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09-10-2007, 08:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Ann Arbor, MI | | | Hub quits the Roots!
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I don't know how many fans there are of The Roots here, but they are a huge influence on me. After 17 years, Hub has called it quits...here's the confirmation from their website Okayplayer.com and Questlove himself... http://www.okayplayer.com/ |
09-10-2007, 09:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Montreal, Rive-Sud | | | Damn, that sucks. I absolutely loved his playing in The Roots. I wonder who'll take his spot. |
09-10-2007, 09:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: manhattan | | | no! NO! |
09-10-2007, 09:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Stoneham, MA | | | A sad day. I've seen them three times and they got better every time. I also think their albums get better each time. |
09-10-2007, 09:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | I wish Hub the best. He is a great player, so I know he will still pay the bills. I hope he has some good royalties coming his way too.  Seventeen years is a long time in a band. I would rather see him quit now than hang on forever, long after all creativity was gone from his gig.
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09-10-2007, 09:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Ann Arbor, MI, USA | | | Sad but completely understandable, 17 years is a huge amount of time for a band to be together.
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09-10-2007, 10:23 PM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | WOW. good for him, i'm sure he has a family and stuff he wants to chill with.
whos the replacement? pics? |
09-11-2007, 12:46 PM
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my favorite bass player quits my favorite band, that's depressing
and i'm not even really joking
so i had heard something about the next cd coming out in february, i wonder how this will effect that
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09-11-2007, 01:07 PM
|  | is watching you type. | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Ankh-Morpork | | Quote:
Originally Posted by markjazzbassist  WOW. good for him, i'm sure he has a family and stuff he wants to chill with.
whos the replacement? pics? | Ben Kenney? 
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09-11-2007, 01:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Longview, TX | | | I saw Keller Williams open for The Roots when I lived in Orlando and watching Hub lay it down was amazing. someone with that much bass, funk, and sweat running through his fingers will truly missed. Who is going to take over for him? Is this going to be the end of the best hip hop band? I would love to play with ?uestlove.
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09-11-2007, 01:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: DSM, IA | | | Hub has been one of the biggest influences on me and specifically set an example that a hip-hop band could carve a niche among all of the djs.
It's sad. Then again, I wish all of my favorite line-ups could go on without trip-ups. The Roots Crew is so solid, they can during out another player (someone call Adam Blackstone ASAP), but seriously, who's gonna rock the chew stick from here on out? |
09-11-2007, 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by funkybassplayer I saw Keller Williams open for The Roots when I lived in Orlando and watching Hub lay it down was amazing. someone with that much bass, funk, and sweat running through his fingers will truly missed. Who is going to take over for him? Is this going to be the end of the best hip hop band? I would love to play with ?uestlove. |
Wow, I would have loved to have seen them....LOVE their sound!!
As a quick sidenote, as some of you have been so lucky as to have seen them, what bass(es) does Hub groove on? Over the years I've heard Jazz, or T-40, or P bass..... |
09-11-2007, 02:12 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New York | | | terrible news!
im glad i saw them at rock the bells this summer!
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09-11-2007, 02:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Evergreen Park, IL | | | What do you guys think of peeping tom? |
09-11-2007, 02:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Longview, TX | | He has been playing a Jazz for quite a while. I don't remember what year but i think i remember it being all original except for some EMG's he dropped in there. help me out if i am wrong please. as for the night i saw them play...i could hear great but my vision was a little out of blurry that night ( i wasn't driving, don't worry ha). it was an amazing tone. I do remember that the PUPs had white covers. cool, i found a pic. i wanna say it is late 70's maybe. but as far as i know this is his main bass 
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09-11-2007, 02:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New York | | | it is pretty much the only bass he uses. i thought they were SD pups though...not 100% sure though.
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09-11-2007, 02:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Indiana | | Great bassist and great band .Its a shame I never got to see Hub play live with them. As for possible replacements.....I know Adam Blackstone is a pretty killer bassist ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GcWhIb7Hpw) and is a good friend of The Roots.
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09-11-2007, 03:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Longview, TX | | | i think Adam Blackstone would work quite well with them
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09-11-2007, 03:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Santa Monica, Ca | | | Those are some mighty big shoes to fill. Hub is the man. I'm looking forward to his next project, whatever that may be.
Maybe he'll go back to his classical Roots and we'll see him rockin' the chew stick with the Philly Philharmonic!
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09-11-2007, 04:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | Quote:
Originally Posted by funkybassplayer He has been playing a Jazz for quite a while. I don't remember what year but i think i remember it being all original except for some EMG's he dropped in there. help me out if i am wrong please. as for the night i saw them play...i could hear great but my vision was a little out of blurry that night ( i wasn't driving, don't worry ha). it was an amazing tone. I do remember that the PUPs had white covers. cool, i found a pic. i wanna say it is late 70's maybe. but as far as i know this is his main bass | Those might be stock pickups. Some eighties jazzes had white pickup covers.
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