Old Man Riva

The Small Faces and The Faces were fabulous bands, but the latter wouldn’t have existed if Steve Marriott hadn’t walked away from the former … 

Willie Weeks, from around 8 mins …

Listening to the demos just reinforces what a fabulous rhythm guitar player he is. 

His feel and groove are superb … 

Possibly sacrilege to some, but I love this …

On 27/06/2023 at 13:50, Crusoe said:

From the John Peel Session in 1977 - at 1:43:55

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001mzmh

Hadn’t realised it was a Peel session. I first heard it on Alan Freeman’s Saturday afternoon show and always assumed it was from that.

 I taped the show and listened to it loads as it had a Bowie track on (can’t remember which one) and also Phil Manzanera’s 801 doing Remote Control.

Good times! 

Just watched the Louis Cole set. Blimey, what a band!
 

Tomorrow I dare say I shall be watching it again … 

40 minutes ago, oldslapper said:

It was quite emotional watching EJ with Ray, Davey and Nigel on stage. I so would have loved Dee Murray to have been there, my first bass hero. 
 

As stated on here already, Matt Bissonette’s playing was fabulous last night but he stays pretty faithful to Dee Murray’s lines, only reinforcing what a wonderful and talented player Dee was… 

Just your average 1970s kid’s TV music! From Sesame Street, the abridged version of the Pointer Sisters Pinball Number Count …

Great, isn’t it! There are so many highlights, but at the moment I’m really digging the bit at 17mins 50secs where Rob Mullarkey shows some truly wonderful use of the Digitech Whammy pedal. He’s such an innovative player.

Also think that the unsung hero of the piece is Ian Allison, whose excellent questions really draw out the best responses/playing from the players…

If you’re a fan of Rob Mullarkey, Richard Spaven, J Dilla, D’Angelo, stretching time, different time signatures, or simply want to watch a fabulous rhythm section right on top of their game explain how they go about things, then this is well worth a watch…

1 hour ago, Waddo Soqable said:

If you're coming from being a finger player I guess the fingers are generally doing up strokes by their very nature so it'd make sense.

I've always been mainly a pick player so that's not why I evolved preferring up strokes. I've ever analysed any of this either but interesting anyway, I wonder how many others out there are upstroke - centric? 

Les Pattinson of Echo & the Bunnymen was an upstroke player, and a fine one at that.

One of Flea’s favourite bass players, apparently… 

12 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

How low do you wear your bass? I always adjust my straps (Mostly leathergraft suede comfy ones) to the longest they’ll go for the classic ‘cover your nuts’ look.

 

An additional benefit of this is that the bass gives you cover if your flies come undone - as happened to Pete Way here:

 

 

This is one of my favourite Pete pics…

As well as featuring a typically wonderful Les Pattinson bass line it is arguably the finest song to mention collective greengrocer stock there’s been…

29 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

 

Probably important to the turtle...

Aye, it appears history has tortoise nothing... 

Hopefully this adds rather than derails!

Here’s an excellent appreciation of Chuck R … 

That’s great! There’s an interview Chuck Rainey has done recently with Rick Beato where they discuss (amongst other things) Kid Charlemagne. Rick Beato has the guitar included when they’re listening through to the bass and drums, which blends everything together perfectly.

Chuck Rainey says it was all done in one take! 

Wilton Felder’s bass line on Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow by Joni Mitchell is lovely to play.

Cool, groovy, slinky and perfect. There’s also a little motif/phrase up towards the dusty end that is great fun.

This popped up a few days ago. Never really seen proper full concert footage of this era before…

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

 

The whole thing is brilliant and disturbing in equal measure! It’s Pete Way before Pete Way… 

1 hour ago, Rayman said:

He’s exactly who I had in mind…. SO cool to see a Thunderbird in that scenario.

I must admit I was surprised when I first saw him using the Thunderbird, but it sounds and looks great.

His mid-70s heavily modded Jazz was in a Cov music shop a while back - the one he used in General Public. Pretty much all of the hardware had been replaced by brass versions (even the pickguard). It sounded great, was lovely to play, but needless to say it weighed a ton!

If it’s good enough for Sir Horace Gentleman…

… watched it and it’s fabulous. Rick Beato is so good at getting people to open up, and Chuck Rainey is such a wonderful and interesting guy.

A lovely look at Chuck Rainey’s journey, along with some fascinating insights into being a (pro) musician and the trials and tribulations of the session scene…

… not had time to watch this yet but if it’s anything like Rick Beato’s usual interviews it’ll be well worth the watch.