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06-14-2009, 05:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | Colin Moulding - Reviving the Love
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Heard "Mayor of Simpleton" this weekend for the first time in several years. Wow, again, just... wow. So busy and yet so musical. Nice tone too with a Wal bass IIRC.
The one thing I had forgotten about is the uninspired, cheezy sounding drum track (a machine?), which kind of keeps the song from being everything it could be ... but from the bass perspective it is just so right. I've never given bass lessons but if I did, this would definitely be on my student's "must listen" list. There are about 10 lessons in great bass playing right there in that song alone. |
06-14-2009, 05:54 PM
|  | Johnny and Joe | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chicago | | | Colin Moulding is great. So melodic, yet he can really rip it up on the right song. Also, he's a fine songwriter and singer. FWIW, he's sporting a Ric in the video for Mayor of Simpleton (I know, not a good indicator).
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06-14-2009, 06:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: T.Rez, Canada | | | Greetings from the North,
Colin Moulding brought so much to XTC. He influenced me big time. And he made it look so easy!
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06-14-2009, 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by jaywa I've never given bass lessons but if I did, this would definitely be on my student's "must listen" list. There are about 10 lessons in great bass playing right there in that song alone. |
Absolutely!
A great fluid and melodic track full of energy from a gem of a player.
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06-14-2009, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by genderblind Absolutely!
A great fluid and melodic track full of energy from a gem of a player. | It's funny, but most would think "pop song = simple, repetative bass". I don't know what I would have come up with if Mr. Partridge showed me his song.  That's why I love the man, he plays things I'd never think of.  |
06-14-2009, 07:51 PM
|  | Impersonal Confuser. | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fresno, CA | | Quote: |
The one thing I had forgotten about is the uninspired, cheezy sounding drum track (a machine?), which kind of keeps the song from being everything it could be...
| Em, that would be former Mr. Mister, now King Crimson drum God Pat Mastelotto.
Yes Colin Moulding is a fantastic player. My San Diego band covered M.O.St., and I got to tell ya, that song is quite a feat to pull off, and extremely fun.... if your fingers don't get tied in knots.
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06-15-2009, 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Sonicfrog Em, that would be former Mr. Mister, now King Crimson drum God Pat Mastelotto. | Seriously? Well they did a great job making him sound like a cheezy drum machine... |
06-15-2009, 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by GregC FWIW, he's sporting a Ric in the video for Mayor of Simpleton (I know, not a good indicator). | Especially when it's not a Ric but a REALLY bad Ric copy.
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04-04-2010, 06:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Glastonbury, UK | | | Hmmmm an old thread but..........................
Colin is everything I admire in a Bass Player, to the point, everything in the right place, economical, solid and fuid with it all. Ok so Im looking through rose tinted glasses, XTC are the best pop group that never was, they can do no wrong. Oh and yep he can rip it up where needed. He has the imagination to slip totally off the wall styles into songs that you would never imagine could take it. Him and Terry Chambers - the perfect rhythm section!!
The early stuff is still the best for me.
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04-05-2010, 05:58 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Nashville | | | I agree, all their output is exceptional. My favorite albums are Nonsuch, Apple Venus, and Black Sea. Exceptional writing and arranging.
Great tunes and playing by all members. I do prefer the albums with Dave Mattocks on the traps, as opposed to Pat Mastelotto's contributions. I think Mattocks was a better fit and played more finely crafted parts.
When Black Sea came out is when I started to pay attention to the band and Mr. Mouldings playing.
I was working in a record shop, playing in a band, and attending college at the time. For some reason prior to Black Sea, I never payed them much attention, even though Making Plans for Nigel was played in the shop regularly.
Maybe one day Colin will choose to play with Andy....and Dave Gregory again.
The Fuzzy Warbles Collectors edition box set has a ton of XTC's demos, etc. Mostly, Colin would flesh out and improve Andy's demo's and already recorded bass tracks. |
04-05-2010, 01:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Berkeley, CA | | | I love Colin/The Red Curtain (his psychedelic alter-ego for Dukes of Stratosphear). | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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