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04-30-2009, 02:20 AM
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ok, here's some OLD footage that has surfaced online.
The title is incorrect, this is actually 1986 on the German TV program Ohne Filter.
Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9IL4suytbY
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04-30-2009, 05:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: NW IL | | Great Stuff! 
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04-30-2009, 08:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | You play great Vail!
I really liked the clip on Arsenio Hall too.
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04-30-2009, 03:11 PM
|  | You don't want to do that. Trust me. Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: atlanta ga | | | heh. that's a great solo man. was that a stock jazz? sounded really "Active" - really good.
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04-30-2009, 04:13 PM
| | Fueled by chocolate | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Montreal, Canada | | | Definitely my kind of solo (I only wish mine were half as good). Great use of dynamics and space. |
05-01-2009, 02:47 AM
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Dean Markley Strings, Xotic Basses, Kubicki Basses | | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by john turner  heh. that's a great solo man. was that a stock jazz? sounded really "Active" - really good. | If I recall, I had EMG's in there..
I gave that bass to our departing tour manager after that tour, so I can't really remember. Switched to Kubicki shortly after |
05-01-2009, 06:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: New Jersey | | Quote:
Originally Posted by vail_bass If I recall, I had EMG's in there..
I gave that bass to our departing tour manager after that tour, so I can't really remember. Switched to Kubicki shortly after | Smart move   |
05-01-2009, 07:47 AM
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05-01-2009, 08:56 AM
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Dean Markley Strings, Xotic Basses, Kubicki Basses | | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DWBass Hey, Vail. Hope all is well. The wife is still smiling! Hey were you using alternate tunings back then? | nope, just a regular old bass. |
05-01-2009, 09:04 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Southwest Virginia | | | Yeah, very active sound indeed. I've never heard a J sound this good! (ie., so much like a Kubicki!). No suprise Vail went to Kubicki soon after this: If this was the sound he was after, it had to have been MUCH easier to get it from Kubickis than Fenders. That is THE slap tone. You're a monster, Vail. A big ol' grinnin', slappin' dancin' monster! When the old parachute pants go on eBay, I want 'em!
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05-01-2009, 11:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | I have to agree that the switch to Kubicki was a great move. The tone is killer. Guys, check his Myspace, he has a CD of Beetles tunes done Smooth Jazz style with lots of slapped bass, and it is killer! I'm glad you have posted the last few days. I forgot what monster you are! 
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05-02-2009, 07:08 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Killer tone Vail.
Agree on the modern jazz tone. Nice find.
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05-02-2009, 07:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: France | | | Hey Vail ! What a pleasure too see another one of your videos online. Thanks for sharing it with us. I was wondering, do you ever play the upright as well ?
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05-02-2009, 07:47 AM
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Dean Markley Strings, Xotic Basses, Kubicki Basses | | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by chnapz Hey Vail ! What a pleasure too see another one of your videos online. Thanks for sharing it with us. I was wondering, do you ever play the upright as well ? | I did for a time, though I struggled with the difference in feel, making my electric playing seem somewhat awkward; I just play electric upright now, though with 34 or 35" scale so the switch is easy. |
05-02-2009, 05:35 PM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | Great solo, I agree totally about the very musical use of space and dynamics in there. And very grooving Jazz bass tone. I have a white MIM Jazz with EMGs on it and it's been the bass I usually keep flats on for a while now. I think I'm going to stick some nice new Rotosound swing bass rounds on there tomorrow and give it some playing time, it hasn't had much use lately.
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05-02-2009, 05:52 PM
| | | I still love watching Vail layin' it down on that Arsenio Hall Show vid clip.
Thank God for YouTube! 
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05-02-2009, 07:01 PM
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