DolganoFF Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 I like what Christian McBide is doing on an electric fretless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philw Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Nobody's mentioned Eberhard Weber. Double bass, well, electric upright, rather than conventional electric bass, but still a unique fretless bass player. He can be heard on a few Kate Bush tracks (try Houdini off The Dreaming), but his solo albums (Later That Evening is probably the best) and work in the Jan Garbarek group on ECM are where his really interesting work is to be found. P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAdK90n5f4U Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Cloud Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 (edited) [quote name='philw' timestamp='1383942176' post='2271181'] Percy is the main reason I play bass. I got to Brand X via Genesis (Brand X was Phil Collins' entertainment during Genesis down-time) and I was so blown away by Percy's playing I decided there and then I was going to learn to play bass. That was maybe 1980. I had a Wal by 1983. White Cloud is spot on: the Masques album is brilliant, and it's peppered with the most innovative, unique, and sublime fretless playing. It's required listening I'd say for anybody who wants to play fretless. P [/quote] Sir...I like the cut of your jib! Edited November 8, 2013 by White Cloud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bh2 Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Yes... love the opening track on Unorthodox behaviour... super! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visog Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 [quote name='White Cloud' timestamp='1383908529' post='2270599'] Here is a great example of Percy Jones. It saddens me that a British bassist recorded this before Jaco's breakthrough on the Weather Report album "Heavy Weather" - yet went almost unnoticed. Its maybe a reasonable assumption that if Jaco had recorded this it would have been lauded as earth shattering. I think Percy is totally underrated and almost ignored by the main stream bass press in the UK. [media]http://youtu.be/ZQYkBwfzHAc[/media] [/quote] +1... agree with the sentiment but I think Jaco's breakthrough year was '76 and this is '78. Masques is a favourite of mine too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visog Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 [quote name='bh2' timestamp='1383748793' post='2268515'] Take a listen to this... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiE0GkVTWKo[/media] Inspired me to defret my 62 Jazz, although I have been playing fretless on and off since the early eighties, I was about to give up playing alltogether, then I found this album! RIP Mick... Thanks for the gong link... I've just rediscovered Mike Howlett from another thread. Not fretless though. [/quote] Good heavens! That's good.... MK rules! (That's Mick Karn in this case...) The drums are great too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bh2 Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 (edited) Yes... drums are great throughout... some crazy japanese guy! It's my favourite MK album. Edited November 9, 2013 by bh2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Cloud Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 [quote name='visog' timestamp='1383949727' post='2271294'] +1... agree with the sentiment but I think Jaco's breakthrough year was '76 and this is '78. Masques is a favourite of mine too... [/quote] My mistake, but consider this...it makes Percy's playing all the more impressive. A fretless player that can sound so unlike Jaco in the slip stream of his blaze of glory.is quite a feat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass-Driver Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 Pino, Mick Karn, John Giblin. These three. A huge inspiration, especially MK in his Japan years. Absolutely unique playing. Unmistakable and irreplaceable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambient Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 Listen to some horn players and vocalists too. Gotta say there are some players mentioned here who I didn't realise played fretless, Jimmy Haslip for instance, I'll have to check that out out 'cos I love his fretted playing. Has anyone mentioned Kai Ekhardt [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7w8njCYZ9s&list=RDdk4MAHAMYOw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7w8njCYZ9s&list=RDdk4MAHAMYOw[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leen2112 Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 Former Cynic bassist Sean Malone is pretty different, ranging from Fusion metal or plain weird. Also there was a thread a while ago about fretless in rock music, One of my favourite albums is from a band called Ark bassist Randy Covan plays a lot of it on Fretless and its great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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