cytania Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 Tough gig for Willie Nelson's bassist Bee Spears, for first half of the set the sound just wasn't gelling. Him and the drummer kept looking for time queues as Willie quickly lurched between one old hit and the next. Mister Spears was manfully keeping the beat up as the drummer appeared only to have a snare and some brushes. Also Bee Spears was playing a Gibson Les Paul type bass which had a very trebly sound, sorta country but really up with the guitar end of things. I bet he was wishing for his old Epiphone or a Fender or anything with more umph. Maybe the stage sound was bad, maybe it's having a legend as a bandleader who doesn't pay much attention to what's going on behind him but the sidesmen kept slugging away and eventually things came together. Epic bass endurance. Did it appear better to anyone actually there, wasn't great on the TV for me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crez5150 Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 It was an Epiphone.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanto Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 [quote name='cytania' post='878002' date='Jun 26 2010, 10:31 AM']Tough gig for Willie Nelson's bassist Bee Spears, for first half of the set the sound just wasn't gelling. Him and the drummer kept looking for time queues as Willie quickly lurched between one old hit and the next. Mister Spears was manfully keeping the beat up as the drummer appeared only to have a snare and some brushes. Also Bee Spears was playing a Gibson Les Paul type bass which had a very trebly sound, sorta country but really up with the guitar end of things. I bet he was wishing for his old Epiphone or a Fender or anything with more umph. Maybe the stage sound was bad, maybe it's having a legend as a bandleader who doesn't pay much attention to what's going on behind him but the sidesmen kept slugging away and eventually things came together. Epic bass endurance. Did it appear better to anyone actually there, wasn't great on the TV for me...[/quote] I agree.Willie made it hard for everybody as his timing was not the best all the way through.The whole thing was a bit lacking in oomph and messy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apex Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 [quote name='yanto' post='878136' date='Jun 26 2010, 01:48 PM']I agree.Willie made it hard for everybody as his timing was not the best all the way through.The whole thing was a bit lacking in oomph and messy[/quote] Not just the Willie Nelson set though - quite a few of the sets seemed to suffer poor sound balance on TV, mostly lacking vocals and bass at the expense of guitars and kb. Florence and the Machine were quite badly affected, and later on Mumford(?) and Sons had solid vocals but the guy with the double bass was working for nothing as far as TV was concerned. Hope it's better tonight... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lifer Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 I saw a bit of Mumford(? also) and Sons and thought they wasted the number of vocals they had, could have had some massive harmonies going on. Like: (30 secs) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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