Fretless bass in non jazz music. - Page 4

synaesthesia · #61 07-09-2009, 01:03 PM

Rick Danko played fretless on lots of tunes the Band did. So did Bill Wyman on Rolling Stones.

nysbob · #62 07-09-2009, 01:54 PM

Didn't Boz Burrell play fretless in Bad Co.?

Nobody know who the hell I am, but I've played a lot of fretless on CDs with the Bears, Bucket, Psychodots, and the soon to be released Tickled Pink disc. Fretless is great for rock & blues.

Big Mother · #63 07-09-2009, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by nysbob

Didn't Boz Burrell play fretless in Bad Co.?

Nobody know who the hell I am, but I've played a lot of fretless on CDs with the Bears, Bucket, Psychodots, and the soon to be released Tickled Pink disc. Fretless is great for rock & blues.

Dude, you play with The Bears?!?!?!
Fear Is Never Boring is one of my most favorite songs ever!
How did you do that doubled thing going on at the end of the guitar solo?? (sounds like it runs through the whole song, but that is where I hear it clearest)

BM

MixBass · #64 07-09-2009, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by nysbob

Didn't Boz Burrell play fretless in Bad Co.?

Nobody know who the hell I am, but I've played a lot of fretless on CDs with the Bears, Bucket, Psychodots, and the soon to be released Tickled Pink disc. Fretless is great for rock & blues.

I know who you are and you played some darn good fretless on the Bears!

djt820 · #65 07-09-2009, 03:00 PM

Sean Malone from Cynic.

ofsalesmen · #66 07-09-2009, 03:06 PM

Check out "Breathing" by Kate Bush. Jaw-dropping fretless there, despite the song being overly Bjork-ish.

Big Mother · #67 07-09-2009, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by ofsalesmen

Check out "Breathing" by Kate Bush. Jaw-dropping fretless there, despite the song being overly Bjork-ish.

I believe "Breathing" came out in 1980, before there was a Bjork-ish anything. Maybe Bjork should be called Kate-ish.

None the less, great fretless work. (John Giblin)

BM

capnsandwich · #68 07-09-2009, 03:21 PM

Good fretless tone in this Pink Floyd song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI_sv...eature=related

the low one · #69 07-09-2009, 04:15 PM

Derek Forbes from early Simple Minds played some great fretless:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U3vZ...rom=PL&index=6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Qi_xBTExQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGPnJ26SzB8

Turock · #70 07-09-2009, 05:46 PM

Paul Simon

f'nar f'nar · #71 07-09-2009, 09:46 PM

I'm going to reiterate Exivious...

http://www.myspace.com/exivious

It's like a super band made out o Cynic and Textures.

polydeathsphere · #72 07-11-2009, 11:42 PM

^ I'm going to third his exivious mentioning. there some other sort of amazing man.

a different group would be Tribal Tech, though there a jazz fusion band some of the stuff is far from traditional jazz, but Gary Willis is an amazingggg bassist.

PS. the bassist from exivious is ALSO the live bassists from Cynics most recent north american tour, and may be a permanent member

cavemanbass0805 · #73 07-28-2009, 01:45 PM

Justin Chancellor from Tool uses one in a few songs, notably a small part in lateralus and various parts on the last few tracks of 10,000 days.

JTE · #74 07-28-2009, 04:01 PM

First, Sting didn't buy the fretless P bass until The Police came to the US for the first tour. He recorded "Roxanne" with his Jazz bass, but used his brand-new fretless P the very next day to film the video.

OK, then... fretless in non-jazz? LOTTSA stuff already listed (but I don't recall seeing any Red Hot Chili Peppers listed). Boz Burrell did a lot of fretless (first an Ampeg, later a StingRay, and possibly a Precison in there too) with Bad Co. It's obvioius in "Feel Like Makin' Love". Wyman filed the frets down on his main recording bass because it was so cheap and poorly made that it wouldn't play in tune with frets. I'm hearing fretless slides on the chorus of "Jumpin' Jack Flash". Rick Danko also used a fretless with The Band- again an Ampeg, then a Precision, and later a Gibson Ripper. Pino's all over the place. Paul Young, several Don Henley things, the already cited David Gilmour album, and I think he's on Pete Townsend's "About Face". And Bakithi Kaumalo (I probably spelled it way wrong...) on Paul Simon's stuff pretty constistenly since they first recorded together. That's him on "You Can Call Me Al", complete with the backwards solo.

Two that haven't been mentioned yet... My favorite fretless player is Freebo. Check out his wonderful work on the early Bonnie Raitt albums (like from 1972-1978 or so). Heartbreakingly poignant slides on "Too Long At The Fair", sublime funk on "Girl, You've Been In Love Too Long", and the cool part is that he's totally in control of whether you know he's playing fretless or not.

The other, and a close second in the "favorite" categorey is Dave Pomeroy. He's a long-time Nashville bassist who did road work with Don Williams (along with guitarist Danny Flowers who also wrote "Tulsa Time" BTW). Get a copy of Trisha Yearwood's album that has "On A Bus to St. Cloud". He'll break your heart with the way he uses his fretless to accompany Trisha.

jte

nick g. · #75 07-28-2009, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Stickk

All Cynic is fretless. There's some fretless in Opeth, and Steve DiGiorgio mostly uses fretless.

Not true. Sean Malone used a Chapman Stick on several tracks from Traced in Air.

Also, Dream Theater has two tracks with fretless bass: "Peruvian Skies" from Falling Into Infinity, and "Through Her Eyes" from Metropolis Pt. 2.