Greenfield. Dave's keyboard work on this track - and sevral other Strangers' tracks - One of my favorite bassists is Jean-Jacque Burnel of The Stranglers: I love his work on their Doorsian take on "Walk On By". Sheer heaven! Jean-Jacques is great on "Walk On By", as is the keyboardist, the late Dave Greenfield. Dave's keyboard work on this track - and several other Stranglers' tracks - would've made Ray Manzarek proud.
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Post by jk on Sept 10, 2020 21:42:51 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 10, 2020 22:44:44 GMT
He is great. And he later associated with someone those on the board know well.
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Post by jk on Oct 2, 2020 14:26:57 GMT
Tracy Pew of The Birthday Party was in a field of one. His bass lines are incredibly tight and incredibly nasty. Actually, he was a highly cultured man who studied literature and philosophy after TBP broke up. And then dead at 28 -- ye gods. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Pew
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