Blues Bass Players Club - Page 2

bhubb3rd · #21 04-21-2009, 06:06 AM

Count me in as well! On the Board of the Lehigh Valley Blues Network, play in a classic rock band (still lookin' for a blues band to play in!) but regularly attend many of the blues jams n the valley. In fact, going to the Leather Corner Post blues jam in Orefield, PA tonight. In you are in the area, please stop by.

lonote · #22 04-21-2009, 06:52 AM

I'm an old bluesman from frozen Minnesota. I'm in a band called Cool Disposition...guitar, harp, drums, bass and a singer. We recently finished an all original 16 song CD called "Jumping in the Mudd." Check out our myspace.

main_sale · #23 04-21-2009, 07:29 AM

I'll bite. I like to use my Ampeg B-15R/15E with a solid body bass plus a semi-hollowbody bass. I'm finding myself using the semi's more and more....also, my Genz-Benz Shuttle 6.0 and NeoX212T are getting increased use.

DogBone · #24 04-21-2009, 08:25 AM

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Wow what a beautiful pair. I can't decide which one I like better!

jbassbob · #25 04-21-2009, 08:37 AM

I started a love affair with the Blues about 8 years ago. Now the Blues is about all I listen to and play. Simple progressions but not so simple to execute. It's music you really have to feel. Can't seem to get enough of it.

Count me in!

Oh yeah, those are two beauties in the above post!

tlr1293 · #26 04-21-2009, 08:44 AM

Count me in!
I'm still in major 'learning' mode and am using Blues as a foundation.

GlennW · #27 04-21-2009, 09:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tlr1293

I'm still in major 'learning' mode and am using Blues as a foundation.

Check out a Howlin' Wolf CD called His Best, a fine place to start (and end up).

Sailboat339 · #28 04-21-2009, 10:40 AM

I'm with you fellers. We have a blues band down here on the gulf coast, really lots of fun. Blue Geezer. I play a Yamaha BB1200 with flats, it fits in the mix nicely.

Stumbo · #29 04-21-2009, 11:02 AM

Count me in. #13. Too many blues jams to count. Lots of house parties back in the day. Same guys showed up to jam on a regular basis. We never formed a band but we did get the crowd moving every time we played together. Backed Big Joe Turner and his sax player on a couple of songs at a hole-in-the-wall club we were playing at one night.

Edit: I guess the OP didn't hang around. Anyone else want to lead the club?

dlb1001 · #30 04-21-2009, 11:09 AM

Add me to the list, too!
I have listened blues based materials but have only been playing for a few years. Sounds easy but it ain't...finding and staying in the groove is everything.
I have been playing in local jams and have been with a band for nearly year...it is fun but it takes a lot of work

smakbass · #31 04-21-2009, 11:13 AM

Im in I play in www.madisonbluesband.ca regularily as well as sub in and play in some host bands for jams here and there.

watspan · #32 04-21-2009, 11:16 AM

100 % blues bass here! I'd be interested in hearing your guys take on originals vs. covers at bar gigs and what some of the best received covers are. My feel is that blues bar patrons want to hear familiar material--give it your own twist, but play songs they know. unless you're an all-originals band and promote yourself as such.

www.myspace.com/bluetrainforblues

Stumbo · #33 04-21-2009, 11:20 AM

I'll put the numbers out for now. If I've missed anyone or made a mistake, please let me know.

#1 blues_bassist
#2 62Jazzbass
#3 JohnFrancis
#4 nickn
#5 Dogbone
#6 specter6A
#7 Sleeq
#8 derrenleepoole
#9 mongo2
#10 Freelancer
#11 Santraginus
#12 billoetjen
#13 Stumbo
#14 deepbluesuk
#15 awall
#16 Fenderjazz6823
#17 bassflyer19
#18 mlafrancis
#19 reno88
#19 bhubb3rd
#20 lonote
#21main_sale
#22 jbassbob
#23 tlr1293
#24 Saliboat339
#25 dlb1001
#26 smakbass
#27 watspan

smakbass · #34 04-21-2009, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by watspan

