RIP Mani

[attackbass]

I got into playing bass around the same time of discovering The Stone Roses, aged about 10/11 - I think the Stone Roses were just coming to and end and I bought everything CD single, album and bootleg I could find. 

 

Iconic bass lines, that weren't too hard to get a handle on and then discovering the grooves on the Second Coming - the bass line to Love Spreads... awe inspiring. Absolutely still love that to this day. 

 

Definitely a huge influence on me at a young age, and a bass player that had parts that worked inside the song and as hooks you could sing back. Absolutely gutted.

[godathunder]

Shit, what a loss.

 

Much as I already loved the roses it was his filth on vanishing point that completely sold me on him. That said, the only time I saw him with primal scream was a bit of a tepid affair

 

I saw him with the roses in dublin a few years back though and it was an absolute belter. It was really cool to hear the crowd singing all his bass lines back at him. As an added bonus, the bass and guitar seemed to be panned in the mix and we were on the bass side so mostly got mani and reni

 

 

[upside downer]

I'm going to my music room now to plug in a bass and play along to I Am the Resurrection. It seems like the right thing to do.

 

Ta-ra, Mani. Thanks.

[Mickyk]

63 yo This is a great loss to the music world and to all Bass players out there .Rest in peace dude you really Rocked that Ricky.

 

[miles'tone]

After years of never giving up on the Roses getting back together, I'm so grateful he had this moment. The first time they took to the stage again, unified. A free gig they threw at Warrington Parr Hall. Gives me goosebumps every time. 

 

Edited 13 hours ago by miles'tone

[Maude]

2 hours ago, Dankology said:

 

Just over two years ago the whole family was in the room next to me celebrating my in-laws' 50th wedding anniversary - now Imelda, Mani and Imelda's mum are all gone. It's really sad here tonight.

 

I feel so sorry for his children. How terrible to lose a nan and both parents so early in life. 

[Beedster]

RIP Mani, not many bassists make the front pages when they pass, says something about just how much you influenced music and culture 🙏

[Skybone]

RIP Mani

[neepheid]

I never met Mani, but he always seemed like a sound bloke, and a great player.  The only Mani related story I can think of is that during soundcheck for a gig, I was idly playing the intro to "I Wanna Be Adored".  I didn't know it at the time, was just working it out from memory.  Well, some drunk guy hears me and goes "YAAAAAAAAAS!  STONE ROSES!" and I'm like "F***, I don't know the whole song!"  Thankfully he was too drunk to remember and the request I was bracing myself for never materialised, phew!

 

[pst62]

He was great solid player, preferred him with Primal Scream.... another sad loss indeed! 

[Velarian]

 

[Stu-khag]

Quite shocked to hear the news. I saw the ads for his tour this week  plus listened to the rockonteurs pod the other week where he sounded great.

The Stone roses totally passed me by as I was too young but I remember hearing I wanna be adored for the first time in May 98 aged 16. (I know this as I was off to see the super furries for my first ever gig). My mate put it on the cd player in his bedroom and it just blew me away. He died a few years later so I always associate him with this album. Mani's sound and feel have always been a major influence. Always disliked Primal scream (again probably too young) but the first time I heard kill all hippies on the uni jukebox and when the bass kicks in around 1 min 36 I was converted. I dont know if its him playing that line on the record or if it was a sample ( I was intending on going to the tour and asking)  but it just grooves and just brilliant. 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Stu-khag

[miles'tone]

3 hours ago, Stu-khag said:

Quite shocked to hear the news. I saw the ads for his tour this week  plus listened to the rockonteurs pod the other week where he sounded great.

The Stone roses totally passed me by as I was too young but I remember hearing I wanna be adored for the first time in May 98 aged 16. (I know this as I was off to see the super furries for my first ever gig). My mate put it on the cd player in his bedroom and it just blew me away. He died a few years later so I always associate him with this album. Mani's sound and feel have always been a major influence. Always disliked Primal scream (again probably too young) but the first time I heard kill all hippies on the uni jukebox and when the bass kicks in around 1 min 36 I was converted. I dont know if its him playing that line on the record or if it was a sample ( I was intending on going to the tour and asking)  but it just grooves and just brilliant. 

 

Yes that line is all Mani 👌

[miles'tone]

One of my favourite Primal Scream Mani tracks is Exterminator, a filthy train of thought groove full of feels and swagger that is the man himself personified:

 

Also, a shout out for one of the lesser championed Roses songs, How Do You Sleep. Mani's bass on this one always makes me smile. So fluid, so freakin cool!:

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