fernando saunders!

narcopolo · #1 05-21-2009, 10:12 PM

god, the guy is amazing. i just stumbled across this clip, and it made me grin like an idiot.

smeet · #2 05-21-2009, 10:13 PM

um, which clip?

narcopolo · #3 05-21-2009, 10:16 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYOVxK-6ZSE

dang. maybe they were right about short-term memory issues . . .

JAUQO III-X · #4 05-21-2009, 10:27 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVfMyRb4YfY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cr_WgCxBJE

Buogon · #5 05-21-2009, 10:39 PM

Fernado has always been one of my favorite BP , i talk with him on MS he wants to come to one of my gigs when he's in NY. He plays unlined FB basses my favorite also.

Dr. Cheese · #6 05-21-2009, 11:05 PM

This is where Fernaundo got his start. You can hear the fretless but it was definitely more understated:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfpwYAEx_b4

spcmstrbtasp · #7 05-22-2009, 05:41 AM

Are there any videos of him playing his Kydd bass? I see it onstage in some of these...

Barkless Dog · #8 05-22-2009, 06:06 AM

I love his work with Lou Reed - A fav was the song "New Sensations"

Pete skjold · #9 05-22-2009, 06:46 AM

I love Fernando! Glad he is getting some notice. Seal also used him on his albums and that is some of my favorite stuff. He has been with Lou for a very long time, I would love to meet him someday.

**davidjbass** · #10 05-22-2009, 06:56 AM

His work on Lou Reeds New Sensation Album was incredible. I don't have the link but look up Lou Reed's New Sensation song on You Tube. There is a live version of it where they are playing Farm Aid back in the late 80's. Fernando is playing a fretless Guild Pilot bass. He is great. One of my major influences.

fretlesswonder · #11 05-22-2009, 06:59 AM

He played on the Pat Benatar cd Wide Awake in Dreamland , really gave that cd color, loved his lines, fluid.

Dr. Cheese · #12 05-22-2009, 07:05 AM

I read once in an interview with Fernaundo Saunders that it was his early gig with Hamilton Bohannon, the drummer credited with inventing the Disco beat, that most impressed Lou Reed!

Here is some sick fretless fingerfunk that Saunders put down on Bohannon's biggest hit, Let's Start the Dance:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2mG-...eature=related

I like to say Saunders, Lamont Johnson, Michael Henderson, and I guess Ralphe Armstrong were all part of the Detroit fretless funk mob. All of these guys were very underrrated fretless players, the first three were bassists who used lots of fretless in disco, funk, and r&b, a phenomenon that has been largely overlooked, IMO.

Barkless Dog · #13 05-22-2009, 07:10 AM

Saunders is what kept Lou being listenable for me in the 80's & 90's. Lous music is sorry lacking without him in my opinion Post Saunders.

bottomzone · #14 05-22-2009, 12:55 PM

COOL POST!!!!!!!!!!!! Fernando Saunders is so underrated, IMHO. My first introduction to him was via Jan Hammer recordings. Hear is a killer track from Jan Hammer's Oh Yeah project. I'm going to have to break this one out again as well as Melodies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63JSg...eature=related

A Groove is a Terrible Thing to Waste!

jerry · #15 05-22-2009, 03:32 PM

I'm a longtime fan, I have a couple solo albums of his that sound a little dated because of some of the programing, but the bass still kills. In the 70's after his funk stuff he was one of the fusion guys working with people like Hammer, and McLaughlin. Lou's a smart guy, he always had a great bassist!

spigmu · #16 05-22-2009, 05:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barkless Dog

Saunders is what kept Lou being listenable for me in the 80's & 90's. Lous music is sorry lacking without him in my opinion Post Saunders.

Lou Reed is a smart guy. He hires a kick ass rhythm section and pays them well. It not only makes a two chord song listenable (I know lots of great two chord songs, none of them Reed's) but they allow him to still sound as uninteresting a guitarist there is and you can sometimes almost pretend he isn't there.

One really bad thing about all the FS Lou Reed shows I've seen is that, much as I also really enjoy FS's playing, I've never seen him in the bigger band context, where Reed doesn't play (like during the Prakash John era). Don't know if he's done that since using FS. Too late for me now : ) I've had my fill. The emperor still has no clothes. Somebody let me know of any live shows Saunders does with anyone else and I'm there : )

N.F.A. · #17 07-25-2011, 11:57 AM

Resurrecting this a bit to recommend giving his material a listen. I saw him back in the day with John McLaughlin's One Truth Band. Excellent show.