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02-17-2002, 05:39 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: The Motor City | | | He's baaaa-aaaack!!! Thunder Thumbs, that is.
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I just read a series of posts at Stanley Clarke's website that confirm that The Brothers Johnson are back together! Both George AND Louis !!!
The last time the "Brothers Johnson" toured, Louis didn't want to participate, so George brought in another bassist and still billed the act as The Brothers Johnson. Fans felt slighted and Louis was po'd. Words were exchanged and George left a very threatening message on Louis' answering machine. It appeared that chances of their ever getting back together were remote at best.
Louis' web site refers to an upcoming solo CD, as well as an upcoming Brothers Johnson CD.
Let the funk begin!!
Peace,
James
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02-18-2002, 06:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ireland | | | Aint we fonkin now ah huh ah huh,
sweet!
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Bob Ohlsson, former Motown 'super' engineer.....the man responsible for THAT sound.
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02-18-2002, 08:02 AM
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Wouldn't you like to know?! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | | They're coming to Atlanta soon!
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There's a reason why women love us bass players.The tone is like Barry White's voice, and the strings are thick like Ron Jeremy's...well, you get the point.
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02-18-2002, 11:05 AM
| | | | Hmmm...
I just wonder how much of the 'magic' will still be present after all these years.
The thrill for me hearing "Is It Love That We're Missing" from Q's Mellow Madness album, "I'll Be Good To You" from the Bros' debut for the first time...I don't know if that youthful exhuberance can be replicated. I hope I'm wrong...
Is Alex Weir(cousin & Talking Heads' touring guitarist)on-board?
Anybody(besides Brad)remember "Midnight Soul Patrol" from Quincy's I Heard That! album?
I have never seen this album or tune on cd.
On bass-
Louis(fretted), Stanley(piccolo), & Alphonso(fretless)...Louis & Stanely engage in a solo 'duel'(very nice thumb chops by LJ).
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02-18-2002, 08:45 PM
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....Anybody(besides Brad)remember "Midnight Soul Patrol" from Quincy's I Heard That! album?
I have never seen this album or tune on cd.
On bass-
Louis(fretted), Stanley(piccolo), & Alphonso(fretless)...Louis & Stanely engage in a solo 'duel'(very nice thumb chops by LJ). | I don't remember that one, but I do remember "We Supply" from Stanley's "Rocks, Pebbles, and Sand" album. Louis is thumpin' hard while Stanley is chording in the background.
A couple years ago I went to a guitar show in Dearborn, Michigan and there was a guy trying out basses at almost every post. He was playing Louis' part on "We Supply". He was playing it well, but that's all he was playing. All afternoon. Kinda like going into GC and hearing "Higher Ground" or "Aeroplane" 
Peace,
James
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02-18-2002, 11:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Florida | | | thatd be a nice lil concert to check out. Louis is one of my bigger influances.
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02-19-2002, 03:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ireland | | | Is it only me or is it a little sad to see a player of Louis calibre reduced to advertising his skills for hire on his website.
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"A great bass player MAKES a great vocal happen while a mediocre one limits the singer. The bass player is like a pilot keeping the ship away from the rocks. It doesn't draw attention to its self but it's a great big pain when there's nothing wrong with a bass but nothing right about it either".
Bob Ohlsson, former Motown 'super' engineer.....the man responsible for THAT sound.
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02-19-2002, 07:30 AM
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Wouldn't you like to know?! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | | You wanna tasteful chops? Check out his playing on the song, "Mr. Briefcase" by Lee Ritenour. Woo wee!
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There's a reason why women love us bass players.The tone is like Barry White's voice, and the strings are thick like Ron Jeremy's...well, you get the point.
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02-19-2002, 07:47 AM
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02-19-2002, 04:15 PM
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You wanna tasteful chops? Check out his playing on the song, "Mr. Briefcase" by Lee Ritenour. Woo wee! | I'm pretty sure that was David Hungate from Toto!
...we are talking the original, studio version, right? 
(I remember busting my butt on that tune & thinking, "Crap, Hungate is a muther"!).
I always liked Louis' lines on Mike McDonald's "I Keep Forgetting(We're Not In Love Anymore)".
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