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11-10-2009, 07:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Newfoundland, Canada. | | | The Grass Roots - awesome tone!
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is that an Audiovox bass?
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11-10-2009, 07:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Anaheim, Ca. | | | Oh heh!! They aren't very good at lip-syncing so it would appear... But yeah, that old school tone is great, I totally agree. |
11-10-2009, 08:00 PM
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Managing Editor, Bass Guitars Editor, MusicGearReview.com | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, PA | | | As they are lip syncing, the tone on the bass is that of Joe Osborn (according to a list compiled by Vintage Bass magazine), and it's a 1960 Jazz bass, flat wound strings, played with a pick. Joe used only the front pickup. Lots of threads about Joe on TB. Oh -- might be an Audiovox bass, but I'm not sure.
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11-10-2009, 11:22 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Ya, Rob Grill is a pretty good singer, but he's not much of a bassist. Looks like it could be an Audiovox, but a lot of very similar basses like that came out under different names. |
11-11-2009, 07:33 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: GTA | | | The bass in the Midnight Confessions video that Rob's holding is a Eko model 995 (Violin bass). The Grass Roots were Eko endorsers during the late 60's into the early 70's.
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11-11-2009, 09:08 AM
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11-11-2009, 12:12 PM
| | | Premier session bassist Carol Kaye played the bass lines and gets that tone on Midnight Confessions and not Rob Grill. http://www.carolkaye.com/www/library/basshits.htm
Two years ago, I hired The Grass Roots to headline a concert I promoted and my band opened for them. Let's just say that most of the bass lines were tracked. |
11-11-2009, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Richland123  Premier session bassist Carol Kaye played the bass lines and gets that tone on Midnight Confessions and not Rob Grill. http://www.carolkaye.com/www/library/basshits.htm
Two years ago, I hired The Grass Roots to headline a concert I promoted and my band opened for them. Let's just say that most of the bass lines were tracked. | What we have here is two bass players claiming the same line -- Carol & Joe. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?f...ogId=146620313
Midnight Confession is listed in 1968, a #5 hit.
Guess it doesn't matter, and I'm not sure if her claim to having played several of Motown's most famous basslines has ever been definitively settled.
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11-11-2009, 01:39 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | That sounds more like Joe Osborn to me. And yeah, Rob stands there and holds a bass now and pretends to play. |
11-11-2009, 02:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Newfoundland, Canada. | | | I knew from the look he wasn't playing, but still, awesome tone!
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Originally Posted by mikeyswood A buttload would be about three orders of magnitude greater than a boatlaod, three orders of magnitude less that a s**tload, and about 1x10^-6 of a f***-ton. | |
11-11-2009, 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by JimmyM Ya, Rob Grill is a pretty good singer, but he's not much of a bassist. Looks like it could be an Audiovox, but a lot of very similar basses like that came out under different names. | He was still with the band when we opened for the Grass Roots a couple years back, he was a complete d-bag to my wife when she asked for his autograph backstage.
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11-11-2009, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by iamthebassman He was still with the band when we opened for the Grass Roots a couple years back, he was a complete d-bag to my wife when she asked for his autograph backstage. | Never met the guy, but I hear he can be a little rock-starry. You don't often see that in people who live in Mount Dora, FL, but there you go. |
11-11-2009, 04:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Bayville,NJ/Milton,Fl | | | Carole Kaye has laid claim to a number of songs that weren't hers, including I was made to love her by Jamerson.
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