100 % blues bass here! I'd be interested in hearing your guys take on originals vs. covers at bar gigs and what some of the best received covers are. My feel is that blues bar patrons want to hear familiar material--give it your own twist, but play songs they know. unless you're an all-originals band and promote yourself as such.

www.myspace.com/bluetrainforblues

We tend to intersperse it, I play with another act that does alot of originals as well for a festival gig it would be all the originals..for a 3 set gig in a bar, you always have to hit some favourites for sure.

scottbass · #35 04-21-2009, 11:29 AM

Please enroll me. (You can enroll me over and over and over and over and over and over again...YEAH!) (switch to IV...)

Is someone gonna assign some numbers?

I've been playing blues since the very early 70's. Beatles and Stones pointed me in that direction and Jimi, Paul Butterfield, Eric, John Mayall and The Who took me all the way down the trail.

Here's my latest conglomeration of players:

http://www.myspace.com/2ndexitblues

thumpbass1 · #36 04-21-2009, 11:54 AM

Count me in. My band plays a lot of blues.

lonote · #37 04-21-2009, 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by watspan

100 % blues bass here! I'd be interested in hearing your guys take on originals vs. covers at bar gigs and what some of the best received covers are. My feel is that blues bar patrons want to hear familiar material--give it your own twist, but play songs they know. unless you're an all-originals band and promote yourself as such.

www.myspace.com/bluetrainforblues

We have put out 2 full-length CD's and an EP. The first CD was a live recording and was 75% covers. The EP and the new CD are all originals. We mix it up no matter where we play..bars, festivals, what have you, but at least half the songs we do are originals...the originals go over at least as well as the covers. The dancers love the swing and up-tempo shuffle songs but rumbas and boogaloos also work. We normally play only 2 or 3 slow numbers a night, 1 of which is an original blues ballad. Some of the covers we play are "Hoochie Coochie Man," "Shake Your Moneymaker," "Every Day I Have the Blues," "Got My Mojo Workin'," "Easy Baby," "You Belong to Me," and "Tee-Nah-Nee-Nah-Nu," among others. I think that having a variety of grooves is essential; I know I have a hard time sitting through 3 or 4 sets of mid-tempo shuffles and minor key slow songs.

tlr1293 · #38 04-21-2009, 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GlennW

Check out a Howlin' Wolf CD called His Best, a fine place to start (and end up).

Will Do!!

<---is this the 'Blues' smile?

Thanks!

JK on the smile thing

scottbass · #39 04-21-2009, 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stumbo

I'll put the numbers out for now. If I've missed anyone or made a mistake, please let me know.

#1 blues_bassist
#2 62Jazzbass
#3 JohnFrancis
#4 nickn
#5 Dogbone
#6 specter6A
#7 Sleeq
#8 derrenleepoole
#9 mongo2
#10 Freelancer
#11 Santraginus
#12 billoetjen
#13 Stumbo
#14 deepbluesuk
#15 awall
#16 Fenderjazz6823
#17 bassflyer19
#18 mlafrancis
#19 reno88
#19 bhubb3rd
#20 lonote
#21main_sale
#22 jbassbob
#23 tlr1293
#24 Saliboat339
#25 dlb1001
#26 smakbass
#27 watspan

OK - I'll add the next two who asked:

#28 scottbass
#29 thumpbass1

dlb1001 · #40 04-21-2009, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by watspan

100 % blues bass here! I'd be interested in hearing your guys take on originals vs. covers at bar gigs and what some of the best received covers are. My feel is that blues bar patrons want to hear familiar material--give it your own twist, but play songs they know. unless you're an all-originals band and promote yourself as such.

www.myspace.com/bluetrainforblues

We are doing covers right now...I would like to do originals but I'm not much of a writer but maybe later.
We do some Jimmy Reed, Freddie King, Lou Ann Barton, Fabulous T-birds, John Mayall, etc. We are still building our song list and try to get the right mix so that we keep the crowd interested.