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11-03-2009, 08:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Hampton Roads (Norfolk), VA. | | | Outside the polls
A thread in another forum talking about bassists less frequently talked about or heard of gave me a flash back, just thought I'd share.
Jeff Andrews: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL69e81aZ1c
I had the pleasure of studying with Jeff for a while about 20 years ago: It forever changed me! 
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11-03-2009, 08:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Hampton Roads (Norfolk), VA. | | Here's another good one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb6PkN5ezGc - even though I'm not a Mike Stern fan and even less of a fan of Weckl but, slamming bass solo.
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11-04-2009, 05:13 AM
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Yeah! Great playing! I really enjoy Tom Kennedy with Weckl too. He's a monster! I guess that he's a bit more of a household name in the world of bass though. Although I only recently discovered him. |
11-04-2009, 09:24 AM
|  | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | Man, I love Jeff Andrews! Thanks for the clips. I'm not a Weckl guy, but Jeff Andrews makes him sound good.  I've always thought of him as a true bass player's bass player, if that makes sense. (Lincoln Goines is another...extending the Mike Stern connection one level.) |
11-04-2009, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by VroomVroom  Man, I love Jeff Andrews! Thanks for the clips. I'm not a Weckl guy, but Jeff Andrews makes him sound good. I've always thought of him as a true bass player's bass player, if that makes sense. (Lincoln Goines is another...extending the Mike Stern connection one level.) | Yes, Lincoln Goines - another name I've not heard in a while. All sorts of dormant synapses firing off.... Man, I love Haden on Bop Be with Jarrett, which of course makes ya think of Gary, such a smooth player... Oh, another spark, LaFaro, man if he were still alive. I feel ya with Weckl, amazing technician but just always leaves me dry; I'm looking for Elvin or Tain for a fix.
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11-04-2009, 02:29 PM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | Cool - I'd never heard of Jeff Andrews, thanks for turning me onto him!
Although I must say, I'm a big Weckl fan... loved him w/ Chick and Pattitucci... |
11-04-2009, 02:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Encinitas California | | | Weckl is a great technician but he doesn't feel music and as a result his playing has always sounded uninspired and flat. I'm a huge fan of bass and percussion that is really listening to each other, feeling the groove, and complementing each others playing. Thats the real magic in my long standing opinion anyway. There are so many great bassists that have served as influences that I would be hard pressed to name them all, and many great drummers that have influenced my playing as well. It is all about the groove. |
11-04-2009, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by RocketMusic loved him w/ Chick and Pattitucci... | Yeah, good stuff there - but with 'Now he Sings Now he Sobs' out there - Roy Haynes on drums and Miroslav Vitous on bass, mmmm, that's a tough follow up even though the electric band is probably not a fair comparison, totally different thing going on with that.... Having said that, there was definitely a time when pumping out 'Got a Match' was the bar... Just was a long time ago for me...  Or, I may just be getting too old
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11-04-2009, 03:19 PM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Yep, we're all getting old. I still catch myself hearing the intro to some Madonna or Cyndi Lauper song from the 80's (a song that I no doubt HATED when it came out), but the tune will recall good times and I find myself getting a lift... until I realize it's Madonna or Cyndi Lauper 
Tears For Fears is the worst... they're actually a guilty pleasure of mine. I'll just ride the song all the way through...
Did I just admit all of that on TB? Especially in a fusion heavy thread? Oh, man, there goes the reputation... |
11-05-2009, 04:40 AM
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Originally Posted by RocketMusic Yep, we're all getting old. I still catch myself hearing the intro to some Madonna or Cyndi Lauper song from the 80's (a song that I no doubt HATED when it came out), but the tune will recall good times and I find myself getting a lift... until I realize it's Madonna or Cyndi Lauper
Tears For Fears is the worst... they're actually a guilty pleasure of mine. I'll just ride the song all the way through...
Did I just admit all of that on TB? Especially in a fusion heavy thread? Oh, man, there goes the reputation... | lol
Confession is good for the soul.
....It's OK. If it makes you feel any better, I like chick flicks!  |
11-05-2009, 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted by RocketMusic Tears For Fears is the worst... they're actually a guilty pleasure of mine.
Did I just admit all of that on TB? Especially in a fusion heavy thread? Oh, man, there goes the reputation... | You did... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!!!! j/k
Madonna, man from Vogue on I've got no issues with her - I'd take that gig.... - Madonna, u out there? You hear that? Are you listening?
Guilty pleasures, OK, I can't believe I'm gonna admit this: Celine Dion.... (having a hard time hitting submit, alright F$%$k it).
Top that BEEYATCH!!! lol!!     
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11-05-2009, 08:57 AM
| | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | Lost me @ Celine Dion. I'd rather listen to Weckl. Last time I caught Weckl was with Chick Corea. Victor Wooten was on bass, and he left Weckl with NO CHOICE but to GROOVE. It was cool to hear Weckl in that vein. Stunning chops, gorgeous tuning, amazing sound...it was sweet to hear him stay in the pocket for more than four seconds. Yet another notch in the bedpost for Victor.
Ok, Greg, I can make you feel better about things. I've seen Madonna live. Even paid for the ticket my own self.  
Now, before you cringe, I offer four words by way of my defense:
Victor. Bailey. Omar. Hakim.
I rest my case, your Honors. 
To help fuel the thread, I'd like to offer up another cat...
James Genus.
He's on upright here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yqhO4saX6g ... but it's one of my favorite Metheny/Brecker compositions.
Thank you for putting up with that. Now...fasten your seatbelts please: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIGsSLCoIhM |
11-05-2009, 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by VroomVroom | Oh yes, James was a local boy here until the late 80's, crossed paths a few times in NYC - my last few years in NYC were his first few.
Anyway:
- Lonnie Plaxico: http://www.lonnieplaxico.com/
More so than a bassist I really dig his compositions, check this: http://www.lonnieplaxico.com/mp3/wes...tories/WSS.mp3
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11-05-2009, 09:49 AM
| | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | Lonnie Plaxico! Thank you for that. He is beyond awesome. So many great musicians out there... |
11-05-2009, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by VroomVroom So many great musicians out there... | No doubt - and to add to it, some of the best I've heard have been 15/16 year old kids as I drive around passing by little street corner churches on a Sunday.
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