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Post by Kapitan on Oct 2, 2020 17:25:52 GMT
I have to admit, I had never heard of him or that band, and I really don't care for it at all. That said, 28 is so young to die, a real shame.
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Post by jk on Oct 2, 2020 18:51:34 GMT
I have to admit, I had never heard of him or that band, and I really don't care for it at all. That said, 28 is so young to die, a real shame. Well okay, but you must have heard of their singer Nick Cave. Just to put you off them even more, here is a notorious live performance by the men on German TV in the early '80s:
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 2, 2020 18:55:03 GMT
Yes, I know (and dislike) Nick Cave.
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Post by jk on Oct 4, 2020 18:01:26 GMT
Yes, I know (and dislike) Nick Cave. Well let's move on then. My guitarist brother is now focusing more on the bass guitar. One of his heroes is Mark Egan, whom I know vaguely thanks to a musical colleague who's into all this kind of stuff and lent me a CD of A Touch of Light in the early '90s. This is the title track: www.discogs.com/Mark-Egan-A-Touch-Of-Light/release/2254568
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 5, 2020 22:23:50 GMT
I've got to post something from Thundercat, one of the great (and hard to categorize) bassists of our time. Here are two versions of the same thing: a live one so you can see the phenomenal playing; and the studio version so you can properly hear it.
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Post by jk on Oct 6, 2020 10:11:00 GMT
I've got to post something from Thundercat, one of the great (and hard to categorize) bassists of our time. Here are two versions of the same thing: a live one so you can see the phenomenal playing; and the studio version so you can properly hear it.
Most interesting, particularly the studio version! Thanks for that -- I'll pass it onto my brother. He in turn has given me a list of stuff to check out; I'll be posting examples of those in due course.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 7, 2020 20:32:29 GMT
I swear it's not just another chance to plug Cotton Mather. This little Motown-styled song has a bass part and performance I just love, nothing too flashy, right in the pocket, just inventive enough when it needs something nice, like a little walk or run, or some syncopation. I believe it was played by the late George Reiff, but I'm not sure.
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Post by jk on Oct 9, 2020 10:18:31 GMT
I swear it's not just another chance to plug Cotton Mather. This little Motown-styled song has a bass part and performance I just love, nothing too flashy, right in the pocket, just inventive enough when it needs something nice, like a little walk or run, or some syncopation. I believe it was played by the late George Reiff, but I'm not sure.
There's nothing online, at least I couldn't find anything conclusive... Lovely track and an interesting concept! Well no bass guitar thread should go without at least one mention of Jaco Pastorius. Here he is soloing with Weather Report on a live version (Offenbach, Germany, Sept. 29, 1978) of "Teen Town". A true bass god. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaco_Pastorius
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 9, 2020 12:01:57 GMT
I generally don't like Jaco's sound, but I think that's just the era: the late 70s in general, and especially in fusion, just had a certain sound that doesn't work for me. But the playing (both of the style in general and him specifically) was fantastic.
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Post by kds on Oct 9, 2020 12:06:11 GMT
Today would have been John Entwistle's 76th Birthday. Unfortunately, The Ox shuffled off into the great beyond in 2002.
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Post by jk on Oct 12, 2020 10:57:10 GMT
Today would have been John Entwistle's 76th Birthday. Unfortunately, The Ox shuffled off into the great beyond in 2002. Entwistle was responsible for the first bass solo of merit on a UK beat era 45. Some jaws that dropped at the time are still down there somewhere among the detritus...
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Post by jk on Oct 13, 2020 20:48:49 GMT
I generally don't like Jaco's sound, but I think that's just the era: the late 70s in general, and especially in fusion, just had a certain sound that doesn't work for me. But the playing (both of the style in general and him specifically) was fantastic. To each their own, of course. On Joni Mitchell's "Refuge Of The Roads", every note JP plays is perfectly placed. Talk about less is more! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hejira_(album)
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Post by kds on Oct 14, 2020 12:48:16 GMT
Today would have been John Entwistle's 76th Birthday. Unfortunately, The Ox shuffled off into the great beyond in 2002. Entwistle was responsible for the first bass solo of merit on a UK beat era 45. Some jaws that dropped at the time are still down there somewhere among the detritus... Over a half century later, that bass solo is still the gold standard IMO.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 15, 2020 12:47:27 GMT
Here's video of the aforementioned Thundercat talking about some of his favorite bass lines.
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Post by jk on Jan 4, 2021 9:00:53 GMT
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