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04-11-2008, 12:26 PM
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I'm always on the lookout for some more 8-string bass players to add to my CD collection, just wondering if anyone has some favorites?
My absolute favorite is probably "Ina's Song" by Limbo Race. This appeared on a single (remember those? 45 rpm vinyl disc thingie) released on some indie label in the early 1980's. I used to see Limbo Race perform around Boston a lot, and I mixed FOH for them at the InSquare Men's Bar a few times. But anyway, "Ina's Song" has such a huge driving 8-string bass part that there's no guitar at all on the song...unusual for a band fronted by a guitarist. John Niedlhart was the bassist, playing an Ibanez ST-980, and I found an online version of the tune here: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndid=110487593
Of artists with a more visible commercial profile, I'd have to cite Bill Laswell's 8-string playing (also an ST-980) on the title cut from Material's Memory Serves album (Okay, that's not really very commercial either...) or John Entwistle's Alembic 8-string on "Trick Of The Light".
What do you recommend?
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04-11-2008, 01:41 PM
|  | My favorite songs were never heard on the radio | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tulsa, OK | | | King's X. Doug Pinnick uses a Hamer 8-string on most if not all of their recordings. Killer tone, very unique. |
04-11-2008, 01:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Earth | | | Not a big Zeppelin fan and I don't think Presence is that solid an album, but I love Achilles' Last Stand. Jones is a pretty great musician.
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04-11-2008, 01:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Houston, TX | | | Mark Egan's Mosaic. Lots of 8 string on that record. He used a double neck 8 string fretted / 4 string fretless on most of the tracks. A lot of Cheap Trick's records supposedly has it but I could never tell just by listening. |
04-11-2008, 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by MonetBass King's X. Doug Pinnick uses a Hamer 8-string on most if not all of their recordings. Killer tone, very unique. | Sorry to correct you, but Doug uses Hamer and Yamaha 12 string basses. Also, the majority of King's X recording are regular 4 string detuned.
Mucho information in the "Players" section here: http://12stringbass.net/
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04-11-2008, 05:32 PM
| | | | I'm not exactly sure what songs he used it on but Geezer Butler used one. I just watched a vid on YT a few weeks ago, sorry I don't remember the song name at the moment. |
04-11-2008, 05:45 PM
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by Galactic Cowboys, that must be 8 string? am i wrong? the song rocks, and great bassplaying anyway!
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04-11-2008, 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by kojak "all abouts mrs leslie"
by Galactic Cowboys, that must be 8 string? am i wrong? the song rocks, and great bassplaying anyway!
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The majority of the first couple of galactic cowboy records were NOTHING but 8 string mixed in stereo with some major distortion added for fun... |
04-12-2008, 10:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: London, England | | Me and my drummer love 'Success Story' by The Who.
Led Zep's 'Nobody's Fault But Mine' is great because you can pan the stereo and just hear Bonzo and JPJ on 8-string. 
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04-12-2008, 10:51 AM
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04-12-2008, 10:58 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fredonia, NY | | I think Stirrat plays an 8 in the song "Please Be Patient With Me" off Wilco's Sky Blue Sky album. good song. very very chill |
04-12-2008, 11:13 AM
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04-12-2008, 06:52 PM
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P-Funk - I got a Thing and Free Your Mind (Billy Nelson, per 7/05 Bass Player article)
John Paul Jones' two solo albums, Zooma and The Thunderthief, are just packed with 8- string stuff.
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04-13-2008, 01:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Milwaukee, WI | | | This Mortal Coil "Kangaroo". Played by the great Simon Raymonde.
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04-14-2008, 09:29 AM
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04-14-2008, 10:48 AM
| | My favorite songs were never heard on the radio | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tulsa, OK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Basshappi Sorry to correct you, but Doug uses Hamer and Yamaha 12 string basses. Also, the majority of King's X recording are regular 4 string detuned.
Mucho information in the "Players" section here: http://12stringbass.net/ | D'oh! You are so right. Thanks for the clarification.  |
04-14-2008, 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Philbiker So Do I. And "Sister Disco" as well. | Don't forget "Trick of the Light"
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04-14-2008, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by duckbutter Don't forget "Trick of the Light" | See OP! |
04-14-2008, 03:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Ankh-Morpork | | | actually, now that I've had a listen through it again, a lot of that Material record sounds like 8-string.
There's also a video clip of Laswell using it with Praxis in 2003 or so.
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