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    What’s this bass then?

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    Caught ToTP from 1980 (I think). Some group called The Dooleys… never heard them before, but was distracted trying to ID the bass. Never seen anything like it, but I’m sure someone will be along shortly to reveal all about the bass, the bass player, and The Dooleys!

     

     

    Abba bass lines

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    On 23/02/2019 at 14:51, YouMa said:

    Most of the bass lines are doubled with synth. I had a good book on them about recording at polar studios. Benny was a synth wizard.

     

    I think this was probably on later tracks, 1978/9 onwards. Super Trouper (the chorus), Does Your Mother Know and Gimme, Gimme, Gimme spring to mind. 

    Help me out - who should I listen to??

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    4 hours ago, EBS_freak said:

    Rutger. He’s quite possibly the best unknown but in the open bassplayer out there. If he was American or British, he probably would have been more of household name! Love his stuff.

    Mike Watson, who played on Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Mama Mia, The Winner Takes It All, and Super Trooper,  and a few others, is British. Very much a unknown too - even more than Rutger!

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    Bass tone - Cool for Cats, Squeeze

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    This came on the wireless today and for the first time I really had a proper listen to the bass, and specifically the tone in the verses. A bit tricky to separate the bass and keys, but it sounds like a thick, chewy chorus effect on the bass to me? Any ideas? Anyway, whatever it is, it sounds good!
     

     

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    The Blues Brothers

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    This was really big at my school in the mid 80s, with the 6th formers putting on a show and then hiring out the theatre in the town for a short run. I was a bit young but sort of absorbed it via osmosis through my older sister.

    Anyway, I rediscovered it at my daughter’s Xmas show where they danced to Shake Your Tail Feather (something to do with turkeys I think) My ears pricked up at the lovely bass work, and I’ve been listening to it again and I’m loving Duck Dunn’s lines!

     

    Ended up ordering Aidan Hampton’s excellent transcription of the sound track: https://playbasslines.sellfy.store/embed/checkout/product/xxknxj/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fplaybasslines.sellfy.store%2Fembed%2Fcategory%2Febooks%2F%3Fpage%3D2

     

    Anyone luck enough to have played this in a show? Some great stuff here 👇

     

     

     

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    Instrumentals

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    55 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

    here's quite an obvious one everyone of a certain age seems to've missed😉

    I was about seven when it came out and I think it may be the very first tune I ever liked, 

     

     


    I hear this and have visions of the BBC Holiday program with Cliff Michelmore and his combover. (And the gratuitous boobs shot in the opening titles!)

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