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05-15-2008, 06:20 PM
|  | Paid to be here | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Orange County, California | | | Any Tommy Shannon fans out there?
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05-15-2008, 06:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | Here's one. Man that guy has tone for DAYS! |
05-15-2008, 06:23 PM
| | Paid to be here | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Orange County, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jaywa  Here's one. Man that guy has tone for DAYS! | Yep! I learned how to play bass back in the early 80s just listening to Tommy over and over and over . . .  |
05-15-2008, 06:30 PM
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Marketing Exec. Newbasstone, Inc | | | | | He was my favorite when he played with Johnny Winter. I don't think Stevie Ray would have been without him. |
05-15-2008, 06:35 PM
| | | | You bet! Double Trouble gave SRV the tight,solid background he needed to work his mastery. |
05-15-2008, 06:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sacramento area | | He is awesome! SRV, Arc Angels, Storyville all in heavy frequent rotation at my house!
His website is just plain down to earth I spent a good hour there the first time I found it, material is a bit old but very heartfelt and interesting. www.tommyshannon.com |
05-15-2008, 07:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Charlotte, NC | | | I can't imagine a better bassist for Double Trouble. Top notch. |
05-15-2008, 07:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | I don't know what it is, but those Texas bassists (Shannon, Dusty Hill etc.) just have that "feel" that I still haven't been able to totally cop even after 27+ years. It's painful to hear a lot of bands around here try to cover SRV stuff cause the feel just isn't anywhere close to the original article. |
05-15-2008, 07:04 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Albany, NY | | | One more here...love his SRV tone and pocket but like scowboy said....the Arc Angels album is killer!
Good guy too as I met him once when Double Trouble was hired to back some local blues guy. |
05-15-2008, 07:05 PM
|  | layin' it down like pavement | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: North Kingstown, Rhode Island | | | Tommy Shannon is a Monster...)-(
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05-15-2008, 07:12 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cincinnati | | | Count me in. Double Trouble would just groove solid... That was the foundation that SRV built on!
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05-15-2008, 07:16 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Austin, TX | | | Count me in as well. Met him a few times, and seen him with SRV, Arc Angels, Storyville and many other double trouble sit ins locally. |
05-15-2008, 07:20 PM
| | Smakkin basses for 25 years.. | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Vancouver Canada | | | count me in..
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05-15-2008, 07:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Dallas, TX | | | Love the Shannon. When I go into studio, I describe my sound to the engineer as "Tommy Shannon-esque."
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05-15-2008, 07:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | His tone with SRV was just so "much" - yet never overpowered Stevie.
A lot of people think of gtr/bass/drum trios as being about everyone playing a lot of notes to fill the space (Cream, Rush, etc.) but SRV and DT took it the opposite direction - leaving space and filling it in with fewer notes but big, FAT tones - and it was a beautiful thing. |
05-15-2008, 09:34 PM
| | Paid to be here | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Orange County, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Lync One more here...love his SRV tone and pocket but like scowboy said....the Arc Angels album is killer!
Good guy too as I met him once when Double Trouble was hired to back some local blues guy. | Yeah I've heard that about him too, that he's a fantastic person in addition to being a fantastic player. We need more people like him in the world. |
05-16-2008, 07:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: conditional upon harmonic Hz | | | I wondered who Winter's bassists were! As kids ( 10-ish) my guitar buddy across teh street was a Winter fan - great stuff to wean on!
HEAR HEAR ! Shannon fan!
We're covering Cold Shot, and I definitely appreciate Tommy's groove in that tune. Not the easiest thing to feel.
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05-16-2008, 09:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: NJ | | | awesome awesome awesome. He's the kind of bass player I hope to be ..... someday
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05-16-2008, 09:11 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Mississippi | | | yep, yep
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and appears to have a cool outlook on life |
05-16-2008, 09:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Miami, FL. | | | Oh Yeahhhh!
You know your a TS Fan & bassist when you lower the treble and raise the Bass on SRV masterful take of Little Whip.
Tommy Shannon approach has so much soul, he is awesome!
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