Some Bass Appreciation
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Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:51 pmby Blueskies
Theres been a lot of talk here over time of lead guitar, drummers and even keyboards somewhat but bass players haven't been discussed all that much.
For those that dig Bass playing here is someone to start this with...
This is a series of studio sessions of legend Larry Graham playing funk to Phantom Of The Opera to any groove he chooses.
Fun stuff!
Larry Graham Funk ~ pt. 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pbhxB7cGbw
more funk ~ pt. 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ra0cremKF0
playing and discussing his equipment and his playing style ~ pt. 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSiACMzEKRM
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and I'll add some James Jamerson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCrO3iVWZE8
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Stanley Clarke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGuoYXJiBx0
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Bernard Edwards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7elX4Jb_gM
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John Entwistle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVl39LBZGMw
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Verdine White & Morris Pleasure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtcXZPgyu2o
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Marcus Miller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHdN_O5k3WM
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Jaco Pastorius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXOnhzoC-i8
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Bootsie Collins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qUfMiuvoLc
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Victor Wooten
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1egnmFLeVc
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Okay, thats enough selections from me......enjoy these, discuss and/or add some of your own.
Re: Some Bass Appreciation
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Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:10 pmby Hollywood
Larry Graham is a musical genius. Without him I don't think Sly would have the impact he had. Graham Central Station was just amazing.
I got the pleasure of seeing him live twice and it was a trancendent moment for me. It was almost out of body.
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:40 amby StoneCold
Doesn't the dawg rate? What up my dawg?
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:48 amby Jana
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:54 amby strangegrey
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:00 amby Jana
I think Jack Bruce and Paul McCartney
Excerpt of article on Jack Bruce and his playing:
“I was working in Italy on an American air base,” Bruce says, “and I got very friendly with a lot of the black guys there. And that was when I first heard [Charles] Mingus. I immediately realised that that was what I wanted to be: a bass player who composed. I knew that I wanted to write, but I hadn’t put the two things together. As soon as I heard him, that was it.”
It would, however, be a while before Bruce became established as a songwriter. Fans would contend, though, that he was writing all the time: on his bass.
The melodies Bruce magicked from his instrument have influenced generations of bass players. Informed not only by jazz but by “the whole contrapuntal thing in Schubert” and the Bach cello works he studied as a child – “That is nothing if not bass parts,” he says – Bruce soared beyond the instrument’s accepted limitations, sidestepping a song’s melody, subverting it, complementing it, in some cases simply launching his own subgenre within a three-minute song. He never, he says, regarded the bass as, for want of a better phrase, second fiddle, though many did. “There was this whole thing about playing the bass,” he says, “that was separate from anything else – a certain special aspect to it. It wasn’t to do with being seen as having a supporting role. Bass playing was an art apart from music. The pecking-order thing never really applied.”
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:13 amby StoneCold
Who can forget that screecher from the Great White North. He can pluck like nobody's business.
YYZ - Rush (LIVE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylSKD6Lus90
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:57 amby Arkansas
Ya know, I want to agree with Paul McCartney, but just can't. PM was more of an overall musical genius than a bass player. He's just known as a great bass player because The Beatles were so great. Without The Beatles, we may not know him as a bass player at all. In the band, he was a guitarist and then moved to bass simply because they needed one. He played piano and drums too.
Saw Chris Squire play an Amazing Grace solo on Yes' 90125 tour that was one of the most jaw-dropping performances I've ever seen.
later~
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:55 amby Hollywood
Arkansas wrote:Ya know, I want to agree with Paul McCartney, but just can't. PM was more of an overall musical genius than a bass player. He's just known as a great bass player because The Beatles were so great. Without The Beatles, we may not know him as a bass player at all. In the band, he was a guitarist and then moved to bass simply because they needed one. He played piano and drums too.
