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07-21-2009, 06:20 PM
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How awesome is the bass playing on Jeff Becks "Blow by Blow"???
So awesome!!
I Really like this album.
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07-21-2009, 06:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | | Sorry, not sure about blow by blow, but his first two feature ron wood on bass, and the playing is sweet! |
07-21-2009, 06:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Ky | | Blow by Blow features Phil Chen on Bass- and yes he is the Bruce Lee of Bass  |
07-21-2009, 06:54 PM
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07-21-2009, 07:05 PM
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07-21-2009, 07:09 PM
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07-21-2009, 07:25 PM
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Very tasty Precision work by Phil Chen. |
07-21-2009, 08:22 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | Yeah, great stuff. Phil Chen's a bass player, while Ron Wood always sounds like a guitarist who doesn't quite "get" bass.
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07-21-2009, 11:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: South Florida | | Phil Chen was featured in a recent BP article. I found it interesting that he doesn't read a lick of music and plays by ear....Not promoting this BTW. It's just that some have it and some don't 
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07-22-2009, 04:44 AM
| | | Great album that 'blew' me away the 1st time I heard it (the week it was released...in 1975).
Take the 1st tune, "You Know What I Mean"...you mean the bass doesn't have to play on Beat 1?!?
Every tune is a Classic. The Beatles' "She's A Woman"...I didn't even recognize it!
Check out the recent Live At Ronnie Scott's album/DVD for an uptempo version of "Scatterbrain".
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07-22-2009, 04:45 AM
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Originally Posted by sflajimmy Phil Chen was featured in a recent BP article. I found it interesting that he doesn't read a lick of music and plays by ear. | ...sounds like he's still playing the same set of strings that he used for Blow By Blow!
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07-22-2009, 11:59 AM
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07-22-2009, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by JimK Great album that 'blew' me away the 1st time I heard it (the week it was released...in 1975).
Take the 1st tune, "You Know What I Mean"...you mean the bass doesn't have to play on Beat 1?!?
Every tune is a Classic. The Beatles' "She's A Woman"...I didn't even recognize it! | +1, I was already a huge Beck fan when the album came out and I was not disappointed. There were rumors that its was going to be a instrumental album, but by that time in my listening tastes, it was perfect timing.
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07-22-2009, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by JimK ...sounds like he's still playing the same set of strings that he used for Blow By Blow! | Actually,he is playing the same set.He said in the BP article that he has had those strings on that bass for 45 years,IIRC.
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07-23-2009, 04:58 AM
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Originally Posted by jerry +1, I was already a huge Beck fan when the album came out and I was not disappointed. There were rumors that its was going to be a instrumental album, but by that time in my listening tastes, it was perfect timing. |
Same here! I liked Rock instrumentals/jam sections (as bands of that time were expected to be capable of)...
...& in '75, my uncle started turning me onto Jazz... Blow By Blow was a perfect fit.
Possibly a desert island disc for me.
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07-23-2009, 04:59 AM
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Originally Posted by 73jbass Actually,he is playing the same set.He said in the BP article that he has had those strings on that bass for 45 years,IIRC. | Yes, you're correct.
Amazing...no string endorsement for Phil, huh?
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07-23-2009, 06:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: U.K. | | | I remember buying Blow By Blow on vinyl back in '75 with funds from my summer job. A great album then and a great album now. I think I prefer Jeff's playing then before he discovered the whammy bar.
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08-04-2009, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by GtenderG | +1
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08-04-2009, 09:54 PM
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Originally Posted by octaverazor How awesome is the bass playing on Jeff Becks "Blow by Blow"???
So awesome!!
I Really like this album. | This album in '75 was ear training ground toward Jazz...
Sequence went Blow by Blow > One of a Kind > Land of the Midnight Sun > Heavy Weather...
Chen played perfect for the music.
Anyone know what kind of bass was actually used on the album? I would be interested to know...
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08-04-2009, 09:57 PM
| | | | I saw Phil Chen play with the 21st Century Doors a few years back. Solid bass playing. BTW, Robby Krieger was the best part of that show.a | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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