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03-06-2004, 06:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: New Albany, Ohio | |  Examples of Upright in Pop Music
I would appreciate if anyone could recommend some examples of recorded music in which the upright bass (or electric upright) is used in modern pop or rock music. Nora Jones may be a good example. I play upright or electric upright in church and I'd like to hear how some modern upright players perform their bass lines. Many thanks.
Brian
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03-06-2004, 07:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | Beth Orton's first record had a lot of upright. That Silly band from Canada, Barenaked Ladies, has lots of upright. Cake as well.
But what kinda pop do you mean? Kiddie pop, or stuff like I mention above?
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03-06-2004, 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by lermgalieu Beth Orton's first record had a lot of upright. That Silly band from Canada, Barenaked Ladies, has lots of upright. Cake as well.
But what kinda pop do you mean? Kiddie pop, or stuff like I mention above? | Stuff like you mentioned above.  Thanks, Brian |
03-07-2004, 01:49 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Nashville, TN | | | Others are G-Love and Special Sauce, Soul Coffin and Jump Little Children. I've played upright on several popish records. Nothing to write home about, but more examples of it used in rock. The major label ones I've done should be easy to find and they are:
David Garza "This Euphoria"
Juliana Hatfield "Beautiful Creature"
I know there are lots of other examples but its late and im too tired to remember. |
03-07-2004, 01:57 AM
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03-07-2004, 02:04 AM
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03-07-2004, 09:57 AM
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03-07-2004, 11:09 AM
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08-25-2004, 08:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Portland, ME | | | Once Blue-ben street on bass, rebecca martin-larry grenadier on bass. tony scherr with sex mob is pretty groovin too, but not necesarily pop. |
08-25-2004, 09:34 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: 287,10,202,80 | | | Rickie Lee Jones had Charlie Haden on one of her albums. I think the title was "Pop". I remember that it had a yellow cover. |
08-25-2004, 01:25 PM
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Larry Taylor, Greg Cohen with Tom Waits
Roy Huskey Jr with Emmylou Harris (plus everyone else in country)
Tony Garnier with Bob Dylan
Danny Thompson with Billy Bragg
Danny Thompson with Richard Thompson
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08-25-2004, 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by PhoBucket Rickie Lee Jones had Charlie Haden on one of her albums. I think the title was "Pop". I remember that it had a yellow cover. | Very close; it's "Pop Pop".
Good album, too. |
08-25-2004, 01:58 PM
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08-25-2004, 02:20 PM
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08-25-2004, 02:23 PM
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Nice guy, buddy of Jeff Bollbach's.
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08-25-2004, 03:35 PM
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08-25-2004, 03:46 PM
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08-25-2004, 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Blackbird The Police "Every Breath You Take". | I figured he was just using DB for the video. It doesn't sound like a DB to me.
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08-25-2004, 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson Patrick O'Hearn did some phenomenal DB work with Frank Zappa, particularly on "Sleep Dirt". | Cue the "All the world hates a bass solo" quote. |
08-26-2004, 01:49 AM
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Originally Posted by DenglerABD
I'd like to hear how some modern upright players perform their bass lines. Many thanks.
| Interesting that you said modern, but the vast majority of the examples given are from 80s bands - that was 20 years ago - does it still count as "modern"?
If you're talking strictly modern "pop" - then it's almost exclusively programmed... 
But there is a sense in which Jazz is becoming the new pop!! 
So at a lot of the pop/rock festivals this year, there have been Jazz or at least "Jazzier artists....
How about Jamie Cullum - Jazz/Swing/Pop crossover ? - with the wonderful Geoff Gascoyne on Double Bass - definitely a good player, who is out there now, doing it on DB - not 20 years ago!
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