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Got a call through friends of friends for a couple of functions in a localish well established cover band. Got the list today and they do a handful of 50's R&Rollers....Elvis, Chuck, Buddy etc. Just seems funny going through them in this world of instant pop music, X Factor, Beyonce et al. I haven't played this stuff in literally decades and when i did it seemed old back in the 70's. Just wondering what the vibe is doing this stuff...its almost joke music isn't it? Oh and by the way is Johnny B Good 16ths or four time with ghost notes...see Im taking it real serious...ha

[quote name='acidbass' timestamp='1488375508' post='3248367'] Jamerson Impeccable groove, placement and sense of melody in his playing. [/quote] +++1 I like a lot of players but Jamersons ability from counter melody to ghost notes is almost genius...hell, maybe he was a genius.

My brand new tran wine P bass in 1978 for no other reason than the smell of it in its new case.. I can still remember it and new basses today do not have that same lush whiff to them.

[quote name='casapete' timestamp='1487063810' post='3236596'] Didn't know that was him, wow. [/quote] ....and here's another interesting Jamerson tidbit....his last chart tune was on Marylin McCoos 'You Dont Have To Be A Star' which is full of lovely little Jamerson motifs

My Daddario chromes which are getting a bit raggy up the tuner end are around 15 yrs old......sound great, smooth and round. I guess one persons dull and dead is anothers smooth and round....it really is all in the fingers I think.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1486627940' post='3233292'] I find getting an on-stage sound that is just a tad more middy/trebly than I like to hear translates out front as a good defined sound. get a warm rich sound on stage and out front = mush. [/quote] This +++++1

Struth where to start. For me its all about 70,s analogue and damn good old skool studio playing. ie Sheena Eastons Modern Girl, good precise bass playing by goodness knows who and clean production. Andy Gibbs Everlasting Love....Maurice Gibbs superbly accurate playing on this one Stevie Wonders Isnt She Lovely etc etc....I could go on. Cheese in spades....but all great tunes.

They are absolutely fantastic instruments and way superior to any of the USA models. I had one but sadly I just don't like Jazzes. If only they had done a late 60's P bass the same way...now that I would have been all over. Just saying, but if you measure it up you'll find all the body and neck dimensions are thinner than the top range USA basses. I think that's why they feel soooo good.

umm...isn't it all in the fingers anyway?

Actually I think your E sounds not too bad...but most flat wound E's never really seem to have the ooomph of the other three..

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1485522664' post='3224598'] Slap reviews - all flash, no smash. [/quote] Yep. A quick slap line portrays a kind of cleverness and brilliance in a very short space of time which is nigh on impossible to do played finger style/pick style.

I remember saying what he said many moons ago, but in the end we all end up liking jazz to some degree...he'll come round.

A few years ago I saw him playing in a modern jazz trio at a local outdoor do. That bass may be the stuff of argument and legend but it didn't stop him playing it in the pouring rain. Right on Mr F....

Just listening to the two guitar intro rythmn on Backwater off the Quo album...the interplay between the two of them, one doing upstrokes the other doing 12 bar, amazing seperation..chills.

Grew up with them...even tried to look like him as a teen (blonde hair denim etc)....then Bowie too, and last night my old dad was rushed into hospital....what a strange year indeed. Struth.

Sorry bout the feathering ruffling peeps. My point was that I just love it when Keef waxes lyrical bout the real old time blues, and he always does it holding a guitar and slide tube To me it really does seem that that's what he would somehow someday like to do...who knows it may even happen.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1482187407' post='3198377'] I never understand this point of view. It seems a very British thing to hate success and deride those people that are really very good at what they do. [/quote] Its ok, I was groovin to the guys back in the sixties. But this album is a crummy rehash which will hoodwink the uninitiated into thinking its the real deal. Id imagine practically zero effort was put into making this album.The boys were "successful" long before the idea of a blues album was even thought of. And as Ive already said if they wanted to go out with a real bang they should have done something completely different and authentic.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1482147493' post='3197952'] Wish I could be so dissapointing [/quote] But they've already made billions...its hideous.

Agree with most of the above, some very nice stuff going on etc but, and sorry if I'm doing the worn out record again but for me its Jamerson on nearly everything he ever did. If ever a bass player understood the importance of note placement and emphasis then he's the man for me, guy had an almost a freaky sense of musical understanding and I now find myself literally studying his stuff in minute detail......profound.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1481963794' post='3196540'] I must have listened to this clip a thousand times, and it never gets boring. Firstly because I love funky gospel and secondly there is always a nuance in his playing that I didn't hear before. His bass playing has so many dynamics, you can get and learn so much from it. What I really love just like Pino, there is not one bit of slap bass. Not against it but it shows how amazing bass playing can be without it. it's just off the wall groove playing. And that famous fill at 2.05 minutes. Just a wow peice of bass playing. It's this and Willie Weeks on Donny Hathaways Little Ghetto Boy. What's your favourite.? [media]http://youtu.be/pATcvr3zAhg[/media] [/quote] Atheist here but boy that tune sounds good. Thats the most musical bit of overplaying I think Ive ever heard, incredible chops..damn he makes it look easy.

[quote name='Buzzy' timestamp='1482115234' post='3197776'] I like it, bearing in mind the age of the band it's like they decided as its probably the last album they would come full circle and returned to where they started. [/quote] Died in the wool Stones fan here but this is kind of what I'm saying Richards will talk endlessly bout real old time blues, 'Blind Lemon Jefferson' and all that, that's why I cannot understand why they didn't go the full hog and go out for the last time with some real authenticity. Instead they've put out an album that will simply sell to the millions and make more millions....hugely dissapointing.

Over produced, over compressed and bland as hell. After all these years, the money and all those albums they should have got together on a portch somewhere in the deep south of the USA with birds and neighbours clattering in the background and done a live outdoor acoustic/recording with slide....boy it would have been so refreshing, would have been amazing..imagine it.