Conan Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 But what a nice, interesting bass part this track has! Gets going at around 2:35: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myLNa0dFMPo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myLNa0dFMPo[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevB Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 I think there are lots of underrated basslines in WA material and often it's not easy (for me at least) to pick it out by ear. I'd love a really good set of transcriptions for their classics. Apparently Martin Turner was going to do a book of them at one point but it never happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Great album . Well produced. You could hear the bass well in the day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhysP Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 One of my all-time favourite play-along albums (when I used to do such things). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Posted January 7, 2014 Author Share Posted January 7, 2014 [quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1389048780' post='2329428'] One of my all-time favourite play-along albums (when I used to do such things). [/quote] I still do on occasion... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Valdemar Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 [quote name='Conan' timestamp='1389025560' post='2328963'] But what a nice, interesting bass part this track has! Gets going at around 2:35: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myLNa0dFMPo[/media] [/quote] It's trickier than it sounds! Awesome tone. I love early WA, the Martin Turner version doing the rounds are damn good too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Posted January 7, 2014 Author Share Posted January 7, 2014 [quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1389099772' post='2329838'] Awesome tone.[/quote] Isn't it? What was he playing in the early seventies? I've seen him with T-birds and Rics, but this track sounds like a P bass to my ears... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveK Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 [quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1389099772' post='2329838'] It's trickier than it sounds! Awesome tone. I love early WA, [b]the Martin Turner version doing the rounds are damn good too[/b]. [/quote] Indeed they are, and with Tim the new drummer they sound invigorated. Played with MT's Wishbone so many times that they've become "on the road" buddies. They are the funniest guys to have a post gig drink with. Inevitably during the course of the early hours Ray and Danny will produce their ukes and kazoos and a jolly good if not 'surreal' singsong will ensue. Oh, and Argus... great album! Think it won an NME or Melody Maker poll for best produced album of 197? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Cloud Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Yes totally agree...brilliant recording, brilliant bass tone and brilliant bass playing. A real piece of classic British rock. I'm not certain but I always believed that Martin played his Gibby T bird through an Ampeg SVT on Argus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cellario Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 It is a brilliant melodic line isn't it? Saw them a couple of times back in their day....always had a fantastic live sound with a back-line wall of Orange amps and cabs. Underrated bass player I always think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Valdemar Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 [quote name='Conan' timestamp='1389100967' post='2329862'] Isn't it? What was he playing in the early seventies? I've seen him with T-birds and Rics, but this track sounds like a P bass to my ears... [/quote] Well... To my ears, this is the classic Thunderbird front pickup tone through and through. MT has a very similar tone these days (although not quite as gritty) when he plays his Thunderbird. However, in his autobiography, MT insists he used his Rickenbacker 4001 to record Argus, even pointing out how people assume it's the thunderbird because it was pictured in the album sleeve. MT'sWA recently re-recorded Argus and he played the Rick again - I haven't heard it myself but I can't believe the original Argus is a Rick. There are plenty of Youtube clips of MT playing his Rick and it doesn't sound like Argus at all. Now, Pilgrimage - [i]that[/i] sounds like a Rick! The debut album was recorded before MT owned a proper bass so he played a rented Fender Jazz with flats. He didn't think much of the sound... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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