This concert clip will make you feel proud to be a bassist!

de la mocha · #1 05-10-2007, 03:59 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjxFu_NXET4

It's a precision bass! It's loud! And it's from the 60s!

Dr. Cheese · #2 05-10-2007, 04:25 PM

It definitely shows how great Jamerson's influence was on that era.

JimK · #3 05-10-2007, 05:02 PM

That's the sort of raw emotion that's missing from the vast majority of today's Pop.

Subculture13 · #4 05-10-2007, 05:27 PM

Yeah, that didn't suck

Twistad · #5 05-10-2007, 06:21 PM

Like I wasn't GASing enough for a P-bass...and now you've got to post this...

de la mocha · #6 05-10-2007, 06:54 PM

Bump.

bassist15 · #7 05-10-2007, 06:59 PM

Brad Campbell is the man's name and he's been a favorite of mine for a few years since I saw a clip of him playing with Janis on tv. He's another great player who doestn get mentioned at all , great feel and great bass.

Lazylion · #8 05-10-2007, 07:20 PM

Can't you just hear the band thinking "oh crap, she's got half the crowd up here! Somebody's gonna unplug my cord!"

Love that ultrahip dude in the gray turtleneck and beads! Those were the days... I still love Janis. I used to have a giant poster of her on my bedroom wall...

DocBop · #9 05-10-2007, 09:01 PM

I was a fan of Janis then and still am, pure raw Soul.

Over processed formula music today sounds amateur hour compared to Old School Rock and Soul. Guess thats why the sample it so much.

ibnzneksrul · #10 05-10-2007, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese

It definitely shows how great Jamerson's influence was on that era.

+1, sounds like Campbell took lessons from the Man himself.

Jeff Moote · #11 05-10-2007, 10:29 PM

Maybe it's because I did not live through that era, or perhaps due to overplay on radio, but it doesn't do anything for me. I made myself sit through it just to hear the bass, which I agree was nice (the playing anyway - that precision could do with a less distorted amplifier). I've never been a fan of Joplin though, compared to many of her contemporaries, so what do I know?

ROON · #12 05-10-2007, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Moote

Maybe it's because I did not live through that era, or perhaps due to overplay on radio, but it doesn't do anything for me. I made myself sit through it just to hear the bass, which I agree was nice (the playing anyway - that precision could do with a less distorted amplifier). I've never been a fan of Joplin though, compared to many of her contemporaries, so what do I know?

+100

But what would I know, I'm just an ignorant 16 year old.

Kronos · #13 05-10-2007, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Moote

Maybe it's because I did not live through that era, or perhaps due to overplay on radio, but it doesn't do anything for me. I made myself sit through it just to hear the bass, which I agree was nice (the playing anyway - that precision could do with a less distorted amplifier). I've never been a fan of Joplin though, compared to many of her contemporaries, so what do I know?

I'm with you, and I'm 32. I couldn't watch the clip long enough before wanting to rip my ears out. I can't stand Janis' caterwauling.

God, I'm glad I didn't live in the 60's. No offense to those of you that did, but the hippie movement really doesn't do it for me.

Jeff Moote · #14 05-10-2007, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Kronos

I'm with you, and I'm 32. I couldn't watch the clip long enough before wanting to rip my ears out. I can't stand Janis' caterwauling.

God, I'm glad I didn't live in the 60's. No offense to those of you that did, but the hippie movement really doesn't do it for me.

Well lots of good things came from the 60s musically. The culture is pretty foreign to me, but I'm glad we get to enjoy the music that came out of that time. Janis just isn't on my list of good things from that era

Thunder_Fingers · #15 05-11-2007, 01:21 AM

Why doesnt anyone dare to play like that today?

I bet you that P bass is flatwounded, cause he sounds like Steve Harris

oh.. its 69, its probaly flatwounded anyway..

Fretless1! · #16 05-11-2007, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Moote

Maybe it's because I did not live through that era, or perhaps due to overplay on radio, but it doesn't do anything for me. I've never been a fan of Joplin though, compared to many of her contemporaries, so what do I know?

Ah, don't worry about it. I'm 44 and just in the last 5 or 6 years I started "getting" Motown! Now I can't help but see the genius in it. Jamerson and Babbitt were/are phenomenal.

I think you're right. Radio overplays stuff and you get sick of it before you get a chance to like it.

I think the only raw emotion much modern music has is, apparently, anger. And it's not usually very clear what they're angry about. It takes some guts to reach down inside you and express yourself as eloquently as Janis did.

brianrost · #17 05-11-2007, 08:09 AM

I'm from that era and I am still ambivalent about Janis. She was nowhere near as good a blues or soul vocalist as her fans claim but she was one of the few "hippie chicks" trying to do R&B. The original Big Brother band had no soul although they had their moments as a trippy garage band (esp. Ball and Chain off Cheap Thrills with it's psychotic fuzz guitar work). On the plus side it sure wasn't music being designed by focus groups

Janis' real legacy for me was hipping me to the black artists she idolized. I heard her singing Summertime long before I knew about Porgy and Bess or any of the great jazz artists who had done the song. The saddest thing was her very last (and best) album showed she was finally starting to get it together and go beyond the histrionics into some real soul

That video shows a transitional band, some Big Brother holdovers (Sam Andrew on guitar) plus some of the Canadians (like Brad Campbell) that would become the Full Tilt Boogie band.

Lazylion · #18 05-11-2007, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by brianrost

The original Big Brother band had no soul although they had their moments as a trippy garage band (esp. Ball and Chain off Cheap Thrills with it's psychotic fuzz guitar work).

I always thought of them as psychedelic soul, emphasis on the psychedelic part. I wore out my copy of Cheap Thrills!

Dr. Cheese · #19 05-11-2007, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by brianrost

I'm from that era and I am still ambivalent about Janis. She was nowhere near as good a blues or soul vocalist as her fans claim but she was one of the few "hippie chicks" trying to do R&B. The original Big Brother band had no soul although they had their moments as a trippy garage band (esp. Ball and Chain off Cheap Thrills with it's psychotic fuzz guitar work). On the plus side it sure wasn't music being designed by focus groups

Janis' real legacy for me was hipping me to the black artists she idolized. I heard her singing Summertime long before I knew about Porgy and Bess or any of the great jazz artists who had done the song. The saddest thing was her very last (and best) album showed she was finally starting to get it together and go beyond the histrionics into some real soul

That video shows a transitional band, some Big Brother holdovers (Sam Andrew on guitar) plus some of the Canadians (like Brad Campbell) that would become the Full Tilt Boogie band.

+1, I agree with your assessment of Janis Joplin. The bassist, however, is definitely jamming in that sixties Jamerson/boogaloo style.

de la mocha · #20 05-11-2007, 09:40 AM

I didn't live through the 60s but that's my favorite era of music! I love the sounds, the colors, the wacky fashion, man I wish I was alive back then! So much stuff going on back then, civil rights, walking on the moon, classic rock.....