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11-02-2010, 02:50 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | Frampton comes alive- fretless on some tracks?
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Specifically, *Show me the way* sounds to me like it could be a fretless- anyone know? Just curious.
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11-02-2010, 02:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Massachusetts USofA | | | Open up the gatefold LP cover and there's Stanley Sheldon rockin' a fretless P.
That LP still holds up after 35 years! |
11-02-2010, 02:55 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Colorado Springs, CO | | | Sounds that way to me! |
11-03-2010, 06:39 AM
| | | I remember there was a huge bump in the sales of fretless P Basses when that CD came out. I actually bought one of them (not really realizing at the time it was the 'Frampton bass'... the olympic white, black pickguard, maple neck P fretless, if I remember correctly.
Of course, IMO, a fretless P doesn't make a lot of sense (even the name is funny given the 'reason' for the P Bass's development... 'fretless Precision bass')!
Yeah, that album was something when it came out... kind of one of the first 'fake live' recordings, with the crowd noise faked in and most of the tracks massively sweetened in the studio, if I remember correctly. It sounded so good.... then we figured out why 
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11-03-2010, 04:19 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Manhattan | | | Yeah, great pop rock bass playing -- on a fretless. Pretty busy too, but always right. Good player. He and Fran Sheenan from Boston were great examples of solid musical bassplayers who you noticed without being too flashy or overbearing. |
11-04-2010, 10:45 AM
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11-04-2010, 11:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Atlanta GA | | | Stanley Sheldon is a great bassist. Did a lot of fantastic stuff with Tommy Bolin as well. Too bad Frampton jacked him on the $$$ for that record.
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11-04-2010, 11:42 AM
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11-04-2010, 11:56 AM
|  | Eat at Joe's | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: J-Actionville, NC | | | Always loved the bass work on that album. That era of what is now called classic rock featured so many great players that they tend to be considered "par for the course" and get kind of lost compared to the more "bass-centric" bands. You have to be not only a true fan of that genre of rock, but a bass player to pick out the awesome playing. To prove a point, only on TB would anyone read the OP and autmatically hear the bass tone on that album. All most people would think of is that stupid "wha wha wha" noise.
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10-13-2011, 09:52 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Northwest, OH USA | | | Stanley's tone on that album is the best sounding tone for me. It's the tone I want to produce with any rig I end up with after I get re acclimated with my bass playing. Show me the way is the track that hits me the most.
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10-14-2011, 08:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Duluth, MN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by KJung Yeah, that album was something when it came out... kind of one of the first 'fake live' recordings, with the crowd noise faked in and most of the tracks massively sweetened in the studio, if I remember correctly. It sounded so good.... then we figured out why | Really? Although I'm not surprised (Didn't Jackson Browne do that too?), I never noticed, heard or thought about it before. I haven't listened to Frampton Comes Alive straight through in 25 years. |
10-14-2011, 09:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | Yup. I remember hearing those songs on the radio for years and then finally getting the album, seeing that picture and... "WOW, he's rockin a fretless on there?!"
Frampton Comes Alive... what a disc. The drum sounds are tragically dated by now but the rest of it still holds up and the songs and playing are top-notch. I'm an especially big fan of what Sheldon does at the end of "Do You Feel Like We Do"... the jam-out section after the talkbox bit.
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10-14-2011, 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by jaywa Yup. I remember hearing those songs on the radio for years and then finally getting the album, seeing that picture and... "WOW, he's rockin a fretless on there?!"
Frampton Comes Alive... what a disc. The drum sounds are tragically dated by now but the rest of it still holds up and the songs and playing are top-notch. I'm an especially big fan of what Sheldon does at the end of "Do You Feel Like We Do"... the jam-out section after the talkbox bit. | Me too. My brother learned to play guitar to the disc. And I learned a couple of tunes off it at the beginning of my bass journey.
I heard "Do You Feel Like We Do" in it's entirety in the supermarket a couple of weeks ago. Cool to hear it but in a supermarket??? Guess that what happens to great old songs.....
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