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05-24-2005, 08:20 AM
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Hey there, I found this live performance of "Heard it Through the Grapevine" and noticed the great slap bass solos. I know Gaye worked with Jamerson and Babbitt in the studio, but does anyone have any ideas who this might be ??
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05-26-2005, 02:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Rochester, NY | | | That link you provided is most certainly not Marvin Gaye. No idea who it is, nor do I know who is on bass, but it isn't Marvin Gaye, sorry.
And I don't really know who usually played bass for Marvin's live stuff, but on the one live album I have (it was a late one, from 1983 I think), Byron Miller was on bass.
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05-26-2005, 04:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Scotland, UK. | | | well opinions are opinions, but the back of the CD its from says its him...
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05-26-2005, 06:42 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Decatur, GA | | | That's definitely Marvin Gaye, but it's from his last couple of years when he had a bad coke problem.
I have some live recordings from the early 70s with Jamerson playing behind him live, but this is from the early 80s and I have no idea who it is. He's not the most tasteful player, IMO. |
05-26-2005, 07:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Prince Georges County Maryland | | | I think the bassist in question was Byron Miller at that time.
I have an audio cassette tape labeled 'The Final Tour' or something like that and i believe it's Byron Miller on bass. Those blues lines he was slipping in with Marvin is classic Byron. |
05-28-2005, 02:14 AM
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Originally Posted by lopsy_lu well opinions are opinions, but the back of the CD its from says its him... | Sorry, I guess I was wrong. To me it reallllly doesn't sound like him at all. What cd was it from?
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05-29-2005, 03:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Scotland, UK. | | | A compilation of 60s/70s music called "Letters From Vietnam"
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10-22-2008, 11:56 PM
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Originally Posted by leanne  That link you provided is most certainly not Marvin Gaye. No idea who it is, nor do I know who is on bass, but it isn't Marvin Gaye, sorry.
And I don't really know who usually played bass for Marvin's live stuff, but on the one live album I have (it was a late one, from 1983 I think), Byron Miller was on bass. | do you know of the 1980 live in montreux album? who played on that one? was it Byron Miller as well? |
10-23-2008, 10:11 AM
|  | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | | Marvin's bassist in later years both live and in the studio was the very underrated Frank Blair who also did time with Robert Palmer.
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