Saw Chris Squire play an Amazing Grace solo on Yes' 90125 tour that was one of the most jaw-dropping performances I've ever seen.
later~
Agreed that this is an amazing performance, but as I found out is that if you have a set a Taurus Bass Pedals, as Chris does, it is extremely easy to play. Getting Squire's feeling and sound is the trick. He has a melodic gift
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:42 amby stevew2
bass player are people that wernt good enough to play a six string guitar,Friga would ve made a good bass player, although most bass players are straight,, ahhh forget that
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:46 amby strangegrey
stevew2 wrote:bass player are people that wernt good enough to play a six string guitar,Friga would ve made a good bass player, although most bass players are straight,, ahhh forget that
Or for fucks sake, what an idiotic comment. There are plenty of bassists out there that are damn good guitarists in their own right...and have taken up the 4-stringed instrument because they have an honest attraction to it.
Go back to practicing sucking that chrome off of your man lover's trailer hitch.....
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:48 amby stevew2
strangegrey wrote:stevew2 wrote:bass player are people that wernt good enough to play a six string guitar,Friga would ve made a good bass player, although most bass players are straight,, ahhh forget that
Or for fucks sake, what an idiotic comment. There are plenty of bassists out there that are damn good guitarists in their own right...and have taken up the 4-stringed instrument because they have an honest attraction to it.
Go back to practicing sucking that chrome off of your man lover's trailer hitch.....
I bet you play the bona phone and the skin flute
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:01 amby Saint John
Speaking of bass players, I read somewhere that Neal laid down all of the bass lines for Revelation. That seems weird. Anyone ever hear of Neal playing bass?
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:09 amby Ehwmatt
Saint John wrote:Speaking of bass players, I read somewhere that Neal laid down all of the bass lines for Revelation. That seems weird. Anyone ever hear of Neal playing bass?
No, but a great guitar player like Neal could at least play bass at a competent level. The notes are the same, the theory is the same etc.
There are VERY different skills/techniques involved in playing either guitar or bass at a high level, but any guitarist worth his salt could at least play, at the bare minimum, "root note bass." Someone with as much command of melody and finger technique as Neal could easily play bass at a pretty decent level. Now, can he slap and play walking lines and all that? Maybe, maybe not. But honestly, put a bass in my hands, and I can play ANY Journey song that was recorded after Perry joined the band. And I'm not half the guitarist Neal is. Not one eighth.
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:10 amby StoneCold
Saint John wrote:Speaking of bass players, I read somewhere that Neal laid down all of the bass lines for Revelation. That seems weird. Anyone ever hear of Neal playing bass?
I'll bet he gets even more monkey faced on the bass.
Re: Some Bass Appreciation
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:00 amby Deb
Blueskies wrote:Theres been a lot of talk here over time of lead guitar, drummers and even keyboards somewhat but bass players haven't been discussed all that much.
For those that dig Bass playing here is someone to start this with...
This is a series of studio sessions of legend Larry Graham playing funk to Phantom Of The Opera to any groove he chooses.
Fun stuff!
Looove bass, a lot more than guitar. Second favorite instrument after vocal pipes.
Some of my faves..........
Rudy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaX-xdRCVJg
Billy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUlItGc3diM
Gary & JSS (two of my favorite instruments together, they could have carried this on for at least 20 minutes as far as I was concerned
)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2VITGGw-jg
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:02 amby strangegrey
stevew2 wrote:I bet you play the bona phone and the skin flute
Listen, I've pissed on my fair share of threads (and that's discrediting the fact that the psycho-hose beast OP of this thread claimed she wasn't coming back for a month), but have you *ever* contributed constructively to a thread ever? ever?
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:49 amby stevew2
strangegrey wrote:stevew2 wrote:I bet you play the bona phone and the skin flute
Listen, I've pissed on my fair share of threads (and that's discrediting the fact that the psycho-hose beast OP of this thread claimed she wasn't coming back for a month), but have you *ever* contributed constructively to a thread ever? ever?
