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12-11-2009, 12:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Minooka, IL | | | The Bass Lines of Sade
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Not sure who the bassist is...whoever it is deserves some major kudos...
I really love the smooth and sexy bass lines in most of her stuff. The bass really carries alot of the songs. For example:
"Hang On To Your Love"
"Smooth Operator"
"Is It A Crime"
"Paradise"
"No Ordinary Love"
"Kiss of Life"
Definately songs for "mommy & daddy time".  |
12-11-2009, 12:19 PM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | | Paul Denman is the man.... lots of fans of his playing here. |
12-11-2009, 12:30 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | The man rocks schmmoooovly. Velvety to the ears.
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12-11-2009, 12:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Pennsylvania | | | Some of the very first songs I ever learned how to play were from Sade! My teacher gave me Smooth Operator to learn and I can play it to this day. I think another was Is It A Crime. Great basslines. |
12-11-2009, 12:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Derbyshire UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by James Hart Paul Denman is the man.... lots of fans of his playing here. |
+1 Musicman Stingray hung just under your chin & you have the look (See the Live Aid DVD for the visual) -- Apparently they have a new album out soon & Sade Aide still look beautiful in her mid 50's.
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12-11-2009, 12:41 PM
| | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | Isn't it Sade Adu?
Agreed on hot- regardless of age(so far..).
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12-11-2009, 12:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Derbyshire UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassteban Isn't it Sade Adu?
Agreed on hot- regardless of age(so far..). | Yeah sorry Adu it is -- my age so far has mushed my memory! 
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12-11-2009, 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by bassteban Velvety to the ears. | Those are the words I was searching for! |
12-11-2009, 12:59 PM
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Let the Bass sound like a Bass! | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: SMYRNA, TN | | | You need to checkout Sweetback. It was him and two other cats from Sade band members. They also produced Maxwell's earlier stuff.
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12-11-2009, 01:05 PM
| | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | I remember seeing them(on TV)playing live years ago; my wife say,'I think she does her bassplayer' 
I said, 'What are you talkin about?' 
She(Sade- not my wife  )then proceeds to saunter(imagine THAT)on over to a deeply grooving Mr Denman and totally bows down to the man.
I was like, 'OK, then,
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12-11-2009, 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by James Hart Paul Denman is the man.... lots of fans of his playing here. | Absolutely!! Groove for miles and a sweeeet tone!! The first 3 records...Diamond Life, Promise and Stronger Than Pride are my favorites because they have no synth bass or programmed drums. It's all Paul grooving like nobodys business with Martin Ditcham or Dave Early on drums! The later stuff is good but too much programming, not enough playing for my taste.
Hopefully the new one will have more of the classic style.
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12-11-2009, 10:59 PM
|  | Dr. Jim | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denton TX, Kailua HI, New York | | Quote:
Originally Posted by James Hart Paul Denman is the man.... lots of fans of his playing here. |
"I'm a Paul Denman Wanna be!" is rhythm mnemonic I recently used to remember a bass like for an audition. I nailed it and got the gig!
Another great Urban R&B project I am on has "No Ordinary Love" on the set list. This is a problem for me because I LOVE IT SO SO SO!
Sade and Paul Denman make me gas for a 2 band EQ 1979 Stingray.
I love her...
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12-12-2009, 05:40 AM
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12-12-2009, 05:57 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Dayton NJ | | | Cool.
Boy oh boy, I saw this thread and then went to youtube. 40 minutes later I remembered I had this thread minimized on the tool bar. What a grooving bass.
I bow down to such rhythmic goodness. 
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12-12-2009, 09:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Clayton, NC | | | +1 on everything said so far...plus getting to see them live has also been a blessing...
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12-12-2009, 09:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: London, UK | | | Funnily enough, I've had to learn 'Smooth Operator' just this week to support a singer in a side project tonight...It's a nice bass line, and you even get a little fretless solo
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12-12-2009, 09:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Seattle, WA | | | When I got back into bass playing after a stint playing guitar for a long time, the first thing I did was to put a reminder in my notebook to rip my Sade CD collection into iTunes and start jamming to those songs. |
12-12-2009, 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Jools4001 Funnily enough, I've had to learn 'Smooth Operator' just this week to support a singer in a side project tonight...It's a nice bass line, and you even get a little fretless solo | Thats not a fretless 
Maybe the chorus tricked you into that.
This tread needs some music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNtMK-7CaLQ
He's the one that got me into Stingrays.
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01-12-2010, 11:42 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Anyone heard the new SADE album? Saw it on ITUNES...
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01-12-2010, 11:45 AM
| | Registered User | | | | | sorry..."Soldier of Love" is set for release on 2/9...can't wait...wonder if there will be a tour..
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