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03-05-2010, 01:11 PM
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Pretty much title says it all. Trying to intriduce a friend to Lee's playing and want to put together an essential compilation. What say you?
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03-05-2010, 01:14 PM
|  | No matter where you go, there you are... | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Chicago (south suburbs) | | | Quadrant 4 from Billy Cobham's "Spectrum"
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03-05-2010, 08:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Nutley, NJ | | | Your Smiling Face- James Taylor |
03-05-2010, 08:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Nutley, NJ | | Also, check out www.inisdemusicast.com
3 great interviews with Lee, among other musicians. Cool podcast. |
03-05-2010, 09:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Round Rock, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mrufino1 Your Smiling Face- James Taylor | x1!! |
03-06-2010, 05:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Norway | | | I haven't heard much of Lee Sklar, but my favourite track (so far) has got to be Red Baron from Cobham's Spectrum. Sick, sick groove. |
03-06-2010, 06:27 AM
| | | | My favorite is Stratus from Cobham's Spectrum,I love that groove |
03-06-2010, 08:46 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | "Doctor, My Eyes" by Jackson Brown. That simple boogie feel that's punctuated by those fast descending lines that NEVER sound flashy nor self-serving, but always sound just so RIGHT. That's the key to Sklar's playing no matter the artist. It's just right for the song.
Second place goes to... aw heck, I can't choose between "Doin' The Meatball", "Sporadic Vacuums of Thought", "Dock Of The Bay" (all from The Section's album commonly called "the pie album"), James Taylor's "Your Smiling Face", or any of the other gazillion recordings he's done...
John
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03-06-2010, 08:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Leesburg, Virginia | | | JT's 'How Sweet It Is'. Nice percolating bass line! |
03-06-2010, 10:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mount Vernon, Illinois | | | Thank heavens for Lee Sklar... he's one of the few bassists that consistently delivers the "hook" bass melodies that even NON-bass players hum to themselves.
Kinda like the old Motown guys used to do (My Girl, etc...) |
03-06-2010, 10:53 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Maynard MA | | | For line construction and tone, James Taylor's Gone To Carolina In My Mind is my all time favorite. With the right stereo speakers, you hear how the lowest notes are put in just the perfect places and in MHO make the song. I think that's Lee? No? |
03-06-2010, 11:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Michigan's U.P. | | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxIyC...eature=related
Seriously, I have always liked this bass line......
I agree that there are far too many Lee bass lines that would take to long to mention.
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03-06-2010, 11:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jyväskylä, Finland | | | James Taylor's Sweet Potato Pie. Great shuffle there
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03-06-2010, 11:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Moenchengladbach, Germany | | | I like the Studio Version of "Find a Way to my Heart" by Phil Collins
Awesome Bassline
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03-06-2010, 12:03 PM
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03-06-2010, 06:24 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York City | | Quote:
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Is there actually any bass guitar on that cut?
I got $10 says it's Peter Robinson's left hand on a Minimoog. |
03-07-2010, 08:44 AM
| | | | I saw the recording is a synth...that said-
Around here, mid-'80s, a Top-40 band with Oteil Burbridge on bass played "Sussudio" when it was popular. Oteil killed it.
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03-07-2010, 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by jeffwo JT's 'How Sweet It Is'. Nice percolating bass line! | It's a great cover & certainly Sklar nails it & his tone is awesome...still, it's more of an homage to Jamerson.
Have you checked out the Marvin Gaye version?
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03-07-2010, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Hoover Is there actually any bass guitar on that cut?
I got $10 says it's Peter Robinson's left hand on a Minimoog. |
Just checked the liners on the LP-
No bassist is listed. David Frank (of The System) is listed on "Mini-Moog Bass".
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03-08-2010, 08:39 AM
| | Eat at Joe's | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: J-Actionville, NC | | | I have never listened to Billy Cobham's "spectrum" but it sounds like it would be worth it. Apparently I need to listen to more of Lee's stuff before I go "informing" anyone! THe problem is that he is on such an extensive catalogue of songs and some of it I will only listen to to hear him and can't really stand the song itself. I appreciate the expansion of my horizons though.
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