I dont get your funkin point frank, my main point is ... bass player dont make it as lead guitar players. Lead guitar player can play both and "lay down' tracks and shit. But a bass guitar player is what it fuckin is. Bass and drums is the most importanted part of a band . its simple and not that hard but with out it it would be a Neal solo and god forbid a friga solo
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:57 amby strangegrey
stevew2 wrote:strangegrey wrote:stevew2 wrote:I bet you play the bona phone and the skin flute
Listen, I've pissed on my fair share of threads (and that's discrediting the fact that the psycho-hose beast OP of this thread claimed she wasn't coming back for a month), but have you *ever* contributed constructively to a thread ever? ever?
I dont get your funkin point frank, my main point is ... bass player dont make it as lead guitar players. Lead guitar player can play both and "lay down' tracks and shit. But a bass guitar player is what it fuckin is.
Bass and drums is the most importanted part of a band . its simple and not that hard but with out it it would be a Neal solo and god forbid a friga solo
That's not the point you made. This is what you said:
stevew2 wrote:bass player are people that wernt good enough to play a six string guitar,Friga would ve made a good bass player, although most bass players are straight,, ahhh forget that
To suggest that basists are so, because they couldn't hack it as a guitarist is assinine...and you clearly don't respect either instrument to understand what it takes to be successful at it.....
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:06 pmby stevew2
strangegrey wrote:stevew2 wrote:strangegrey wrote:stevew2 wrote:I bet you play the bona phone and the skin flute
Listen, I've pissed on my fair share of threads (and that's discrediting the fact that the psycho-hose beast OP of this thread claimed she wasn't coming back for a month), but have you *ever* contributed constructively to a thread ever? ever?
I dont get your funkin point frank, my main point is ... bass player dont make it as lead guitar players. Lead guitar player can play both and "lay down' tracks and shit. But a bass guitar player is what it fuckin is.
Bass and drums is the most importanted part of a band . its simple and not that hard but with out it it would be a Neal solo and god forbid a friga solo
That's not the point you made. This is what you said:
stevew2 wrote:bass player are people that wernt good enough to play a six string guitar,Friga would ve made a good bass player, although most bass players are straight,, ahhh forget that
To suggest that basists are so, because they couldn't hack it as a guitarist is assinine...and you clearly don't respect either instrument to understand what it takes to be successful at it.....
I can play bass on my keyboards, and the average person wouldnt even know it wasnt a real bass guitar ,it aint that hard Frankey boy
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:29 pmby strangegrey
stevew2 wrote:I can play bass on my keyboards, and the average person wouldnt even know it wasnt a real bass guitar ,it aint that hard Frankey boy
Oh you play keyboards? Who do you play for, the village people or weird al yankovic?
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:35 pmby stevew2
strangegrey wrote:stevew2 wrote:I can play bass on my keyboards, and the average person wouldnt even know it wasnt a real bass guitar ,it aint that hard Frankey boy
Oh you play keyboards? Who do you play for, the village people or weird al yankovic?
I play in a local band were I live i can play frigas shit but that doesnt make me gay ,as i said before there aint nothin to playin bass. Any good guitar player of even keyboard player can do it justice. Next time you take a break, can you kiss my nuts?
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:48 pmby strangegrey
stevew2 wrote: I play in a local band were I live i can play frigas shit but that doesnt make me gay ,as i said before there aint nothin to playin bass. Any good guitar player of even keyboard player can do it justice. Next time you take a break, can you kiss my nuts?
LOL...wow, you really can't get through one post without oozing your gaytude. Nice...for a while, I just thought you were putting up a little act, but I'm convinced you take it right up the ass nightly...
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:52 pmby stevew2
strangegrey wrote:stevew2 wrote: I play in a local band were I live i can play frigas shit but that doesnt make me gay ,as i said before there aint nothin to playin bass. Any good guitar player of even keyboard player can do it justice. Next time you take a break, can you kiss my nuts?
LOL...wow, you really can't get through one post without oozing your gaytude. Nice...for a while, I just thought you were putting up a little act, but I'm convinced you take it right up the ass nightly...
what the fuck do you do for your tricks franky? beat off?
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:32 pmby Ehwmatt
This is a hall of fame exchange here, hahaha
