musicbassman

Bass players, eh ?

Sort out the leads

Sort out the diary

Set up the PA

Drive the van

Know where they're going

.....lets face it, we're bl**dy brilliant  !   😁👍

The Young Once.........

1 hour ago, TimR said:

Unless your post is tongue in cheek. 

Tim, my tongue was so firmly wedged in my cheek that I might take several days to recover 

54 minutes ago, BreadBin said:

Wasn't that by Suggs?

No, Cecilia was from Simon and Artfunkel's album Bridge of Sighs.

You know, the one where the bass fill is played forwards and then backwards.

Or maybe I'm getting confused............... too easy, these days.

In case you haven't seen this, this is from Clarky's status update - interesting replies.

Ooooh! - here's the isolated bass for Primus - Jerry was a Race Car Driver............. Les Claypool was on some different planet, surely.......😲

Really, really worth a listen if you're not familiar with this.

Their presentation is more than a bit annoying at times - it's really not that funny guys - but the content is interesting enough.

Seemed like they were going to slag the song off at the beginning, but then went on to discuss just how clever it was - but i expect that was the production plan all along so as to get those clicks and eyeballs ............

There's also this........ more brass, more funk, more bass solo, more Cory, you get the idea.

1 hour ago, bass_dinger said:

I think that I need to get out before my sanity suffers! 

No !!  You can't do that - we're all waiting with bated breath for the next instalment.........

(Cue Archers music - rumpy pumpy diddly doo, rumpy pumpy doo dah.............etc)

It all sounds very British and deliciously bonkers......

Must admit, maybe I'm a bit jealous - seems like you'll have some great after dinner stories to tell from this experience.  😁

Not usually a massive fan of Dirty Loops - their sound is too over produced for my taste - but here they get together with Cory Wong (usually with Vulfpeck) and knock 'Thriller' into a previously unknown dimension.       Enjoy.  🙂

Jeeez! - OK, doesn't sound particularly remarkable by modern standards, but it's 1969 and he's 18 years old.

His phrasing and style was so way ahead of the general game at that time, a pointer to the future.

11 hours ago, ambient said:

previously she had Tony Grey on bass, and David Fiuczynski on guitar.

- I think she was at her best with that line up - I've never understood why she dropped it in favour of Jackson on bass, Simon Philips on drums and no guitarist.

'The Fuse' on guitar gave the band an element of spontaneity which I think the later line up lacked.  😏

Other opinions are available !

Is this reply to the Morrissey wannabe the work of a BCer ???

If so, you've summed it up beautifully.   😁👍

I think this is from the same place..........

11 minutes ago, yorks5stringer said:

If it's covers I'll learn the song/changes 90% ready for the next rehearsal and expect everyone else to be on that same page. If I have to start to explain the  chords, or where the choruses/solos are played I know I'm going to be doing the heavy lifting and it does not suit me. I'm all for making the song one's own or doing an arrangement but if others have not even bothered to do their homework, then I'm off.

I could have written this myself, my friend.

I've been there so many times with bands over the years I know exactly where you're at !  😏

6 hours ago, AxelF said:

In the futile attempt to describe sounds with words, to my ears it sounds deep and fat, yet articulate and punchy - exactly what I'm after!

Errr..........yes -so that'll be you and me, and, oh, maybe about 99% of other BCers !  🙂

I feel for you mate, these things happen to us all.

Finding the right people to play in a band is always the No 1 issue.

In my experience, potential musos for semi pro bands are likely to fall into 4 categories:

A. Bl**dy good – and they know it. Likely to disappear at a moments notice if they get a sniff of something better.

B. Good, but 'mature' -and they stopped listening to music around 1980 and haven’t progressed since.

C. Good, but completely flaky and unreliable – chances of them turning up at a gig (a) on the correct day (b) with all their gear in working order and (c) having learnt all the material = zero

D. Absolutely tone deaf apart from one or two show-off party pieces they always trot out.

I hope you manage to find better. 🙂

If someone asks you what 'digging in' means, just show them the fingerstyle playing on this.  ❤️

Whole bunch of lawsuits here.......

Still, they can afford it.

Their arrangement of Midnight at the Oasis was sublime -a really essential cover to learn for any aspiring bass player 🙂

8 hours ago, ambient said:

I can in all honesty say I’ve never heard of them.

I think you'll find them in the next file along from "Americans who didn't realise that Spinal Tap were a parody band"

Thanks for this Binky, absolutely excellent - creative, tongue in cheek, super clever. 👍

The track Moon and Moron is pure Cardiacs !

Just have a look at the on screen lyrics in this video for the opening track - it doesn't get better than this !  😁

1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Because it is an old track it is quite muffled in the mix:everlasting-bass.mp3

Russ Stableford was the session bass player used for Everlasting Love. There was a big fuss made by the tabloid media at the time when it was revealed that none of the band had actually played on the record, it was all session players. Well, who would have thought ?  😏

I played with Love Affair for a while in the mid '70's, (I think I was their 13th bass player !) so I know that song backwards. Despite the appalling quality, the extracted bass line that Woodinblack has posted does sound like the original to me.  And this really is a song where muted pick playing is essential !