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10-02-2001, 11:01 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: USA, Mississippi | | | Your Favorite Fretless Electric Recordings
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What are your favorite recordings with fretless electric being played. Now that I've got a Pedulla I need some inspiration. I've got some of Jaco's stuff, but what about Egan, Manring, Caron, etc??
Watching my Eagle's "Hell Freezes Over" DVD: what a great fretless part on "New York Minute"!!
thanks for all suggestions!
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10-02-2001, 11:07 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | | Pino Palladino is very good with Paul Young or on numerous sessions, like with the Christians etc. etc.
Mick Karn is an interesting player to listen to as he doesn't sound anything like other fretless players - with Japan, David Sylviain or solos albums.
There are loads of others - Marcus Miller can play decent fretless and Christian McBride plays fretless electric sometimes.
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10-02-2001, 11:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Sweden | | | You should give Manring's "Thonk" a go. Some truly great fretless work there!
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10-02-2001, 12:24 PM
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Percy Jones - Solo, Brand X
Vic Wooten - Solo, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
Sean Malone - Solo, Death, Cynic, Aghora, Gordian Knot
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10-02-2001, 04:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Avondale Estates, GA, USA | | | Michael Manring's "Drastic Measures" is out of print, but if you can somehow get ahold of it or borrow it from someone, definitely do it. That's my favorite fretless stuff on record. "Thonk" and "The Book of Flame" are great, too.
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10-02-2001, 04:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: New York, NY | | | I second the vote for "Drastic Measures". Manring's a technical monster, but there's a lot of beautiful, lyrical fretless on this album in addition to the chopsfest. "Oyazumi Nasai" is one of the best duets I think I've heard in any genre of music.
Tony Levin's "Waters of Eden" and Jimmy Haslip's "Red Heat" also come to mind as examples of good fretless playing. The Levin recording is sort of poppy-new agey, whereas Haslip's is in a Latin vein.
If you want something less traditional, Tribal Tech's recordings are a good bet. Some of the improvisation is pretty out there, but Gary Willis can play up a storm on fretless. |
10-02-2001, 07:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Overland Park, Kansas | | | Jaco Pastorius - Continuum
Pink Floyd - Hey You
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al |
10-03-2001, 01:07 AM
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Also, I have a live record from Brand X, with Percy Jones...nice, really nice basswork, but the compositions aren't that great. |
10-03-2001, 03:43 AM
| | | | Don't forget 6 string fretless players like Steve Lawson and Steve Bailey. Lawson is very melodic. So is Mark Egan. My favourite fretless player is still Jaco. |
10-03-2001, 05:15 AM
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10-03-2001, 05:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Pennsylvania | | | Manring's Drastic Measures.
I also like Pino's work on Paul Young's Tear Your Playhouse Down. |
10-03-2001, 10:15 PM
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Pink Floyd - Hey You | that is such a great bassline...so simple and melodic...i love it...
also, is donna lee (JP) played on a fretless??? |
10-03-2001, 10:36 PM
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10-04-2001, 11:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | | | thought so...
I would also reccomend some tunes off Ten (Pearl Jam) Especially Even Flow, Alive and Oceans...and Rats off Versus...
he may not be a virtuoso, but just listen to Oceans...the vocal melody was based on the bassline |
10-05-2001, 09:34 AM
| | | | Try some Catch22, they sound pretty much like jazz except with punk lyrics. The bass player only uses a fretless |
10-05-2001, 01:30 PM
| | Moderator Emeritus | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Iowa | | | I'm with Bruce on this one. Here's a couple to look for.....
Pino Palladino on Gary Numan's "I, Assassin"...and
Mick Karn's 'Collector's Edition". |
10-05-2001, 01:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Metro NYC | | | Mick Karn, David Torn, Terry Bozzio, "Polytown"
Jimmy Haslip, "Arc", as well as a whole bunch of the later Yellowjackets stuff, from about "Greenhouse" on
Paul Simon, "Graceland," with Bakhiti Khumalo
About anything Pino Palladino plays fretless on
And I won't even get into Jaco, because that should be a given
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10-05-2001, 04:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Boston, Taxachusetts | | | Almost any Rolling Stones studio album. Bill Wyman almost always played a fretless Framus in the studio.
I got totally sick of that "hey I'm playing fretless" sound about a month after I got my first fretless bass.
More guys who don't make it so obvious the frets are gone: Boz with Bad Company, Rick Danko with the Band, Sting with the Police. |
10-12-2001, 01:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada | | | For me, the best fretless sound out there is found on Lou Reed's "New Sensations" album. The bassist is Fernando Saunders. Check out the sound on the title track and on "Turn to Me". The bass is featured on most of the songs and it's really tasty stuff. |
10-12-2001, 04:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: British Columbia, Canada | | | There are many fretless players with outstanding tunes. There is, of course, Alain Caron. There are, however, many more not-so-well-known bassists that are very gifted. If you click on my "Jazz Bass Plus" mp3 station below, you'll find the likes of Woody Lingle, who many may know of. Also on that station, look for the tune "Aldebaran" by Romlet (bassist Romolo Amici of Italy). And there are many more 'unknowns' that are superb bassists. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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