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03-13-2009, 01:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Buffalo, NY. USA | | | Who played bass on the Grease sound track?
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(I don't know if this belongs here or "Bassists".)
The sound track has a lot of great playing. Who is it?? |
03-13-2009, 01:23 PM
| | Dry and Heavy | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Swiss Alps | | | I don't know, but I remember thinking how great the bass lines and tone was when I first heard them in the cinema as a young'un.
edited to add.
This from Wiki: Bass: Mike Porcaro, William David Hungate, Max Bennett, David Allen Ryan, Wm. J. Bodine, Dean Cortez, Harold Cowart
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03-13-2009, 02:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Virginia | | | Porcaro and Hungate don't surprise me at all. All of those Toto guys were "go to" studio musicians in L.A. at that time.
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03-13-2009, 02:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Los Angeles | | | Something tells me it was Carol Kaye. I just remember lots of nice chunky flatwound P w/pick tones on it!
Have to look it up now . . . |
03-14-2009, 04:53 AM
| | Dry and Heavy | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Swiss Alps | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Would'e?  Porcaro and Hungate don't surprise me at all. All of those Toto guys were "go to" studio musicians in L.A. at that time. | Yeah, Toto was the studio session guys superband at the time, for better or worse. |
03-14-2009, 05:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Oslo, Norway | | | Bass: Mike Porcaro, William David Hungate, Max Bennett, David Allen Ryan, Wm. J. Bodine, Dean Cortez, Harold Cowart
Wikipedia |
03-16-2009, 07:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Belgium | | Funny, I picked up the soundtrack just yesterday because I wanted to learn the many, many great bass lines on it  |
03-16-2009, 07:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | | Ollie Brown on drums, I believe...
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03-16-2009, 04:43 PM
| | Dry and Heavy | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Swiss Alps | | Quote:
Originally Posted by odin70 Bass: Mike Porcaro, William David Hungate, Max Bennett, David Allen Ryan, Wm. J. Bodine, Dean Cortez, Harold Cowart
Wikipedia | What am I, chopped liver? |
03-16-2009, 07:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ireland | | | weird..for some reason i always thought the legendary Tommy Cogbill played bass on the grease sound track
or like most of these soundtracks a few bassists were used but I always thought Tommy played the bassline for "your the one that I want"
the bass tone on the recording just dosent scream porcaro or dave hungate to me.....Max Bennet maybe
hmm interesting
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